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Name
  
Bruno Cremer

Role
  
Siblings
  
Georges-Alfred Cremer


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Born
  
6 October 1929 (
1929-10-06
)
Saint-Mande, Val-de-Marne, France

Spouse
  
Chantal Cremer (m. 1984–2010)

Children
  
Stephane Cremer, Constance Cremer, Marie-Clementine Cremer

Movies
  
White Wedding, Sorcerer, Under the Sand, Hunter Will Get You, The 317th Platoon

Similar People
  
Jean‑Claude Brisseau, Stephane Cremer, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Yves Boisset, Georges Simenon

Died
  
7 August 2010 (aged 80) Paris, France

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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.

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Origins

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Bruno Cremer was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. His mother, a musician, was of Belgian Flemish origin and his father 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).

Career

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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 the 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-leaning 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.

Some 30 other film parts of Cremer included releases by both French and foreign directors. In 1967, for example, came the film The Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero), directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti, based on the novel L'Étranger by Albert Camus, and starring Marcello Mastroianni. The 1976 release The Good and the Bad (French Le Bon et les Méchants) was directed by Claude Lelouch, with Cremer playing Inspector Bruno Deschamps.

The next year, 1977, came the thriller Sorcerer (French Le Convoi de la peur), based on Georges Arnaud’s novel Le Salaire de la peur and directed by a William Friedkin fresh from the successes of The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973). In Sorcerer, Cremer played the fraudulent Paris banker Victor Manzon, starring alongside Roy Scheider. In 1989 Cremer starred in Jean-Claude Brisseau’s film drama White Wedding (French Noce Blanche) with Vanessa Paradis.

From 1991, he became a universally known figure in France and elsewhere for his televised portrayal of George Simenon’s Commissaire Maigret, a role he played until 2005, totalling 54 episodes. During this period his cinema film commitments were few, though he did appear in 2000 with Charlotte Rampling in (Under the Sand), written and directed by François Ozon, in 2001 in José Giovanni’s Mon père, il m'a sauvé la vie, and in 2004 in Pierre Schoendoerffer’s Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages (Above the Clouds).

Last Years

Cremer was made an officer of the Légion d’honneur in 2008.

An inveterate smoker of Punch brand cigars, he died of a cancer of the tongue from which he had suffered for several years, in a Paris hospital on Saturday, 8 August 2010, aged 80. His funeral service was held in Paris on 13 August 2010 at the church of Saint Thomas of Aquinas, in the VIIth arrondissement. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery, Paris.

His part autobiography appeared in 2000 under the title, Un certain jeune homme (A certain young man). In it he covered not the whole of his life, but only his early career, until the death of his father.

Married twice, Cremer had a son, Stéphane, by his first wife, and by his second wife, Chantal, whom he married in 1984, two daughters.

