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 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. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Above the Clouds
Character:Le colonel
Release Date:06/10/2003
My Father Saved My Life
Character:Joe
Release Date:25/04/2001
Under the Sand
Character:Jean Drillon
Release Date:07/02/2001
Night Taxi
Character:Silver, le taxi
Release Date:01/12/1993
A Vampire in Paradise
Character:Antoine Belfond
Release Date:19/08/1992
Money
Character:Marc Lavater
Release Date:06/04/1991
Coma dépassé
Character:Yves Toledano
Release Date:30/09/1990
Act of Sorrow
Character:Armando
Release Date:30/08/1990
Tumultes
Character:The Father
Release Date:28/05/1990
White Wedding
Character:François Hainaut
Release Date:08/11/1989
L'Été de la Révolution
Character:Louis XVI
Release Date:11/07/1989
Brothers in Arms
Character:Joulin
Release Date:15/03/1989
Sound and Fury
Character:Marcel
Release Date:01/06/1988
Adieu, je t'aime
Character:Michel Dupré
Release Date:04/05/1988
Falsch
Character:Joe
Release Date:07/05/1987
Ménage
Character:The Art Lover
Release Date:23/04/1986
L'Énigme blanche
Character:Paul
Release Date:26/12/1985
Le Transfuge
Character:Bernard Corain
Release Date:13/11/1985
Derborence
Character:Séraphin
Release Date:27/04/1985
The Book of Mary
Character:Father
Release Date:23/01/1985
Le Matelot 512
Character:Commander Roger
Release Date:19/12/1984
Fanny Straw-Top
Character:Andrés Gallego
Release Date:02/07/1984
A Brutal Game
Character:Tessier
Release Date:28/09/1983
Effraction
Character:Pierre
Release Date:06/04/1983
The Prize of Peril
Character:Antoine Chirex
Release Date:25/01/1983
Josepha
Character:Régis Duchemin
Release Date:10/03/1982
Spy, Stand Up
Character:Alain Richard
Release Date:27/01/1982
Aimée
Character:Carl Freyer
Release Date:06/09/1981
La Puce et le privé
Character:Valentin 'Val' Brosse
Release Date:11/03/1981
Une robe noire pour un tueur
Character:Alain Rivière
Release Date:14/01/1981
Une page d'amour
Character:Le docteur Henri Deberle
Release Date:18/10/1980
Anthracite
Character:The prefect of studies
Release Date:08/09/1980
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Character:Morton
Release Date:16/04/1980
Operation Leopard
Character:Pierre Delbart
Release Date:09/01/1980
We Forget Everything!
Character:Claude Raisman
Release Date:03/01/1979
A Simple Story
Character:Georges
Release Date:22/11/1978
Last In, First Out
Character:Lucas Richter
Release Date:30/08/1978
Drummer-Crab
Character:Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
Release Date:09/11/1977
Sorcerer
Character:Victor Manzon / "Serrano"
Release Date:24/06/1977
Hunter Will Get You
Character:Gilbert, aka l'Epervier
Release Date:01/02/1976
The Good and the Bad
Character:Bruno
Release Date:19/01/1976
Special Section
Character:Lucien Sampaix
Release Date:23/04/1975
Flesh of the Orchid
Character:Louis Delage
Release Date:29/01/1975
The Suspects
Character:Commissioner Bonetti
Release Date:27/11/1974
The Protector
Character:Commissaire Baudrier
Release Date:05/06/1974
Without Warning
Character:L'ex-sergent Donetti
Release Date:15/02/1973
The Assassination
Character:Michel Vigneau
Release Date:04/10/1972
The Algerian War
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/03/1972
The Smugglers
Character:Saska
Release Date:27/11/1971
Biribi
Character:Le capitaine
Release Date:02/06/1971
The Time to Die
Character:Max Topfer
Release Date:08/07/1970
Pour un sourire
Character:Michaël
Release Date:29/04/1970
Safety Catch
Character:Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
Release Date:14/01/1970
Les Gauloises bleues
Character:Le père
Release Date:07/06/1969
Bye Bye Barbara
Character:Hugo Michelli
Release Date:11/03/1969
Bonnot's Gang
Character:Jules Bonnot
Release Date:01/11/1968
The Killer Likes Candy
Character:Oscar Snell
Release Date:12/04/1968
A Question of Rape
Character:Walter
Release Date:05/12/1967
The Stranger
Character:Priest
Release Date:14/10/1967
If I Were a Spy
Character:Matras
Release Date:30/08/1967
Shock Troops
Character:Cazal
Release Date:05/04/1967
Is Paris Burning?
Character:Colonel Rol Tanguy
Release Date:26/10/1966
Objective: 500 Million
Character:Captain Jean Reichau
Release Date:29/06/1966
Marco the Magnificent
Character:Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
Release Date:06/08/1965
The 317th Platoon
Character:L'adjudant Willsdorf
Release Date:31/03/1965
Le Tout pour le tout
Character:Doctor
Release Date:06/07/1962
To Die of Love
Character:Inspector Terens
Release Date:30/08/1961
When a Woman Meddles
Character:Bernard
Release Date:15/11/1957
Les Dents longues
Character:L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)
Release Date:15/03/1953
Television Appearances
Vivement dimanche
Character:Self
Maigret
Character:Jules Maigret
Maigret
Character:Maigret
Maigret
Character:Commissaire Jules Maigret
Maigret
Character:Bruno Cremer Commissaire Jules Maigret
L'Été de la Révolution
Character:Louis XVI
The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Character:Jacques Pincemaille
L'île
Character:Lieutenant Mason
Matin Bonheur
Character:Self
Opération Ypsilon
Character:Germain Langelier
Le Regard dans le miroir
Character:Eric Chevallier
The Octopus
Character:Antonio Espinosa
La Traque
Character:Le commissaire Chenu
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
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