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I never really took this job seriously, although I always made sure to do it seriously.
Heir to a dynasty of acrobats, Claude Brasseur, who has just left us, was an actor in the blood.
During his prolific career, carried out simultaneously in theater, cinema and also on television, over nearly two hundred films, he was able to demonstrate, without seeming to touch it, that he was the worthy son of the majestic Pierre Brasseur, one of the greatest French actors of the 20th century.
To read also: Death of Claude Brasseur, an actor in the blood
Loving to put on all clothes and blend in with all settings, he composed a mischievous Sganarelle in
Dom Juan
, a devious Fouché facing a Machiavellian Talleyrand camped by his friend Claude Rich.
He could play a little thug lost alongside his “
buddy
” Jean-Paul Belmondo in
Les Distractions
, a cop with integrity in
The Police War
which won him a Caesar but also a beauf earthy in the
Camping
saga
.... All of this. with naturalness and disarming aplomb.
From
Rue des Prairies
alongside Jean Gabin, to
La Boum
where he camped the father of Sophie Marceau, via
Une Histoire simple
with the incomparable Romy Schneider, in tribute to his talent as a gifted baladin,
Le Figaro
has concocted, here below, an anthology of his best films.
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Rue des prairies
by Denys de La Patellière, in 1959, with Jean Gabin, Claude Brasseur, Roger Dumas, Marie-José Nat, Jacques Monod, Louis Seigner ...
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Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre
by Marcel Bluwal in 1965, after Molière, with Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Anouk Ferjac, Michel Le Royer ...
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Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq
by Marcel Bluwal, in thirteen episodes, with Claude Brasseur, Danièle Lebrun, Marc Dudicourt ...
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Les Seins de glace
by Georges Lautner in 1974 with Claude Brasseur, Mireille Darc, Alain Delon ...
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Un éléphant ça trompe enormé
(1976) and
We will all go to paradise
by Yves Robert (1977), with Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Victor Lanoux, Guy Bedos, Danièle Delorme, Marthe Villalonga, Anny Duperey, Martine Sarcey, Christophe Bourseiller ...
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A simple story
by Claude Sautet in 1978, with Romy Schneider, Bruno Cremer, Claude Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson ...
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The Police War
by Robin Davis, in 1979, with Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Marlène Jobert ...
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La Boum
(1980) and
La Boum 2
(1982) by Claude Pinoteau, with Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, Sophie Marceau, Pierre Cosso ...
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Le Souper
d'Édouard Molinaro in 1992, adaptation of the play by Jean-Claude Brisville, with Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Ticky Holgado ...
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Camping
(2006) and its two suites in 2009 and 2016 by Fabien Onteniente, with Franck Dubosc, Gérard Lanvin, Mathilde Seignier, Antoine Duléry, Claude Brasseur, Mylène Demongeot, Richard Anconina, Gérard Jugnot, Michèle Laroque ...