Michel Creton
Michel Creton (born August 17, 1942 in Wassy , Haute-Marne , France ) is a French actor.
He became known in the late 1960s with Costa-Gavras ' One Man Too Many and had an ensemble role in Serge Korber's Die kleine Brave . In the 1970s u. a. Claude Sautets The Girl and the Commissioner and Patrice Lecontes The Runabouts . His cameraman Leroy, who is filming in a haunted house, played a major role in Juan Buñuel's Rendezvous on the happy death as early as 1973 . His breakthrough came in 1973 with the title role of the runaway Pierrot in Le Dingue . In Germany, Creton was best known as the legionnaire Boissier in the dumb mercenary film The Glorious (1984) with Jean-Paul Belmondo and as the pimp Pedro in Bertrand Blier's celebrated comedy Abendanzug (1986). Subscribed to supporting roles in the cinema, he is a star on television. On television he was, among other things, the charming thief Maurice in Nicolas Gessner's thieves among themselves . After playing the unemployed François at the side of Claude Jade in Fou comme François (1978), he and Jade were married again in Treize (1981). Creton himself wrote the script for this film; his only work as an author to date.
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: One Man Too Many (Un homme de trop) - Director: Costa-Gavras
- 1967: Who Sings Must Die (L'homme qui trahit la mafia) - Director: Charles Gérard
- 1968: Little Brave (La petite vertu) - Director: Serge Korber
- 1968: Béru and those ladies (Béru et ces dames) - Director: Guy Lefranc
- 1968: Vivre la nuit - Director: Marcel Carné
- 1971: The Girl and the Commissioner (Max et les ferrailleurs) - Director: Claude Sautet
- 1971: La dame de Monsoreau (TV series) - Director: Yannick Andréi
- 1972: Murder remains murder (Un meurtre est un meurtre) - Director: Étienne Périer
- 1973: Rendezvous for a happy death (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse) - directed by Juan Luis Buñuel
- 1973: Der Dingo (Le dingue) - Director: Daniel Daert
- 1974: Man, you can't lose a truck (Impossible… pas français) - Director: Robert Lamoureux
- 1975: Beyond fear (Au-delà de la peur) - Director: Yannick Andréi
- 1976: La fleur des pois (TV) - Director: Raymond Rouleau
- 1977: The Blackmailer (Armaguedon) - Director: Alain Jessua
- 1978: Die Strandflitzer (Les bronzés) - Director: Patrice Leconte
- 1978: Fou comme François - Director: Gérard Chouchan
- 1981: Treize - Director: Patrick Villechaize
- 1981: Psy - directed by Philippe de Broca
- 1981: Brother Martin (Frère Martin) - Director: Jean Delannoy
- 1982: The crime of Pierre Lacaze (Le crime de Pierre Lacaze) (TV) - Director: Jean Delannoy
- 1983: Farewell to Tadjira (Le grand carnaval) - directed by Alexandre Arcady
- 1984: The Glorious (Les morfalous) - Director: Henri Verneuil
- 1985: Thieves among themselves (Le tueur triste) (TV) - Director: Nicolas Gessner
- 1986: Evening suit (Tenue de soirée) - Director: Bertrand Blier
- 1987: Der Profi 2 (Le solitaire) - Director: Jacques Deray
- 1988: The tall blonde on free feet (À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur) - Director: Édouard Molinaro
- 1991: So are the days and the moon (Il ya des jours… et des lunes) - Director: Claude Lelouch
- 1997: Soleil - Directed by Roger Hanin
- 2005: Mis en bouteille au château (TV) - directed by Marion Sarraut
Web links
- Michel Creton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Creton, Michel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 17, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wassy , Haute-Marne department , France |