Anatole Bircamp, born Anatòle-Henri Bircamp (1914-1989) was a Brunanter actor popular in the 1940s-1970s.
Biography
Bircamp was supposedly born in Hungary in 1914 (or 1917). He came to Brunant in 1936 and began his acting career in 1948, doing mostly stage and radio plays. In 1954 he appeared in his first movie and became a hit on the big screen. He became a naturalized citizen in 1957.[1] Notable films include Burmese Romance (1962), Luck and Lucy (1963) and My Boss' Daughter (1974).
Personal life
Bircamp had a difficult personal life. While a minor star he was married to Maria Svoboda[2] and they had a son Michel[3] (born 1950). He remarried, to model Jeanette Hardy (born 1928), who left him in 1955 after an affair. He would later be involved in several other relationships, notably with actress Annette Howards in the early 1960s[4] before remarrying Hardy in a lavish ceremony at Grijzestad's Hotel 45 in 1967. By 1973 he had 8 paternity suits on him and in a massive high-profile trial[5] was forced to pay over Th. 9,000,000 (about US$3.5 million) in support money.