Paul Crauchet

Acting · Born 1920-07-14 in Béziers, Hérault, France

Biography

Paul Crauchet (14 July 1920 – 19 December 2012) was a French actor. As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23. He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the Théâtre National Populaire with Jean Vilar. Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert. It is in The Wise Guys of Robert Enrico in 1965 that he became noticed. He had a very long career during which he worked with many directors, such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray and José Giovanni. In 1983 he starred in Les Bancals. Source: Article "Paul Crauchet"…

Filmography

• The Wonderful Crook as Henri, drunkard
• The Married Couple of the Year Two as Public Prosecutor
• The War Is Over as Roberto
• The Burned Barns as Pierre Cateux
• The Grocer's Son as Le Père Clément
• Le Cercle Rouge as The Receiver
• La Belle Verte as Osam
• The Merry Widow as Gaby
• Zita as Dr. Bernard
• A Cop as Morand