Bruno Cremer
Born
October 6, 1929
Died
August 7, 2010 (80 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
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-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. ...
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Self (archive footage)
2023

Above the Clouds
Le colonel
2003

My Father Saved My Life
Joe
2001

Under the Sand
Jean Drillon
2000

Vivement dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
1998

Night Taxi
Silver, le taxi
1993

A Vampire in Paradise
Antoine Belfond
1992

Maigret
Jules Maigret · (54 episodes)
1991

Money
Marc Lavater
1991
Coma dépassé
Yves Toledano
1990

Act of Sorrow
Armando
1990

Tumultes
The Father
1990

White Wedding
François Hainaut
1989

L'Été de la Révolution
1989

L'Été de la Révolution
Louis XVI · (2 episodes)
1989

Brothers in Arms
Joulin
1989

The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Jacques Pincemaille · (1 episode)
1988

Sound and Fury
Marcel
1988

Adieu, je t'aime
Michel Dupré
1988
L'île
Lieutenant Mason · (6 episodes)
1987

Falsch
Joe
1987
Matin Bonheur
Self · (1 episode)
1987

Opération Ypsilon
Germain Langelier · (4 episodes)
1987

Ménage
The Art Lover
1986

L'Énigme blanche
Paul
1985

Le Transfuge
Bernard Corain
1985
Le Regard dans le miroir
Eric Chevallier · (4 episodes)
1985

Derborence
Séraphin
1985

The Book of Mary
Father
1985

Le Matelot 512
Commander Roger
1984

Fanny Straw-Top
Andrés Gallego
1984

The Octopus
Antonio Espinosa · (17 episodes)
1984

A Brutal Game
Tessier
1983

Effraction
Pierre
1983

The Prize of Peril
Antoine Chirex
1983

Josepha
Régis Duchemin
1982

Spy, Stand Up
Alain Richard
1982

Aimée
Carl Freyer
1981

La Puce et le privé
Valentin 'Val' Brosse
1981

Une robe noire pour un tueur
Alain Rivière
1981

La Traque
Le commissaire Chenu · (4 episodes)
1980

Une page d'amour
Le docteur Henri Deberle
1980
Anthracite
The prefect of studies
1980

Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
Morton
1980

Operation Leopard
Pierre Delbart
1980

We Forget Everything!
Claude Raisman
1979

A Simple Story
Georges
1978

Last In, First Out
Lucas Richter
1978

Drummer-Crab
Adjutant Willsdorf (uncredited)
1977

Sorcerer
Victor Manzon / "Serrano"
1977

Hunter Will Get You
Gilbert, aka l'Epervier
1976

The Good and the Bad
Bruno
1976

Special Section
Lucien Sampaix
1975

Flesh of the Orchid
Louis Delage
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (2 episodes)
1975

The Suspects
Commissioner Bonetti
1974

Spécial cinéma
Self · (3 episodes)
1974

The Protector
Commissaire Baudrier
1974

Without Warning
L'ex-sergent Donetti
1973

The Assassination
Michel Vigneau
1972

The Algerian War
1972

The Smugglers
Saska
1971

Biribi
Le capitaine
1971

The Time to Die
Max Topfer
1970

Pour un sourire
Michaël
1970

Safety Catch
Duca Lamberti / Lucas Lamberti
1970
Les Gauloises bleues
Le père
1969

Bye Bye Barbara
Hugo Michelli
1969

Bonnot's Gang
Jules Bonnot
1968

The Killer Likes Candy
Oscar Snell
1968

A Question of Rape
Walter
1967

The Stranger
Priest
1967

If I Were a Spy
Matras
1967

Shock Troops
Cazal
1967

Is Paris Burning?
Colonel Rol Tanguy
1966

Objective: 500 Million
Captain Jean Reichau
1966

Marco the Magnificent
Guillaume de Tripoli, a Knight Templar
1965

The 317th Platoon
L'adjudant Willsdorf
1965

Le tout pour le tout
Doctor
1962

To Die of Love
Inspector Terens
1961

When a Woman Meddles
Bernard
1957

Les Dents longues
L'homme qui sort de la boîte (uncredited)
1953

Les Dents longues
l'homme sortant de la boîte
1953