Jean Richard
Acting • Born 1921-04-18 – Died 2001-12-12
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.
Filmography
96 credits
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Movie • 1957
Self (uncredited)
Cinema of yesteryear
Movie • 1953
Pasquale
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Movie • 1964
Le promoteur
Bebert and the Train
Movie • 1963
Mr. Martin
La Malle volante
Movie • 1959
Ferdinand
Elena and Her Men
Movie • 1956
Hector
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Movie • 1963
le boucher
Some Like It... Cold
Movie • 1960
Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Movie • 1950
Jacques
Life Together
Movie • 1958
André Le Lorrain
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Movie • 1965
Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
Drôle de noce
Movie • 1952
Joseph Bonhomme
Bernard and the Lion
Movie • 1951
The Brigadier
Le Passage de Vénus
Movie • 1951
Deux de l'escadrille
Movie • 1953
Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'
Wonderful Mentality
Movie • 1953
Honoré Bonvalet
Small Local Trains
Movie • 1960
César Beauminet
Sale temps pour les mouches
Movie • 1966
Principal inspector Bérurier
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Movie • 1969
Jean Richard
Beru and These Women
Movie • 1968
Inspecteur principal Bérurier
Operation Caviar
Movie • 1961
Siméon
Slightly Ahead
Movie • 1956
Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
La Maison de campagne
Movie • 1969
Bertrand Boiselier
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Movie • 1959
Marius Frontignac
Chéri-Bibi
Movie • 1955
Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Movie • 1961
Siméon
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Movie • 1962
Philibert
Life is beautiful
Movie • 1956
l'employé
Casta diva
Movie • 1954
Domenico Fiorillo
Signé Furax
Movie • 1981
Maigret
Les Truands
Movie • 1956
Alexandre Benoit
The Annuity
Movie • 1972
Jo (un voyou)
La Madelon
Movie • 1955
Antoine Pichot
Stop the Massacre
Movie • 1959
Antoine Martin
Black Humor
Movie • 1965
Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
Under Your Hat
Movie • 1965
Docteur Tannait
En bordée
Movie • 1958
Prosper Cartahu
Tête folle
Movie • 1960
Gérard
Les Mordus de Paris
Movie • 1965
Mr. Durand
L'Or du duc
Movie • 1965
Tartarin de Tarascon
Movie • 1962
Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
The Real Bargain
Movie • 1965
Rope Around the Neck
Movie • 1965
Arthur
Dernier tiercé
Movie • 1965
Laredon
The Oldest Profession
Movie • 1967
Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
The Boss of Champignol
Movie • 1966
Claudius Binoche
The Lace Wars
Movie • 1965
Le prince de Beaulieu
The Bureaucrats
Movie • 1959
Boudin
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Movie • 1953
Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
I Love Only You
Movie • 1949
Un passager de l'avion
Without Trumpet or Drum
Movie • 1959
Leon Riffard
The Fenouillard Family
Movie • 1961
Agénor Fenouillard
The Bamboo Stroke
Movie • 1963
Albert
Clémentine chérie
Movie • 1964
Auguste
We at Champignol
Movie • 1957
Claudius Binoche
The Gendarme of Champignol
Movie • 1959
Claudius Binoche
Six Hours to Lose
Movie • 1947
City sergeant
His Father's Portrait
Movie • 1953
Paul Durand
Le Roi Pandore
Movie • 1950
Gendarme Quichenette
My Pal the Gypsy
Movie • 1959
Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy
Le Costaud des Batignolles
Movie • 1952
Policeman
War of the Buttons
Movie • 1962
Lebrac's father
Le Médecin malgré lui
Movie • 1973
Sganarelle
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1952
The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")
Service Entrance
Movie • 1954
Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles
Jaloux comme un tigre
Movie • 1964
The man with the wrecked car
Noix de coco
Movie • 1972
Loulou
The Cheerful Squadron
Movie • 1954
Laperrine
Les deux font la paire
Movie • 1955
Achille Baluchet
La Peau de l'ours
Movie • 1957
Commissioner Etienne Ledru
The Double Bed
Movie • 1965
Father
Les fortiches
Movie • 1961
Dédé
Marriage Episodes
Movie • 1954
M. des Rillettes
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Movie • 1960
Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
Adémaï at the border post
Movie • 1950
We Will Go to Deauville
Movie • 1962
Le plombier - M. Simeon
My Wife Is a Panther
Movie • 1961
Roger
Mission in Tangier
Movie • 1949
Drunk President
La demoiselle et son revenant
Movie • 1952
Ricard
Bang Bang
Movie • 1967
Paulo
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
Movie • 1959
The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)
Sweet and Sour
Movie • 1963
Lepetit (le nounou 2)
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
TV • 1967
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Cadet Rousselle
TV • 1971
Self
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976
Self
Apostrophes
TV • 1975
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Le monde est à vous
TV • 1987
Self
Discorama
TV • 1959
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self