Bernard Giraudeau
Birthday: Born in 1947-06-18 in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
Deathday: 2010-07-17
Bernard Giraudeau (18 June 1947 – 17 July 2010) was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Giraudeau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Arsène Lupin
Character: Isidore Beautrelet
Arsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Italian and Austrian TV stations. It was only loosely based on Maurice Leblancs novels. Georges Descrières' portrayal of Arsène Lupin showed more similarity to Graf Yoster than to Maurice Leblanc's original. He behaved in the first place as a perfect gentleman who never got angry. He was always relaxed, because whatever could possibly had bothered him in daily life was taken care of by his butle...
La Porteuse de pain
Character: Georges Fortier adulte
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Blanc, Bleu, Rouge
Character: Mathieu de Brècheville
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Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
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Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Téléthon
Character: Self
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Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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Sacrée soirée
Character: self
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La poursuite du vent
Character: Charlie
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Téléthon
Character:
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Movie Credits
The Party
Character: Éric Lehman, Vic's German teacher
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce....
Croque la vie
Character: Alain
Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married and scattered all over France, the once inseparable trio no longer keep in touch. But four years later, they decided to organize a big party for their reunion which serves as an opportunity for them to put things right and confess everything th...
Two Men in Town
Character: Frédéric Cazeneuve
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past....
Revolver
Character: Kidnapper
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him....
Marquise
Character: Moliere
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one....
Une fille dans l'azur
Character: Le Pacha commandant du Foch
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Chok Dee: The Kickboxer
Character: Jean
Dida Diafat plays himself in this story based around his thai boxing career....
The Specialists
Character: Paul Brandon
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is wh...
Year of the Jellyfish
Character: Romain Kalides
Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs....
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Character: Léopold
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends....
Ridicule
Character: L'Abbée de Vilecourt
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles....
The Big Pardon
Character: Pascal Villars
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of ...
The Hook
Character: Brice Kantor
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money....
La Face de l'Ogre
Character: Le mari d'Hélène
Several mountaineers attempt to climb La face de l'Ogre near Chamonix. Their starting point is a small mountain hotel from where many tourists observe them. Among these is Hélène, who has been staying there for a few weeks but who is excluded by the other tourists. Then she meets a city girl named Marion and they immediately become friends. She tells him that she is waiting for her husband who has tried to climb the mountain and should be back any day. But then the weather turns sour, which caus...
Hecate
Character: Julien Rochelle
Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meet...
Killing Time
Character: l'inspecteur Simon Blount
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be....
The Veiled Man
Character: Pierre Rollin
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of wa...
Le fils préféré
Character: François
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny......
Drôles d'oiseaux
Character: Constant Van Loo
The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared....
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: Un resistant arrêté (dans le camion)
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!...
That Day
Character: Pointpoirot
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other....
Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Character: Daniel
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates....
The Medic
Character: François
The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting....
Bilitis
Character: Lucas
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation....
Little Lili
Character: Brice
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famou...
The Ruffian
Character: Gérard
The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada....
Vent de panique
Character: Roland Pochon
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having become fond of her, they relent and set out to take her home. She rebels, insisting that she enjoys their exciting life of stolen cars, stolen cheques, hotels and restaurants left without paying the bill, and the threesome become a formidable team...
A Matter of Taste
Character: Frédéric Delamont
Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession...
The Wings of the Fame
Character: Narrator (voice)
It is the epic of the heroes of the first century of aviation, since the flight of the first plane on December 17, 1903 until today. A striking collection of portraits of outstanding men and women like Louis Blériot, the first to cross the Channel, to Lindbergh who crossed the Atlantic and Amelia Earhart and many more......
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: Judge Davoust
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader,...
Street of the Damned
Character: Daniel Chetman, dit 'Chet', un ancien chef de bande qui reprend du service
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes....
Lost Seamen
Character: Diamantis
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun......
The Gypsy
Character: Mareuil
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance....
Dans la tête du tueur
Character: Jean-François Abgrall
Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination....
