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Jacques Sernas
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Sernas in Terra straniera (Foreign Earth), Italy, 1954
Born	(1925-07-30)30 July 1925 Kaunas, Lithuania
Died	3 July 2015(2015-07-03) (aged 89) Rome, Italy
Other names	Jack Sernas
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1947–2008
Spouse	Maria Stella Signorini (1955-?)
Children	Francesca (b. 1956)
Parent	Jokūbas Šernas

Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas (30 July 1925 – 3 July 2015), commonly known as Jacques Sernas and sometimes credited as Jack Sernas, was a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.

Biography

He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was one year old. His mother took him to Paris, France, where Sernas received his formal education. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and was captured and interned at the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany. After the war, Sernas was considering a career in medicine and then in journalism before turning to films. His first role was in Miroir (1946).

In June 1955 Sernas married the Roman journalist Maria Stella Signorini. They had a daughter Francesca born 1956.

Career

Sernas worked first as a leading man and later as a character actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Paris in the epic film Helen of Troy (1956).

Sernas also appeared on American television, including the lead role in the 1956 Warner Brothers time travel production "Man from 1997" featuring James Garner.

His more recent appearances have included appearing as a Cardinale Feltin in the television biographical film Pope John XXIII [it] (2002) and as Ambasciatore in the television comedy film Regina dei fiori [it] (2005). For the last 30 years Sernas lived and worked in Rome.

Filmography

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2011)

See also

• List of Lithuanian actors
• List of French actors

References

1. Portrait of Jacques Sernas. gettyimages.co.uk
2. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://books.google.com/books%3Fid%3D8pevDl3NMUkC%26pg%3DPA177%26lpg%3DPA177%26dq%3DMaria%2BStella%2BSignorini%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DD7zyGiEX64%26sig%3DfAg6BV5S20rP8py8NeCJN7WnUKM&prev=search
3. "Addio a Jacques Sernas, icona del cinema anni 50" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
4. Jacques Sernas with his daughter Francesca. gettyimages.co.uk
5. ^ "Jacques Sernas". The New York Times
6. 'Cine Tele Review' May, 1993. torchieflash.com

External links

• Jacques Sernas at IMDb

• 1925 births
• 2015 deaths
• 20th-century French male actors
• 20th-century French people
• 20th-century Lithuanian male actors
• 21st-century French male actors
• 21st-century French people
• 21st-century Lithuanian male actors
• Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
• French male film actors
• French Resistance members
• French male television actors
• Lithuanian male film actors
• Lithuanian male television actors
• Lithuanian people of World War II
• Male actors from Paris
• Nastro d'Argento winners
• People from Kaunas