

He is mostly known as a character actor and for having portrayed numerous leading historical and fictitious figures of the Western world including Georges Danton, Joseph Stalin, Honoré de Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Rodin, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jean Valjean, Edmond Dantès, Christopher Columbus, Obélix, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. As of January 2022, his body of work also include countless television productions, 18 theatre plays, 16 records and 9 books. He is the second highest grossing actor in the history of French Cinema behind Louis de Funès.

Depardieu has worked with over 150 film directors whose most notable collaborations include Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Ridley Scott and Bernardo Bertolucci. He has completed over 250 films since 1967, almost exclusively as a lead. I have heard that there is an audio recording of Fairbanks Sr to go with this movie that would be very enjoyable to watch.Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu, CQ ( UK: / ˈ d ɛ p ɑːr d j ɜː, ˌ d ɛ p ɑːr ˈ d j ɜː/, US: /- ˈ d j ʌ, ˌ d eɪ p ɑːr ˈ dj uː/, French: ( listen) born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, known to be one of the most prolific in film history. I especially like the four musketeers gazing down on the mourning court, and D'Artagnan enjoying it so much - it's like Tom Sawyer and his gang enjoying their own funeral: eternal boyhood. The last scene, which is quite famous, is also very moving. The relationship between D'Artagnan with the king is enjoyable, especially the little sword fight they have. didn't live long enough to grow very old. The ageing of the musketeers is done believably and it is rather poignant, considering that Fairbanks Sr. Mostly though, I think Fairbanks just wasn't as physically up to the role as he had been eight years earlier for "Three Musketeers." "The Taming of the Shrew" came out also in 1929, and that wasn't really very good, either. Richelieu, for instance, in "Three Musketeers," was downright scary he's more of a caricature here.

The acting seems less intense, more open to a new effect, and frankly it just doesn't work that well. The sword fighting is better, but it seems all "out of focus." That might have been due to the knowledge that it would some sound, whereas "Three Musketeers" was a silent film. Compared to Fairbanks's "Three Musketeers," this is not so good.
