Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 14, 1920
Place of Birth
Béziers, Hérault, France
Paul Crauchet
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.
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Known For - Movies
La Belle Verte
as Osam
Le Cercle Rouge
as The Receiver
Army of Shadows
as Félix Lepercq
The Swimming Pool
as L'inspecteur Lévêque
A Cop
as Morand
Is Paris Burning?
as Priest
To Kill a Priest
as Alek's Father
War of the Buttons
as Touegueule
My Father's Glory
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
Flic Story
as Paul Robier
Known For - TV Shows
Police Commissioner Moulin
as Cassius, le maître
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
as Régis
Belphegor, or The Phantom of the Louvre
as Gautrais
The House in the Woods
as Paul Gardy
Between Land and Sea
as Charles « Branl'dans le vent »
Les Allumettes suédoises
as Pépé
D'Artagnan
as Planchet
Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre
as Jules (père de Jean-Baptiste)
22 avenue de la Victoire
as Sacristan