Martin LaSalle

French-Uruguayan actor

China Machado

(m. 1957; div. 1965)

Rosa Maria Blanco Ruggerio

(m. 1968)

Children3

Martin Luis LaSalle Supervielle (19 January 1935 – 17 October 2018) was a French-Uruguayan actor.^[1] LaSalle first appeared in the Robert Bresson film Pickpocket (1959). Previously unknown, and in line with the director's mature practice, not then an actor,^[1] he was cast in the lead role.^[2]^[3] Following his debut, he appeared in more than 70 films and television shows.

Personal life

From 1957 to 1965, he was married to the fashion model China Machado and they had two daughters - Emmanuelle LaSalle and Blanche LaSalle.^[4] In 1968, while on assignment with Life to photograph the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, he met his second wife, the Mexican artist Rosa Maria Blanco Ruggerio and they had a daughter - Maria Narayani Lasala Blanco. La Salle died on 17 October 2018 at the age of 83.^[5]

Selected filmography

Pickpocket (1959)
Acteón (1965)
The Mansion of Madness (1973)
Alucarda (1978)
The Dogs of War (1980)
Sorceress (1982)
Missing (1982)
Under Fire (1983)
The Penitent (1988)
Buster (1988)
Nora's Will (2008)

References

^ ^a ^b Erickson, Hal (2007). "Pickpocket". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
^ "Robert Bresson's Pickpocket". MOMA. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
^ "Pickpocket". Slant Magazine. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
^ Foley, Briget (March 2010). "China Machado: Legendary model and Avedon muse China Machado has still got it". W Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.