Jean Seberg
Jean Dorothy Seberg (November 13, 1938 – August 30, 1979) was an American actress who lived half her life in France. She appeared in 34 films in Hollywood and in Europe, including Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, Breathless, Lilith, The Mouse That Roared, Moment to Moment, A Fine Madness, Paint Your Wagon, Airport, Macho Callahan, and Gang War in Naples. She was also one of the best-known targets of the FBI COINTELPRO project. Her targeting was a well-documented retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s. Seberg died at the age of 40 in Paris, with police ruling her death a probable suicide. Romain Gary, Seberg's second husband, called a press conference shortly after her death where he publicly blamed the FBI's campaign against Seberg for her deteriorating mental health. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.
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- 2023 · Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Mike Wallace Is Here as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · De Gaulle, the Last King of France as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Jean Seberg: American Actress as
- 1995 · From the Journals of Jean Seberg as Self
- 1991 · Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · Star Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1979 · The Blue of the Origins as
- 1976 · The Wild Duck as Gina Ekdal, seine Frau
- 1975 · The Big Delirium as Emily
- 1975 · White Horses of Summer as Lea Kingsburg
- 1974 · Les Hautes solitudes as
- 1974 · Ballad for Billy the Kid as The Star
- 1974 · Mousey as Laura Richardson, formerly Anderson
- 1973 · The Corruption of Chris Miller as Ruth Miller
- 1972 · The Assassination as Edith Lemoine
- 1972 · Camorra as Luisa
- 1972 · This Kind of Love as Giovanna
- 1971 · Kill! as Emily Hamilton
- 1971 · Macho Callahan as Alexandra Mountford
- 1970 · Dead of Summer as Joyce Grasse
- 1970 · Airport as Tanya Livingston
- 1969 · Paint Your Wagon as Elizabeth Woodling
- 1969 · Pendulum as Adele Matthews
- 1969 · No Name City as Self
- 1968 · Birds in Peru as Adriana
- 1967 · Who's Got the Black Box? as Shanny
- 1967 · The Looters as Colleen O'Hara
- 1966 · A Fine Madness as Lydia West
- 1966 · Line of Demarcation as Mary de Damville
- 1966 · Moment to Moment as Kay Stanton
- 1965 · Diamonds Are Brittle as Bettina Ralton
- 1964 · Lilith as Lilith Arthur
- 1964 · Backfire as Olga Celan
- 1964 · The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers as Patricia Leacock (segment "Le Grand escroc")
- 1964 · Le Grand Escroc as Patricia
- 1964 · Die Drehscheibe as Self
- 1963 · In the French Style as Christina James
- 1962 · Eruption as Annette
- 1961 · Five Day Lover as Claire
- 1961 · Playtime as Kate Hoover
- 1961 · Time Out for Love as Ann
- 1960 · Let No Man Write My Epitaph as Barbara Holloway
- 1960 · Breathless as Patricia Franchini
- 1959 · The Mouse That Roared as Helen Kokintz
- 1958 · Bonjour Tristesse as Cecile
- 1957 · Saint Joan as St. Joan of Arc
- 1956 · Cinépanorama as Self
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self (uncredited)