BBC News:-  Jean-Paul Belmondo's battered face, laconic style and roguish smile captured the imagination of French 1960s youth. Belmondo, who has died at his Paris home aged 88, was the cool rebel of the new wave of French cinema typified in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film classic, A Bout de Souffle. His moody performance as a doomed thief and Humphrey Bogart fan struck a chord and saw him dubbed the Gallic James Dean. Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama. Jean-Paul Belmondo was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb