Before acting, Pierre Brice, born Pierre-Louis Le Bris in Brest, Brittany, lived several lives: he enlisted in the French Army at 19 and fought in the First Indochina War, where a mine explosion sent him whirling through the air yet left him virtually unhurt, served with the Commandos Marine and later was a paratrooper during the Algerian War. Working as an actor and model from 1954, he found lead…
