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André Maranne
André Maranne
Born	André Gaston Maillol; 14 May 1926; Toulouse, France
Died	12 April 2021 (aged 94); Brighton, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–1991
Spouse	Moira Mitchell (m. 1955)

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André Maranne (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-born British actor best known for playing roles in English-language films beginning in the mid-1950s.^[1]

Life and career[edit]

Born André Gaston Maillol in Toulouse, France, Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six Pink Panther films alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.^[2] 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).^[3]

He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Merton Park Studios' Scotland Yard (as a gendarme in 1956 episode "Wall of Death" and credited as André Maillol & the 1957 episode "Night Crossing" as Detective Nouvel credited as Andre Maranne), 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).^[4]

Maranne was also one of the four co-presenters of the French teaching programme, Bonjour Françoise on the BBC in the 1960s; he acted in all eight 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.^[5]^[6] Maranne provided English audio translation of French-speaking interviewees in the 1988 ITV documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

Maranne died 12 April 2021 in Brighton, England at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife, Moira.^[7]^[8]

Selected filmography[edit]

Wicked as They Come (1956) as Paris Barman (uncredited)
Port Afrique (1956) as Police Officer
Loser Takes All (1956) as Bar Waiter (uncredited)
Rogue's Yarn (1957) as French Fisherman (uncredited)
The Birthday Present (1957) as French Customs Officer (uncredited)
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) as Garage Man
Law and Disorder (1958) as Fisherman (uncredited)
Harry Black (1958) as Frenchman
The Whole Truth (1958) as Car owner
The Square Peg (1958) as Jean-Claude
The Giant Behemoth (1959) as French Radio Officer (uncredited)
A French Mistress (1960) as Dubbing (voice)
The Greengage Summer (1961) as Mounsieur Dufour
Two Wives at One Wedding (1961) as Paul
Middle Course (1961) as Franz
The Silent Invasion (1962) as Argen
H.M.S. Defiant (1962) as Colonel Giraud
The War Lover (1962) as French Officer (uncredited)
Come Fly with Me (1963) as French Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Maniac (1963) as Salon (voice, uncredited)
A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Sgt. François Chevalier
The Beauty Jungle (1964) as Lift Man (uncredited)
Night Train to Paris (1964) as Louis Vernay
Return from the Ashes (1965) as 2nd Detective (voice, uncredited)
Thunderball (1965) as SPECTRE No. 10 (uncredited)
Doctor in Clover (1966) as Pierre in French film
The Terrornauts (1967) as Gendarme
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) as French Superintendent
Duffy (1968) as Garain
Battle of Britain (1969) as French Army Signals NCO
Darling Lili (1970) as Lt. Liggett
And Soon the Darkness (1970) as Radio DJ (voice, uncredited)
The Guardians (1971) as Felicien de Bastion
Our Miss Fred (1972) as French Resistance Fighter
Bequest to the Nation (1973) as Adm. Villenueuve
Paul and Michelle (1974) as Bellancourt
Percy's Progress (1974) as French Newsreader (uncredited)
Gold (1974) as Syndicate Member
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) as Sgt. François Chevalier
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) as Sgt François Chevalier
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) as Sgt. François Chevalier
The London Connection (1979) as Duvalier
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) as Michel Navratil
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) as French Ambassador
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) as Sgt. François Chevalier
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) as Sgt. François Chevalier
The Razor's Edge (1984) as Joseph, the butler
Morons from Outer Space (1985) as Prof. Trousseau
Plenty (1985) as Villon

References[edit]

^ McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (7 August 2018). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780719091391 – via Google Books.
^ "Andre Maranne – TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
^ "André Maranne". Archived from the original on 7 August 2018.
^ "André Maranne". www.aveleyman.com.
^ "BONJOUR FRANCOISE – BBC Two England – 23 April 1968 – BBC Genome". The Radio Times (2319): 25. 18 April 1968.
^ "La Chasse au Trésor – BroadcastForSchools.co.uk". www.broadcastforschools.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
^ "André Maranne obituary". The Times. 4 May 2021.
^ "Andre Maranne, Actor in Pink Panther Movies, Dies at 94". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 May 2021.

External links[edit]

[1] McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (7 August 2018). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780719091391 – via Google Books.

[2] "Andre Maranne – TV Guide". TVGuide.com.

[3] "André Maranne". Archived from the original on 7 August 2018.

[4] "André Maranne". www.aveleyman.com.

[5] "BONJOUR FRANCOISE – BBC Two England – 23 April 1968 – BBC Genome". The Radio Times (2319): 25. 18 April 1968.

[6] "La Chasse au Trésor – BroadcastForSchools.co.uk". www.broadcastforschools.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 September 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

[7] "André Maranne obituary". The Times. 4 May 2021.

[8] "Andre Maranne, Actor in Pink Panther Movies, Dies at 94". The Hollywood Reporter. 6 May 2021.

