Paul Crauchet
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-07-14 in Béziers, Hérault, France
Died
2012-12-19
Biography
Paul Crauchet (14 July 1920 – 19 December 2012) was a French actor. As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23. He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the Théâtre National Populaire with Jean Vilar. Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert. It is in The Wise Guys of Robert Enrico in 1965 that he became noticed. He had a very long career during which he worked with many directors, such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray and José Giovanni. In 1983 he starred in Les Bancals. Source: Article "Paul Crauchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Known For
Ho !
as Georges Briand
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Régis
Police Commissioner Moulin
as Cassius, le maître
The Witness
as Cathy's father
The Merry Widow
as Gaby
Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre
as Gautrais
La Belle Verte
as Osam
The Swimming Pool
as L'inspecteur Lévêque
Army of Shadows
as Félix Lepercq
Is Paris Burning?
as Priest
Zita
as Dr. Bernard
Zita
My Mother's Castle
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
Le Cercle Rouge
as The Receiver
The House in the Woods
as Paul Gardy
Flic Story
as Paul Robier
War of the Buttons
as Touegueule
Black List
as Pierre
A Cop
as Morand
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Public Prosecutor