Roger Vadim
Filmmaker
Name at birth: Roger Vadim Plemiannikov
As a director, Roger Vadim was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde films; off-screen he was known for his sensual and sometimes avant-garde lifestyle. He was married five times in all: to actresses Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Marie-Christine Barrault and Annette Stroyberg and to heiress Catherine Schneider. (He was married to Barrault when he died.) Vadim had one child each with Fonda, Stroyberg and Schneider and a fourth child with actress Catherine Deneuve. His best-known film is And God Created Woman (1956), which introduced the innocently voluptuous Bardot.
Extra credit: Vadim's 1968 film with Fonda, Barbarella, is often considered a classic of sci-fi camp... He published the personal memoir Bardot, Deneuve, Fonda in 1986.
Four Good Links
French Film Legend Vadim Dies
The BBC's 2000 obituary covers the basics
Roger Vadim Filmography
From the innocently voluptuous Internet Movie Database
And God Created Woman
Passionate recap of his most famous film
The Decorous Libertine
Salon admires Vadim's "guiltless celebration" of life's pleasures
Vital Stats
Birth
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Death
11 February 2000
(cancer, age 72)
Best Known As
Director of And God Created Woman
