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