Paul Crauchet (14 July 1920 – 19 December 2012) was a French actor. As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23. He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the Théâtre National Populaire with Jean Vilar. Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert. It is in The Wise Guys of Robert Enrico in 1965 that he became noticed. He had a very long career during which he worked with many directors, such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray and José Giovanni. In 1983 he starred in Les Bancals. Source: Article "Paul Crauchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2009Adieu De Gaulle, adieu — Vieux jardinier
• 2009Wild Grass — le 1er patient
• 2007The Grocer's Son — Le Père Clément
• 2007The Merry Widow — Gaby
• 2006Rascals — Favart adult
• Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre — Jules (père de Jean-Baptiste)
• 2002Le Marathon du lit — Simon
• 1999Dessine-moi un jouet — Le mendiant
• Between Land and Sea — Charles « Branl'dans le vent »
• 1996La Belle Verte — Osam
• Les Allumettes suédoises — Pépé
• 1995Fast — Pépé
• 1995Les Derniers Jours de la victime — Funès Le Chat
• 1993Faut-il aimer Mathilde? — Papy
• 1993Les Maîtres du pain — 'La Fatigue'
• 1992Just a Game — 'Smoking'
• 1991Venus and Lulu — Pépé Laubépin
• 1990My Father's Glory — Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
• 1990My Mother's Castle — Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
• 1990The King's Whore — Le Duc de Luynes
• 1990Un été après l'autre — Pa
• 1988To Kill a Priest — Alek's Father
• 1987La Brute — Yves Rodellec
• 1987Le Passager du Tassili — M. Vergeli
• 1987Les fortifs — Germain
• 1985Le temps d'un instant — Brice
• 1984Black List — Pierre
• 1984Homicide by night
• 1981La Gueule du loup — Commissioner Chailloux
• 1981Le Pain de fougère — Le père Grandet
• 1980Louis et Réjane — Louis
• 1979Félicité — The father
• 1978Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived — Gaston, le patron du 1er bistrot
• 1978Butterfly on the Shoulder — Raphaël
• 1978The Witness — Cathy's father
• Police Commissioner Moulin — Cassius, le maître
• 1975Beyond Fear — Inspector
• 1975Flic Story — Paul Robier
• 1975The Track — Rollin
• 1975The Wonderful Crook — Henri, drunkard
• 1974A Cloud in the Teeth — Chavignac
• 1973Héloïse and Abélard — Pierre le Vénérable
• 1973Impossible Object — The Plumber
• 1973The Burned Barns — Pierre Cateux
• 1973The Dominici Affair — Commissioner Sébeille
• 1972Lettres de Stalingrad — Pianist
• 1972Un Flic — Morand
• The House in the Woods — Paul Gardy
• 1971The Married Couple of the Year Two — Public Prosecutor
• 1971Where Did Tom Go? — Zagra
• 1971Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy — Le père
• 1971Without Apparent Motive — Francis Palombo
• 1970Last Known Address — Jacques Loring, Martin's neighbor
• 1970Le Cercle Rouge — The Receiver
• 1969Army of Shadows — Félix Lepercq
• D'Artagnan — Planchet
• 1969The Swimming Pool — L'inspecteur Lévêque
• 1968Ho ! — Georges Briand
• 1968Zita — Dr. Bernard
• 1967L'Affaire Lourdes — Bernadette's father
• 1967La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire — L'avocat
• 1967The Last Adventure — Insurer
• 1967The Looters — Valdés
• 1967The Sunday of Life — Poucier
• 1966Is Paris Burning? — Priest
• 1966The War Is Over — Roberto
• 22 avenue de la Victoire — Sacristan
• Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre — Gautrais
• 1965The Wise Guys — Pelissier, accountant
• 1964L'auto rouge
• 1962Font-aux-Cabres — Florès
• 1962Sign of the Lion — Fred
• 1962War of the Buttons — Touegueule
• 1962À fleur de peau — l'inspecteur
• Les Cinq Dernières Minutes — Régis
• 1958Why Women Sin — Photograph
• 1955Série noire — Le portier du garage
• 1952Foyer perdu — Coffee boy
• 1951Skipper Next to God — A Jewish passenger (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1992Brothers in Arms — Self (archive footage)