Lebanese-French film producer
Jean-Pierre Rassam (14 October 1941 – 28 January 1985) was a French film producer of the 1970s. He was found dead, age 43, in his suite at the Plaza Athénée,[1][2] the cause of death being barbiturate overdose, in 1985.[1]
Career
With his brother-in-law, Claude Berri, they played a role in the production of Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball (1967) and bought international rights.[3]
Rassam worked as an assistant to Jean-Luc Godard and then went on to produce Godard's 1972 film Tout va bien which was also co-directed by Jean-Pierre Gorin.[3]
As well as his film production credits, he also made contributions to The Mother and the Whore (1973) and Tess (1979).[1][3]
He was critical of Gaumont Film Company and unsuccessfully tried to buy them in 1974.[3]
He stopped his involvement in film for several years before returning to help on Good King Dagobert (1984).[3]
Personal life
Born in Beirut, to Thomas Joseph Rassam, a diplomat from a bourgeois family of Syrian Christian origin.[4][5][6]
He was in a relationship with actress Carole Bouquet, with whom he has one son, film producer Dimitri Rassam. Bouquet has called him the love of her life.[1]
His brother Paul was an executive for French distributor AMLF who distributed films for Berri in the early 1970s.[3]
Partial filmography
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