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Eddie Constantine Born Edward Constantinowsky In Los Angeles California October 29 1917 - Died Wiesbaden Germany February 25 1993 Was An Expatriate American Actor And Singer Who Spent His Career Working In Europe. He Became A Star In France In The 1950s Most Notably Playing The Part Of The Hard-Boiled Detective/secret Agent Lemmy Caution From Peter Cheyney's Novels In A Series Of French B-Pictures Including Cet Homme Est Dangereux 1953 Lemmy Pour Les Dames 1961 And À Toi De Faire ... Mignonne 1963 . Constantine's Typical Part Was That Of A Suave-Talking Seductive Smooth Guy Which He Often Played For Laughs. Constantine Who Eventually Became A French Citizen Enjoyed Great Popularity In Several European Countries Including France And Germany As Well As Africa. He Also Recorded Several Successful Songs. His Most Significant Film Was Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville Une Étrange Aventure De Lemmy Caution 1965 In Which He Reprised To A More Radical End The Role Of Lemmy Caution. Constantine's Box-Office Appeal In France Waned In The Mid-1960s And He Eventually Relocated To Germany Where He Worked As A Character Actor. Constantine Claimed He Never Took His Acting Career Seriously As He Considered Himself To Be A Singer By Trade. He Took Up The Part Of Lemmy For The Last Time In 1991 In Godard's Experimental Film Allemagne 90 Neuf Zéro. His Last Notable Film Appearance Was In Lars Von Trier's Europa. Constantine Died Of A Heart Attack On February 25 1993.

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