- After fighting in the French army during the war in Indochina, he never left Asia.
- He himself has lost a friend who was playing Russian roulette.
- He had been a French military pilot in Indochina in the 1950s, later accomplishing various aviation feats.
- Was paid $25,000 for his role as Julien Grinda in The Deer Hunter.
- Was well known for his French Restaurant, Le Metropolitan, in Bangkok. During the filming of The Deer Hunter in 1977, the film crew and actors ate at the restaurant.
- Appears in one of the French plantation scenes in Apocalypse Now Redux.
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