Jean-Claude Petit

ActorSoundComposer Nov 14 (age 82) Vaires-sur-Marne, Seine-et-Marne, France 1960–2022 (62 year career)

5.7 avg rating

Biography

Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert. In 1973…

Known For

Film

Jean de Florette

Original Music Composer

Film

Cyrano de Bergerac

Original Music Composer

Film

Manon of the Spring

Original Music Composer

Film

Dalida

Original Music Composer

Film

Testament of Orpheus

2e Homme-Chien (non crédité)

Film

The Horseman on the Roof

Original Music Composer

Film

Les Misérables

Original Music Composer

Film

The Return of the Musketeers

Original Music Composer

Filmography

Acting (9)

Movies (6)

Dans les pas de Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2022

as Self

6.0

In The Tracks Of - Special Edition

2020

as Self

The Force of Destiny

2017

as Self

Toujours seuls

1991

as Pianist

4.8

Lotus Flower

1988

as Torpierre

Testament of Orpheus

1960

as 2e Homme-Chien (non crédité)

7.6

Television (3)

La chanson de l'année

2004

as Self - Santa Esmeralda

9.0

Victoires de la musique

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self - Pianist

Crew (47)

Movies (43)

Mélancolie ouvrière

2018

Music

4.9

Dalida

2017

Original Music Composer

6.7

First Growth

2015

Original Music Composer

5.9

Hôtel Normandy

2013

Original Music Composer

Visage

Music

Visage

Original Music Composer

Dance with Him

Music

One Summer

Orchestrator

One Summer

Original Music Composer

5.6

Simon le juste

2003

Original Music Composer

A Loving Father

2002

Original Music Composer

5.3

Lumumba

2000

Original Music Composer

6.8

Paddy

1999

Original Music Composer

Bitter Sugar

Music

Aristotle's Plot

Original Music Composer

5.8

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

Original Music Composer

6.6

The Horseman on the Roof

1995

Original Music Composer

6.5

Foreign Student

1994

Original Music Composer

3.8

Nobody's Children

1994

Original Music Composer

4.3

Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

1994

Original Music Composer

The Playboys

1992

Original Music Composer

6.2

588 rue Paradis

1992

Original Music Composer

7.2

Guilty of Innocence

1992

Original Music Composer

6.0

Mother

1991

Original Music Composer

Rue du Bac

Music

Cyrano de Bergerac

Original Music Composer

7.3

Uranus

1990

Original Music Composer

6.6

The Return of the Musketeers

1989

Original Music Composer

6.2

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

1989

Music

5.2

Deux

1989

Original Music Composer

5.2

Headstrong

1989

Original Music Composer

5.0

Vent de panique

1987

Original Music Composer

3.9

Tant qu'il y aura des femmes

1987

Original Music Composer

3.3

Manon of the Spring

1986

Original Music Composer

7.6

Jean de Florette

1986

Original Music Composer

7.7

Le Caviar rouge

1986

Original Music Composer

Billy Ze Kick

1985

Music

4.8

Slices of Life

1985

Original Music Composer

5.2

Sadness and Beauty

1985

Original Music Composer

2.4

L'Addition

1984

Original Music Composer

4.8

Vive la sociale !

1983

Original Music Composer

5.1

Tusk

1980

Original Music Composer

5.1

Crime Thief

1969

Conductor

5.2

Television (4)

Les Misérables

2000

Original Music Composer

6.9

Bravo la famille

1994

Sound

The Castle of Olive Trees

1993

Original Music Composer

6.0

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur

1971

Sound

8.0