Marcel Bozzuffi (28 October 1929 – 1 February 1988) was a French film actor. Internationally, he appeared as a hitman in the Oscar-winning American film The French Connection. In 1963, he married French actress Françoise Fabian.
According to producer Philip D’Antoni, Bozzuffi began his career doing stunts in France and performed the difficult backwards fall down the elevated railway steps himself. He later became a director and supplied the dubbed voices for Charles Bronson and Paul Newman.
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