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person_profile-Bruno Cremer

Bruno Cremer Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Bruno Cremer

Date of Birth:

Oct 06, 1929

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Aug 07, 2010

Biography of

Bruno Cremer

    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-leaning 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 3.0.

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Filmography of

Bruno Cremer

Found 62 Movies in total

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2023

Above the Clouds

Le colonel ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2001

Under the Sand

Jean Drillon ( Actor )

... 2000

Night Taxi

Silver, le taxi ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1992

Money

Marc Lavater ( Actor )

... 1991

Act of Sorrow

Armando ( Actor )

... 1990

Tumultes

The Father ( Actor )

... 1990

White Wedding

François Hainaut ( Actor )

... 1989

... 1989

Brothers in Arms

Joulin ( Actor )

... 1989

Sound and Fury

Marcel ( Actor )

... 1988

Adieu, je t'aime

Michel Dupré ( Actor )

... 1988

Falsch

Joe ( Actor )

... 1987

Ménage

l'amateur d'art ( Actor )

... 1986

L'Énigme blanche

Paul ( Actor )

... 1985

Derborence

Séraphin ( Actor )

... 1985

Le Matelot 512

Le Commandant Roger ( Actor )

... 1984

Fanny Straw-Top

Andrés Gallego ( Actor )

... 1984

A Brutal Game

Tessier ( Actor )

... 1983

Effraction

Pierre ( Actor )

... 1983

The Prize of Peril

Antoine Chirex ( Actor )

... 1983

Josepha

Régis Duchemin ( Actor )

... 1982

Spy, Stand Up

Alain Richard ( Actor )

... 1982

Aimée

Carl Freyer ( Actor )

... 1981

La Puce et le privé

Valentin 'Val' Brosse ( Actor )

... 1981

Une page d'amour

Le docteur Henri Deberle ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1980

Operation Leopard

Pierre Delbart ( Actor )

... 1980

A Simple Story

Georges ( Actor )

... 1978

Last In, First Out

Lucas Richter ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

Sorcerer

Victor Manzon / 'Serrano' ( Actor )

... 1977

Hunter Will Get You

Gilbert, aka "l'Epervier" ( Actor )

... 1976

The Good and the Bad

Bruno ( Actor )

... 1976

Special Section

Lucien Sampaix ( Actor )

... 1975

Flesh of the Orchid

Louis Delage ( Actor )

... 1975

The Suspects

Commissaire Bonetti ( Actor )

... 1974

The Protector

Commissaire Baudrier ( Actor )

... 1974

Without Warning

L'ex-sergent Donetti ( Actor )

... 1973

The Assassination

Michel Vigneau ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

Biribi

Le capitaine ( Actor )

... 1971

The Time to Die

Max Topfer ( Actor )

... 1970

Pour un sourire

Michaël ( Actor )

... 1970

Bye Bye Barbara

Hugo Michelli ( Actor )

... 1969

Bonnot's Gang

Jules Bonnot ( Actor )

... 1968

The Killer Likes Candy

Oscar Snell ( Actor )

... 1968

A Question of Rape

Walter ( Actor )

... 1967

The Stranger

Priest ( Actor )

... 1967

If I Were a Spy

Matras ( Actor )

... 1967

Shock Troops

Cazal ( Actor )

... 1967

Is Paris Burning?

Colonel Rol Tanguy ( Actor )

... 1966

Objective: 500 Million

Capitaine Jean Reichau ( Actor )

... 1966

Marco the Magnificent

Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar ( Actor )

... 1965

The 317th Platoon

L'adjudant Willsdorf ( Actor )

... 1965

Le tout pour le tout

Doctor ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1961

When a Woman Meddles

Bernard ( Actor )

... 1957

Les Dents longues

l'homme sortant de la boîte ( Actor )

... 1953