“I’m a theatre actor who makes movies”, admitted Jean-Pierre Marielle, during an interview in September 1980. He had that unique voice. Rugged, powerful and warm. It was also this posture, awe-inspiring, this presence and this mustache is eternal. Born in Dijon, on April 12, 1932, he grew up in Précy-le-Sec before

” awards, it does not interest me. The only reward is when the public pass a good time ”

Jean-Pierre Marielle

“go up” to Paris to follow his passion for theatre. The young actor goes through the Conservatory and the Comédie Française. Jean-Pierre Marielle finds friends. Bébel, Vernier, Jean Rochefort, Françoise Fabian and Guy Bedos, the band of friends not to leave. Him, went on to roles, The Love of four colonels of Peter Ustinov to Ionesco, passing through The Panties by Jean Anouilh, Marielle will never leave the boards. It will receive many accolades in theatre, including the Moliere of the actor in 1994 for The Return by Harold Pinter, and the price is Light for the set of his film career. With more than 90 films and numerous television appearances, Jean-Pierre Marielle has become one of the comedians most loved of the French public. Nominated seven times for the César of the best actor, he will win none. There attached no importance: “I don’t care totally. The rewards, I’m not interested in. The only reward is when the audience spends a good time,” he said in an interview in Paris in 2014.

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● Week-end à Zuydcoote, (1964), Henri Verneuil with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Géret, Jean-Pierre Marielle…

The characters are related to Jean-Pierre Marielle as that of the abbot Pierson in the blockbuster Henri Verneuil on the evacuation beaches of Dunkirk in June 1940. At the beginning of her career, Marielle will be accustomed to supporting roles before going to see the top of the poster.

● Galettes de Pont-Aven, (1975), Joel Seria, with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Claude Piéplu, Jeanne Goupil…

prominent roles and pivotal encounters. The one with Joël Séria is the most important in the career of Jean-Pierre Marielle. After Charlie and his two chicks in 1973, Marielle burst onto the screen in Galettes de Pont-Aven (it will be named in the best actor category at the first ceremony of the César). A key role and the beginning of a beautiful story of cinema with Joel Séria. Scene irresistible, this tirade finesse of the representative of the house of umbrellas Godineau. Classic black or bright yellow?

● On aura tout vu, (1976), Georges Lautner, with Pierre Richard, Miou-Miou, Jean-Pierre Marielle…

A photographer advertising wants to make a movie in a poetic, beautiful and pure. He finally finds a producer: Jean-Pierre Marielle in the skin of Bob Morlock. But the latter is specialized in the pornographic film and intend to add a little “spice” to the scenario.

● Calmos, (1976), Bertrand Blier with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort Brigitte Fossey…

Two men tired women leave everything to go and live in a remote village, far away from the fairer sex. Jean-Pierre Marielle, tasty in this scene rabelaisienne, here makes the pair with his great friend, always, Jean Rochefort. “The admirable cholesterol that you are going to pay. It is still better than barbiturates. When we eat healthy without chemicals there is no counter-indications.” Dialogue written by Bertrand Blier. “I’ve done several films with [Bertrand Blier] and Calmos was one of the most crazy. Blier has a tone. There are. A film like Calmos could not do today. I remember to have read the script and have been delighted with it, because I’ve always liked the authors a little bit special,” explained Marielle in an interview published in the columns of the Figaro.

● Uranus, (1990), by Claude Berri, with Michel Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Fabrice Luchini…

In a small provincial town banged up by war, Jean-Pierre Marielle finds herself with beautiful people. Him doctor pétainiste, met Gérard Depardieu in the bartender bar alcoholic, Michel Blanc in communist and idealist, Philippe Noiret. Michel Galabru and Fabrice Luchini complete the distribution of five-star of this comedy from Claude Berri.

● All the mornings of the world, (1991) by Alain Corneau, with Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Brochet…

With All the mornings of the world , Jean-Pierre Marielle passes a milestone in his career. Cold, virtuoso and terribly melancholy, he plays Monsieur de Sainte Colombe: Jansenist dark and rebellious, the great master of the viola da Gamba haunted by the ghost of his wife deceased. He becomes a teacher of Marin Marais, violiste to Louis XIV. As a great lover of jazz, Jean-Pierre Marielle confessed in an interview his pleasure to learn the music of the baroque: “It was a great discovery, it has seemed to me familiar.”

● Grands ducs (1996), by Patrice Leconte, with Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort…

Jean-Pierre Marielle loved more than anything to play with his buddies. In The Grand-dukes, he finds Jean Rochefort to interpret a band of comedians broke with Philippe Noiret. Jean-Pierre Marielle, hysterical and condescending, is boarded by two of his cronies in a theatre tour for a show shabby.

got to dance (2006), by Noémie Lvovsky with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Sabine Azéma…

Jean-Pierre Marielle interpreter here brilliantly Solomon, the father of 80 years old in full form that vacillates between the tap and the search for a companion. For this role, he will be appointed to the Cesar for the best actor.

the Flower of The age, (2012), Nick Quinn, with Pierre Arditi, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Julie Ferrier…

Jean-Pierre Marielle interpreter here an old man, indomitable, worst nightmare of his son, Hubert, played by Pierre Arditi. Foundra Marielle one last time at the cinema in the comedy of Patrice Lecomte Time peace . On the small screen, there also after a long career, he will be one of the characters in the episode 2 of the series Captain Marleau in 2016. He will also have his unique voice for dubbing. Retain the chef, Auguste Gusteau in the great animated film Ratatouille by Brad Bird.