Bruno Jean Marie Cremer (born Jean-Marie Drillon, October 6, 1929 – August 7, 2010) was a French actor born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, who spent a part of his career on stage, but who also found success in the cinema and on television.^[1]

Biography[link]

He was widely known in France and the French-speaking world for his interpretation of the famous detective Maigret in a television series that started in 1991 and ended in 2005 after 54 episodes.

His career on stage included creating the role of Thomas Beckett in the 1959 world premiere of the play Beckett by Jean Anouilh.

In 1957, he had a credited role in the movies for the first time in Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (also known as When a Woman Meddles and When the Woman Gets Confused), featuring Alain Delon.

He and his wife Chantal, whom he married in December 1984, had two daughters (Constance and Marie-Clémentine). From an earlier marriage, he had a son, Stéphane, who is a writer.

In 2000, he published an autobiography, Un certain jeune homme (A Certain Young Man).

Bruno Cremer, 80 years old, died on August 7, 2010, in Paris. He had been suffering from cancer for several years.^[2]

Selected filmography[link]

• The 317th Platoon (1965)
• Is Paris Burning? (1966), directed by René Clément
• Les Gauloises bleues (1968)
• The Time to Die (1970)
• L'Alpagueur (1976)
• Sorcerer (1977), directed by William Friedkin
• A Simple Story (1978)
• La Légion saute sur Kolwezi (1980)
• Derborence (1985)
• Noce Blanche (1989), with Vanessa Paradis
• Tumultes (1990)
• Sous le sable (2000)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bruno Cremer at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bruno Cremer - Maigret website (unofficial) (French)

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Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 – November 14, 2004) was a French composer, songwriter, arranger, and conductor.

External links[link]

• Official website
• Michel Colombier at the Internet Movie Database

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René Clément
Born	(1913-03-18)March 18, 1913 Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
Died	March 17, 1996(1996-03-17) (aged 82) Monte Carlo, Monaco
Awards	Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) 1946 The Battle of the Rails 1949 Beyond the Gates Golden Lion 1952 Forbidden Games

René Clément (French pronunciation: [klemɑ̃]; March 18, 1913 – March 17, 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.

Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya.

Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure.

Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award.

René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement.

Partial list of awards[link]

• 1946 : International Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival - La Bataille du rail (Battle of the Rails)
• 1949 : Cannes Film Festival Best Director award - Au-delà des grilles (The Walls of Malapaga)
• 1950 : Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Au-delà des grilles (The Walls of Malapaga)
• 1952 : Lion d'or at the Venice Film Festival - Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• 1952 : Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• 1952 : New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Foreign Language Film - Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• 1953 : BAFTA Award for Best Film - Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits)
• 1954 : Prix du jury at Cannes Film Festival - Monsieur Ripois (Lover Boy)
• 1956 : Lion d'or at the Venice Film Festival - Gervaise
• 1956 : BAFTA Award for Best Film - Gervaise