Marianna Ucrìa
Character: Grass
In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time....
Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
Character: Le couple tendre - Luc
Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future...
The White Queen
Character: Yvon Legualoudec
In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. The Ripoche’s ordered lives are thrown into turmoil when Jean’s former friend, Yvon Legualoudec, returns to the town – with his black wife Annabelle and their three children. Before he disappeared twenty years ago, without saying a word, Yvon was Jean’s rival...
Jamais plus toujours
Character: Denis
Claire (Bulle Ogier) returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe (Loleh Bellon). She attends an auction of her friend's possessions, provoking memories of the past. As her camera glides across the auction house bric-a-brac, Yanick Bellon mixes past, present and future to create a delicate piece of cinematic poetry. Set to the music of Georges Delerue....
Just a Game
Character: Jacques Mercier
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland....
L'empire du tigre
Character: Pierre Balsan
In the summer of 1938, in the heart of Indochina, a French colony, Pierre Balsan hear the latest news about conquering Czechoslovakia after Hitler invaded Austria. World War II will bring even more problems for Pierre Balsan, nicknamed Tiger, who will be charged with the murder of his wife....
Love After Love
Character: David
Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing....
Si je t'oublie Sarajevo
Character:
In 1993, Sophie, a young French diplomat, disembarked from the military plane that brought her to Sarajevo. She is taken in charge by an officer of the blue helmets: the commander Michel Mercier. The day after her arrival, as she exited a school, a sniper shot children in front of the peacekeepers, who had orders not to shoot back. The wounded children were taken to hospital. Sophie devises a plan to evacuate the children, who are in constant danger of death, to France......
Les longs manteaux
Character: Murat
A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia....
Passion of Love
Character: Giorgio Biachetti
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with....
Unpredictable Nature of the River
Character: Jean-François de La Plaine
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony....
TGV
Character: Roger
The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated, driven, repaired and, if need be, pushed by the intrepid "Rambo". This time, the trip between Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and Conakry, the capital of Guinea, is outright dangerous: the road crosses the territory of the Bijagos, who have launched an unexpected and violent insurrection. Rambo finds several odd passengers (with a handful of sheep) who are ready, for various legitimate o...
Stop Calling Me Baby!
Character: Isidore
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household....
Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters
Character: Narrator (Voice)
A remarkable documentary that delves deep into the mysterious and murky circumstances surrounding the Kursk submarine sinking....
Among Wolves
Character: Le Tueur
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean....
La Grande Cordée
Character: Self
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Marthe
Character: le colonel
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison....
Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Character:
In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner....
Paragot-Bérardini, La Cordée des Voyous
Character: Self
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Meurtres A Domicile
Character: Max Queryat
A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives....
A New Life
Character: Constantin
In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise....
Beyond the Summits
Character: Narrator (voice)
Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In Beyond the Summits, viewers will feel like they are climbing up the mountain with her. The film shows three classic Chamonix routes with three different climbing partners. Each partner was chosen because they had a profound impact on her life. The camera captures the magnificent scenery, as well as frank and intimate moments during the ascents ......
Le double de ma moitié
Character: Thierry Montino
With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner....
Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission
Character: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2....
Earth from Above
Character: L'homme
Yann Arthus-Bertrand has flown over hundreds of countries to create an extraordinary aerial portrait of our planet as never seen before. This DVD from the Panoramica Motion Gallery is 'Ambient' in concept, there is no storytelling, no narratives, just a constant stream of compelling beauty....
Mag Bodard, un destin
Character: Self
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005....
La répétition ou L'amour puni
Character: le Comte
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Bras de fer
Character: Delancourt, dit Condor
Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris hotel under Nazi control, where he meets his former friend Pierre (Christophe Malavoy), who is on a secret assignment to mislead the Nazis on the date of the Normandie invasion. Pierre, alias Augustin, ca...
Mata Hari, la vraie histoire
Character: Le capitaine Bouchardon
The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War....