Jean Richard

Actor Apr 18 (died age 80) Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France 1947–2009 (62 year career)

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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 propert…

Known For

Film

War of the Buttons

Lebrac's father

Film

The Annuity

Jo (un voyou)

Film

The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

Commissaire Jules Maigret

Film

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe

Film

Elena and Her Men

Hector

Film

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")

Film

We Will Go to Deauville

Le plombier - M. Simeon

Film

Bebert and the Train

Mr. Martin

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (83)

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

2009

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Signé Furax

1981

as Maigret

4.8

Le Médecin malgré lui

1973

as Sganarelle

Noix de coco

as Loulou

The Annuity

as Jo (un voyou)

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

1969

as Jean Richard

La Maison de campagne

1969

as Bertrand Boiselier

5.2

Beru and These Women

1968

as Principal inspector Bérurier

3.2

The Oldest Profession

1967

as Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")

4.9

Bang Bang

1967

as Paulo

4.0

The Boss of Champignol

1966

as Claudius Binoche

Sale temps pour les mouches

1966

as Principal inspector Bérurier

Under Your Hat

as Docteur Tannait

Les Mordus de Paris

as Mr. Durand

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

as Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")

5.5

The Lace Wars

1965

as Le prince de Beaulieu

The Double Bed

as Father

L'Or du duc

Black Humor

as Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'

2.0

Rope Around the Neck

1965

as Arthur

The Real Bargain

1965

1.0

Dernier tiercé

1965

as Laredon

Clémentine chérie

1964

as Auguste

6.0

Jaloux comme un tigre

1964

as The man with the wrecked car

2.0

Comment épouser un premier ministre

1964

as Le promoteur

1.0

Sweet and Sour

1963

as Lepetit (le nounou 2)

4.6

The Bamboo Stroke

1963

as Albert

3.3

Chicken Feed for Little Birds

as le boucher

Bebert and the Train

as Mr. Martin

War of the Buttons

as Lebrac's father

Tartarin de Tarascon

as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus

4.8

We Will Go to Deauville

1962

as Le plombier - M. Simeon

5.6

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

as Philibert

Operation Caviar

as Siméon

My Wife Is a Panther

as Roger

The Fenouillard Family

1961

as Agénor Fenouillard

5.1

Les fortiches

1961

as Dédé

1.0

This Time it Must Be Caviar

as Siméon

Small Local Trains

as César Beauminet

Tête folle

as Gérard

Some Like It... Cold

1960

as Jérôme Valmorin, explorer

5.5

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

1960

as Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer

6.2

My Pal the Gypsy

1959

as Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy

4.0

You Have Nothing to Declare?

as Marius Frontignac

The Bureaucrats

as Boudin

The Gendarme of Champignol

1959

as Claudius Binoche

4.0

Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women

1959

as The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)

4.7

Stop the Massacre

1959

as Antoine Martin

La Malle volante

1959

as Ferdinand

Without Trumpet or Drum

1959

as Leon Riffard

Life Together

as André Le Lorrain

En bordée

as Prosper Cartahu

La Peau de l'ours

as Commissioner Etienne Ledru

5.0

We at Champignol

1957

as Claudius Binoche

1.0

It Happened on the 36 Candles

as Self (uncredited)

Life is beautiful

as l'employé

Slightly Ahead

as Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste

Elena and Her Men

as Hector

Les Truands

as Alexandre Benoit

Les deux font la paire

as Achille Baluchet

La Madelon

as Antoine Pichot

Chéri-Bibi

as Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais

4.5

The Cheerful Squadron

1954

as Laperrine

5.7

Service Entrance

1954

as Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles

Marriage Episodes

as M. des Rillettes

Casta diva

as Domenico Fiorillo

His Father's Portrait

1953

as Paul Durand

5.0

Royal Affairs in Versailles

1953

as Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe

6.6

Wonderful Mentality

1953

as Honoré Bonvalet

Cinema of yesteryear

1953

as Pasquale

Deux de l'escadrille

1953

as Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'

Drôle de noce

1952

as Joseph Bonhomme

4.5

Le Costaud des Batignolles

1952

as Policeman

2.5

The Seven Deadly Sins

1952

as The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")

5.9

La demoiselle et son revenant

1952

as Ricard

Le Passage de Vénus

Bernard and the Lion

as The Brigadier

Le Roi Pandore

as Gendarme Quichenette

5.3

The King of the Bla Bla Bla

1950

as Jacques

7.5

Adémaï at the border post

Mission in Tangier

as Drunk President

I Love Only You

as Un passager de l'avion

5.0

Six Hours to Lose

1947

as City sergeant

5.2

Television (12)

Sacrée Soirée

1987

as Self

5.1

Le monde est à vous

1987

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Apostrophes

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

Cadet Rousselle

as Self

The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

1967

as Commissaire Jules Maigret

8.7

Discorama

1959

as Self

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0