Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau René ( born June 18, 1947 in La Rochelle, † July 17, 2010 in Paris) was a French actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer.

Life and work

Giraudeau drove for seven years at sea and then worked in Paris market halls, the car company Simca and in an advertising agency. He became an actor in 1968 and played among other things in the plays The Prince of Homburg and Dangerous Liaisons.

In 1970 he went to Grenoble at the Théâtre des Alpes, 1971 in Paris. 1972 began his career as a film actor. Only in the early 1980s, he established himself as a leading man. Giraudeau usually embodied outsiders, criminals or lovers. Occasionally, he also worked as a director and screenwriter.

Giraudeau was in Germany mainly by the TV series Under the tricolor and the movie La Boum - Die Fete, in which he played the teacher Eric Thompson, known.

He died on July 17, 2010 in a Paris hospital from the effects of cancer.

He had two children and was married to actress Anny Duperey.

Filmography (selection)