Gérard Depardieu
French actor Gerard Depardieu was one of the most highly visible character actors in the history of films, though not always for his work. Born in Chateauroux, France in 1948, Depardieu had 4 siblings, and lived with his mother, a homemaker, and his father who worked in the metal trade and volunteered as a fireman. Depardieu began working early in life, taking a job at a print works when he was just 13. During his adolescence he got into petty crime and was at one point put on probation. Depardieu left his hometown for Paris when he was 16 years old and immediately began acting in a comedy theatre known as Café de la Gare. He also studied dance during this period. Depardieu's big break came in 1974 when he played Jean-Claude in the film "Les Valseuses" (1974). Early in his career he also appeared in director Bernardo Bertolucci's movie "1900" (1976) and "The Last Metro" (1980), directed by Francois Truffaut. He appeared in several movies that made a splash overseas, including "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1990), for which he won a Cesar Award for Best Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award. Depardieu did a number of American movies following this international breakthrough success, including "Green Card" (1990), "Hamlet" (1996) and "My Father the Hero" (1994). In the 2000s and the 2010s Depardieu appeared in several stage productions in Europe and the United Kingdom. Depardieu's personal life had complications including charges of assault, sexual misconduct, and rape and came under fire from the press for urinating into a water bottle while on an airplane taxiing the runway in Paris. Depardieu had three children, one of whom died in 2008 at the age of 37 of pneumonia.
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Gérard Depardieu
Filmography
Movies
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91% |
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Maigret | Jules Maigret (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Umami | Gabriel Carvin (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
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The Villa | Lino Vartan (Character) | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Irréductible | Self | - | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adieu Paris | Michaël (Character) | - | 2021 |
93% |
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Lost Illusions | Dauriat (Character) | $124.6K | 2021 |
100% | No Score Yet | Robust | Georges (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez | Maurice Lefranc (Character) | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Front | Bernard, dit Feu-de-Bois (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Creators: The Past | Master of Faith (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thalasso | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet |
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Fahim, the Little Chess Prince | Sylvain Charpentier (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heavy Duty | Raoul Taupin (Character) | - | 2019 |
75% |
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To the Ends of the World | Saintonge (Character) | - | 2018 |
89% |
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero | Gaston Baptiste (Voice) | $3.1M | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Other Woman | Patrick (Character) | - | 2018 |
25% |
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The Other Woman (Amoureux de ma femme) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
33% |
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You Only Live Once | Duges (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Carbon | Aaron Goldstein (Character) | - | 2017 |
87% |
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Let the Sunshine In | Denis (Character) | $864.6K | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonne pomme | Gérard Morlet (Character) | - | 2017 |
80% |
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Saint-Amour | Jean (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La dream team | Jacques Belloch (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tour de France | Serge Desmoulins (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhapsody | Gérard (Character) | - | 2015 |
73% |
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Valley of Love | Gérard (Character) | $28.3K | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judge and the Ruster | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
77% |
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Welcome to New York | George Devereaux (Character) | - | 2014 |
0% |
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United Passions | Jules Rimet (Character) | - | 2014 |
0% |
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Viktor | Victor Lambert (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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A Farewell to Fools | Ipu (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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The Mark of the Angels - Miserere | Lionel Kasdan (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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Turf | M. Paul (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Obsessive Rhythms | Le Père Villedieu (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet |
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The World Petanque Tour | Jacky Camboulaze (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frank-Étienne Towards Grace | Frank-Étienne Boulard (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia | Obélix (Character) | - | 2012 |
86% |
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Life of Pi | Cook (Character) | $125.0M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mime Gabin | Gérard Depardieu (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le grand soir | Juvénal l'homme qui lit l'avenir dans le verre de saké (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man Who Laughs | Ursus (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Raszputyin | Raspoutine (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Frog | Benjamin (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
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Glenn, the Flying Robot | TV reporter (Character) | - | 2010 |
59% |
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Mammuth | Serge Pilardosse (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Small World | Konrad Lang (Character) | - | 2010 |
85% |
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My Afternoons with Margueritte | Germain Chazes (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Dumas | Alexandre Dumas (Character) | - | 2010 |
84% |
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Trophy Wife | Maurice Babin (Character) | $1.6M | 2010 |
88% |
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Inspector Bellamy | Paul Bellamy (Character) | $105.9K | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Diamond 13 | Mat (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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In the Beginning | Abel (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Trouble at Timpetill | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Disco | Jean-François Civette - dit 'Jean-François Jackson' (Character) | - | 2008 |
82% |
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Mesrine: Part 1 - Death Instinct | Guido (Character) | $551.7K | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Asterix at the Olympic Games | Obélix (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hello Goodbye | Alain Gaash (Character) | - | 2008 |
