Michel Creton (17 August 1942 in Wassy,

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. He came to international attention with the release of ''Un homme de trop'' (''Shock Troops'') by Costa Gavras in 1967. Since then, he played in many films, appeared on TV and on stage (for example in 1989 in ''Un fil à la patte'' de

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). While he was in cinema a supporting actor, as one of Bernard Fresson's friends in ''Max an the junkmen'', and mostly rare in major roles like his thief in Nicholas Gessner's ''Le tuer triste'', he was a leading man on TV: alongside to

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in ''Fou comme François''. For his second TV movie with Claude Jade, ''Treize'', he was the writer of the screenplay.

Selected filmography

*1967: '' Love in the Night'' by

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, with Serge Gainsbourg *1968: '' Un homme de trop (Shock Troops)'' by

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*1968: ''Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'' by Bernarde Borderie, with Michel Serrault (Covielle) *1969: ''La Voie lactée (The Milky Way)'' by

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*1970: ''Béru und jene Damen'' by Guy Lefranc, with Gérard Barray *1971: ''Max et les ferrailleurs (Max and the junkmen)'' by

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*1971: ''Un meurtre est un meurtre (A Murder Is a Murder... Is a Murder'' by Étienne Périer, with

Stéphane Audran Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French actress. She was known for her performances in award-winning films such as ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' (1972) and ''Babette's Feast'' ...

*1971: ''La Dame de Monsoreau'' by Yannick Andrei, (Chicot) *1973: ''

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(At the Meeting with Joyous Death)'', by Juan Luis Buñuel *1973: ''Le Dingue'' by Daniel Daert, with Christian Baltauss *1974: '' Impossible Is Not French'' with Robert Lamoureux *1975: ''Au-delà de la peur (Beyond Fear)'' by Yannick Andréi, with Michel Bouquet *1976: ''La Fleur des pois'' by Raymond Rouleau, with Nicole Jamet *1976: ''Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré'' ( The Gallant Lords of Bois-Doré) by Bernard Borderie *1977: '' Armaguedon'' by Alain Jessua, with Alain Delon,

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*1977: '' Monsieur Papa'' by Philippe Monnier, with

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and

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*1978: ''Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation)'' by Patrice Leconte, with

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*1978: ''Fou comme François'' by Gérard Chouchan, with

*1981: ''Treize (13)'' by Patrick Villechaize, with Claude Jade *1981: ''Psy'' by

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, with Dewaere,

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*1982: ''Le Crime de Pierre Lacaze (The Crime of Pierre Lacaze)'' by Jean Delannoy *1983: ''Le Grand carnaval'' by Alexandre Arcady, with

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*1983: '' Julien Fontanes, magistrat'' by Serge Friedman *1984: ''Les Morfalous'' by

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, with

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*1985: ''Le Tueur triste'' by Nicolas Gessner, with

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*1986: ''Tenue de soirée'' by

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, with Gérard Depardieu *1987: '' Le Solitaire (The Loner)'' by

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, with

*1988: ''À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur'', by

Édouard Molinaro Édouard Molinaro (13 May 1928 – 7 December 2013) was a French film director and screenwriter. Biography He was born in Bordeaux, Gironde. He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (''Oscar'', '' Hibernatus''), '' My Uncle B ...

, with

Pierre Richard Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays; 16 August 1934) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Pierre Richard is considered by many, such as ...

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''Tecinema.jeuxactu.com''. Retrieved 21 April 2020. is a F ...

and

Richard Bohringer Richard Bohringer (born 16 January 1942) is a French actor. Personal life Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier, to a French mother and a German father. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has three other children, Mathieu, Richa ...

*1990: '' Il y a des jours... et des lunes'' by

Claude Lelouch Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...

*1997: ''Soleil'' by Roger Hanin, with Sophia Loren,

*2005: ''Mis en bouteille a château'' by Marion Sarraut (TV)

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Michel Creton's foto at russian forum about Alexandre Dumas
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