Filmography

Actor
1991
Maigret (TV Series) as
Commissaire Jules Maigret / Jules Maigret / Le commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'étoile du nord (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et les sept petites croix (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la demoiselle de compagnie (2004) - Le commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret en meublé (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le clochard (2004) - Jules Maigret
- Les petits cochons sans queue (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret chez le docteur (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'ombre chinoise (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Les scrupules de Maigret (2004) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- L'ami d'enfance de Maigret (2003) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Signé Picpus (2003) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Un échec de Maigret (2003) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la princesse (2003) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret à l'école (2002) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- La maison de Félicie (2002) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le fou de Sainte Clothilde (2002) - Le commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret chez le ministre (2002) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le marchand de vin (2002) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la fenêtre ouverte (2001) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Mon ami Maigret (2001) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la croqueuse de diamants (2001) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret chez les riches (2000) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret voit double (2000) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Un meurtre de première classe (1999) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Meurtre dans un jardin potager (1999) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Madame Quatre et ses enfants (1999) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre (1998) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le Liberty Bar (1997) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'improbable Monsieur Owen (1997) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'enfant de choeur (1997) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret tend un piège (1996) - Jules Maigret
- Maigret en Finlande (1996) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le port des brumes (1996) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret a peur (1995) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1995) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Les vacances de Maigret (1995) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la vente à la bougie (1995) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la tête d'un homme (1995) - Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la vieille dame (1994) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret se trompe (1994) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Cécile est morte (1994) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'écluse no.1 (1994) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le fantôme (1993) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et l'homme du banc (1993) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- La patience de Maigret (1993) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et les témoins récalcitrants (1993) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret se défend (1993) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et les caves du Majestic (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la nuit du carrefour (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et le corps sans tête (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et les plaisirs de la nuit (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la maison du juge (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret chez les Flamands (1992) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
- Maigret et la grande perche (1991) - Commissaire Jules Maigret
2003
Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages as
Le colonel
2001
Mon père, il m'a sauvé la vie as
Joe
2000
Under the Sand as
Jean Drillon
1993
Taxi de nuit as
Silver, le taxi
1989
La piovra (TV Series) as
Antonio Espinosa
1992
Un vampire au paradis as
Antoine Belfond
1991
Money as
Marc Lavater
1991
Tango Bar (TV Movie) as
Robert Ziani
1990
Meurtre avec préméditation (TV Series) as
Yves Toledano
- Coma dépassé (1990) - Yves Toledano
1990
Atto di dolore as
Armando
1990
Tumultes as
The Father
1989
Ceux de la soif (TV Movie) as
Franck Sarnave
1989
Noce blanche as
François Hainaut
1989
L'été de la révolution (TV Movie) as
Louis XVI
1989
L'union sacrée as
Joulin
1989
Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin (TV Series) as
Jacques Pincemaille
- Le diable en ville (1989) - Jacques Pincemaille
1988
Médecins des hommes (TV Series) as
Marc
- El Salvador, le pays des quatorze volcans (1988) - Marc
- La naissance: Le pays du soleil levant (1988) - Marc
1988
Sound and Fury as
Marcel Rophy
1988
Adieu je t'aime as
Michel Dupré
1988
Sueurs froides (TV Series) as
Charles, le mari
- Les yeux de la nuit (1988) - Charles, le mari
1987
L'île (TV Mini Series) as
Le lieutenant Mason
- Episode #1.3 (1987)
- Episode #1.2 (1987)
- Episode #1.1 (1987) - Le lieutenant Mason
1987
Falsch as
Joe
1987
Opération Ypsilon (TV Mini Series) as
Germain Langelier
- Episode #1.4 (1987) - Germain Langelier
- Episode #1.3 (1987) - Germain Langelier
- Episode #1.2 (1987) - Germain Langelier
