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‘Adorable charmer’ of 1960s French film who worked with Jacques Demy and Costa-Gavras and later appeared in the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso

Jacques Perrin, a comely and soft-spoken veteran French actor — he didn’t smolder so much as twinkle — who went from starring in musica

He was a heartthrob in the musical “The Young Girls of Rochefort,” a photojournalist in the thriller “Z,” and later a world-weary director in the hit “Cinema Paradiso.”