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Maigret à Pigalle
Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created by writer Georges Simenon. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. Between 1931 and 1972, 75 novels and 28 short stories about Maigret were published, starting with ''Pietr-le-Letton'' ("The Strange Case of Peter the Lett") and concluding with ''Maigret et Monsieur Charles'' ("Maigret and Monsieur Charles"). The novels and stories have been translated into more than 50 languages. The Maigret stories have also received numerous film, television and radio adaptations. Penguin Books published new translations of 75 books in the series over as many months; the project was begun in November 2013 by translators David Bellos, Anthea Bell, and Ros Schwartz. Character Creation The character of Maigret was invented by Sime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter D'Hont
Pieter D'Hont (24 April 1917 – 12 June 1997) was a Dutch sculptor. He studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. D'Hont designed the statue of the Edison Award. Most of his works are located in Utrecht (city), Utrecht, Netherlands. Gallery File:Symbool wijsheid dHont detail.jpg, ''Symbol of Wisdom'' (1943) in Utrecht, Netherlands File:AnneFrank dHont.jpg, ''Anne Frank'' (1960) in Utrecht, Netherlands File:Bizon Pieter dHont Beneluxlaan Utrecht.JPG, ''Bison'' (1968) in Utrecht, Netherlands 1917 births 1997 deaths Dutch male sculptors People from Hilversum Artists from North Holland 20th-century Dutch sculptors 20th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil Sydney
Basil Sydney (23 April 1894 – 10 January 1968) was an English stage and screen actor. Career Sydney made his name in 1915 in the London stage hit ''Romance (Sheldon play), Romance'' by Edward Sheldon, with Broadway star Doris Keane, and he costarred with Keane in the Romance (1920 film), 1920 silent film of the play. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived ''Romance'' in New York City in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing a variety of roles such as Mercutio in ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1922), Domin in ''R.U.R.'' (1922), Richard Dudgeon in ''The Devil's Disciple (play), The Devil's Disciple'' (1923), the title role in ''Hamlet'' (1923), Prince Hal in ''Henry IV, Part I'' (1926), and Petruchio in ''Taming of the Shrew'' (1927). In 1937 he starred in the murder mystery ''Blondie White'' in the West End theatre, West End. He made over 50 screen appearances, most memorably as King Claudius, Claudius in Lauren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Cremer
Bruno Jean Marie Cremer (6 October 1929 – 7 August 2010) was a French actor best known for portraying Jules Maigret on French television, from 1991 to 2005. Origins Bruno Cremer was born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. His mother, Jeanne Rullaert, a musician, was of Belgian Flemish origin and his father, Georges, was a businessman from Lille who, though born French, had taken out Belgian nationality after the French armed forces refused to accept him for service in the Second World War. Bruno himself opted for French nationality when he reached the age of 18. His childhood was largely spent in Paris. Bruno attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. Having completed his secondary studies, he followed an interest in acting which had interested him since the age of 12 and trained in acting from 1952 at France's highly selective ''Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique'' (English: ''French National Academy of Dramatic A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Armen Borisi Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 193514 November 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting. Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1970s with the various roles he portrayed in Soviet films like ''The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers'' (1968), its sequel ''The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers'' (1971) and ''The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed'' (1979). After almost 30 years on the stage of the Mayakovsky Theatre, Dzhigarkhanyan taught at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, VGIK and in 1996 he founded his own drama theater in Moscow. With more than 250 appearances, Dzhigarkhanyan, one of the most renowned film and stage Armenian and Russian actors, appeared in more films than any other Russian actor. Early life Armen Dzhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harris
Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. Having studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he rose to prominence as an icon of the British New Wave. He received numerous accolades including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and a Grammy Award. In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on ''The Irish Times''s list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Harris received two Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his performances in ''This Sporting Life'' (1963), and '' The Field'' (1990). Other notable roles include in '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), '' Red Desert'' (1964), '' A Man Called Horse'' (1970), '' Cromwell'' (1970), ''Unforgiven'' (1992), ''Gladiator'' (2000), and ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (2002). He gained cross-generational acclaim for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the first two ''Harry Potter'' films: '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001) and '' Harry Potter and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinya Aikawa
