Pierre Richard was born on Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defays; 16 August 1934 and is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films.
14 Facts About Pierre Richard
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Pierre Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funes and Gerard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years.
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Pierre Richard was born in a bourgeois family from Valenciennes.
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Pierre Richard is the grandson of Leopold Defays who was the director of the company Escaut-et-Meuse.
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Pierre Richard's name comes from the stage name of Pierre Richard-Willm who was his mother's favorite actor.
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Pierre 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.
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Pierre Richard's debuts were far from brilliant and he studied kinesiotherapy to have a safety exit if needed, but he didn't renounce acting.
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Pierre Richard then began his film career in 1968 in the film Alexandre le Bienheureux directed by Yves Robert.
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Pierre Richard worked again with Yves Robert for the film Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire 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.
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Pierre Richard returned behind the camera to direct On peut toujours rever and Droit dans le mur.
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Since 1986, Pierre Richard has become a businessman and winemaker.
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Pierre Richard owns the restaurant Au pied de chameau in Paris and a 50-hectare vineyard which produces some 80,000 bottles a year labelled as Chateau Bel Eveque in Gruissan in the department of Aude.
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Pierre Richard's grandson, Arthur Defays, is a model and actor.
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Pierre Richard has played in all the films he has directed.