Romain Gary

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1914 age 0

   Born

2. 1962 age 48

   CreditThe Longest Dayscreenwriter

3. 1980 age 66

   Died

• BFBernard Fox1 title
• LPLeslie Phillips1 title
• MKMickey Knox1 title
• MJMaurice Jarre1 title
• CMChristian Marquand1 title
• HFHarry Fowler1 title
• JHJack Hedley1 title
• HMHoward Marion-Crawford1 title
• NRNorman Rossington1 title
• FFFrank Finlay1 title

• Spouse

  • JSJean Seberg

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A writer’s subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

  Romain Gary, CC BY-SA 4.0