Bruno Cremer

Actor

6 de octubre de 1929 — 7 de agosto de 2010 (80 years)
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 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 .

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Filmography

2003
Above the Clouds · as Le Colonel
2001
2000
Under the Sand · as Jean Drillon
1991
Maigret (1991) · as Jules Maigret
1991
Money · as Marc Lavater
1990
Act of Sorrow · as Armando
1990
Tumultes · as The Father
1989
White Wedding · as François Hainaut
1989
L'union sacrée · as Joulin
1988
The Secret Cases of Inspector Lavardin · as Jacques Pincemaille
1988
Sound and Fury · as Marcel
1988
Adieu je t'aime · as Michel Dupré
1987
Falsch · as Joe
1986
Ménage · as The Art Lover
1985
1985
Le regard dans le miroir · as Eric Chevallier
1985
Derborence · as Séraphin
1985
The Book of Mary · as Father
1984
Le matelot 512 · as Commander Roger
1984
Fanny Pelopaja · as Andrés Gallego
1984
The Octopus · as Antonio Espinosa
1983
A Brutal Game · as Tessier
1983
Effraction · as Pierre
1983
The Prize of Peril · as Antoine Chirex
1982
Josépha · as Régis Duchemin
1982
Espion, lève-toi · as Alain Richard
1981
Aimée · as Carl Freyer
1981
Une robe noire pour un tueur · as Alain Rivière
1980
Anthracite · as The Prefect Of Studies
1980
1980
Operation Leopard · as Pierre Delbart
1979
Orient-Express · as Mikhaïl
1978
A Simple Story · as Georges
1978
Last In, First Out · as Lucas Richter
1977
Le Crabe-Tambour · as Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
1977
Sorcerer · as Victor Manzon / "serrano"
1976
The Hunter Will Get You · as Gilbert, Aka L'epervier
1976
1975
Special Section · as Lucien Sampaix
1975
The Flesh of the Orchid · as Louis Delage
1974
The Suspects · as Commissioner Bonetti
1974
The Protector · as Commissaire Baudrier
1973
Without Appeal · as L'ex-Sergent Donetti
1972
The French Conspiracy · as Michel Vigneau
1971
1971
Biribi · as Le Capitaine
1970
The Time to Die · as Max Topfer
1970
Pour un sourire · as Michaël
1970
Safety Catch · as Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
1969
Bye bye, Barbara · as Hugo Michelli
1968
Bonnot's Gang · as Jules Bonnot
1968
Les Gauloises bleues · as Le Père
1968
The Killer Likes Candy · as Oscar Snell
1967
Le viol · as Walter
1967
The Stranger · as Priest
1967
If I Were a Spy · as Matras
1967
Shock Troops · as Cazal
1966
Is Paris Burning? · as Colonel Rol Tanguy
1966
Objective 500 Million · as Captain Jean Reichau
1965
Marco the Magnificent · as Guillaume De Tripoli, A Knight Templar
1965
The 317th Platoon · as L'adjudant Willsdorf
1961
Mourir d'amour · as Inspector Terens
1957
1953
The Long Teeth · as L'homme Qui Sort De La Boîte (uncredited)

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