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-'''André Maranne''' (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-born British actor best known for playing roles in English-language films starting in the mid-1950s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqyuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA495|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition|first1=Brian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=7 August 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780719091391}}</ref>
+'''André Maranne''' (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-born British actor best known for playing roles in English-language films beginning in the mid-1950s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mqyuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA495|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition|first1=Brian|last1=McFarlane|first2=Anthony|last2=Slide|date=7 August 2018|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780719091391}}</ref>
 ==Life and career==
-Born André Gaston Maillol in [[Toulouse]], [[France]], Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six of ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|The Pink Panther]]'' films alongside [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Herbert Lom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/andre-maranne/credits/139534/|title=Andre Maranne – TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref> 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 (film)|Thunderball]]'' (1965).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba73c9fef|title=André Maranne|publisher=}}</ref>
+Born André Gaston Maillol in [[Toulouse]], [[France]], Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six ''[[The Pink Panther (film series)|Pink Panther]]'' films alongside [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Herbert Lom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/andre-maranne/credits/139534/|title=Andre Maranne – TV Guide|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref> 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 (film)|Thunderball]]'' (1965).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba73c9fef|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807220311/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba73c9fef|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 August 2018|title=André Maranne|publisher=}}</ref>
 He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Merton Park Studios' ''[[Scotland Yard (TV series)|Scotland Yard]]'' (as a gendarme in 1956 episode "Wall of Death" and credited as André Maillol & the 1957 episode "Night Crossing" as Detective Nouvel credited as Andre Maranne), ''[[Jason King (TV series)|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 Commissioner|European Agricultural Commissioner]] Maurice, proponent of the "euro-[[sausage]]", in "[[Party Games (Yes Minister)|Party Games]]", 1984, the episode in which [[Jim Hacker]] becomes UK Prime Minister), ''[[All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)|All Creatures Great and Small]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (''[[The Moonbase]]'', 1967).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=11047|title=André Maranne|website=www.aveleyman.com}}</ref>
-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 eight 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.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f1a62cdaac984735b1b1ab4ebfe25553|title=BONJOUR FRANCOISE – BBC Two England – 23 April 1968 – BBC Genome|issue=2319|pages=25|journal=The Radio Times|date=1968-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/La_Chasse_au_Tresor|title=La Chasse au Trésor – BroadcastForSchools.co.uk|website=www.broadcastforschools.co.uk|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913044415/http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/La_Chasse_au_Tresor|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Maranne provided English audio translation of French-speaking interviewees in the 1988 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] documentary ''[[The Men Who Killed Kennedy]]''.
+Maranne was also one of the four co-presenters of the French teaching programme, ''Bonjour Françoise'' on the [[BBC]] in the 1960s; he acted in all eight 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.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f1a62cdaac984735b1b1ab4ebfe25553|title=BONJOUR FRANCOISE – BBC Two England – 23 April 1968 – BBC Genome|issue=2319|pages=25|journal=The Radio Times|date=1968-04-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/La_Chasse_au_Tresor|title=La Chasse au Trésor – BroadcastForSchools.co.uk|website=www.broadcastforschools.co.uk|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913044415/http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/La_Chasse_au_Tresor|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Maranne provided English audio translation of French-speaking interviewees in the 1988 [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] documentary ''[[The Men Who Killed Kennedy]]''.
-He died in April 2021 at the age of 94.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/andre-maranne-obituary-vpscqk6hj |title=André Maranne obituary |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=2021-05-04 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
+Maranne died 12 April 2021 in [[Brighton, England]] at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife, Moira.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/andre-maranne-obituary-vpscqk6hj |title=André Maranne obituary |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=2021-05-04 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/andre-maranne-actor-in-pink-panther-movies-dies-at-94-1234949284/|title=Andre Maranne, Actor in Pink Panther Movies, Dies at 94|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
 ==Selected filmography==
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 *''[[Port Afrique]]'' (1956) as Police Officer
 *''[[Loser Takes All (film)|Loser Takes All]]'' (1956) as Bar Waiter (uncredited)
-*''Rogue's Yarn'' (1957) as French Fisherman (uncredited)
+*''[[Rogue's Yarn]]'' (1957) as French Fisherman (uncredited)
 *''[[The Birthday Present]]'' (1957) as French Customs Officer (uncredited)
 *''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'' (1958) as Garage Man
 *''[[Law and Disorder (1958 film)|Law and Disorder]]'' (1958) as Fisherman (uncredited)
 *''[[Harry Black (film)|Harry Black]]'' (1958) as Frenchman
+*''[[The Whole Truth (1958 film)|The Whole Truth]]'' (1958) as Car owner
 *''[[The Square Peg]]'' (1958) as Jean-Claude
 *''[[The Giant Behemoth]]'' (1959) as French Radio Officer (uncredited)
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 *''[[Come Fly with Me (film)|Come Fly with Me]]'' (1963) as French Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
 *''[[Maniac (1963 film)|Maniac]]'' (1963) as Salon (voice, uncredited)
-*''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]'' (1964) as François
+*''[[A Shot in the Dark (1964 film)|A Shot in the Dark]]'' (1964) as Sgt. François Chevalier
-*''[[the Beauty Jungle]]'' (1964) as Lift Man (uncredited)
+*''[[The Beauty Jungle]]'' (1964) as Lift Man (uncredited)
 *''[[Night Train to Paris]]'' (1964) as Louis Vernay
 *''[[Return from the Ashes]]'' (1965) as 2nd Detective (voice, uncredited)
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 *''[[Battle of Britain (film)|Battle of Britain]]'' (1969) as French Army Signals NCO
 *''[[Darling Lili]]'' (1970) as Lt. Liggett
-*''[[And Soon the Darkness]]'' (1970) as Radio DJ (voice, uncredited)
+*''[[And Soon the Darkness (1970 film)|And Soon the Darkness]]'' (1970) as Radio DJ (voice, uncredited)
+*''[[The Guardians (British TV series)|The Guardians]]'' (1971) as Felicien de Bastion
 *''[[Our Miss Fred]]'' (1972) as French Resistance Fighter
 *''[[Bequest to the Nation (film)|Bequest to the Nation]]'' (1973) as Adm. Villenueuve
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 [[Category:20th-century French male actors]]
-[[Category:French expatriates in the United Kingdom]]
+[[Category:French emigrants to England]]
 [[Category:French male film actors]]
 [[Category:French male television actors]]

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