Bruno Cremer
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 6, 1929
- Died
- August 7, 2010 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Biography
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
Above the Clouds
Movie · as Le colonel
Under the Sand
Movie · as Jean Drillon
My Father Saved My Life
Movie · as Joe
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Maigret et le Liberty Bar
Movie · as Commissaire Jules Maigret
Night Taxi
Movie · as Silver, le taxi
A Vampire in Paradise
Movie · as Antoine Belfond
Money
Movie · as Marc Lavater
Maigret
TV · as Jules Maigret, Commissaire Jules Maigret, Bruno Cremer Commissaire Jules Maigret · 54 eps
Tumultes
Movie · as The Father
Act of Sorrow
Movie · as Armando
Coma dépassé
Movie · as Yves Toledano
White Wedding
Movie · as François Hainaut
Brothers in Arms
Movie · as Joulin
L'Été de la Révolution
Movie · as Louis XVI
L'Été de la Révolution
TV · as Louis XVI · 2 eps
Sound and Fury
Movie · as Marcel
Adieu, je t'aime
Movie · as Michel Dupré
The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin
TV · as Jacques Pincemaille · 1 ep
Falsch
Movie · as Joe
L'île
TV · as Lieutenant Mason · 6 eps
Opération Ypsilon
TV · as Germain Langelier · 4 eps
Matin Bonheur
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ménage
Movie · as The Art Lover
Derborence
Movie · as Séraphin
Le Transfuge
Movie · as Bernard Corain
The Book of Mary
Movie · as Father
L'Énigme blanche
Movie · as Paul
Le Regard dans le miroir
TV · as Eric Chevallier · 4 eps
Fanny Straw-Top
Movie · as Andrés Gallego
Le Matelot 512
Movie · as Commander Roger
The Octopus
TV · as Antonio Espinosa · 17 eps
A Brutal Game
Movie · as Tessier
Effraction
Movie · as Pierre
The Prize of Peril
Movie · as Antoine Chirex
Spy, Stand Up
Movie · as Alain Richard
Josepha
Movie · as Régis Duchemin
La Puce et le privé
Movie · as Valentin 'Val' Brosse
Aimée
Movie · as Carl Freyer
Une robe noire pour un tueur
Movie · as Alain Rivière
Operation Leopard
Movie · as Pierre Delbart
Anthracite
Movie · as The prefect of studies
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Movie · as Morton
Une page d'amour
Movie · as Le docteur Henri Deberle
La Traque
TV · as Le commissaire Chenu · 4 eps
We Forget Everything!
Movie · as Claude Raisman
A Simple Story
Movie · as Georges
Last In, First Out
Movie · as Lucas Richter
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sorcerer
Movie · as Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
Drummer-Crab
Movie · as Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
The Good and the Bad
Movie · as Bruno
Hunter Will Get You
Movie · as Gilbert, aka l'Epervier
Flesh of the Orchid
Movie · as Louis Delage
Special Section
Movie · as Lucien Sampaix
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Suspects
Movie · as Police Commissioner Bonetti
The Protector
Movie · as Commissaire Baudrier
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Without Warning
Movie · as L'ex-sergent Donetti
The Assassination
Movie · as Michel Vigneau
The Algerian War
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Smugglers
Movie · as Saska
Biribi
Movie · as Le capitaine
Pour un sourire
Movie · as Michaël
Safety Catch
Movie · as Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
The Time to Die
Movie · as Max Topfer
Bye Bye Barbara
Movie · as Hugo Michelli
Les Gauloises bleues
Movie · as Le père
Bonnot's Gang
Movie · as Jules Bonnot
The Killer Likes Candy
Movie · as Oscar Snell
The Stranger
Movie · as Priest
If I Were a Spy
Movie · as Matras
Shock Troops
Movie · as Cazal
A Question of Rape
Movie · as Walter
Objective: 500 Million
Movie · as Captain Jean Reichau
Is Paris Burning?
Movie · as Colonel Rol Tanguy
The 317th Platoon
Movie · as L'adjudant Willsdorf
Marco the Magnificent
Movie · as Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
Le Tout pour le tout
Movie · as Doctor
To Die of Love
Movie · as Inspector Terens
When a Woman Meddles
Movie · as Bernard
Les Dents longues
Movie · as L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)