Interesting facts of life, and a movie about Pierre Richard

• Interesting facts of life, and a movie about Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold DeFeo (fr. Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays).

Career: Actor, Writer, Director, Producer

Height: 1.78 m

Date of Birth: August 16, 1934, 80 years old

Place of Birth: Valenciennes, Nord, France

Genres; Comedy, Drama, Short

Flip father Pierre, playboy and gambler, shortly after the birth of her son, he squandered the state at the races, left his wife and baby in the care of his father - a descendant of one of the feudal families of the north of France.

Pierre grew up in the guest house. It is here that he begins "to acquire a profession, to save his skin" - jokingly remarked Pierre Richard. For eight years, every week brought Pierre to board a limousine. To somehow mitigate the alienation of peers - the sons of peasants and miners Pierre has to amuse them and grimacing.

Upon reaching adulthood, Pierre Richard, went to Paris, to enter the drama courses, which is opposed by his grandfather. This was the reason for the break in relations with the family of the future actor.

He managed to enter the famous drama courses Charles Dullin (fr. Charles Dullin), then he was an intern at the Jean Vilar. However, in the theater he was unlucky; he always gave supporting roles.

together with his friend, Victor Lana (Victor Lanoux), Richard writes short humorous sketches and within a few years, performs with them on stage café theaters, cabarets, and ordinary prestigious music halls. Richard danced well and one of the established actor variety of images - the shy and scattered klutz - it becomes a "calling card" in the movie.

In 1967 he was invited by director Yves Robert (fr. Yves Robert) for the filming of the movie "Alexander the Blessed." Later Richard starred in his famous films about the adventures of a tall blond.

In 1976, Pierre Richard starred in the movie "Toy" directed by Francis Weber (fr. Francis Veber). The film was made at the insistence of Richard. The plot of the film was born fifteen years before the film's release until Weber showed him Richard. As a young journalist, Weber saw in the shop windows of Paris department store pink toddler, wealthy parents who are trying to cater to his every whim. Especially short story was written by the same evening. Richard so enjoyed this story, that he not only agreed to play the lead role, but even undertook to produce this film.

In the 1981 film of the same Weber's "unlucky" was born the famous duo Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu (fr. Gerard Depardieu). This film was a French record of hire gathered in Paris alone more than half a million viewers. and Weber took two more films with these actors: "Papa" and "The Runaways."

In the mid-80s Richard settles on a barge on the river "Seine".

Now he lives in an ordinary Parisian apartment, with its already fourth wife.

In the late 1980s, Pierre Richard founded his company "Fidelina film" engaged in the production and distribution of films, as well as the release of records with songs of Pierre Richard.

In 1996, Richard starred in the Georgian director Nana Jorjadze political comedy farce "A Chef in Love". For his role in this film at the Cannes Film Festival was awarded "Best Actor".

In addition to its own studio, Pierre Richard, on the advice of his friend Gerard Depardieu, has acquired the vineyards in the south of France. Every year they put up for sale a few tens of thousands of bottles of wine, which is exported to Belgium.

In a number of Richard's character in the film name is François Perrin (two - Francois Pignon). Despite the fact that they are people of different professions and biographies.

The first big movie role, Richard was in '33.

In 90 years, Richard is still removed, but the comedy with his participation, not as loud as they were comedies 70's, 80's.

Since 1996, Pierre Richard plays in the theater "Aleph". With the play "Murder in Valparaiso," he visited Ukraine and Siberia.

In recent years, Pierre Richard, became often turn their attention toward the "former Soviet Union". On this occasion, Pierre Richard said: "As it turned out, in Russia, I have much more friends than I thought I like in Russia and Georgia, and indeed throughout the former Soviet Union Oddly enough, I here remember, love.. and waiting for a visit ... "

In the fall of 2001 Pierre Richard came back to Russia. This time he brought a performance of "The Passion According to Richard." Performances featuring great comedian held with great success. A little earlier, Pierre Richard starred in the second Georgian Nana Jorjadze film "27 Missing Kisses". The picture was a success on the Champs Elysees in Paris.

In 2004, Richard received the award for his contribution to the cinema from the Montreal comedy festival "Smile for All" (Just for Laughs).

In 2005, Pierre Richard, was elected president of the jury of the Festival of short films, and in 2006 received the prize "Cesar" from the French Academy. In 2006, he acted in the Russian comedy of eight episodes of "Parisians" in which Richard played the role of a teacher working in a small village near Tambov called Paris.

Pierre Richard been married four times. His first wife, the actor was a dancer in Paris "Grand Opera"; she gave birth to two sons, Pierre. Both are musicians - saxophonist one, the other - kontrabacist.

After the divorce from his first wife, Richard chose girlfriend actress Muriel Dyubryul.

The third wife was Richard Moroccan Aisha (34 years younger than Pierre).

The fourth wife of Richard - Brazilian top model Seila, which the actor affectionately calls "my Brazilian."

At Richard's three granddaughters and one grandson.

Richard - author of several books: "The little blond in a large park" (1989), "Like a fish out of water" (2003), "Post privileges" (2008). Authorship of Pierre Richard also owns several tales for children.

When Pierre Richard was 16 years old, he was passionately in love with Marina Vlady just felt real ecstasy when he saw it on the screen.

Even before the actor became a movie star, an outstanding choreographer Maurice Bejart invited him to his ballet company. On view for 10 minutes Richard on stage in front of him I got up to God knows what, but it was so flexible that Bejar has decided to take it. However, the same day he invited a famous singer Georges Brassens, and that was the reason for the refusal of the actor ballet career.

If it is not rehearsing, eats or sleeps. Often sleeps. Once he even is fired from the theater. According to the play he had to go to sleep, but lay - and fell asleep ... for real! Comrades on the stage screaming, tried to kick, stab, that he finally woke up - but where there !! - he fell asleep dead sleep. Then they told him that never before viewers have not laughed. The sport, which is truly "intoxicating" Pierre Richard - skiing. So far, in his youth, the actor goes on a motorcycle.

Favorite actor dish - truffles, and certainly the only white! It is of Italian cuisine, from French - a simple peasant food - that, according to the actor, from which are fattening.

Some of his quotes:

"Animals never hypocrisy ... Perhaps that is why I wanted to play Sharikov".

"I really appreciate in people sense of humor, because it is often our only weapon against all the filth and injustices of life."

"I live in complete euphoria while filming, and with the age of this feeling does not pass."

"I'm bad to all forms lyubitelschiny in the works"

"I, like Che Guevara, a rebel and a recluse, not an idiot in black boots."

"I dived in all the seas of the planet. I went skiing in the mountains all over the world. I was in Africa and Siberia. It allows me to keep a balance in life, not to focus on himself. It helps to avoid self-centeredness, which suffer from a lot of actors."

"Russian, I really like, but to play the role of Russian could never, not only due to different external data I think the Russian a little bit crazy, all of them too -.. And joy, and pain or they go crazy on. happiness or unhappiness ".