Jean Richard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 18, 1921, Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, France
- Died
- December 12, 2001
- Movies
- 84
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2009 | Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) | Self (archive footage) |
| 1981 | Signé Furax | Maigret |
| 1973 | Le Médecin malgré lui | Sganarelle |
| 1972 | Noix de coco | Loulou |
| 1972 | The Annuity | Jo (un voyou) |
| 1971 | Maigret en vacances | Maigret |
| 1969 | La Maison de campagne | Bertrand Boiselier |
| 1969 | L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus | Jean Richard |
| 1968 | Beru and These Women | Inspecteur principal Bérurier |
| 1967 | Bang Bang | Paulo |
| 1967 | The Oldest Profession | Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi") |
| 1966 | Sale temps pour les mouches | Principal inspector Bérurier |
| 1966 | The Boss of Champignol | Claudius Binoche |
| 1965 | The Lace Wars | Le prince de Beaulieu |
| 1965 | How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning | Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants") |
| 1965 | L'Or du duc | |
| 1965 | Under Your Hat | Docteur Tannait |
| 1965 | The Double Bed | Father |
| 1965 | Rope Around the Neck | Arthur |
| 1965 | Dernier tiercé | Laredon |
| 1965 | Les Mordus de Paris | Mr. Durand |
| 1965 | Black Humor | Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole' |
| 1965 | The Real Bargain | |
| 1964 | Comment épouser un premier ministre | Le promoteur |
| 1964 | Clémentine chérie | Auguste |
| 1964 | Jaloux comme un tigre | The man with the wrecked car |
| 1963 | Bebert and the Train | Mr. Martin |
| 1963 | Sweet and Sour | Lepetit (le nounou 2) |
| 1963 | The Bamboo Stroke | Albert |
| 1963 | Chicken Feed for Little Birds | le boucher |
| 1962 | We Will Go to Deauville | Le plombier - M. Simeon |
| 1962 | Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge | Philibert |
| 1962 | Tartarin de Tarascon | Director of the 'Mitaine' circus |
| 1962 | War of the Buttons | Lebrac's father |
| 1961 | This Time it Must Be Caviar | Siméon |
| 1961 | Operation Caviar | Siméon |
| 1961 | My Wife Is a Panther | Roger |
| 1961 | The Fenouillard Family | Agénor Fenouillard |
| 1961 | Les fortiches | Dédé |
| 1960 | Small Local Trains | César Beauminet |
| 1960 | Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer |
| 1960 | Tête folle | Gérard |
| 1960 | Some Like It... Cold | Jérôme Valmorin, explorer |
| 1959 | La Malle volante | Ferdinand |
| 1959 | Without Trumpet or Drum | Leon Riffard |
| 1959 | My Pal the Gypsy | Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy |
| 1959 | Stop the Massacre | Antoine Martin |
| 1959 | You Have Nothing to Declare? | Marius Frontignac |
| 1959 | The Bureaucrats | Boudin |
| 1959 | The Gendarme of Champignol | Claudius Binoche |
| 1959 | Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women | The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited) |
| 1958 | Life Together | André Le Lorrain |
| 1958 | En bordée | Prosper Cartahu |
| 1957 | It Happened on the 36 Candles | Self (uncredited) |
| 1957 | La Peau de l'ours | Commissioner Etienne Ledru |
| 1957 | We at Champignol | Claudius Binoche |
| 1956 | Slightly Ahead | Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste |
| 1956 | Life is beautiful | l'employé |
| 1956 | Elena and Her Men | Hector |
| 1956 | Les Truands | Alexandre Benoit |
| 1955 | La Madelon | Antoine Pichot |
| 1955 | Chéri-Bibi | Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais |
| 1955 | Les deux font la paire | Achille Baluchet |
| 1954 | Casta diva | Domenico Fiorillo |
| 1954 | The Cheerful Squadron | Laperrine |
| 1954 | Service Entrance | Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles |
| 1954 | Marriage Episodes | M. des Rillettes |
| 1953 | Royal Affairs in Versailles | Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe |
| 1953 | Cinema of yesteryear | Pasquale |
| 1953 | His Father's Portrait | Paul Durand |
| 1953 | Wonderful Mentality | Honoré Bonvalet |
| 1953 | Deux de l'escadrille | Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse' |
| 1952 | Drôle de noce | Joseph Bonhomme |
| 1952 | La demoiselle et son revenant | Ricard |
| 1952 | Le Costaud des Batignolles | Policeman |
| 1952 | The Seven Deadly Sins | The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise") |
| 1951 | Le Passage de Vénus | |
| 1951 | Bernard and the Lion | The Brigadier |
| 1950 | The King of the Bla Bla Bla | Jacques |
| 1950 | Adémaï at the border post | |
| 1950 | Le Roi Pandore | Gendarme Quichenette |
| 1949 | I Love Only You | Un passager de l'avion |
| 1949 | Mission in Tangier | Drunk President |
| 1947 | Six Hours to Lose | City sergeant |
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