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André Maranne
Born
André Gaston Maillol

Template:Birth year 1926
Died1992
NationalityFrench
OccupationActor
Years active1956–1992

André Maranne (born in 1926 and died in 1992) was a French actor, best known for playing Frenchmen in English language roles in the UK from the mid-1950s.[1] Born André Gaston Maillol, he used André Maranne as a stage name for many years.[2]

Career

Born in Toulouse, France, Maranne's most prominent recurring role was Sergeant François Chevalier in six of The Pink Panther films, alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.[3] Before the Pink Panther, he appeared as a French officer in The War Lover (1962) and had a cameo role in the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).[4]

He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Jason King ("Wanna buy a television series?", 1971), Fawlty Towers (as André in the 1975 "Gourmet Night" episode), Lord Peter Wimsey ("Clouds of Witness", 1972), Yes Minister (as European Agricultural Commissioner Maurice, proponent of the "euro-sausage", in "Party Games", 1984, the episode in which Jim Hacker becomes UK Prime Minister), All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who (The Moonbase, 1967).[5]

Maranne was also a co-presenter of four in the French teaching programme, Bonjour Françoise on the BBC in the 1960s and acted in all 8 episodes of La Chasse au Trésor (1967) as well as all 24 episodes of Ensemble-French for Beginners in the 1970s, also for the BBC.[6][7]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (7 August 2018). "The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Naturalisation". The London Gazette. 23 May 1967. p. 5742. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Andre Maranne - TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
  4. ^ "André Maranne".
  5. ^ "André Maranne". www.aveleyman.com.
  6. ^ "BONJOUR FRANCOISE - BBC Two England - 23 April 1968 - BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk.
  7. ^ "La Chasse au Trésor - BroadcastForSchools.co.uk". www.broadcastforschools.co.uk.

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