Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard was born on Aug 16, 1934 in France. Pierre Richard's big-screen debut came with Montparnasse 19 directed by Jacques Becker in 1958, strarring Un étudiant peintre (uncredited). Pierre Richard is known for La Chèvre directed by Francis Veber, Pierre Richard stars as François Perrin and Gérard Depardieu as Campana. Pierre Richard has got 4 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Pierre Richard achieved is Magritte Awards, Belgium. The upcoming new movie Pierre Richard plays is Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom which will be released on May 19, 2023.

Certainly one of France's supreme farceurs in the classic tradition, comedian Pierre Richard was born to an upper crust family with an embarrassing riches of middle names as he was christened Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defays. Working and building up his trade at the Paris Music Hall in the early years, he appeared in small movie roles throughout most of the 60s. In the 70s, however, he aimed his genius directly towards film and succeeded beyond the wildest expectations. Directing and co-writing many of his slapstick vehicles, his characters often have taken on an hilariously guileless persona and, coupled with his innate gift for klutzy physical comedy, have become an audience favorite for nearly four decades. His superior work in Distracted (1970) and Les malheurs d'Alfred (1972) was immediately recognized and this led to the international crossover hit The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) in which Richard played a naive, innocent concert musician plucked by chance to become a superspy on a top secret mission. A potent association in the 1960s and 1970s with actor/producer/director Yves Robert and the 1980s with writer/director Francis Veber and actor Gérard Depardieu produced several comedy classics: Alexandre le bienheureux (1968), The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974), La chèvre (1981), The ComDads (1983) and The Fugitives (1986). Many of Richard's classic comedies, including Le jouet (1976), have spawned Hollywood remakes and imitations, though most pale compared to the originals.