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