Jean Richard
Born: 1921-04-18 in Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France
Died: 2001-12-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Richard (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2009
- Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Le monde est à vous as Self
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
- Signé Furax as Maigret
1976
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
1975
- Apostrophes as Self
1973
- Le Médecin malgré lui as Sganarelle
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- The Annuity as Jo (un voyou)
- Noix de coco as Loulou
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- Cadet Rousselle as Self
- Maigret en vacances as Maigret
1969
- L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus as Jean Richard
- La Maison de campagne as Bertrand Boiselier
1968
- Beru and These Women as Inspecteur principal Bérurier
1967
- The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret as Commissaire Jules Maigret
- The Oldest Profession as Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
- Bang Bang as Paulo
1966
- The Boss of Champignol as Claudius Binoche
- Sale temps pour les mouches as Principal inspector Bérurier
1965
- The Double Bed as Father
- L'Or du duc
- The Lace Wars as Le prince de Beaulieu
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning as Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
- Dernier tiercé as Laredon
- Under Your Hat as Docteur Tannait
- Rope Around the Neck as Arthur
- Black Humor as Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
- Les Mordus de Paris as Mr. Durand
- The Real Bargain
1964
- Clémentine chérie as Auguste
- Jaloux comme un tigre as The man with the wrecked car
- Comment épouser un premier ministre as Le promoteur
1963
- The Bamboo Stroke as Albert
- Sweet and Sour as Lepetit (le nounou 2)
- Bebert and the Train as Mr. Martin
- Chicken Feed for Little Birds as le boucher
1962
- War of the Buttons as Lebrac's father
- Tartarin de Tarascon as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
- We Will Go to Deauville as Le plombier - M. Simeon
- Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge as Philibert
1961
- Les fortiches as Dédé
- The Fenouillard Family as Agénor Fenouillard
- Operation Caviar as Siméon
- This Time it Must Be Caviar as Siméon
- My Wife Is a Panther as Roger
1960
- Some Like It... Cold as Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
- Tête folle as Gérard
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
- Small Local Trains as César Beauminet
1959
- Discorama as Self
- You Have Nothing to Declare? as Marius Frontignac
- The Bureaucrats as Boudin
- La Malle volante as Ferdinand
- Without Trumpet or Drum as Leon Riffard
- The Gendarme of Champignol as Claudius Binoche
- My Pal the Gypsy as Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy
- Stop the Massacre as Antoine Martin
- Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women as The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)
1958
- Life Together as André Le Lorrain
- En bordée as Prosper Cartahu
1957
- We at Champignol as Claudius Binoche
- La Peau de l'ours as Commissioner Etienne Ledru
- It Happened on the 36 Candles as Self (uncredited)
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Elena and Her Men as Hector
- Slightly Ahead as Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
- Life is beautiful as l'employé
- Les Truands as Alexandre Benoit
1955
- Les deux font la paire as Achille Baluchet
- La Madelon as Antoine Pichot
- Chéri-Bibi as Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais
1954
- The Cheerful Squadron as Laperrine
- Marriage Episodes as M. des Rillettes
- Service Entrance as Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles
- Casta diva as Domenico Fiorillo
1953
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
- Deux de l'escadrille as Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'
- His Father's Portrait as Paul Durand
- Wonderful Mentality as Honoré Bonvalet
- Cinema of yesteryear as Pasquale
1952
- La Joie de vivre as Self - Performer
- Drôle de noce as Joseph Bonhomme
- The Seven Deadly Sins as The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")
- La demoiselle et son revenant as Ricard
- Le Costaud des Batignolles as Policeman
1951
- Bernard and the Lion as The Brigadier
- Le Passage de Vénus
1950
- Adémaï at the border post
- The King of the Bla Bla Bla as Jacques
- Le Roi Pandore as Gendarme Quichenette
1949
- I Love Only You as Un passager de l'avion
- Mission in Tangier as Drunk President
1947
- Six Hours to Lose as City sergeant