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Bruno Cremer

Bruno Cremer

Actor · 1929 – 2010 · Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

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 .

Movies24

  • Movie7.5

    Sorcerer

    1977 · 695 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Paris brûle-t-il?

    Is Paris Burning?

    1966 · 229 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Noce blanche

    White Wedding

    1989 · 131 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Coma dépassé

    1990 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.4

    La Chair de l'orchidée

    Flesh of the Orchid

    1975 · 38 votes

  • Movie6.5

    L'Alpagueur

    Hunter Will Get You

    1976 · 132 votes

  • Movie6.6

    L'Attentat

    The Assassination

    1972 · 44 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Sous le Sable

    Under the Sand

    2001 · 197 votes

  • Movie4.8

    La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo

    Marco the Magnificent

    1965 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Lo straniero

    The Stranger

    1967 · 96 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Le Prix du danger

    The Prize of Peril

    1983 · 115 votes

  • Movie7.3

    La 317ème Section

    The 317th Platoon

    1965 · 85 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Un homme de trop

    Shock Troops

    1967 · 49 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Espion, lève-toi

    Spy, Stand Up

    1982 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Tenue de soirée

    Ménage

    1986 · 256 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Un killer per sua maestà

    The Killer Likes Candy

    1968 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Falsch

    1987 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Une Histoire Simple

    A Simple Story

    1978 · 57 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Quand la femme s'en mêle

    When a Woman Meddles

    1957 · 14 votes

  • Movie6.6

    De bruit et de fureur

    Sound and Fury

    1988 · 69 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Les Suspects

    The Suspects

    1974 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Le Bon et les Méchants

    The Good and the Bad

    1976 · 37 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Le Temps de mourir

    The Time to Die

    1970 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Money

    1991 · 5 votes

Series12

  • TV3.6

    Vivement dimanche

    1998 · 9 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV9.5

    Spécial cinéma

    1974 · 2 votes

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV7.9

    Maigret

    1991 · 26 votes

  • TV7.8

    La Piovra

    The Octopus

    1984 · 66 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.3

    Les Dossiers de l'inspecteur Lavardin

    The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

    1988 · 4 votes

  • TV9.0

    La Traque

    1980 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV9.0
  • TV6.5

    L'île

    1987 · 2 votes