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