Jean RichardFilmography

Born:: April 18, 1921 in Bessines, France
Occupation:: Actor

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Maria Chapdelaine

Actors: Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, Claude Rich, Amulette Garneau

Synopsis: Strict behavior codes and the struggle to eke out a living provide a backdrop to this romantic drama set at the turn of the 20th century in rural, northern Quebec. Maria Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) returns to the home of her parents in a remote village, and during the period of one year, has her Read More

1983
Signe Furax

Actors: Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Darras, Dany Saval, Mylène Demongeot

1980
Le Viager

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Jean-Pierre Darras

Synopsis: This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their Read More

1972
La Maison De Campagne

Actors: Jean Richard, Danielle Darrieux, André Luguet, Xavier Gélin, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds a married couple from Paris longing for the bucolic existence of a simple country life. The father (Jean Richard) is talked into the move by his wife (Danielle Darrieux), who believes the move will enhance their social status. After they decide to buy and old mill, they Read More

1969
Beru Et Ces Dames

Actors: Jean Richard, Gérard Barray, Paul Preboist, Maria Mauban, Anna Gael, Pierre Preboist

Synopsis: This comedy-tinged crime drama finds the detective San Antonio (Gerald Barray) and his sidekick Beru (Jean Richard) hot on the trail of some thugs who have stolen some morphine. They trace the thief to a house, but the prime suspect is found murdered. The house is full of hookers, much to the Read More

1968
The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Tinti, Jeanne Moreau, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/21/67
Sales Temps Pour Les Mouches

Actors: Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Paul Preboist, Philippe Clay, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: San Antonio (Gerarnd Barray) is a suave French police inspector who pretends to turn criminal in order to infiltrate a gang lead by Eastern block scientists. Highlights include two parachuting enemies who battle each other in a free-fall as they plummet to the ground. Jean Richard provides comedy Read More

1967
The Counterfeit Constable

Synopsis: In this French comedy, one little white lie leads to a series of whoppers as a Frenchman visiting London soon discovers. The French fellow has gone to London with his friends to catch a soccer match. He then must go to the dentist where, just for fun, he puts on a British policeman's uniform. Read More

1966
Commissaire San Antonio

Actors: Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Paul Preboist, Philippe Clay

1966
Le Lit a Deux Places

Actors: Sylva Koscina, France Anglade, Dominique Boschero, Margaret Lee, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: This episodic film is for those who have ever wondered about the lives of the people who buy beds in a furniture store. Each story presents a vignette from the life of a customer. One is a hotel proprietor who generously allows two young men to stay in his room. He has no idea that one of those Read More

8/6/65
Les Fetes Galantes

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Jean Richard, Genvieve Casil, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: Director René Clair pokes fun at the gentlemanly art of warfare that existed in the 18th century in this war comedy. Jean-Pierre Casell plays a soldier of fortune who tries to mediate in a conflict between two Dukes that led to battle. He mediates in the name of a fickle princess to negotiate Read More

1965
La Corde Au Cou

Actors: Jean Richard, Dany Robin, Magali Noël, Estella Blain

1965
Le Caid De Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Michel Serrault, Alfred Adam

1965
La Tete Du Client

Actors: Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard

1965
Les Mordus De Paris

Actors: Jacques Morel, Jean Richard, Pierre Doris, Noël Roquevert

1964
La Loutre

Actors: Jean Richard, Dany Robin, Magali Noël, Felix Marten, Claude Mann

Synopsis: Arthur (Jean Richard) dreams of killing his harridan shrew of a wife to spend more time with his demanding mistress in this crime drama. His wife refuses to grant him a divorce, so Arthur puts his mind to murder. Arthur kills a woman who is sleeping in his bed, but it turns out to be the mistress Read More

1964
C' Est Pas Toujours Du Caviar

Actors: O.W. Fischer, Jean Richard, Geneviève Cluny, Genevieve Kervine

1964
Dragées Au Poivre

Actors: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More

9/4/63
Clementine Cherie

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru

5/3/63
Du Mouron Pour les Petits Oiseaux

Actors: Dany Saval, Paul Meurisse, Suzy Delair, Jean Richard

Synopsis: Ruthless and for some viewers, also vulgar and unpleasant, this uneven comedy by Marcel Carne has a madhouse of characters of dubious morals going through equally questionable antics. Their objectives are primarily self-serving. A former gangster (Paul Meurisse) is interested only in keeping birds Read More

