{{Short description|French film director (1940–2024)}} '''Jean-Marie Pallardy''' (16 January 1940 – 12 December 2024) was a French film director.
==Life and career== Pallardy first worked as a [[male model]] in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing [[Softcore pornography|softcore]] [[erotic]] pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed results. His most ambitious project to date is ''[[White Fire (film)|White Fire]]'' (1984), starring [[Robert Ginty]] and [[Fred Williamson]], a film which has proved to be quite popular among [[camp (style)|camp]] aficionados. Pallardy's career dwindled in the 1980s, with the decline of France's exploitation cinema, and his films became few and far between.
One of his last films, ''The Donor'', guest-starring [[David Carradine]], was released straight to [[DVD]] in 2004.
Pallardy died on 12 December 2024, at the age of 84.<ref>[https://www.nanarland.com/blog/news-nanarland/disparition-de-jean-marie-pallardy-nanarland-en-deuil.html Décès de Jean-Marie Pallardy, Nanarland en deuil] {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.nanarland.com/acteurs/Main.php?id_acteur=jeanmariepallardy Nanarland Biography of Jean-Marie Pallardy, his recurrent actors, reviews of his films and other media (in french)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050403225609/http://www.nanarland.com/acteurs/Main.php?id_acteur=jeanmariepallardy |date=2005-04-03 }}
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