Jean Richard
Birthday: 1921-04-18
Place of Birth: Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France
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.
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery...
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Cinema of yesteryear
While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ...
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
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Bebert and the Train
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his li...
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Elena and Her Men
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean R...
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn roma...
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Some Like It... Cold
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The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Prosper Bourrache, who has the gift of the gab, is natural born street vendor. Due to a mistake he g...
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Life Together
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes...
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Drôle de noce
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Bernard and the Lion
The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his...
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Le Passage de Vénus
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Deux de l'escadrille
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his ...
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Wonderful Mentality
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortu...
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Small Local Trains
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Sale temps pour les mouches
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
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Beru and These Women
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Operation Caviar
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Slightly Ahead
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive p...
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La Maison de campagne
What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house....
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You Have Nothing to Declare?
Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her chi...
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Chéri-Bibi
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This Time it Must Be Caviar
Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adv...
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Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduatin...
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Life is beautiful
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique...
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Casta diva
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and ...
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Signé Furax
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with re...
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Les Truands
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belong...
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The Annuity
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La Madelon
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in...
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Stop the Massacre
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Black Humor
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar...
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Under Your Hat
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune....
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En bordée
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Tête folle
Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her ...
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Les Mordus de Paris
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more tha...
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L'or du duc
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Tartarin de Tarascon
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The Real Bargain
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it...
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Rope Around the Neck
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress....
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Dernier tiercé
A beautician inherits a racing stable and a fortune of 160 million, which she can only collect in 5 ...
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The Oldest Profession
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....
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The Boss of Champignol
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for hi...
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The Lace Wars
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Alle...
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The Bureaucrats
The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee a...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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I Love Only You
Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrifici...
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the A...
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The Fenouillard Family
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José ...
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The Bamboo Stroke
Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Ang...
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Clémentine chérie
Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational d...
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We at Champignol
A turf war between two French villages against a soccer backdrop... Claudius, goalkeeper for Fouzy's...
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The Gendarme of Champignol
Claudius Binoche, brigadier de gendarmerie in Champignol, is about to marry Suzette, the post office...
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Six Hours to Lose
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. ...
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Le Roi Pandore
A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. ...
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His Father's Portrait
Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natu...
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My Pal the Gypsy
The "Védrines", whose head of family is a publisher, are well established in Paris. The "Pittuiti", ...
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Le Costaud des Batignolles
Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice...
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War of the Buttons
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is n...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, an...
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Service Entrance
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer ...
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends m...
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The Cheerful Squadron
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by m...
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Les deux font la paire
Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder....
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La Peau de l'ours
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers th...
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Les fortiches
During a bus tour of Marseille, a hold-up takes place in front of the passengers. Odette, a journali...
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Marriage Episodes
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustr...
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with...
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Adémaï at the border post
The peasant Adémaï, returning home, gets lost in the forest and knocks down a border post. In his ha...
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We Will Go to Deauville
Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy....
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My Wife Is a Panther
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Mission in Tangier
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents ...
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La demoiselle et son revenant
Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which ups...
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Bang Bang
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his ni...
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Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
Martine runs a sports center for women ,but they are short of the readies. To avoid seizure,she turn...
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Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh...
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