Биография
Paul Cambo, born Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat in Bort-les-Orgues, France in 1908, made his film debut in 1932 with Chair ardent/Burning Flesh, directed by René Plaissetty and starring Jean Marchat. Towards the end of the 1930s, he secured his first leading role in Ramuntcho (1938, René Barberis) alongside the renowned stage actor Louis Jouvet. That same year, he portrayed Raimu's son in the war drama Le héros de la Marne/Heroes of the Marne (1938, André Hugon) and played a Russian prince in Le joueur d'échecs/The Chess Player (1938, Jean Dréville), featuring Françoise Rosay as Catherine the Great.
Following World War II, Cambo spent some time working in Mexico, appearing in films such as El jagüey de las ruinas (1945, Gilberto Martínez Solares), the comedy Ocho hombres y una mujer/Eight Men and One Woman (1946, Julián Soler), and El último amor de Goya/Goya's Last Love (1946, Jaime Salvador). He returned to France in 1947, starring in Le village de la colère/The Village of Wrath (1947, Raoul André) with Louise Carletti. Throughout the 1950s, Cambo concentrated mainly on stage performances, including a role in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac under Raymond Rouleau's direction at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in 1956. His film appearances during this time were occasional.
By the late 1950s, Paul Cambo was regularly appearing in French cinema. He starred opposite Dora Doll in the prostitution drama Mlle. Pigalle (1958, Maurice Cam). In the swashbuckler Le Bossu/The Hunchback of Paris (1959, André Hunebelle), he supported Jean Marais and Bourvil. In the early 1960s, he continued to take supporting roles in adventure films with Marais, such as Les mystères de Paris/Devil of Paris (1962, André Hunebelle). On television, he featured in Madame Sans Gêne (1963, Claude Barma), an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play starring Sophie Desmarets.
From this period onward, Cambo's screen work was predominantly on television, including the popular mini-series Belphégor (1965, Claude Barma) with Juliette Gréco and René Dary. He played the lead in the TV drama Tout pour le mieux/Everything for the Best (1969, Jeannette Hubert), based on Luigi Pirandello's play. In 1973, he reunited with Jean Marais and director André Hunebelle for the mini-series Joseph Balsamo, adapted from Alexandre Dumas père’s novel. That same year, he appeared in a TV adaptation of Molière's L'école des femmes/The School for Wives (1973, Raymond Rouleau), starring Bernard Blier and featuring a young Isabelle Adjani. In cinema, he acted alongside Brigitte Bardot in Don Juan (1973, Roger Vadim), her final leading film role as a woman who believes she is Don Juan reincarnated. His last minor film role was in the comedy La course à l'échalote/The Wild Goose Chase (1975, Claude Zidi), starring Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin. Paul Cambo passed away in Maisons-Laffitte, France, in 1978 at the age of 69.
