
Jean Richard
Acting
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.

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)

Signé Furax
Maigret

Le Médecin malgré lui
Sganarelle

Noix de coco
Loulou

The Annuity
Jo (un voyou)

La Maison de campagne
Bertrand Boiselier

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Jean Richard

Beru and These Women
Inspecteur principal Bérurier

Bang Bang
Paulo

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

Sale temps pour les mouches
Principal inspector Bérurier

The Boss of Champignol
Claudius Binoche

The Lace Wars
Le prince de Beaulieu

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")

L'Or du duc

Under Your Hat
Docteur Tannait

The Double Bed
Father

Rope Around the Neck
Arthur

Dernier tiercé
Laredon

Les Mordus de Paris
Mr. Durand

Black Humor
Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'

The Real Bargain

Comment épouser un premier ministre
Le promoteur

Clémentine chérie
Auguste

Jaloux comme un tigre
The man with the wrecked car

Bebert and the Train
Mr. Martin

Sweet and Sour
Lepetit (le nounou 2)

The Bamboo Stroke
Albert

Chicken Feed for Little Birds
le boucher

We Will Go to Deauville
Le plombier - M. Simeon

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Philibert

Tartarin de Tarascon
Director of the 'Mitaine' circus

War of the Buttons
Lebrac's father

This Time it Must Be Caviar
Siméon

Operation Caviar
Siméon

My Wife Is a Panther
Roger

Les fortiches
Dédé

The Fenouillard Family
Agénor Fenouillard

Small Local Trains
César Beauminet

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer

Tête folle
Gérard

Some Like It... Cold
Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
La Malle volante
Ferdinand

Without Trumpet or Drum
Leon Riffard

My Pal the Gypsy
Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy

Stop the Massacre
Antoine Martin

You Have Nothing to Declare?
Marius Frontignac

The Bureaucrats
Boudin

The Gendarme of Champignol
Claudius Binoche

Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women
The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)

Life Together
André Le Lorrain

En bordée
Prosper Cartahu

It Happened on the 36 Candles
Self (uncredited)

La Peau de l'ours
Commissioner Etienne Ledru

We at Champignol
Claudius Binoche

Slightly Ahead
Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste

Life is beautiful
l'employé

Elena and Her Men
Hector

Les Truands
Alexandre Benoit

La Madelon
Antoine Pichot

Chéri-Bibi
Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais

Les deux font la paire
Achille Baluchet

Casta diva
Domenico Fiorillo

The Cheerful Squadron
Laperrine

Marriage Episodes
M. des Rillettes

Service Entrance
Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles

Royal Affairs in Versailles
Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe

Cinema of yesteryear
Pasquale

His Father's Portrait
Paul Durand

Wonderful Mentality
Honoré Bonvalet

Deux de l'escadrille
Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'

Drôle de noce
Joseph Bonhomme

La demoiselle et son revenant
Ricard

Le Costaud des Batignolles
Policeman

The Seven Deadly Sins
The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")

Le Passage de Vénus

Bernard and the Lion
The Brigadier

The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Jacques

Adémaï at the border post

Le Roi Pandore
Gendarme Quichenette

I Love Only You
Un passager de l'avion

Mission in Tangier
Drunk President

Six Hours to Lose
City sergeant