2/15/63
Bebert et l'omnibus

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Jacques Higelin, Jean Richard, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: Bebert (Martin Lartigue) is a five-year-old boy who gets separated from his older brother on a train. Comedy ensues as the precocious moppet observes the less-than-grown-up activities of the adults as he seeks to be reunited with his family. Panic-stricken adults continue the search for the Read More

1963
Die Gans Von Sedan

Synopsis: The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The soldiers meet while swimming in the same place. They become friends. When they get out of the water, they accidentally trade uniforms. Together they go to a Read More

1962
Nous Irons a Deauville

Actors: Michel Serrault, Claude Brasseur, Pascale Roberts

1962
La Guerre des Boutons

Actors: Jean Richard, Jacques Dufilho, Michel Galabru, Yvette Etievant

Synopsis: In this gentle anti-war comedy, a class of French schoolboys divides into two factions who begin to battle each other, with the victors claiming the buttons off the clothes of the vanquished. One day, some of the boys pull a strategic coup by running into battle naked, therefore leaving their Read More

1962
Le Coup De Bambou

Actors: François Perier, Micheline Presle, Jean Richard, Noël Roquevert

1962
La Belle Americaine

Actors: Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Catherine Sola, Alfred Adam, Michel Serrault, Christian Marin

Synopsis: In this French variation on Mark Twain's Man with a Million story, a man's life is completely changed by the acquisition of a new car. Marcel, a Chaplainesque factory worker, sets out to buy an old motorcycle and ends up getting a new Cadillac convertible (the "beautiful American" of the title) Read More

1961
Ma Femme Est Une Panthere

Actors: Jean Richard, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Sylvana Blasi

1961
Candide

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daliah Lavi, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Nadia Gray

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of Voltaire's classic 18th-century social satire. Candide has been assured by his ivory-tower professor (Pierre Brasseur) that whatever fate befalls him, he will be all the better for it. Armed Read More

1960
Les Fortiches

Actors: Darry Cowl, Jean Richard, Jacqueline Danno, Vera Valmont

1960
La Famille Fenouillard

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Jean Richard

Synopsis: This innovative though uneven comedy by Yves Robert, known for his droll sense of humor, is based on a late 19th-early 20th-century illustrated book about a zany, provincial French family. The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are Read More

1960
Les Tortillards

Actors: Roger-Pierre, Jean Richard, Louis de Funès, Danièle Lebrun

1960
Mon Pote le Gitan

Actors: Jean Richard, Louis de Funès, Brigitte Auber

1959
Tete Folle

Actors: Annie Cordy, Jean Richard, Roland Armontel, Micheline Luccioni

1959
Sans Tambour Ni Trompette

Actors: Jean Richard, Hardy Kruger, Françoise Rosay, Dany Carrel

Synopsis: Effective in its message that war itself is idiotic, this slowly, slowly evolving, conventional comedy drama by director Helmut Kautner takes place during the Franco-Prussian hostilities of 1870. Jumping into its main point early on, the story has two soldiers, one French and one German Read More

1959
Certains L'aiment Froide

Actors: Louis de Funès, Pierre Dudan, Francis Blanche, Jean Richard

1959
Vous N'avez Rien A Declarer

Actors: Darry Cowl, Jean Richard, Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault

1959
La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

1958
En Bordee

Actors: Jean Richard, Philippe Clay, Nadine Tallier, Vera Valmont

1958
Arretez Le Massacre

Actors: Jean Richard

1958
Le Gendarme De Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Roger-Pierre, Noël Roquevert, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: Director Jean Bastia has created another amusing comedy in this story about Claudius (Jean Richard), a local policeman who is plagued by the local bandit, Vittorio (Roger-Pierre). In reality, Claudius has become Vittorio's friend, which makes chasing after him in all seriousness a difficult Read More