- Episode #1.1 (1987) - Germain Langelier
1986
Ménage as
The Art Lover
1985
L'énigme blanche (TV Movie) as
Paul
1985
Le regard dans le miroir (TV Mini Series) as
Eric Chevallier
1985
Donatien-François, marquis de Sade (TV Movie) as
Marquis de Sade
1985
Le transfuge as
Bernard Corain
1985
Derborence as
Séraphin
1985
The Book of Mary (Short) as
Le Père
1984
Le matelot 512 as
Le Commandant Roger
1984
Fanny Pelopaja as
Andrés Gallego
1983
A Brutal Game as
Christian Tessier
1983
Effraction as
Pierre
1983
The Prize of Peril as
Antoine Chirex
1982
Ce fut un bel été (TV Movie) as
Peter O'Connor-Schellendorf
1982
Un fait d'hiver (TV Movie) as
Le commissaire Miller
1982
Josépha as
Régis Duchemin
1982
Espion, lève-toi as
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
La traque (TV Mini Series) as
Chenu
- Le démantèlement (1980) - Chenu
- La surveillance (1980) - Chenu
- L'association (1980) - Chenu
- Modus Operandi (1980) - Chenu
1980
Le roman du samedi (TV Series) as
Le docteur Henri Deberle
- Une page d'amour (1980) - Le docteur Henri Deberle
1980
Anthracite as
Le préfet des études
1980
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme as
Morton
1980
Orient-Express (TV Mini Series) as
Mikhaïl
- Hélène (1980) - Mikhaïl
1980
Operation Leopard as
Pierre Delbart
1979
Cet homme-là (TV Movie) as
Joseph Pélieu
1979
We Forget Everything! as
Claude Raisman
1978
A Simple Story as
Georges
1978
Last In, First Out as
Lucas Richter
1977
Le Crabe-Tambour as
L'adjudant Willsdorf (uncredited)
1977
Sorcerer as
Victor Manzon / 'Serrano'
1976
The Hunter Will Get You as
L'Epervier
1976
The Good and the Bad as
L'inspecteur Bruno Deschamps
1975
Special Section as
Lucien Sampaix, le journaliste ancien secrétaire général de L'Humanité
1975
The Flesh of the Orchid as
Louis Delage
1974
The Suspects as
Commissaire Bonetti
1974
Le protecteur as
Beaudrier
1973
Sans sommation as
L'ex-sergent Donetti
1972
The Assassination as
Maître Michel Vigneau - l'avocat de Sadiel
1971
L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore as
Saska
1971
Biribi as
Le capitaine
1970
Pour un sourire as
Michaël
1970
Le temps de mourir as
Max Topfer
1970
Safety Catch as
Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
1969
Bye bye, Barbara as
Hugo Michelli
1968
La bande à Bonnot as
Jules Bonnot
1968
Les Gauloises bleues as
Le père
1968
The Killer Likes Candy as
Oscar Snell
1967
Le viol 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
Le capitaine 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
Le médecin
1961
Mourir d'amour as
L'inspecteur Terens
1958
En votre âme et conscience (TV Series) as
L'Avocat / De Flers
- Les frères Rorique ou l'Enigme des îles (1959) - L'Avocat
- Un combat singulier ou l'Affaire Beauvallon (1958) - De Flers
1957
Quand la femme s'en mêle as
Bernard
1953
Les dents longues as
L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)
Self
2001
Vivement dimanche (TV Series) as
Self - Main Guest
- Bruno Cremer (2001) - Self - Main Guest
2001
Vivement dimanche prochain (TV Series) as
Self - Main Guest
- Episode dated 1 April 2001 (2001) - Self - Main Guest
2001
Ça se discute (TV Series) as
Self
- Comment vit-on l'adaptation de sa vie au cinéma ou à la télévision? (2001) - Self
2000
Thé ou café (TV Series) as
Self
- Spécial New-York 10 September (2000) - Self
2000
Tout le monde en parle (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 9 September 2000 (2000) - Self
2000
20 heures le journal (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 2 March 2000 (2000) - Self - Interviewee
1996
Matin Bonheur (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 30 September 1996 (1996) - Self
1996
Belmondo, le magnifique (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1993
Le cercle de minuit (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 January 1993 (1993) - Self
1981
Spécial cinéma (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 14 October 1991 (1991) - Self
- Episode dated 15 March 1982 (1982) - Self
- Voyage à travers un film: Sauve qui peut - la vie (1981) - Self
1990
Cannes Film Festival (TV Series) as
Self
- Cérémonie d'ouverture du 43ème festival de Cannes (1990) - Self
1988
Mardi cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 7 June 1988 (1988) - Self
1981
Les nouveaux rendez-vous (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 September 1981 (1981) - Self
- Episode dated 18 January 1981 (1981) - Self
1981
Ciné regards (TV Series documentary) as
Self (segment 'Le film de la semaine')
- Episode dated 7 March 1981 (1981) - Self (segment 'Le film de la semaine')
1978
Les rendez-vous du dimanche (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 13 January 1980 (1980) - Self
- Episode dated 26 November 1978 (1978) - Self
1979
Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 29 December 1979 (1979) - Self
1974
Sport en fête (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 24 November 1974 (1974) - Self
1972
La guerre d'Algérie (Documentary) as
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1963
La Française 63 (Documentary short) as
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Archive Footage
2023
Les Nuits de France Culture (Podcast Series)
- Florilège de lectures des poèmes et contes d'Apollinaire (2023)
2023
L'énigme Charlotte Rampling (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2021
Rochefort, Noiret, Marielle: les copains d'abord (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2017
La galerie France 5 (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- 2 bis, rue du Conservatoire (2017) - Self
2012
Nous nous sommes tant aimés (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Bruno Cremer (2012) - Self
2004
Les 40 ans de la 2 (TV Movie documentary) as
Self

References

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