7% |
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Babylon A.D. | Gorsky (Character) | $22.5M | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Final Arrangements | Hugo (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Maurice Pialat, Love Exists | Narrator | - | 2007 |
74% |
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La Vie en Rose | Louis Leplée (Character) | $10.3M | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Michou d'Auber | Georges (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | L'abbuffata | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
94% |
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The Singer | Alain Moreau (Character) | - | 2006 |
86% |
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Paris, je t'aime | Director | $4.9M | 2006 |
56% |
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Last Holiday | Chef Didier (Character) | $38.4M | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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Je Préfère Qu'on Reste Amis | Serge (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How Much Do You Love Me? | Charly (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cinema Goes to Dinner | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boudu | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet |
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RRRrrrr!!! | Le chef des Cheveux Sales (Character) | - | 2004 |
100% |
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36 | Denis Klein (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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New France | Father Thomas Blondeau (Character) | - | 2004 |
63% |
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Changing Times | Antoine Lavau (Character) | $540.4K | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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La Femme Musketeer | Cardinal Mazarin (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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San Antonio | Lieutenant Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pact of Silence | Joachim (Character) | - | 2003 |
70% |
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Nathalie... | Bernard (Character) | $20.8K | 2003 |
77% |
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Bon Voyage | Jean-Étienne Beaufort (Character) | $2.4M | 2003 |
33% |
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Wanted | Daniel Foray (Character) | - | 2003 |
No Score Yet |
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Shut Up | Quentin (Character) | - | 2003 |
71% |
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Alas for Me (Helas pour moi) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
48% |
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City of Ghosts | Emile (Character) | $325.5K | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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I Am Dina | Jacob (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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A Loving Father |
Leo Shepherd (Character), Producer |
- | 2002 |
25% |
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Between Strangers | Max (Character) | - | 2002 |
86% |
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre | Obélix (Character) | $2.0M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ruy Blas | Don Salluste (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blanche | D'Artagnan (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Napoleon | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Vidocq | Vidocq (Character) | - | 2001 |
66% |
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CQ | Andrezej (Character) | $411.0K | 2001 |
85% |
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The Closet | Félix Santini (Character) | $6.7M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amor, curiosidad, prozak y dudas | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Unfair Competition | Professor Angelo (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mirka | Strix (Character) | - | 2000 |
31% |
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Vatel | François Vatel (Character) | $49.5K | 2000 |
30% |
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102 Dalmatians | Le Pelt (Character) | $66.9M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Envy of the Gods | Bernard (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Actors | Self | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tutto l'amore che c'è | Molotov (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Balzac | Honoré de Balzac (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Asterix & Obelix vs. Caesar | Obélix (Character) | $2.1M | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Balzac: A Life of Passion | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
73% |
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The Bridge |
Georges (Character), Director, Producer |
$136.7K | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
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Notes of Love | Avv. Levi (Character) | - | 1998 |
32% |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Porthos (Character) | $57.0M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Bimboland | Laurent Gaspard (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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The Man in the Iron Mask | Porthos (Character) | - | 1998 |
66% |
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She's So Lovely | Executive Producer | $7.3M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | XXL | Jean Bourdalou (Character) | - | 1997 |
41% |
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Bogus | Bogus (Character) | $4.3M | 1996 |
50% |
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Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent | Ossipon (Character) | $70.4K | 1996 |
82% |
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Unhook the Stars | Big Tommy (as Gerard Depardieu) (Character) | $285.5K | 1996 |
95% |
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Hamlet | Reynaldo (Character) | $4.4M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Plus Beau Metier du Monde | Laurent Monier (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Job in the World | Laurent Monier (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Machine | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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Guardian Angels |
Antoine Carco/ |
- | 1995 |
63% |
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The Horseman on the Roof | Commissaire de Police à Manosque (uncredited) (Character) | $1.9M | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anges Gardiens | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Le garçu | Gerard (Character) | - | 1995 |
20% |
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My Father, the Hero | Andre (Character) | $25.3M | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Elisa | Jacques "Lébovitch" Desmoulin (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Machine | Dr. Marc Lacroix (Character) | - | 1994 |
80% |
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A Pure Formality | Onoff (Character) | - | 1994 |
83% |
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Colonel Chabert | Chabert (Character) | - | 1994 |
75% |
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Germinal | Toussaint Maheu (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | Self | - | 1993 |
