Raymond Gérôme
Born: 1920-05-17 in Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium
Died: 2002-02-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor. Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas. In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde. Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas. Source: Article "Raymond Gérôme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
1999
1997
- Original Sin as Jean-Philippe Etienne
1995
- Lulu, roi de France as Baron de Vaux
1991
- L'Opération Corned Beef as Ghislain Chauffereau, beau-père de Jean-Jacques
- Money as Morf
1989
- The French Revolution as Jacques Necker
1988
- Let Sleeping Cops Lie as chief inspector Cazalières
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
1981
- Les Avocats du Diable as Maître Jules Corvisart
1978
- Dear Inspector as Head of Criminal Division
- L'Exercice du pouvoir as Georges Argand
- Feu la mère de Madame ... (Director)
1977
- Animal as Le comte de Saint-Prix
- Le Portrait de Dorian Gray as Lord Henry Wotton
1976
- La Femme de paille as Anton Korff
- Le Gentleman des Antipodes as Vigerie
1975
1974
- Le Secret des Flamands as Palestrino Cavalieri
- Il y a longtemps que je t'aime ... (Director)
- One Morning in June 1940 as Colonel
- Le chien des Baskerville as Sherlock Holmes
1973
- The Day of the Jackal as Flavigny
- The Magnificent One as General Pontaubert
- A Slightly Pregnant Man as Dr Chaumont de Latour
- The Conspiracy as Vignaud
- Big Deal as Genève
- Un ange au paradis
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Travels with My Aunt as Mario
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- The Deadly Trap as Commissaire Chameille
1970
- Tropic of Cancer as Monsieur LeCenseur
- Céleste as Leader of the French barbouzes
- Les Dix Petits Nègres as Malgrave
1969
- The Brain as Commissioner
- Under the Sign of the Bull as Jérôme Laprade, le beau-frère et financier d'Albert
- La Toile d'araignée as Lord, l'inspecteur de police
1968
- A Little Virtuous as Maxime Kerman
- Les Aventures de Lagardère as Philippe d'Orléans
1967
- Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Carlo Werhoff
- The Night of the Generals as Colonel
- Lagardère as Le Régent
1966
- At Theatre Tonight as Monseigneur Lluegos
- The Other Truth as Judge
1965
- Tell Me Whom to Kill as Voice on the phone (voice)
1963
- Le mari ne compte pas as Édouard, ami de Léon
1962
- The Iron Mask as Pimentel
- The Immoral Moment as Pierre Malet
1961
- Goodbye Again as Jimmy
- Princess of Cleves as The King
- The Triumph of Michael Strogoff as Le général Vrovkine
- The Greengage Summer as Renard
- Napoléon II, the Eagle as Apponyi
1960
- The French Game as Pierre
- Murder at 45 R.P.M. as Le Commissaire
1957
- Élisa as Villedieu
- Young Girls Beware as Jacques
- Mademoiselle and Her Gang as Lawyer
1956
- Plaisir du théâtre as Édouard, ami de Léon