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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Above the Clouds as Le colonel
- 2001 · My Father Saved My Life as Joe
- 2000 · Under the Sand as Jean Drillon
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1993 · Night Taxi as Silver, le taxi
- 1992 · A Vampire in Paradise as Antoine Belfond
- 1991 · Maigret as Jules Maigret
- 1991 · Money as Marc Lavater
- 1990 · Coma dépassé as Yves Toledano
- 1990 · Act of Sorrow as Armando
- 1990 · Tumultes as The Father
- 1989 · White Wedding as François Hainaut
- 1989 · L'Été de la Révolution as
- 1989 · L'Été de la Révolution as Louis XVI
- 1989 · Brothers in Arms as Joulin
- 1988 · The secret files of Inspector Lavardin as Jacques Pincemaille
- 1988 · Sound and Fury as Marcel
- 1988 · Adieu, je t'aime as Michel Dupré
- 1987 · L'île as
- 1987 · Matin Bonheur as Self
- 1987 · Opération Ypsilon as Germain Langelier
- 1987 · Falsch as Joe
- 1986 · Ménage as l'amateur d'art
- 1985 · L'Énigme blanche as Paul
- 1985 · Le Transfuge as Bernard Corain
- 1985 · Le Regard dans le miroir as Eric Chevallier
- 1985 · Derborence as Séraphin
- 1985 · The Book of Mary as Le Père
- 1984 · Le Matelot 512 as Le Commandant Roger
- 1984 · Fanny Straw-Top as Andrés Gallego
- 1984 · The Octopus as Antonio Espinosa
- 1983 · A Brutal Game as Tessier
- 1983 · Effraction as Pierre
- 1983 · The Prize of Peril as Antoine Chirex
- 1982 · Josepha as Régis Duchemin
- 1982 · Espion, lève-toi as Alain Richard
- 1981 · Aimée as Carl Freyer
- 1981 · La Puce et le privé as Valentin 'Val' Brosse
- 1981 · Une robe noire pour un tueur as Alain Rivière
- 1980 · La Traque as Le commissaire Chenu
- 1980 · Une page d'amour as Le docteur Henri Deberle
- 1980 · Anthracite as The prefect of studies
- 1980 · Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme as Morton
- 1980 · Operation Leopard as Pierre Delbart
- 1979 · We Forget Everything! as Claude Raisman
- 1978 · A Simple Story as Georges
- 1978 · Last In, First Out as Lucas Richter
- 1977 · Drummer-Crab as
- 1977 · Sorcerer as Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
- 1976 · Hunter Will Get You as Gilbert, aka l'Epervier
- 1976 · The Good and the Bad as Bruno
- 1975 · Special Section as Lucien Sampaix
- 1975 · Flesh of the Orchid as Louis Delage
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · The Suspects as Commissaire Bonetti
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1974 · The Protector as Commissaire Baudrier
- 1973 · Without Warning as L'ex-sergent Donetti
- 1972 · The Assassination as Michel Vigneau
- 1972 · The Algerian War as
- 1971 · The Smugglers as Saska
- 1971 · Biribi as Le capitaine
- 1970 · The Time to Die as Max Topfer
- 1970 · Pour un sourire as Michaël
- 1970 · Safety Catch as Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
- 1969 · Les Gauloises bleues as Le père
- 1969 · Bye Bye Barbara as Hugo Michelli
- 1968 · Bonnot's Gang as Jules Bonnot
- 1968 · The Killer Likes Candy as Oscar Snell
- 1967 · A Question of Rape as Walter
- 1967 · The Stranger as Priest
- 1967 · If I Were a Spy as Matras
- 1967 · Shock Troops as Cazal
- 1966 · Is Paris Burning? as Colonel Rol Tanguy
- 1966 · Objective: 500 Million as Capitaine Jean Reichau
- 1965 · Marco the Magnificent as Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
- 1965 · The 317th Platoon as L'adjudant Willsdorf
- 1962 · Le tout pour le tout as Doctor
- 1961 · To Die of Love as
- 1957 · When a Woman Meddles as Bernard
- 1953 · Les Dents longues as L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)
- 1953 · Les Dents longues as l'homme sortant de la boîte