Pierre Richard
Pierre Richard ( born August 16, 1934 in Valenciennes, France; actually: Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays ) is a French actor and comedian. Having him as a " tall blond with One Black Shoe " international breakthrough was succeeded in 1972, he played the role of the sympathetic - scattered dub in many comedies. Until the late 1980s, he was one of the most successful European film comedians.
Career
After drama school he initially received some small commitments in various cabarets and at the Paris Opera.
In his first film role, Yves Robert Alexander, the life artist, his comedic talent was discovered. The role of the harmless, scattered and always pathetic average citizen seemed written on his body. His breakthrough came in 1970 with his celebrated directorial debut The Airborne, in which he also played the lead role.
International fame he eventually earned in 1972 as The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe. The first in France neglected film was slightly recut by Rainer Brandt and very free synchronized. The great success of the film in Germany Pierre Richard made only popular in his native France and allowed his international career. In this comedy of errors by Yves Robert, he played an absent-minded violinist who gets unwittingly targeted by intelligence agencies. Since then, the clumsiness was his trademark. Rarely on the side of Gérard Depardieu in a dub comes alone, Two great jokers and the fugitives were joined by another great success in the 1980s.
In later years he tried increasingly to bear the image of the dub and take on serious roles. This he showed, among other things, in Nana Djordjadze tragicomedy The recipes of a chef in love 1996, in which he played a silent restaurant owners whose love remained unfulfilled to a Georgian princess through the turmoil of the October Revolution. Also in 2000 Djordjadze 27 Missing Kisses and a tragic hiking Musicians in The Foundling.
Richard was synchronized with a few exceptions of Harry Wüstenhagen, since the death desert Hagens 1999, he has alternating voice actor.
There is a same name, active 1958-1971 actor who is not to be confused with it.
Private
Richard runs the winery Château Bel Évêque in the southern French city Gruissan.
His two sons are musicians: Olivier is the saxophonist of the duo Blues trottoir and Christophe is a double bass player. The brothers composed the soundtrack for the film Droit dans le mur her father, in which Richard beside the main role also took over the director and the script. His grandson Arthur Defays is a model.