He's appeared in 150 films, most of them french.
You might remember him as Peter O'Toole's acolyte in Murphy's War.
He was also in La Grande Bouffe (aka Blow-Out), Le Vieux Fusil (aka The Old Gun), The Ripoux trilogy (possibly the best french police movies ever)...
His best role was probably poet Pablo Neruda in Il Postino.
He died of cancer last week. he was 76.