Guillaume Depardieu Dead At Age 37

After surviving a heroin addiction, multiple stints in prison, a motorcycle accidents and subsequent infection that led to having a leg amputated and an always-tumultuous relationship with his very famous father Gerard it seems almost anticlimactic to write that French actor Guillaume Depardieu died yesterday after a bout with pneumonia. Depardieu's relationship with his father was one of the more legendary famous father - famous son stand offs in history, one that ultimately ended with the pair of them reconciling and Guillaume building a name for himself as a formidable actor in his own right, and for much of his life Guillaume stood as the classic example of an incredibly dissolute child of celebrity and it seems doubly tragic that Depardieu was struck down by something so pedestrian as he seemed to be on the road to slowly putting himself together both personally and professionally.