Acting
Community Rating
7.3
TMDB estimate
Born
November 29, 1932
Died
September 26, 2019 (age 86)
Born in
Paris, France
Jacques Chirac, born November 29, 1932 in Paris and died September 26, 2019 in the same city, was a senior French civil servant and statesman. He was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1976, then again from 1986 to 1988, and President of the Republic from 1995 to 2007. After studying at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration (ENA), he joined the office of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou in 1962 as a special adviser. He was elected Member of Parliament for Corrèze within the Gaullist majority and appointed Secretary of State four times and Minister four times, starting in 1967. Chirac was subsequently chosen as Prime Minister by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974. Two years later, having had poor relations with Giscard, he resigned from Prime Minister's office and launched the Rally for the Republic (RPR), a political party claiming to be Gaullist. While continuing his career as an elected official in Corrèze, he became Mayor of Paris in 1977 and ran in the 1981 presidential election. After the right-wing victory in the 1986 legislative elections, he was appointed by Socialist President François Mitterrand to serve as Prime Minister once again. He was thus the first head of government under a cohabitation regime under the Fifth Republic and, at the same time, the only politician to have served as Prime Minister twice under the same regime. He was defeated in the second round of the 1988 presidential election by the incumbent president, then became leader of the opposition, despite subsequently facing the growing popularity of Édouard Balladur. In 1995, he was elected Head of State with 52.6% of the vote in the second round, defeating Socialist Lionel Jospin. He initially governed with the right-wing majority he acquired in 1993. The beginning of his first term was marked by a pension and social security reform that was massively contested and partially abandoned, and by the recognition of the French state's responsibility for the persecution and deportation of Jews during the Occupation. Following the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1997, he lost his majority in Parliament and was forced into cohabitation with Lionel Jospin, during which a referendum was held establishing the five-year presidential term: Jacques Chirac was thus the last president of the Fifth Republic to have served a seven-year term. In the 2002 presidential election, he was re-elected for a five-year term with 82.2% of the vote in the second round, benefiting from a "republican front" against the National Front candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen. During his second term, after launching the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he led the international opposition to the Iraq War launched by US President George W. Bush in 2003 and campaigned for a "yes" vote in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, which resulted in a "no" victory. At the end of his presidency in 2007, faced with low popularity and a succession of electoral defeats, and weakened by a stroke in 2005, he decided not to seek a third term. On June 9, 2008, the "Chirac Foundation" for sustainable development and intercultural dialogue was launched. Jacques Chirac died in Paris on September 26, 2019.

The Relentless Patriot
as Self
2024

Au cœur du Papotin
as Self
2023

Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite
as Jacques Chirac
2023

The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
as Self (archive footage)
2023

Unveiling Arafat
as Self (archive footage)
2023

The Rise of Wagner
as Self (archive footage)
2023

La Malédiction de la Grande Arche
as Self (archive) - Prime Minister (1986-1988)
2023

Mohammed VI - The Limits of Power
as Self (archive footage)
2022

In France with Madonna
as Self (archive footage)
2022

Cent jours
as Self
2022

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
as Self (archive footage)
2022

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022

10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
as Self (archive footage)
2021

Mitterrand et la télé
as Self (archive footage)
2021

Lebanon in Crisis
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2020

Nicotine - A Drug with a Future
as Self (archive footage)
2020

Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi
as Self (archive footage)
2020

30 Years of Democracy
as Self (archive footage)
2019

1974, l'alternance Giscard
as Self (archive footage)
2019

Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
as Self (archive footage)
2019