Began performing professionally--reciting poems--aged five (date approximate)

Began career as dancer

Stage debut in "Emil et les detectives" in Paris

First film appearance (a bit) in Christian-Jacque's "Les disparus de St. Agil"

Appeared in documentary film "Music Hall"

Played a singing croupier in "Adieu Cherie"

First feature as composer, "Ces dames preferent le mambo"

First film performance in "Une Gosse sensass"

Starred in Francois Truffaut's "Shoot the Piano Player"

Composed the score for "Thou Shalt Not Kill"

Appeared in "Candy"

Co-starred in "The Games"

Screenwriting debut with "Les Intrus"; also starred

Had featured role in "And Then There Were None"

Co-starred in the Oscar-winning foreign film "The Tin Drum"

Acted in the film version of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"

Played the grandfather in "Les Annees campagnes/The Country Years"

Purchased Breton music publishers in France

Appeared with Liza Minnelli onstage at Carnegie Hall

Performed solo concert "Aznavour on Broadway"

Embarked on worldwide "farewell" concert tour; final appearance scheduled for Nice on April 6, 2001

Returned to films as co-star of "Ararat" (lensed 2001), directed by Atom Egoyan; played a film director making a movie about the 1920s conflict between Turks and Armenians