Claude Brasseur Death: Claude Brasseur, one of France’s most adored character entertainers – who kicked the bucket Tuesday matured 84 – carried on with as vivid a day to day existence off-screen as on it as an adrenaline junkie parachutist, Olympic bobsledder and Paris-Dakar rally champion.

With his rough physical make-up and dull, exuberant look, he took on numerous troublemaker jobs, however was similarly celebrated for comic appearances including playing Sophie Marceau’s dad in “The Party” and his splendid turn as “lord of the campground” Jacky Pic in the “Outdoors” films.

Brasseur, the godson of the experience cherishing American artistic monster Ernest Hemingway, won two Cesars – what could be compared to the Oscars – and was additionally a hit on the little screen, outstandingly in his 1971 execution as Vidocq, the Parisian criminal brains turned cop.