French film titan Trintignant, of ‘A Man and a Woman,’ dies

PARIS (AP) — French film actor and amateur race car driver Jean-Louis Trintignant has died at age 91. Trintignant earned acclaim for his starring role in the Oscar-winning “A Man and a Woman” a half a century ago and went on to portray the brutality of aging in his later years. He died in his home in southwest France, according to Bertrand Cortellini, who operated a vineyard with Trintignant. French news reports said Trintignant had prostate cancer. During a career that started when he was 19, Trintignant appeared in some 160 films. including starring with Brigitte Bardot in “And God … Created Woman” in 1956.