as was a Japanese actor, tarento and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo and died in 2015 of lung cancer. Filmography Acting roles Films * '' Torakku Yarō'' series (1975-1979) * ''The Battle of Port Arthur'' (1980) * '' Edo Porn'' (1981) Television * '' Naruhodo! The World'' (host, 1981–1996) Voice roles Television * '' Space Ace'' (1965), Yadokari * '' Son-goku is Coming: Chapter of Ko-fu Dai-o'' (1966 special), Sagojo * ' (1966), Officer Chibisu, Roba * '' Gokū no Daibōken'' (1967), Sagojo * '' Speed Racer'' (1967), Ken'ichi Mifune / Racer X * '' The Monster Kid'' (1968) * '' Hakushon Daimaou'' (1969), Grandfather "And then" * '' Inakappe Taishō'' (1970), Nyanko-sensei * '' Vampiyan Kids'' (2001), Papa Films * '' Dragon Ball: The Path to Power'' (1996), Kame Sennin Dubbing * Jack Lemmon **'' The Apartment'' (C.C. Baxter) **'' The Front Page'' (Hildy Johnson) **'' Good Neighbor Sam'' (Sam Bissell) **'' The Great Race'' (Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick) **'' How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Denham
William Maurice Denham (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes in his long career. Early life Denham was born on 23 December 1909 in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Eleanor Winifred (née Lillico) and Norman Denham. He was the third child of four. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained as a lift engineer. Like fellow actor James Robertson Justice, he played amateur rugby for Beckenham RFC. Career Denham became an actor in 1934, and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938, continuing to perform in that medium until 1997. Denham initially made his name in radio comedy series such as ''It's That Man Again'' (''ITMA'') and ''Much Binding in the Marsh'', which established him as a familiar radio character (providing over sixty different voices, female as well as male, according to a radio interview in November 1988), and later provided all the voices for the animated version of ''Animal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Tenin
Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (; 23 March 1905, Kuznetsk – 8 September 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and Pedagogy, pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Biography Boris Tenin was born in Kuznetsk in a family of a railroad telegraphist. He was married to Lidiya Sukharevskaya until his death in Moscow, 1990. Filmography * ''Lace (1928 film), Lace'' (1928) as Club manager * ''Golden Mountains (film), Golden Mountains'' (1931) as Boris "Shaggy" the stoker * ''Counterplan (film), Counterplan'' (1932) as Vasya * ''Without a Dowry (film), Without a Dowry'' (1936) as Vasily Danilych Vozhevatov * ''The Man with the Gun'' (1938) as Ivan Shadrin * ''Yakov Sverdlov (film), Yakov Sverdlov'' (1940) as Coupletist (uncredited) * ''Hello Moscow!'' (1945) as Writer * ''The Russian Question'' (1947) as Bob Murphy * ''Alitet Leaves for the Hills'' (1949) as Charlie Thomson * ''The Fall of Berlin (film), The Fall of Berlin'' (1949) as Vasily Chuikov * ''Przhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Hrušínský
Rudolf Hrušínský (17 October 1920 – 13 April 1994) was a Czech actor. He was one of the most popular Czech actors. Many of his movies such as ''The Good Soldier Švejk'', '' The Cremator'' or '' Capricious Summer'' are considered classics of the Czech cinema. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by France and title ''National Artist'' in Czechoslovakia. Jiří Menzel once described him as "the Czech Jean Gabin." Biography He was born back stage at the theatre in Nová Včelnice on 17 October 1920. His parents were Hermina Červičková and Rudolf Hrušínský (born Rudolf Böhm). His family moved from place to place, but eventually settled in Prague. He studied law school, but dropped out of to pursue acting. Initially he starred in minor plays, but managed to escalate to famous film roles, many of which won him fame abroad. He spent most of his theatrical career in Czech National Theatre. In 1968 he signed The Two Thousand Words manifesto. As a result he was not allowed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Richard (actor)
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's ''Maigret'' in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Filmography *1947: '' Six heures à perdre'' (directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte) – Le sergent de ville *1949: '' Mission à Tanger'' (directed by André Hunebelle) – Le président *1949: ''I Like Only You'' – Un passager de l'avion *1950: '' King Pandora'' (directed by André Berthomieu) – Quichenette *1950: '' Adémaï au poteau-frontière'' (directed by Paul Colline) *1951: '' The King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Teulings
Johannes Marinus Antonius (Jan) Teulings (29 May 1905 – 22 September 1989) was a Dutch actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1936 to 1987. Filmography References External links * 1905 births 1989 deaths Dutch film directors Dutch male film actors Dutch male television actors People from Hilversum {{Netherlands-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film legend. Rühmann is best known for playing the part of a comic ordinary citizen in film comedies such as '' Three from the Filling Station'' and '' The Punch Bowl''. During his later years, he was also a respected character actor in films such as '' The Captain from Köpenick'' and '' It Happened in Broad Daylight''. His only English-speaking movie was the 1965 '' Ship of Fools''. Biography Early life Rühmann was born in Essen as the son of a restaurateur. His father Hermann Rühmann moved to Berlin in 1915, where he probably committed suicide a little later. The exact circumstances of death could never be clarified. His son Heinz began his acting career during the early 1920s and appeared in numerous theatres in Germany durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
