Bruno Cremer
1929-2010|
Biography
 Bruno Cremer was born on 6th October 1929, at Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France. At the age of 12, he had made up his mind to become an actor and as soon as he could he enrolled at Paris’s elite drama school, le Conservatoire. Here, he rubbed shoulders with such promising young talent as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Rochefort. Cremer made his stage debut in 1953 at the Théâtre de l’Ouvre in Jules Supervielle’s Robinson. For much of the following decade, he would devote himself to his theatre work, appearing in such diverse plays as Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, William Shakespeare’s Pericles and Jean Anouilh’s Becket ou l’Honneur de Dieu, earning himself a reputation as one of France’s most promising young actors. Cremer’s film career began in earnest when Pierre Schoendoerffer gave him his first leading role in La 317e Section (1965). He had already appeared in a handful of films in small roles but this is where his screen career took off. Other film directors were not slow to see Cremer’s talent for playing complex and ambiguous characters with depth, introspection and authenticity. He would work with some of the finest filmmakers in the industry, including: Costa-Gavras (Section spéciale, 1975), Claude Lelouch (Le Bon et les méchants, 1976), Bertrand Blier (Tenue de soirée, 1986) and François Ozon (Sous le sable, 2000). In the 1990s, Cremer found his largest audience as Inspector Maigret in a French television series that ran for 54 episodes, from 1991 to 2005. In 2003, Bruno Cremer published his autobiography, Un certain jeune homme. After suffering from cancer for several years, Cremer died on 7th August 2010 in a Paris hospital. He is survived by his wife Chantal (whom he married in 1984), his two daughters and his son Stéphane (a successful writer). For many, he will be remembered as the definitive screen incarnation of Simenon’s pipe-smoking sleuth Maigret. © filmsdefrance.com 2010 |
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The Actor
Bruno Cremer has appeared in the following films:Les Dents longues (1952) Quand la femme s’en mêle (1957) Mourir d’amour (1960) Le Tout pour le tout (1963) La 317e section (1965) La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (1965) Objectif: 500 millions (1966) Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) Si j’étais un espion (1967) Un homme de trop (1967) Lo Straniero (1967) Les Gauloises bleues (1968) Bye bye, Barbara (1968) Un Killer per sua maestà (1968) Le Viol (1968) La Bande à Bonnot (1969) Cran d’arrêt (1970) Pour un sourire (1970) Le Temps de mourir (1970) Biribi (1971) L’Amante dell’orsa maggiore (1972) L’Attentat (1972) Sans sommation (1973) Le Protecteur (1974) Les Suspects (1974) La Chair de l’orchidée (1975) Section spéciale (1975) Le Bon et les méchants (1976) L’Alpagueur (1976) Sorcerer (1977) L’Ordre et la sécurité du monde (1978) Une histoire simple (1978) On efface tout (1979) La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980) Même les mômes ont du vague à l’âme (1980) Anthracite (1980) Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981) La Puce et le privé (1981) Aimée (1981) Espion, lève-toi (1982) Josepha (1982) Le Prix du danger (1983) Effraction (1983) Un jeu brutal (1983) Le Livre de Marie (1984) Fanny Pelopaja (1984) Le Matelot 512 (1984) Derborence (1985) Le Transfuge (1985) Tenue de soirée (1986) Falsch (1987) Adieu je t’aime (1988) De bruit et de fureur (1988) L’Union sacrée (1989) Noce blanche (1989) Tumultes (1990) Money (1991) Atto di dolore (1991) Un vampire au paradis (1992) Taxi de nuit (1993) Sous le sable (2000) Mon père, il m’a sauvé la vie (2001) Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (2003) |
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