Pierre Richard

Infobox Actor
name = Pierre Richard


caption = Pierre Richard in 2006.
birthname = Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays
birthdate = birth date and age|1934|8|16
location = Valenciennes, France
awards = Best Actor for Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti (1996), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Prix Hommage, Montréal Comedy Festival 'Just for Laughs' (2004)
cesarawards = Life Achievement Award (2006)

"Pierre Richard" (born Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays (originally "de Fays", his grandfather changed the spelling for unknown reasons [According to a private e-mail through his official website] ), 16 August 1934 in Valenciennes, France) is a French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is also a film director and occasional singer.

Biography

Richard started his acting career in the theatre, where he worked with Antoine Bourseiller and performing in Paris cabarets (such as "l'Écluse"), where he collaborated with Victor Lanoux.

His film debut came in 1967 with a small role in Yves Robert's "Alexandre le bienheureux". His directed his first feature in 1970 with "Le Distrait". He worked with Robert again on "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire", and its sequel "Le retour du grand blond"; both these films were written by Francis Veber. Veber cast Richard when he directed his own first feature film: "Le Jouet". Veber and Richard had a long and successful partnership during the 1980s, highlighted by three comedies — "La Chèvre", "Les Compères" and "Les Fugitifs" — which paired Richard with Gérard Depardieu. Richard again moved behind the camera to direct "On peut toujours rêver" (1991) and "Droit dans le mur" (1997).

In 2006 Richard received a lifetime achievement César Award from the "Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema".

Richard is a wine grower. His 20-hectare vineyard produce some 80,000 bottles a year, including some 12,000 bottles of rosé under the "le Bel Évêque" label. Richard also owns a restaurant in Paris, "Au pied de chameau".

Richard lives on a barge on the Seine in the middle of Paris. He has two sons, both musicians: Olivier plays the saxophone with the group "Blues trottoir'" and Christophe plays the double bass.

Filmography

Cinema

* 1958: "Les Amants de Montparnasse" ("Montparnasse 19"), directed by Jacques Becker (uncredited)
* 1967: "Alexandre le bienheureux", directed by Yves Robert
* 1967: "Un idiot à Paris", directed by Serge Korber
* 1968: "La Prisonnière", directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot (uncredited)
* 1970: "Le Distrait", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1970: "Trois hommes sur un cheval", directed by Marcel Moussy
* 1971: "La Coqueluche", directed by Christian-Paul Arrighi
* 1972: "Les malheurs d'Alfred", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1972: "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire", directed by Yves Robert
* 1973: "La raison du plus fou", directed by Raymond Devos and François Reichenbach
* 1973: "Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1974: "Juliette and Juliette", directed by Remo Forlani
* 1974: "Un nuage entre les dents", directed by Marco Pico
* 1974: "La moutarde me monte au nez", directed by Claude Zidi
* 1974: "Le retour du grand blond", directed by Yves Robert
* 1975: "Trop c'est trop", directed by Didier Kaminka
* 1975: "La Course à l'échalote", directed by Claude Zidi
* 1976: "On aura tout vu !", directed by Georges Lautner
* 1976: "Les Naufragés de l'île de la Tortue", directed by Jacques Rozier
* 1976: "Le jouet", directed by Francis Veber
* 1978: "Je suis timide... mais je me soigne", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1978: "La Carapate", directed by Gérard Oury
* 1980: "C'est pas moi, c'est lui", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1980: "Le Coup du parapluie", directed by Gérard Oury
* 1981: "La Chèvre", directed by Francis Veber
* 1983: "Un chien dans un jeu de quilles", directed by Bernard Guillou
* 1983: "Les Compères", directed by Francis Veber
* 1984: "Le Jumeau", directed by Yves Robert
* 1985: "Dialogue de sourds", directed by Bernard Nauer (short)
* 1985: "Tranches de vie", directed by François Leterrier (uncredited)
* 1986: "Les fugitifs", directed by Francis Veber
* 1988: "Mangeclous", directed by Moshé Mizrahi
* 1988: "À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur", directed by Édouard Molinaro
* 1990: "Promotion canapé", directed by Didier Kaminka
* 1990: "Bienvenue à bord !", directed by Jean-Louis Leconte
* 1991: "On peut toujours rêver", directed by Pierre Richard
* 1992: "Vieille canaille", directed by Gérard Jourd'hui
* 1993: "La Cavale des fous", directed by Marco Pico
* 1994: "La Partie d'échecs", directed by Yves Hanchar
* 1995: "L'Amour conjugal", directed by Benoît Barbier
* 1997: "A Chef in Love" ("Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti"), by Nana Dzhordzhadze
* 1997: "Droit dans le mur", directed by Pierre Richard
* 2000: "Drug Scenes" (French title: "Scénarios sur la drogue", directed by Franck Chiche (episode "Les Mots attendront")
* 2000: "27 Missing Kisses" (French title: "L'Été de mes 27 baisers "), by Nana Dzhordzhadze
* 2003: "Mariées mais pas trop", directed by Catherine Corsini
* 2003: "Les Clefs de bagnole", directed by Laurent Baffie
* 2004: "En attendant le déluge", directed by Damien Odoul
* 2005: "Le Cactus", directed by Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz
* 2006: "Essaye-moi", directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval
* 2006: "Le Serpent", directed by Eric Barbier

Television

* 1967: "Malican père and fils", directed by Yannick Andréi, Marcel Cravenne and François Moreuil
* 1969: "Agence intérim", directed by Marcel Moussy and Pierre Neurrisse
* 1980: "Chouette, chat, chien... show", directed by Jacques Samyn
* 1980: "Ça va plaire", directed by Jean-Pierre Cassel and Bernard Lion
* 2000: "Sans famille", directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
* 2003: "Robinson Crusoé", directed by Thierry Chabert

Direction

* 1970: "Le Distrait"
* 1972: "Les Malheurs d'Alfred"
* 1973: "Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout"
* 1978: "Je suis timide... mais je me soigne"
* 1980: "C'est pas moi, c'est lui"
* 1991: "On peut toujours rêver"
* 1997: "Droit dans le mur"

Selected discography

* 1983: "Madame Sardine"

References

Reflist

External links

* [http://www.pierre-richard.fr Official site] (in French; English version under development)
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