The actor Bruno Cremer who incarnated in the Maigret television, died Saturday in a Paris hospital following a long illness at the age of 80, his agent said on Sunday France Degand AFP.President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute Sunday to Bruno Cremer, died Saturday, hailing "a great actor dear to the hearts of the French.
Born October 6, 1929 in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, the actor struggled for several years against cancer.
Bruno Cremer will probably remain for the public embodiment of Inspector Maigret, pipe in the corner of the mouth, a role he played in television for 14 years even though he has had a varied career in film and theater .
"De Maigret, I have kept that what suited me, I tried to erase the old-fashioned side, homebody, paternalistic. What it lacks is humor," he said, adding: "My only regret is not getting him to smoke a cigar and not a pipe ".
Bruno Cremer was born Oct. 6, 1929 in Saint-Mandé, near Paris, a Belgian-born mother and a father who will have Belgian nationality because France would not accept him as a soldier during war, contrary to Belgium.
The scar on his lip back to her 7 years ago when he was racing with his brother on an old bike. A descent, the brakes let go, turn and a wall ...
He says having very young the desire to become an actor. "It took me 12 years. The exit door saved my life. Otherwise, I do not know what I did," he confided in 2000 with the publication of his autobiography "A certain young man ".
After high school, he studied drama at the Conservatoire in Paris. It is part of the vintage 1952, that of Belmondo, Marielle and Rochefort: "It was my youth, we were a band that carefree did not take himself seriously at all." He plays Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Jean Anouilh.
No career plan with him. He readily admits that luck smiled on him. If film debut with Alain Delon in "When a woman gets involved in 1957, his career really accelerated in 1964 with the" 317th Division "Peter Schoendoerffer.
He specializes in military films, the roles of cop and scabby stories of espionage when he made the punch while using tact and intelligence. Over the years, his record will be more discreet and moving.
He works extensively with Yves Boisset and Jean-Claude Brisseau and plays, among others, in "The Good and evil" by Claude Lelouch, "The Stranger" by Luchino Visconti, "The Convoy of Fear" by William Friedkin, " Noce blanche "by Jean-Claude Brisseau with Vanessa Paradis. To his credit, more than 110 films and TV appearances, her publicist said.
From 1991 he succeeded Jean Richard to embody Maigret on television, the most famous cop in France. "There are a hundred thousand Maigret. Simenon brings about change, contradiction. I pulled its share of mystery and I brought a semblance of humor, look a bit ironic," he said.
It revived the feature in 2000 with the film "Under the Sand" by Francois Ozon and "My father, he saved my life," an autobiographical film by José Giovanni. In 2002, he found Peter Schoendoerffer in "Upstairs, a king above the clouds.
His autobiography, published in 2000 recounts her youth, her debut as an actor and his life until the death of his father and allowed actors to engage sincerely in an uncompromising portrait. Especially as the man is secret, lonely and hates interviews.
In "Maigret and the North Star" released in 2005, he appeared gaunt and tired and his voice had to be doubled because of his cancer. This will be his farewell to the Commissioner.
Bruno Cremer had three children, a son Stephen from a previous marriage and two daughters of his wife Chantal, with whom he is married since 1984.
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