Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Richard (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1981Signé Furax — Maigret
• 1973Le Médecin malgré lui — Sganarelle
• 1972Noix de coco — Loulou
• 1972The Annuity — Jo (un voyou)
• 1971Maigret en vacances — Maigret
• 1969L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus — Jean Richard
• 1969La Maison de campagne — Bertrand Boiselier
• 1968Beru and These Women — Inspecteur principal Bérurier
• 1967Bang Bang — Paulo
• The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret — Commissaire Jules Maigret
• 1967The Oldest Profession — Joseph, Mimi's Previous Client (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
• 1966Sale temps pour les mouches — Principal inspector Bérurier
• 1966The Boss of Champignol — Claudius Binoche
• 1965Black Humor — Polyte - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
• 1965Dernier tiercé — Laredon
• 1965How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning — Paul Arnaud, membre de l'amicale (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
• 1965L'Or du duc
• 1965Les Mordus de Paris — Mr. Durand
• 1965Rope Around the Neck — Arthur
• 1965The Double Bed — Father
• 1965The Lace Wars — Le prince de Beaulieu
• 1965The Real Bargain
• 1965Under Your Hat — Docteur Tannait
• 1964Clémentine chérie — Auguste
• 1964Comment épouser un premier ministre — Le promoteur
• 1964Jaloux comme un tigre — The man with the wrecked car
• 1963Bebert and the Train — Mr. Martin
• 1963Chicken Feed for Little Birds — le boucher
• 1963Sweet and Sour — Lepetit (le nounou 2)
• 1963The Bamboo Stroke — Albert
• 1962Tartarin de Tarascon — Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
• 1962Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge — Philibert
• 1962War of the Buttons — Lebrac's father
• 1962We Will Go to Deauville — Le plombier - M. Simeon
• 1961Les fortiches — Dédé
• 1961My Wife Is a Panther — Roger
• 1961Operation Caviar — Siméon
• 1961The Fenouillard Family — Agénor Fenouillard
• 1961This Time it Must Be Caviar — Siméon
• 1960Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century — Le trafiquant du marché noir / Black Marketeer
• 1960Small Local Trains — César Beauminet
• 1960Some Like It... Cold — Jérôme Valmorin, explorer
• 1960Tête folle — Gérard
• 1959Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women — The knocked out customer who asks for whiskey (uncredited)
• 1959La Malle volante — Ferdinand
• 1959My Pal the Gypsy — Mr. Pittuiti, gypsy
• 1959Stop the Massacre — Antoine Martin
• 1959The Bureaucrats — Boudin
• 1959The Gendarme of Champignol — Claudius Binoche
• 1959Without Trumpet or Drum — Leon Riffard
• 1959You Have Nothing to Declare? — Marius Frontignac
• 1958En bordée — Prosper Cartahu
• 1958Life Together — André Le Lorrain
• 1957La Peau de l'ours — Commissioner Etienne Ledru
• 1957We at Champignol — Claudius Binoche
• 1956Elena and Her Men — Hector
• 1956Les Truands — Alexandre Benoit
• 1956Life is beautiful — l'employé
• 1956Slightly Ahead — Ferdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
• 1955Chéri-Bibi — Chéri-bibi / Maxime du Touchais
• 1955La Madelon — Antoine Pichot
• 1955Les deux font la paire — Achille Baluchet
• 1954Casta diva — Domenico Fiorillo
• 1954Marriage Episodes — M. des Rillettes
• 1954Service Entrance — Jules Béchard, mandataire aux halles
• 1954The Cheerful Squadron — Laperrine
• 1953Cinema of yesteryear — Pasquale
• 1953Deux de l'escadrille — Pierre Dourdan, aka 'Saucisse'
• 1953His Father's Portrait — Paul Durand
• 1953Royal Affairs in Versailles — Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
• 1953Wonderful Mentality — Honoré Bonvalet
• 1952Drôle de noce — Joseph Bonhomme
• 1952La demoiselle et son revenant — Ricard
• 1952Le Costaud des Batignolles — Policeman
• 1952The Seven Deadly Sins — The peasant (segment "La Gourmandise")
• 1951Bernard and the Lion — The Brigadier
• 1951Le Passage de Vénus
• 1950Adémaï at the border post
• 1950Le Roi Pandore — Gendarme Quichenette
• 1950The King of the Bla Bla Bla — Jacques
• 1949I Love Only You — Un passager de l'avion
• 1949Mission in Tangier — Drunk President
• 1947Six Hours to Lose — City sergeant

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2009Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) — Self (archive footage)
• Le monde est à vous — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self, Self (archive footage)
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Cadet Rousselle — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• Discorama — Self
• 1957It Happened on the 36 Candles — Self (uncredited)
• Cinépanorama — Self
• La Joie de vivre — Self - Performer