Jean Richard
Born: 1921-04-18
• 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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Filmography
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Signé Furax
Le Médecin malgré lui
Noix de coco
The Annuity
La Maison de campagne
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Beru and These Women
Bang Bang
The Oldest Profession
Sale temps pour les mouches
The Boss of Champignol
The Lace Wars
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
L'or du duc
Under Your Hat
The Double Bed
Rope Around the Neck
Dernier tiercé
Les Mordus de Paris
Black Humor
The Real Bargain
Comment épouser un premier ministre
Clémentine chérie
Jaloux comme un tigre
Bebert and the Train
Sweet and Sour
The Bamboo Stroke
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
We Will Go to Deauville
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Tartarin de Tarascon
War of the Buttons
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Operation Caviar
My Wife Is a Panther
The Fenouillard Family
Les fortiches
Small Local Trains
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Tête folle
Some Like It... Cold
No Image
La Malle volante
Without Trumpet or Drum
My Pal the Gypsy
Stop the Massacre
You Have Nothing to Declare?
The Bureaucrats
The Gendarme of Champignol
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
Life Together
En bordée
It Happened on the 36 Candles
La Peau de l'ours
We at Champignol
Slightly Ahead
Life is beautiful
Elena and Her Men
Les Truands
La Madelon
Chéri-Bibi
Les deux font la paire
Casta diva
The Cheerful Squadron
Service Entrance
Marriage Episodes
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Cinema of yesteryear
His Father's Portrait
Wonderful Mentality
Deux de l'escadrille
Drôle de noce
La demoiselle et son revenant
Le Costaud des Batignolles
The Seven Deadly Sins
Le Passage de Vénus
Bernard and the Lion
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Adémaï at the border post
Le Roi Pandore
I Love Only You
Mission in Tangier
Six Hours to Lose