Bruno Cremer
69 movies · 8 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 6, 1929
- Died
- Aug 7, 2010 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
- Also known as
- Bruno Jean Marie Cremer · ブリュノ・クレメール · Бруно Кремер
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.
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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. ...
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Bruno Cremer: movies and TV shows
Acting (77)
- 2003 Above the Clouds
as Le colonel
- 2001 My Father Saved My Life
as Joe
- 2001 Under the Sand
as Jean Drillon
- 1997 Maigret et le Liberty Bar
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
- 1993 Night Taxi
as Silver, le taxi
- 1992 A Vampire in Paradise
as Antoine Belfond
- 1991 Maigret · TV
as Jules Maigret / Maigret / Commissaire Jules Maigret / Bruno Cremer Commissaire Jules Maigret · 80 episodes
- 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 Louis XVI
- 1989
- 1989 Brothers in Arms
as Joulin
- 1988
- 1988 Sound and Fury
as Marcel
- 1988 Adieu, je t'aime
as Michel Dupré
- 1987
- 1987 Falsch
as Joe
- 1987
- 1986 Ménage
as The Art Lover
- 1985 L'Énigme blanche
as Paul
- 1985 Le Transfuge
as Bernard Corain
- 1985
- 1985 Derborence
as Séraphin
- 1985 The Book of Mary
as Father
- 1984 Le Matelot 512
as Commander Roger
- 1984 Fanny Straw-Top
as Andrés Gallego
- 1984
- 1983 A Brutal Game
as Tessier
- 1983 Effraction
as Pierre
- 1983 The Prize of Peril
as Antoine Chirex
- 1982 Josepha
as Régis Duchemin
- 1982 Spy, Stand Up
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
- 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 Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
- 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
- 1974 The Suspects
as Police Commissioner Bonetti
- 1974 The Protector
as Commissaire Baudrier
- 1973 Without Warning
as L'ex-sergent Donetti
- 1972 The Assassination
as Michel Vigneau
- 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 Captain 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 Inspector Terens
- 1957 When a Woman Meddles
as Bernard
- 1953 Les Dents longues
as L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (6)
- 1998 Vivement dimanche
1 episode
- 1987 Matin Bonheur
1 episode
- 1978 Ciné regards
1 episode
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
2 episodes
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
3 episodes
- 1972