Gérard Hérold
21 movies · 7 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 10, 1939
- Died
- Aug 19, 1993 (age 53)
- Place of birth
- Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
Biography
Gérard Hérold (Mulhouse, 10 September 1939 - Paris, 19 August 1993) was a French actor, appearing in several films, TV series and on theatre.
Gérard Hérold was born in Alsace in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) on 10 September 1939. He studied acting at the School of Dramatic Art in Strasbourg. In Paris, he was able to complete his artistic training by working with actor and director Antoine Vitez and also Gérard Vergez.
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He started performing in 1967 in the soap opera La vie begins at midnight in the role of 'Roland Sénéchal' alongside Geneviève Fontanel. In 1973, he played the hero in Les Fraises d'automne and King Alphonse V in the soap opera Le Secret des Flamands with Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Claude Dauphin. Édouard Molinaro then hired him in 1975 for the role of 'Delorme' in his film The Pink Phone co-starring with Mireille Darc, then by Michel Drach for Tell Me About Love (Parlez-moi d'amour), Pierre Granier-Deferre for Farewell, Chicken co-starring with Lino Ventura and José Giovanni and then in 1976 for Comme a Boomerang with Alain Delon.
In 1977, Philippe Monnier gave Gerard Hérold the role of 'Bill' alongside Claude Brasseur in Monsieur Papa and then director Robert Lamoureux gave him the role of 'Commander Gilles' in The Seventh Company in the Moonlight in 1977. Other roles in 'Death of a Rotten' with Alain Delon and the interpretation of Alain Valdez in 2 of Molinaro's films with Marie-Hélène Breillat, 'Claudine goes away' and 'Claudine en ménage'.
In the 1980s, Alain Delon hired him for his films For the Skin of a Cop and The Battant. In the German series Lindenstraße by Hans W. Geißendörfer, Gérard Hérold performed the role of 'Frédéric de Pasquale' and 'Jean-Luc Mourrait', the lover of Tanja Schildknecht (Sybille Waury). His last role was Patrick, in 1991 alongside Gerard Depardieu in My father, the hero as 'Gerard Lauzier'.
He also performed on stage in various plays, including in 1958 at Théâtre National de Strasbourg.
He was married to actress Catherine Navarro and had a daughter named Anne. He died of a heart attack on 19 August 1993.
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Gérard Hérold: movies and TV shows
Acting (28)
- 1991 My Father the Hero
as Patrick
- 1989
- 1989 Rouget le braconnier
as Ulysse Leblanc
- 1984
- 1984 The Cheat
as Gérard
- 1984 The Defective Detective
as Jean-Benoît
- 1983 The Fighter
as Sauvat
- 1981 For a Cop's Hide
as Pradier
- 1981 Madame Claude 2
as Max
- 1980
- 1980 T'inquiète pas, ça se soigne
as Patrice Deschamps
- 1980 Jean-Sans-Terre
as The florist
- 1980
- 1979 Thanatos Palace Hôtel
as Sarconi
- 1979 Ciao, You Guys
as Roberto
- 1979 Les marloupins
as Jean-Louis Corbier
- 1978
- 1978
- 1977 The Seventh Company Outdoors
as Commandant Gilles, résistant recherché
- 1977 Death of a Corrupt Man
as Dupaire
- 1977 The Accuser
as Térenne
- 1977 Monsieur Papa
as Bill
- 1976 Boomerang
as Vaulnet
- 1976
- 1975 The French Detective
as Inspector Moitrié
- 1975 The Pink Telephone
as M. Jacques Delorme, l'ingénieur conseil, Fielding
- 1975 Saint-Just and the Force of Things
as Hérault de Séchelles
- 1974
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1 episode