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  • BIRTH 06/10/1929
  • DEATH 07/08/2010
  • Country France
  • SHOW 1
  • MOVIES 36

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. ...

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Bruno Cremer

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Maigret (1991)
Maigret (1991)
Jules Maigret

Movies (36)

Tenue de soirée
Tenue de soirée
The Art Lover
Le Prix du danger
Le Prix du danger
Antoine Chirex
L'Union sacrée
L'Union sacrée
Joulin
Sorcerer
Sorcerer
Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
Paris brûle-t-il?
Paris brûle-t-il?
Colonel Rol Tanguy
Noce blanche
Noce blanche
François Hainaut
Espion, lève-toi
Espion, lève-toi
Alain Richard
L'Alpagueur
L'Alpagueur
Gilbert, aka l'Epervier
Le Crabe-Tambour
Le Crabe-Tambour
Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
La légion saute sur Kolwezi
La légion saute sur Kolwezi
Pierre Delbart
Section spéciale
Section spéciale
Lucien Sampaix
Un homme de trop
Un homme de trop
Cazal
La 317ème Section
La 317ème Section
L'adjudant Willsdorf
Sous le Sable
Sous le Sable
Jean Drillon
Lo straniero
Lo straniero
Priest
La Bande à Bonnot
La Bande à Bonnot
Jules Bonnot
L'Attentat
L'Attentat
Michel Vigneau
Si j'étais un espion
Si j'étais un espion
Matras
Pour un sourire
Pour un sourire
Michaël
Le Bon et les Méchants
Le Bon et les Méchants
Bruno
Tumultes
Tumultes
The Father
Quand la femme s'en mêle
Quand la femme s'en mêle
Bernard
Fanny «Pelopaja»
Fanny «Pelopaja»
Andrés Gallego
Une Histoire Simple
Une Histoire Simple
Georges
La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo
La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo
Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
Un jeu brutal
Un jeu brutal
Tessier
La Chair de l'orchidée
La Chair de l'orchidée
Louis Delage
Effraction
Effraction
Pierre
Cran d'arrêt
Cran d'arrêt
Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
Objectif 500 millions
Objectif 500 millions
Capitaine Jean Reichau
De bruit et de fureur
De bruit et de fureur
Marcel
Les Dents longues
Les Dents longues
l'homme sortant de la boîte
Josépha
Josépha
Régis Duchemin
Les Gauloises bleues
Les Gauloises bleues
Le père
Falsch
Falsch
Joe
Le Livre de Marie
Le Livre de Marie
Le Père