Jean Richard
Born in Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France — Apr 18 1921• Died Dec 12 2001
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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 Senl…
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Midi trente
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
30 millions d'amis
Self
Cadet Rousselle
Self
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Commissaire Jules Maigret
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
War of the Buttons
Lebrac's father
Service Entrance
Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
The Oldest Profession
Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Elena and Her Men
Hector
L'Or du duc
The Seven Deadly Sins
The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Jean Richard
La Peau de l'ours
Commissioner Etienne Ledru
The Fenouillard Family
Agénor Fenouillard
Life Together
André Le Lorrain
The Annuity
Jo (un voyou)
Clémentine chérie
Auguste
Bang Bang
Paulo
Les Truands
Alexandre Benoit
Sweet and Sour
Lepetit (le nounou 2)
Casta diva
Domenico Fiorillo
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
The Lace Wars
Le prince de Beaulieu
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
Operation Caviar
Siméon
The Bureaucrats
Boudin
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
le boucher
Under Your Hat
Docteur Tannait
Jaloux comme un tigre
The man with the wrecked car
Six Hours to Lose
City sergeant
Signé Furax
Maigret
We Will Go to Deauville
Le plombier - M. Simeon
Sale temps pour les mouches
Principal inspector Bérurier
Slightly Ahead
Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
Beru and These Women
Inspecteur principal Bérurier
Some Like It... Cold
Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Marius Frontignac
Bebert and the Train
Mr. Martin
Chéri-Bibi
Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais
The Cheerful Squadron
Laperrine
Black Humor
Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
Tête folle
Gérard
My Pal the Gypsy
Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy
Small Local Trains
César Beauminet
Deux de l'escadrille
Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'
Drôle de noce
Joseph Bonhomme
The Boss of Champignol
Claudius Binoche
Mission in Tangier
Drunk President
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)
The Gendarme of Champignol
Claudius Binoche
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Siméon
Le Roi Pandore
Gendarme Quichenette
I Love Only You
Un passager de l'avion
Rope Around the Neck
Arthur
Without Trumpet or Drum
Leon Riffard
The Double Bed
Father
Le Costaud des Batignolles
Policeman
La demoiselle et son revenant
Ricard
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Le promoteur
The Real Bargain
The Bamboo Stroke
Albert
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Philibert
Marriage Episodes
M. des Rillettes
Cinema of yesteryear
Pasquale
Le Médecin malgré lui
Sganarelle
La Maison de campagne
Bertrand Boiselier
La Madelon
Antoine Pichot
En bordée
Prosper Cartahu
My Wife Is a Panther
Roger
Stop the Massacre
Antoine Martin
Adémaï at the border post
Dernier tiercé
Laredon
Life is beautiful
l'employé
Bernard and the Lion
The Brigadier
Noix de coco
Loulou
We at Champignol
Claudius Binoche
His Father's Portrait
Paul Durand
Les Mordus de Paris
Mr. Durand
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Jacques
Le Passage de Vénus
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)
Les fortiches
Dédé
Les deux font la paire
Achille Baluchet
Tartarin de Tarascon
Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
Wonderful Mentality
Honoré Bonvalet
La Malle volante
Ferdinand