1. Bruno Jean Marie Cremer was a French actor best known for portraying Jules Maigret on French television, from 1991 to 2005.
11 Facts About Bruno Cremer
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Bruno Cremer was born in Saint-Mande, Val-de-Marne, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Bruno Cremer's 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 Second World War.
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Bruno Cremer's career began with ten years spent acting in live theatre, playing roles drawn from works of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Jean Anouilh.
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Later Bruno Cremer played Max in a French production of Bent by Martin Sherman in 1981.
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Bruno Cremer regarded his basic profession as that of a stage actor, though he gravitated firmly to films.
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Some 30 other film parts of Bruno Cremer included releases by both French and foreign directors.
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In Sorcerer, Bruno Cremer played the fraudulent Paris banker Victor Manzon, starring alongside Roy Scheider.
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In 1989 Bruno Cremer starred in Jean-Claude Brisseau's film drama White Wedding with Vanessa Paradis.
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In 2005, in the final episode of the Maigret series, his voice was dubbed by that of Vincent Grass in Maigret et l'Etoile du Nord: Bruno Cremer was suffering from the throat cancer that made him decide to end his career.
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Bruno Cremer was made an officer of the Legion d'honneur in 2008.