Born in Paris as Jacques André Simonet, he adopted his mother’s surname Perrin for the stage after early schooling and work as a teletypist, then trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique. A child cameo in 1946 led to a credited role in 1957, and director Valerio Zurlini gave him his first lead in La Ragazza con la valigia and later cast him in Family Diary. He appeared in f…
