American actor Edward Meeks, hero of the soap opera The Globe-Trotters alongside Yves Rénier, died Saturday morning in the Paris region at the age of 90, AFP learned from his family. Born in Jonesboro (Arkansas), Edward Meeks had lived in France since the 1950s. He had spent his entire career there, until becoming a figure in cinema and television.
After starting his career as a stuntman in The longest dayreleased in 1962, he played the captain of a hijacked plane in The Clan of the Sicilians by Henri Verneuil (1969) and appeared in a total of twenty films, from detective Maigret sees red (1963) at Chateauroux District (1987).
He had toured with Grace Kelly
With his blonde hair and his American accent, he was above all the star of the very popular soap opera The Globe-Trotters (1966), alongside Yves Rénier, a duo of adventurous journalists who set off to travel around the world.
He was also part of the cast in 1982 of the short film which remained unreleased Rearranged with the Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly and was on stage in the 1970s. Widower since 2017 of the novelist Jacqueline Monsigny, married in 1972, he had co-authored several souvenir books from the 2000s.