Paul Crauchet
Acting
Born: 1920-07-14 in Béziers, Hérault, France
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.
Known For
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Régis
La Maison des bois
Paul Gardy
Police Commissioner Moulin
Cassius, le maître
The Swimming Pool
L'inspecteur Lévêque
Le Cercle Rouge
The Receiver
Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre
Gautrais
Is Paris Burning?
Priest
Flic Story
Paul Robier
La Belle Verte
Osam
Army of Shadows
Félix Lepercq
Un Flic
Morand
Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre
Jules (père de Jean-Baptiste)
The Merry Widow
Gaby
Ho !
Georges Briand
Un été après l'autre
Pa
My Mother's Castle
Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Public Prosecutor
The Last Adventure
Insurer
The Burned Barns
Pierre Cateux
Without Apparent Motive
Francis Palombo
My Father's Glory
Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
Black List
Pierre
The King's Whore
Le Duc de Luynes
The Witness
Cathy's father
Fast
Pépé
The War Is Over
Roberto
D'Artagnan
Planchet
War of the Buttons
Touegueule
The Wise Guys
Pelissier, accountant
Last Known Address
Jacques Loring, Martin's neighbor
Between Land and Sea
Charles « Branl'dans le vent »
A Cloud in the Teeth
Chavignac
Zita
Dr. Bernard
Zita
The Dominici Affair
Commissioner Sébeille
Impossible Object
The Plumber
Wild Grass
le 1er patient
Sign of the Lion
Fred
The Looters
Valdés