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Pierre Richard
French actor (born )
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Born | Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays () 16 August (age90) Valenciennes, France |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director, screenwriter |
Yearsactive | –present |
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Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays;[1] 16 August ) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films.
Richard is considered by some, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest French comedians of the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer.
Early life
Pierre Richard was born in a bourgeois family from Valenciennes. He is the grandson of Léopold Defays who was the director of the company Escaut-et-Meuse.
Pierre richard biography Looks like we're missing the following data in en-US or en-US Login to edit. Keyboard Shortcuts. Login to report an issue. He is also a film director and occasional singer.His name comes from the stage name of Pierre Richard-Willm who was his mother's favorite actor.[2] Richard spent his childhood and a part of his teenage years in his native city where he was a student at the Henri-Wallon high school.
Skipping classes regularly to go to the cinema, it was Danny Kaye in Up in Arms that revealed his vocation.[3] This was received with only a moderate enthusiasm by his family, but he decided nonetheless to go to Paris to study dramatic arts at the famous Ecole Charles Dullin.
His debuts were far from brilliant (he wanted to play straight drama, which was not in his nature) and he studied kinesiotherapy to have a safety exit if needed, but did not renounce acting.
Acting career
After a short stint as an extra at Jean Vilar's Théâtre National Populaire, Pierre Richard started his career with Antoine Bourseiller and, to augment his income, created a comedy duet with Victor Lanoux.
They performed with great success in famous Parisian cabarets and music-halls sketches they had written themselves.
Pierre richard filmography biography
Pierre Richard, a famous French actor and comedian, was born on August 16, , in Valenciennes, France. He comes from the wealthy aristocratic Defays family and is the grandson of Leopold Defays, the owner of a steel company. Richard's upbringing was unconventional as his grandfather enrolled him in a school for children from ordinary families, where he was often teased for being thin and unattractive. However, he discovered his talent for making people laugh by telling funny stories and jokes. Despite his family's expectations for him to continue the family business or pursue a prestigious profession, Richard decided to pursue his dream of becoming an actor.He then began his film career in in the film Alexandre le Bienheureux (Very Happy Alexander) directed by Yves Robert. In , he directed his first film Le Distrait, followed by Les Malheurs d'Alfred () and Je ne sais rien mais je dirai tout (I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything) ().
He worked again with Yves Robert for the film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) () and its sequel The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (), both written by Francis Veber, who then cast him in the main role in his directorial film debut, Le Jouet (The Toy) ().
Their partnership achieved further success in three successful comedies of the early s, La Chèvre (), Les Compères () and Les Fugitifs (), which paired Richard with Gérard Depardieu.
Richard returned behind the camera to direct On peut toujours rêver () and Droit dans le mur ().
Recurring names
Among his most famous film roles, Richard came to play different characters with the same name but without any link between them. He is named:
- François Perrin in the films:
- Pierre Renaud in the films:
- François Pignon in the films:
- Les Compères, a depressive unemployed teacher, in charge of an investigation with a macho journalist (Gérard Depardieu),
- Les Fugitifs, a father of a five-year-old girl, unemployed for three years, attempts a bank robbery and forces a former burglar (Gérard Depardieu) to accompany him as he leaves the scene.
Other activities
Since , Richard has also become a businessman and winemaker.
He owns the restaurant Au pied de chameau in Paris and a hectare vineyard which produces some 80, bottles a year (red and rosé) labelled as Château Bel Évêque in Gruissan in the department of Aude.[4]
Personal life
Married and divorced three times, Richard has two sons who are both actors and musicians, Olivier is a group member of "Blues trottoir" and plays the saxophone and Christophe plays the double bass.
His grandson, Arthur Defays, is a model and actor.
Filmography
Richard has played in all the films he has directed.
Publications
- Pierre Richard (). Olivier Orban (ed.). Le petit blond dans un grand parc.
- Pierre Richard (). Cherche-Midi (ed.). Comme un poisson sans eau, détournement de mémoire.
- Pierre Richard; Gwendal Le Bec ().Pierre richard en francais All All. Sign In. Certainly one of France's supreme farceurs in the classic tradition, comedian Pierre Richard was born to an upper crust family with an embarrassing riches of middle names as he was christened Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defays. Working and building up his trade at the Paris Music Hall in the early years, he appeared in small movie roles throughout most of the 60s. In the 70s, however, he aimed his genius directly towards film and succeeded beyond the wildest expectations.
Gallimard Jeunesse Giboulées (ed.). Le petit blond avec un mouton blanc. Paris. p. ISBN.
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Pierre Richard and Jérémie Imbert, Je sais rien mais je dirai tout (autobiography).
Pierre richard filmy: Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; [1] 16 August ) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films.
Preface by Gérard Depardieu. Éditions Flammarion,
Distinctions
Documentaries
- Un jour, un destin: Pierre Richard, l'incompris (A film by Laurent Allen-Caron). Broadcast on France 2 on 6 September [2] and again on 31 December
- Pierre Richard, the quiet one directed by Gregory Monro in