Christophe Bourseiller
Born: 1957-09-27 in Paris, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller, is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006. He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara. From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in War of the Buttons, the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy and Pierre Jolivet. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays. At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s. Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards. On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter Franck Ferrand. In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You?" by Bourin Éditeur. Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of Pascal Ory. Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers. In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter. Source: Article "Christophe Bourseiller" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
2025
- Tous complotistes !? as Self
2022
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
2021
- C ce soir, le débat as Self - Guest
2019
- C'est un complot ... (Writer)
2018
- Mr. Know-It-All as Doctor Jais
2017
- La case en + as Self
2015
- The Art Dealer as Hurtado
2013
- Indiscrétions as Benjamin Lacombe
2012
- L'Innocent as Prison Director
2011
- Love Lasts Three Years as Le curé
2009
- LOL (Laughing Out Loud) as Monsieur Gerbère, SVT teacher
2007
- Chez Maupassant as Maître Grappe
2005
2003
- Three Blind Mice as The French Cop
1994
- Un crime de guerre as Vergnaud
1993
- Trapped by a Dream as Le producteur
- Boulevard des hirondelles as Maurice David
1990
- Fort Boyard as Self
- Chillers as Paul
- Simple mortel as Fabien
1988
- Eurocops as Boulou
- Three Seats for the 26th as Serge
1986
- L'Été 36 as Bernard
- La Galette du roi as Jérémie Harris
1985
- P.R.O.F.S. as Francis
1983
- Tout le monde peut se tromper as Edgar
1982
- Bankers Also Have Souls as Jean-Philippe Loriol
1981
- Bolero
- Asphalt as Mechanic
- Clara and the Why Not as Frédérique
- Si ma gueule vous plaît... as Womanizer at play-back
1980
- Girls as Bernard
1979
- French Postcards as Pascal
- Courage fuyons as Christophe
1978
- Take It from the Top as Le garçon de café
1977
- We Will All Meet in Paradise as Lucien
1976
- Pardon Mon Affaire as Lucien
1967
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her as Christophe Jeanson
1964
- The Married Woman as Nicolas
1962
- War of the Buttons as Gaston (uncredited)