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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 18, 1921
Died
December 12, 2001
Place of Birth
Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France
Also Known As
- Жан Ришар
Jean Richard
0.3 Popularity
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Richard (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009
0.0
Self
Le monde est à vous
1987
5.1
Self
Sacrée Soirée
1987
6.3
Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
6.3
Self (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
1982
4.8
Maigret
Signé Furax
1981
5.8
Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
9.0
Self
Apostrophes
1975
0.0
Sganarelle
Le Médecin malgré lui
1973
4.0
Loulou
Noix de coco
1972
Credits
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
as Self (archive footage)
2009
6.0
Le monde est à vous
as Self
1987
0.0
Sacrée Soirée
as Self
1987
5.1
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Champs-Elysées
as Self (archive footage)
1982
6.3
Signé Furax
as Maigret
1981
4.8
30 millions d'amis
as Self
1976
5.8
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
9.0
Le Médecin malgré lui
as Sganarelle
1973
0.0
Noix de coco
as Loulou
1972
4.0
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
The Annuity
as Jo (un voyou)
1972
6.6
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Cadet Rousselle
as Self
1971
0.0
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
La Maison de campagne
as Bertrand Boiselier
1969
5.2
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Jean Richard
1969
0.0
Beru and These Women
as Principal inspector Bérurier
1968
3.2
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
1967
8.7
Bang Bang
as Paulo
1967
4.0
The Oldest Profession
as Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
1967
4.9
Sale temps pour les mouches
as Principal inspector Bérurier
1966
5.7
The Boss of Champignol
as Claudius Binoche
1966
0.0
The Lace Wars
as Le prince de Beaulieu
1965
4.0
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
1965
5.5
L'or du duc
1965
1.0
Under Your Hat
as Docteur Tannait
1965
3.3
The Double Bed
as Father
1965
2.5
Rope Around the Neck
as Arthur
1965
0.0
Dernier tiercé
as Laredon
1965
0.0
Les Mordus de Paris
as Mr. Durand
1965
0.0
Black Humor
as Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
1965
2.0
The Real Bargain
1965
1.0
Comment épouser un premier ministre
as Le promoteur
1964
1.0
Clémentine chérie
as Auguste
1964
6.0
Jaloux comme un tigre
as The man with the wrecked car
1964
2.0
Bebert and the Train
as Mr. Martin
1963
6.3
Sweet and Sour
as Lepetit (le nounou 2)
1963
4.6
The Bamboo Stroke
as Albert
1963
3.3
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
as le boucher
1963
6.0
We Will Go to Deauville
as Le plombier - M. Simeon
1962
5.6
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
as Philibert
1962
5.0
Tartarin de Tarascon
as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
1962
4.8
War of the Buttons
as Lebrac's father
1962
7.2
This Time it Must Be Caviar
as Siméon
1961
6.0
Operation Caviar
as Siméon
1961
5.1
My Wife Is a Panther
as Roger
1961
1.0
Les fortiches
as Dédé
1961
1.0
The Fenouillard Family
as Agénor Fenouillard
1961
5.1
Small Local Trains
as César Beauminet
1960
6.8
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
1960
6.2
Tête folle
as Gérard
1960
0.0
Some Like It... Cold
as Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
1960
5.5
🎬
La Malle volante
as Ferdinand
1959
0.0
Without Trumpet or Drum
as Leon Riffard
1959
0.0
My Pal the Gypsy
as Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy
1959
4.0
Stop the Massacre
as Antoine Martin
1959
0.0
You Have Nothing to Declare?
as Marius Frontignac
1959
5.8
The Bureaucrats
as Boudin
1959
5.5
The Gendarme of Champignol
as Claudius Binoche
1959
4.0
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
as The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)
1959
4.7
Discorama
as Self
1959
0.0
Life Together
as André Le Lorrain
1958
5.7
En bordée
as Prosper Cartahu
1958
7.0
It Happened on the 36 Candles
as Self (uncredited)
1957
2.0
La Peau de l'ours
as Commissioner Etienne Ledru
1957
5.0
We at Champignol
as Claudius Binoche
1957
1.0
Slightly Ahead
as Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
1956
6.1
Life is beautiful
as l'employé
1956
4.5
Elena and Her Men
as Hector
1956
5.9
Les Truands
as Alexandre Benoit
1956
4.5
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
La Madelon
as Antoine Pichot
1955
4.3
Chéri-Bibi
as Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais
1955
4.5
Les deux font la paire
as Achille Baluchet
1955
3.5
Casta diva
as Domenico Fiorillo
1954
6.0
The Cheerful Squadron
as Laperrine
1954
5.7
Service Entrance
as Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles
1954
5.7
Marriage Episodes
as M. des Rillettes
1954
5.0
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
1954
6.7
Cinema of yesteryear
as Pasquale
1953
0.0
His Father's Portrait
as Paul Durand
1953
5.0
Wonderful Mentality
as Honoré Bonvalet
1953
0.0
Deux de l'escadrille
as Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'
1953
0.0
Drôle de noce
as Joseph Bonhomme
1952
4.5
La demoiselle et son revenant
as Ricard
1952
0.0
Le Costaud des Batignolles
as Policeman
1952
2.5
The Seven Deadly Sins
as The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")
1952
5.9
Le Passage de Vénus
1951
10.0
Bernard and the Lion
as The Brigadier
1951
5.2
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
as Jacques
1950
7.5
Adémaï at the border post
1950
6.0
Le Roi Pandore
as Gendarme Quichenette
1950
5.3
I Love Only You
as Un passager de l'avion
1949
5.0
Mission in Tangier
as Drunk President
1949
5.8
Six Hours to Lose
as City sergeant
1947
5.2