Trivia

In 1959, upon his return from military service in Algeria, he filmed his first important role in L'Eau à la bouche by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze . The following year, he succeeded Jean Marais in L'Aigle à deux têtes , a play by Jean Cocteau which, fourteen years after its creation, was revived at the Sarah-Bernhardt theater , still with Edwige Feuillère .

Gérard Barray excelled in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total he appeared in a dozen feature films of that genre, most of which were box-office successes, widely known abroad.

Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse.

For Claude Berri he played in "Le Cinéma de papa" (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los ojos as Devernois, a TV man.

Gérard Barray married in July 1965at the town hall of Montauban the dancer and actress Teresa Lorca He met her on the set of "Mercenaries of the Rio Grande".

In 2018, he published a novel: The Artist: the bride was still sleeping, published by Christian Navarro.

He moved to Spain in the 1990s, appearing in a few films and television series.

Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noël Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury Prize.

Gérard Barray made his stage debut in 1955 in Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde at the Hébertot theater.

Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.