La Fayette is a 1961 French-Italian biographical film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles. The film depicts the life of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in particular his role in the American War of Independence.
==Cast==
* Pascale Audret – Adrienne de La Fayette
* Jack Hawkins – General Cornwallis
* Michel Le Royer – La Fayette
* Folco Lulli – Le Boursier
* Wolfgang Preiss – Baron Kalb
* Liselotte Pulver – Marie Antoinette
* Edmund Purdom – Silas Deane
* Georges Rivière – Vergennes
* Rosanna Schiaffino – Comtesse de Simiane
* Howard St. John – George Washington
* Vittorio De Sica – Bancroft
* Orson Welles – Benjamin Franklin
* Jacques Castelot – Duc d’Ayen
* Jean-Roger Caussimon – Maurepas
* Jean-Jacques Delbo – L’exempt
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fayette_(film)