Dương Bá Lộc

Biography

Jean Moreau (1925 - 19th April 2004), commonly known as Dương Bá Lộc, was a Vietnamese actor, politician and university lecturer. Born into a family of a French office worker and a Vietnamese-Italian mother, he changed his name to Dương Bá Lộc and joined the Vietminh in 1945, working as a spy and intelligence officer in the South. After the 1954 Geneva Accords, he moved to North Vietnam, where he dabbled in acting in addition to his career in the military, and often took on the roles of colonial officers or American soldiers.