Jean Richard

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.

Cast

It Happened on the 36 Candles

(Self (uncredited))

Cinema of yesteryear

(Pasquale)

Comment épouser un premier ministre

(Le promoteur)

Bebert and the Train

(Mr. Martin)

La Malle volante

(Ferdinand)

Elena and Her Men

(Hector)

Chicken Feed for Little Birds

(le boucher)

Some Like It... Cold

(Jérôme Valmorin, explorer)

The King of the Bla Bla Bla

(Jacques)

Life Together

(André Le Lorrain)

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

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

Drôle de noce

(Joseph Bonhomme)

Bernard and the Lion

(The Brigadier)

Le Passage de Vénus

Deux de l'escadrille

(Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse')

Wonderful Mentality

(Honoré Bonvalet)

Small Local Trains

(César Beauminet)

Sale temps pour les mouches

(Principal inspector Bérurier)

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

(Jean Richard)

Beru and These Women

(Principal inspector Bérurier)

Operation Caviar

(Siméon)

Slightly Ahead

(Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste)

La Maison de campagne

(Bertrand Boiselier)

You Have Nothing to Declare?

(Marius Frontignac)

Chéri-Bibi

(Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais)

This Time it Must Be Caviar

(Siméon)

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

(Philibert)

Life is beautiful

(l'employé)

Casta diva

(Domenico Fiorillo)

Signé Furax

(Maigret)

Les Truands

(Alexandre Benoit)

The Annuity

(Jo (un voyou))

La Madelon

(Antoine Pichot)

Stop the Massacre

(Antoine Martin)

Black Humor

(Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole')

Under Your Hat

(Docteur Tannait)

En bordée

(Prosper Cartahu)

Tête folle

(Gérard)

Les mordus de Paris

(Mr. Durand)

L'or du duc

Tartarin de Tarascon

(Director of the 'Mitaine' circus)

The Real Bargain

Rope Around the Neck

(Arthur)

Dernier tiercé

(Laredon)

The Oldest Profession

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

The Boss of Champignol

(Claudius Binoche)

The Lace Wars

(Le prince de Beaulieu)

The Bureaucrats

(Boudin)

Royal Affairs in Versailles

(Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe)

I Love Only You

(Un passager de l'avion)

Without Trumpet or Drum

(Leon Riffard)

The Fenouillard Family

(Agénor Fenouillard)

The Bamboo Stroke

(Albert)

Clémentine chérie

(Auguste)

We at Champignol

(Claudius Binoche)

The Gendarme of Champignol

(Claudius Binoche)

Six Hours to Lose

(City sergeant)

Le Roi Pandore

(Gendarme Quichenette)

His Father's Portrait

(Paul Durand)

My Pal the Gypsy

(Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy)

Le Costaud des Batignolles

(Policeman)

War of the Buttons

(Lebrac's father)

Le Médecin malgré lui

(Sganarelle)

The Seven Deadly Sins

(The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise"))

Service Entrance

(Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles)

Jaloux comme un tigre

(The man with the wrecked car)

Noix de coco

(Loulou)

The Cheerful Squadron

(Laperrine)

Les deux font la paire

(Achille Baluchet)

La Peau de l'ours

(Commissioner Etienne Ledru)

The Double Bed

(Father)

Les fortiches

(Dédé)

Marriage Episodes

(M. des Rillettes)

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

(Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer)

Adémaï at the border post

We Will Go to Deauville

(Le plombier - M. Simeon)

My Wife Is a Panther

(Roger)

Mission in Tangier

(Drunk President)

La demoiselle et son revenant

(Ricard)

Bang Bang

(Paulo)

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

(Self (archive footage))

Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women

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

Sweet and Sour

(Lepetit (le nounou 2))

The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret

(Commissaire Jules Maigret)

Le Grand Échiquier

(Self)

Cadet Rousselle

(Self)

Midi trente

(Self)

30 millions d'amis

(Self)

Apostrophes

(Self)

Champs-Elysées

(Self)

Champs-Elysées

(Self (archive footage))

Le monde est à vous

(Self)

Discorama

(Self)

Cinépanorama

(Self)

Samedi soir

(Self)

Sacrée Soirée

(Self)