Roland Giraud is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966.
Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined
Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe,
Le Splendid
Le Splendid is a café-théâtre company founded by a collection of writers and actors in the 1970s - Christian Clavier, Michel Blanc, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte (four childhood friends who knew one another from the Lycée Pasteur in Neu ...
. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in
Michel Audiard's ''Bons baisers...à lundi''. He acquired greater recognition for ''
Papy fait de la résistance'', and again, for his appearance in
Coline Serreau's ''
Trois hommes et un couffin
''Three Men and a Cradle'' (french: Trois hommes et un couffin) is a 1985 French comedy film by Coline Serreau. The film was remade in Hollywood as ''Three Men and a Baby'' in 1987 which was subsequently remade into seven movies in six languages.
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He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
It is surrounded by a partly intact wall, built during the 12th century, which was one of the 8 residences of the French kings.
Ge ...
.
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Selected filmography
* ''
Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears'' (1979)
* ''
Clara et les Chics Types'' (1981)
* ''
Signes extérieurs de richesse'' (1983)
* ''
Trois hommes et un couffin (1985)''
* ''
Tranches de vie'' (1985)
* ''
Sans peur et sans reproche'' (1988)
* ''
Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück
''The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck'' or is a 1991 French comedy film directed by Alessandro Capone, Stéphane Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, Mathias Ledoux and Hervé Palud.
Plot
Dr. Apfelglück, a prominent psychiatrist, recounts some ...
'' (1991)
* ''
A Mere Mortal
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...
(Simple mortel)'' — 1991
* ''
Beur sur la ville'' (2011)
* ''
The Gilded Cage'' (2013)
References
External links
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1942 births
Living people
French male stage actors
French male film actors
People from Rabat
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male actors
French male television actors
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