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Christophe Guy Denis Lambert, often credited as Christopher Lambert, is an American actor and film producer. He started his career playing supporting parts in several French films, and became internationally famous for portraying Tarzan in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). For his performance in the film Subway (1985), he received the César Award for Best Actor. He is known…
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Born 29 March 1957 · Q105158
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“When I read Highlander, what interested me was the romance, the pain that this guy was carrying, not being able to die and looking around him at all the people he loved going before him.”
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Co-starred in Claude Lelouch's Un plus une, a French romantic comedy film
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Played in the biographical crime drama film Electric Slide, about the Los Angeles-based bank robber Eddie Dodson
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Lambert starred as the villainous head monk Methodius in the Ghost Rider sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, starring Nicolas Cage, in 2011
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Lambert was a lead in Claire Denis' White Material; both the film and Lambert's performance received critical acclaim
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Starred in the vampire film Metamorphosis
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Was an executive producer and star on the film Day of Wrath
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Played in Absolon, a post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller film
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Played in the fourth installment of the Highlander franchise, Highlander: Endgame
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Produced and starred in Russell Mulcahy's Resurrection, where he plays a detective who is assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man who has bled to death from a severed arm
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Produced and starred in Operation Splitsville, a remake of Génial, mes parents divorcent, which he produced several years earlier
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Starred in Gabriele Salvatores' cyberpunk science fiction film Nirvana
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Lambert was an executive producer and the lead in Nils Gaup's western film North Star, co-starring James Caan
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Played the role of the thunder god Raiden in the Paul W
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Released ep “Deux doigts sur la gachette”.
Carl Schenkel's suspense thriller Knight Moves premiered, in which Lambert was both an executive producer and the lead
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Highlander II: The Quickening premiered, reuniting Lambert with director Russell Mulcahy and fellow actor Sean Connery
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Starred in Agnieszka Holland's To Kill a Priest, in which he played a character based on Jerzy Popiełuszko and his murder under the Polish communist regime
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Lambert played the leading role of Salvatore Giuliano in The Sicilian, directed by Michael Cimino
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Awarded César Award for Best Actor for Subway (1986).
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Lambert appeared in Highlander the role for which he would be best known
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, was nominated for many awards
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The son of Yolande Agnès Henriette and Georges Lambert-Lamond, a French diplomat at the United Nations
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Born 1957-03-29.
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