French model, producer, production manager, director,
writer, film editor, actor Jean-Marie Pallardy died in France on December 12th
he was 84. Born in Auvergne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France on January 16, 1940. He
first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change
and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction
and adventure films, with mixed results. His most ambitious project was “White
Fire” (1984), starring Robert Ginty and Fred Williamson, a movie which proved
to be quite popular among camp aficionados. Pallardy's career dwindled in the
1980s, with the decline of France's exploitation cinema, and his movies became
few and far between. His last movie “The Donor”, guest-starring David
Carradine, was released straight to DVD in 2004. Pallardy directed, wrote and
appeared in three soft porn Euro-westerns: “Gunfight at OQ Corral” as an Indian;
“Lucky Lucky and the Daltons” – as John Keykett, also as co-producer, both in
1974 and “Pornowest” in 1981 as a halfbreed, also as co-producer.
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