Claude Dauphin was a French actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1930 and 1978, including Barbarella, The Quiet American, and a voice role in The Tale of the Fox, considered to be one of the earliest stop-motion animated films.
Dauphin in the 1944 film A Salute to France
L-R: Burgess Meredith, Claude Dauphin & Philip Bourneuf in A Salute to France (1944)
Barbarella is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Roger Vadim, based on the French comic series of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest. The film stars Jane Fonda as the title character, a space traveler and representative of the United Earth government sent to find scientist Durand Durand, who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity. The supporting cast includes John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, David Hemmings, Ugo Tognazzi, and Claude Dauphin.
Theatrical release poster by Robert McGinnis
Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda in Rome in 1967.
A woman cosplaying as Barbarella. Author Jerry Lembcke noted that Barbarella's popularity went beyond the film buff community.