1958
La Peau De L'Ours

Actors: Jean Richard, Nicole Courcel, Sophie Daumier

1957
Photo Finish

Synopsis: The French Photo Finish doesn't get much play these days, but it used to be a Late Late Show perennial in the 1960s. Fernand Gravey and Jean Richard play a pair of con artists who've run out of suckers. They decide to try their luck at the track, where they hatch an intricate scheme involving the Read More

1957
Elena and Her Men

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard, Pierre Bertin, Magali Noël, Elina Labourdette

Synopsis: In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir's Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does Read More

9/12/56
La Vie Est Belle

Actors: Roger-Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Jean Richard

Synopsis: La Vie est Belle is purely and simply a showcase for the popular French comedy team of Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibaut. The two stars also co-directed the film, thereby beating Jerry Lewis to the punch by some four years. The "plot," concerning the efforts of four people to live as cheaply as Read More

1956
Nous Autres A Champignol

Actors: Jean Richard, Roger-Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Noël Roquevert

1956
Les Truands

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Noël-Noël, Jean Richard

Synopsis: Eddie Constantine found a little time between his "Lemmy Caution" actioners to star in the tongue-in-cheek meller Les Truands (The Thieves). In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee (Yves Robert) steals the watch belonging to the town mayor just before expiring. The film develops Read More

1956
Courte Tete

Actors: Fernand Gravey, Micheline Dax, Jean Richard, Louis de Funès, Jacques Duby

Synopsis: Fernand Gravey and Jacques Duby star as a pair of slick race track touts in need of some quick cash. Targetting rural rube Jean Richard as a patsy, the two sharpsters con him into putting up his hard-earned cash on a few sure things. Within what seems like seconds, Richard becomes wealthy by using Read More

1956
Cheri Bibi

Actors: Jean Richard, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: Originally a character in a Gaston Leroux novel, Cheri-Bibi was transformed into a popular French comic-strip character in the 1930s. The character was also featured in two films, the second of which was in 1955. Jean Richard plays the title character, a born loser who undergoes plastic surgery in Read More

5/26/55
La Madelon

Actors: Line Renaud, Jean Richard, Roger-Pierre

Synopsis: Le Madelon is the name of the young heroine played by Line Renaud. During WWI, the gaminlike Madelon becomes the unofficial mascot of the French army. When she is falsely informed that her soldier fiancé has been unfaithful, Madelon heads to the front in search of her "wandering" sweetheart. Along Read More

1955
L'Allegro Squadrone

Actors: Charles Vanel, Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Jean Richard

9/24/54
Les Deux Font La Paire

Actors: Jean Richard, Jean-Marc Thibault, Pasquali

1954
Droles De Bobines

Actors: Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari, Jean Richard

1954
Si Versailles M'Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Michel Auclair, Jean Marais, Georges Marchal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More

1954
Le Portrait de Son Pere

Actors: Mich_le Philippe, Brigitte Bardot, Mona Goya

Synopsis: Le Portrait de Son Pere (His Father's Portrait) tries, and sometimes succeeds, to get laughs by playing straight. Comic actor Jean Richard plays a peasant lad who suddenly inherits a fortune from the father he never knew he had. Thrust into the uppermost rungs of Parisian society, Richard manages Read More

1953
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Henri Vidal, Jacqueline Plessis, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

3/27/52
Belle Mentalite

Actors: Jean Richard, Mich_le Philippe, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jean Martinelli

Synopsis: Belle Mentalle (Wonderful Mentality) stars Jean Richard as Honore, a valet blessed with the inability to tell a lie. In addition to his honesty, Honore is also supremely logical, a character trait that comes in handy for his master, lawyer Maitre (Jean Martinelli). The valet not only saves Read More

1952
Deux De L'Escadrille

Actors: Jean Richard, Roger-Pierre, Noël Roquevert, Jacques Emmanuel

1952
Drole De Noce

Actors: Magali Vendeuil, Jean Richard

1951
Ademai Au Poteau Frontiere

Actors: Jean Richard, Noël Roquevert

1949
Six Heures a Perdre

Actors: Dany Robin, Denise Grey, André Luguet, Paulette Dubost

1946

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