Bruno Jean Marie Cremer (6 October 1929 – 7 August 2010) was a French actor best known for portraying Jules Maigret on French television, from 1991 to 2005. Bruno Cremer was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. His mother, Jeanne Rullaert, a musician, was of Belgian Flemish origin and his father, Georges, was a businessman from Lille who, though born French, had taken out Belgian nationality after the French armed forces refused to accept him for service in the First World War. Bruno himself opted for French nationality when he reached the age of 18. His childhood was largely spent in Paris. Bruno attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. Having completed his secondary studies, he followed an interest in acting which had interested him since the age of 12 and trained in acting from 1952 at France's highly selective Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (English: French National Academy of Dramatic Arts). His career began with ten years spent acting in live theatre, playing roles drawn from works of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Jean Anouilh. Aged already 30, he created the role of Thomas Becket in the 1959 world premiere of Anouilh's Becket, and held Anouilh in veneration all his life. Later Cremer played Max in a French production of Bent by Martin Sherman in 1981. He regarded his basic profession as that of a stage actor, though he gravitated firmly to films. It was in 1957 that Cremer had his first credited part in a film, Quand la femme s'en mêle (When a woman meddles), which starred Alain Delon. However, it was in 1965 that Cremer's career really began to prosper, with the film La 317e section, (The 317th Platoon), directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer and set in Indochina during the French colonial wars. From then onwards, Cremer became a popular actor and appeared in over 110 productions for cinema and television. While Cremer tried to avoid labels and typecasting, he tended to be offered tough-guy roles, often military men. Examples from various points in his career include Section spéciale (1975), La légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980) and Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (2004). Special Section (French original title: Section spéciale), released in 1975, is about a kangaroo court set up in collaborationist Vichy France to ensure judicial convictions of innocent people so as to mollify the Nazis. A French language film directed by the Greek-French film director Costa-Gavras, it features Cremer as Lucien Sampaix, a Communist-leaning journalist. The 1980 film La légion saute sur Kolwezi (English Operation Leopard), directed by Raoul Coutard, is a documentary-style portrayal of a real-life operation headed by the French Foreign Legion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1978 to rescue foreign hostages. Cremer plays a military commander. Pierre Schoendoerffer’s 2004 film Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (Above the Clouds), based on his own novel, Là-haut. Cremer played the Colonel. ... Source: Article "Bruno Cremer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
A Simple Story
(Georges)
Objective: 500 Million
(Capitaine Jean Reichau)
Ménage
(l'amateur d'art)
Is Paris Burning?
(Colonel Rol Tanguy)
The Good and the Bad
(Bruno)
Under the Sand
(Jean Drillon)
Hunter Will Get You
(Gilbert, aka l'Epervier)
Pour un sourire
(Michaël)
The Stranger
(Priest)
The 317th Platoon
(L'adjudant Willsdorf)
The Suspects
(Commissioner Bonetti)
White Wedding
(François Hainaut)
Espion, lève-toi
(Alain Richard)
Josepha
(Régis Duchemin)
Bonnot's Gang
(Jules Bonnot)
Sorcerer
(Victor Manzon / 'Serrano')
Brothers in Arms
(Joulin)
Falsch
(Joe)
A Brutal Game
(Tessier)
Sound and Fury
(Marcel)
Flesh of the Orchid
(Louis Delage)
Above the Clouds
(Le colonel)
When a Woman Meddles
(Bernard)
If I Were a Spy
(Matras)
Fanny Straw-Top
(Andrés Gallego)
Operation Leopard
(Pierre Delbart)
Les Dents longues
(L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited))
The Assassination
(Michel Vigneau)
The Protector
(Commissaire Baudrier)
Marco the Magnificent
(Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar)
La Puce et le privé
(Valentin 'Val' Brosse)
Safety Catch
(Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti)
Money
(Marc Lavater)
A Vampire in Paradise
(Antoine Belfond)
Tumultes
(The Father)
Without Warning
(L'ex-sergent Donetti)
The Time to Die
(Max Topfer)
Drummer-Crab
Bye Bye Barbara
(Hugo Michelli)
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
(Self (archive footage))
Act of Sorrow
(Armando)
Last In, First Out
(Lucas Richter)
The Smugglers
(Saska)
Effraction
(Pierre)
The Algerian War
To Die of Love
We Forget Everything!
(Claude Raisman)
Biribi
(Le capitaine)
Shock Troops
(Cazal)
L'Été de la Révolution
The Prize of Peril
(Antoine Chirex)
Coma dépassé
(Yves Toledano)
Aimée
(Carl Freyer)
Anthracite
(The prefect of studies)
Derborence
(Séraphin)
Le Transfuge
(Bernard Corain)
Le Matelot 512
(Commander Roger)
The Book of Mary
(Le Père)
My Father Saved My Life
(Joe)
Les Dents longues
(l'homme sortant de la boîte)
Les Gauloises bleues
(Le père)
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
(Morton)
The Killer Likes Candy
(Oscar Snell)
Special Section
(Lucien Sampaix)
L'Énigme blanche
(Paul)
Une page d'amour
(Le docteur Henri Deberle)
A Question of Rape
(Walter)
Une robe noire pour un tueur
(Alain Rivière)
Le tout pour le tout
(Doctor)
Adieu, je t'aime
(Michel Dupré)
Night Taxi
(Silver, le taxi)
Maigret
(Jules Maigret)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
(Jacques Pincemaille)
The Octopus
(Antonio Espinosa)
Le Regard dans le miroir
(Eric Chevallier)
L'île
La Traque
(Le commissaire Chenu)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Opération Ypsilon
(Germain Langelier)
L'Été de la Révolution
(Louis XVI)
Matin Bonheur
(Self)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)