Claude Piéplu

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Claude Piéplu at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
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Claude Léon Auguste Piéplu (born May 9, 1923 in Paris , † May 24, 2006 there ) was a French actor .

Life

Piéplu took acting lessons as a teenager. After several theater roles, his film career began in 1956 with the comedy Adorables demons by Maurice Cloche . He was the wise druid Miraculix in Claude Zidi's Asterix and Obelix versus Caesar , the Colonel in Luis Buñuels The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, and the small town mayor Paul Delamare in Claude Chabrol's Bloody Wedding .

This was followed by numerous, mostly comical roles in films such as Adel protects against folly not by Yves Robert and The adventures of Rabbi Jakob by Gérard Oury . As a character actor, he shone in the celibate drama The Abbé and the Love of Denys de La Patellière . In it he played as Ancely the priestly colleague of Jean Rastaud ( Robert Hossein ), whom he and his girlfriend ( Claude Jade ) talked into his conscience, but then turned to communism himself . In France, Piéplu was also known as the spokesman for the animated series Shadoks .

Piéplu played in around 40 films and appeared in 175 roles on the theater stage. Politically, he was committed to disarmament until the end . Piéplu died at the age of 83.

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SURNAME Piéplu, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piéplu, Claude Léon Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2006
Place of death Paris