32% |
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1492: Conquest of Paradise | Christopher Columbus (Character) | $6.5M | 1992 |
No Score Yet |
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Oh, Woe Is Me | Simon Donnadieu (Character) | - | 1992 |
100% |
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The Stranger | Executive Producer | - | 1991 |
89% |
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Uranus | Léopold Lajeunesse (Character) | $17.7K | 1991 |
91% |
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All the Mornings of the World | Marin Marais (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mon père, ce héros | André Arnel (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Thanks for Life | Doctor Marc Antoine Worms (Character) | - | 1991 |
100% |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Cyrano De Bergerac (Character) | $1.5M | 1990 |
59% |
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Green Card | Georges Faure (Character) | $29.8M | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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The Branches of the Tree | Producer | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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I Want to Go Home | Christian Gauthier (Character) | - | 1989 |
60% |
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Too Beautiful for You | Bernard Barthélémy (Character) | $36.2K | 1989 |
91% |
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Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin (Character) | $22.0K | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Strange Place to Meet | Charles (Character) | - | 1988 |
78% |
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Under Satan's Sun | Donissan (Character) | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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Fugitives | Jean Lucas (Character) | - | 1986 |
83% |
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Menage | Bob (Character) | - | 1986 |
91% |
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Jean de Florette | Jean de Florette (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Police | Louis Vincent Mangin (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Woman or Two | Julien Chayssac (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Fort Saganne | Charles Saganne (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Le Tartuffe |
Tartuffe (Character), Director |
- | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Right Bank, Left Bank | Paul Senanques (Character) | - | 1984 |
91% |
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The Wounded Man | Unknown (Character) | - | 1983 |
20% |
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The Moon in the Gutter | Gérard Delmas (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Les compères | Jean Lucas (Character) | - | 1983 |
100% |
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The Return of Martin Guerre | Arnaud de Tihl (Character) | $16.2K | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goat | Campana (Character) | - | 1982 |
85% |
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Danton | Danton (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Brother |
Gérard Berger/ |
- | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Choice of Arms | Mickey (Character) | - | 1981 |
50% |
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The Goat | Campana (Character) | - | 1981 |
85% |
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The Woman Next Door | Bernard Coudray (Character) | - | 1981 |
88% |
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Loulou | Loulou (Character) | - | 1980 |
88% |
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The Last Metro | Bernard Granger (Character) | - | 1980 |
86% |
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Mon Oncle d'Amerique | René Ragueneau (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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I Love You All | Patrick (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hurricane Rosy | Raoul Lamarre (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Inspector Blunder | Roger Morzini (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Buffet Froid | Alphonse Tram (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bottleneck | Franco (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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The Dogs | Unknown (Character) | - | 1979 |
83% |
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Raoul (Character) | - | 1978 |
60% |
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Bye Bye Monkey | Gerard Lafayette (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le sucre | Unknown (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Left-Handed Woman | der Mann mit dem T-Shirt (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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This Sweet Sickness | David Martinaud (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baxter, Vera Baxter | Unknown (Character) | - | 1977 |
90% |
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I Love You, I Don't | Le paysan au cheval (Character) | - | 1976 |
52% |
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1900 | Olmo Dalco (as Gerard Depardieu) (Character) | $66.1K | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Barocco | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wonderful Crook | Pierre (Character) | - | 1976 |
60% |
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The Last Woman | Gerard (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rene the Cane | René Bornier (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cinema According to Bertolucci | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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The Truck | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
88% |
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Mistress | Olivier (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7 Deaths by Prescription | Doctor Jean-Pierre Berg (Character) | - | 1975 |
85% |
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Stavisky | Le jeune inventeur (Character) | $12.0K | 1974 |
71% |
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Going Places | Jean-Claude (Character) | - | 1974 |
88% |
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Vincent, Francois, Paul... and the Others | Jean Lavallee (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Getting It Up | Jean-Claude (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Two Men in Town | un jeune truand (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rough Day for the Queen | Fabien (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Holes |
Le facteur / |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nathalie Granger | Unknown (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le viager | Victor (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Scoumoune |
Un homme de main/ |
- | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Few Hours of Sunlight | Pierre le frère de Nathalie (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry of the Cormoran | Henri (Character) | - | 1971 |
TV
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33% | 64% | Marseille | Robert Taro (Character) | 2016 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bon Appetit! Gerard Depardieu's Europe | Host | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show |
Unknown (Guest Star), Guest |
2007 2012 |