Jean Richard

Apr 18, 1921 - Dec 12, 2001 (80 years old) in Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France

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.

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Known For

30 millions d'amis

Self

Mission in Tangier

Drunk President

Casta diva

Domenico Fiorillo

Under Your Hat

Docteur Tannait

Life Together

André Le Lorrain

Les Truands

Alexandre Benoit

Le Roi Pandore

Gendarme Quichenette

The Annuity

Jo (un voyou)

I Love Only You

Un passager de l'avion

Dernier tiercé

Laredon

Credits

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) 2009

Self (archive footage)

★ 6
Signé Furax 1981

Maigret

★ 4.8
30 millions d'amis 1976

Self

★ 5.8
Le Médecin malgré lui 1973

Sganarelle

★ NR
Noix de coco 1972

Loulou

★ 4
Midi trente 1972

Self

★ 6
The Annuity 1972

Jo (un voyou)

★ 6.6
Le Grand Échiquier 1972

Self

★ 8
Cadet Rousselle 1971

Self

★ NR
La Maison de campagne 1969

Bertrand Boiselier

★ 5.2
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus 1969

Jean Richard

★ NR
Beru and These Women 1968

Principal inspector Bérurier

★ 3.2
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret 1967

Commissaire Jules Maigret

★ 8.7
Bang Bang 1967

Paulo

★ 4
The Oldest Profession 1967

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

★ 4.9
Sale temps pour les mouches 1966

Principal inspector Bérurier

★ 5.7
The Boss of Champignol 1966

Claudius Binoche

★ NR
The Lace Wars 1965

Le prince de Beaulieu

★ 4
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning 1965

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

★ 5.5
L'or du duc 1965

★ 1
Under Your Hat 1965

Docteur Tannait

★ 3.3
The Double Bed 1965

Father

★ 2.5
Rope Around the Neck 1965

Arthur

★ NR
Dernier tiercé 1965

Laredon

★ NR
Les mordus de Paris 1965

Mr. Durand

★ NR
Black Humor 1965

Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'

★ 2
The Real Bargain 1965

★ 1
Comment épouser un premier ministre 1964

Le promoteur

★ 1
Clémentine chérie 1964

Auguste

★ 6
Jaloux comme un tigre 1964

The man with the wrecked car

★ 2
Bebert and the Train 1963

Mr. Martin

★ 6.3
Sweet and Sour 1963

Lepetit (le nounou 2)

★ 4.6
The Bamboo Stroke 1963

Albert

★ 3.3
Chicken Feed for Little Birds 1963

le boucher

★ 6
We Will Go to Deauville 1962

Le plombier - M. Simeon

★ 5.6
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge 1962

Philibert

★ 5
Tartarin de Tarascon 1962

Director of the 'Mitaine' circus

★ 4.8
War of the Buttons 1962

Lebrac's father

★ 7.2
This Time it Must Be Caviar 1961

Siméon

★ 6
Operation Caviar 1961

Siméon

★ 5.1
My Wife Is a Panther 1961

Roger

★ 1
The Fenouillard Family 1961

Agénor Fenouillard

★ 5.1
Les fortiches 1961

Dédé

★ 1
Small Local Trains 1960

César Beauminet

★ 6.8
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century 1960

Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer

★ 6.2
Tête folle 1960

Gérard

★ NR
Some Like It... Cold 1960

Jérôme Valmorin, explorer

★ 5.5
La Malle volante 1959

Ferdinand

★ NR
Without Trumpet or Drum 1959

Leon Riffard

★ NR
My Pal the Gypsy 1959

Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy

★ 4
Stop the Massacre 1959

Antoine Martin

★ NR
You Have Nothing to Declare? 1959

Marius Frontignac

★ 5.8
The Bureaucrats 1959

Boudin

★ 5.5
The Gendarme of Champignol 1959

Claudius Binoche

★ 4
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women 1959

The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)

★ 4.7
Life Together 1958

André Le Lorrain

★ 5.7
En bordée 1958

Prosper Cartahu

★ 7
It Happened on the 36 Candles 1957

Self (uncredited)

★ 2
La Peau de l'ours 1957

Commissioner Etienne Ledru

★ 5
We at Champignol 1957

Claudius Binoche

★ 1
Slightly Ahead 1956

Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste

★ 6.1
Life is beautiful 1956

l'employé

★ 4.5
Elena and Her Men 1956

Hector

★ 5.9
Les Truands 1956

Alexandre Benoit

★ 4.5
La Madelon 1955

Antoine Pichot

★ 4.3
Chéri-Bibi 1955

Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais

★ 4.5
Les deux font la paire 1955

Achille Baluchet

★ 3.5
Casta diva 1954

Domenico Fiorillo

★ 6
The Cheerful Squadron 1954

Laperrine

★ 5.7
Service Entrance 1954

Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles

★ 5.7
Marriage Episodes 1954

M. des Rillettes

★ 5
Royal Affairs in Versailles 1954

Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe

★ 6.6
Cinema of yesteryear 1953

Pasquale

★ NR
His Father's Portrait 1953

Paul Durand

★ 5
Wonderful Mentality 1953

Honoré Bonvalet

★ NR
Deux de l'escadrille 1953

Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'

★ NR
Drôle de noce 1952

Joseph Bonhomme

★ 4.5
La demoiselle et son revenant 1952

Ricard

★ NR
Le Costaud des Batignolles 1952

Policeman

★ 2.5
The Seven Deadly Sins 1952

The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")

★ 5.9
Le Passage de Vénus 1951

★ 10
Bernard and the Lion 1951

The Brigadier

★ 5.2
The King of the Bla Bla Bla 1950

Jacques

★ 7.5
Adémaï at the border post 1950

★ 6
Le Roi Pandore 1950

Gendarme Quichenette

★ 5.3
I Love Only You 1949

Un passager de l'avion

★ 5
Mission in Tangier 1949

Drunk President

★ 5.8
Six Hours to Lose 1947

City sergeant

★ 5.2