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