Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defeu

Pierre Richard is a French comedian who fans refer to as "tall blond" after the title of the film that first glorified the performer. For the Russian audience, the artist has remained the same symbol of France for many years, like the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame de Paris. Richard has a unique charm and artistic magnetism that make the audience watch his performance on the screen.

Sometimes it is useful to act contrary to parents, because if Pierre Richard followed their advice and became an industrialist, the world would have lost a talented actor and comedian. On August 16, 1934, a son was born into the family of a major French industrialist. The descendant of an aristocratic family received a complex name from birth - his parents named him Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold Defey. My father had two passions in life - beautiful women and horse racing. Already in his youth, he lost a multimillion-dollar fortune on the run and sent his wife and son to his father's estate.

Young Pierre Richard, future famous French actor

Pierre was still a child when his parents divorced. The boy was sent to a boarding school where the children of miners and peasants studied. Growing up, Richard recalled how on Mondays the driver brought him to school in a luxury limousine, this went on for 8 years. 5 days a week, the boy lived at a boarding house, he was forced to communicate with children from poor families. Classmates did not perceive the aristocrat, kept aloof. To win sympathy, Richard put on a clown mask, grimaces and jokes.

During that period of his life, Pierre learned the truth: if they laugh at you, then they will not hate and beat you. Teachers scolded Pierre for his antics, often reminded him of his noble birth. The actor says that inside him there was a chronic confrontation between two personalities - an aristocrat and an ordinary person. The maternal grandfather served as a sailor, only he supported his grandson's acting endeavors.

Pierre communicated with his peers only at school - outside of her games with commoners were prohibited. The actor says that his youth was held under house arrest. The teenager's only entertainment was the home performances in which Richard Jr. quoted Cyrano de Bergerac.

When Pierre was 12 years old, his grandfather died. Before his death, the old man said that his grandson was the only one of the family who would achieve everything in life, which predicted Pierre Richard's career as an actor. By the age of 18, the guy knew for sure that he would enter theater courses, but his father was against this idea and insisted that his son become an industrialist. Then Pierre ran away from home, breaking the connection with his parents.

The young man came to Paris and went to acting classes, but he was not accepted, citing his unattractive appearance for the profession. Richard did not give up and made sure that he was enrolled in the drama courses of Charles Dyullen. After completing the courses, the actor worked part-time in cabarets, music halls, and on stage.

In a duet with pop artist Victor Lanu, he took part in concerts that took place on the cabaret stage in the Latin Quarter. Pierre himself invented the plots of the comedy sketches. At the same time, the image of an absent-minded modest was born, whose life is filled with ridiculous situations. Pierre got into big cinema only at the age of 33.

A creative biography in cinema began in 1967 with work in the comedy "The Idiot in Paris". It was in this film that the actor appeared before the audience in the previously found image of an absurd eccentric. In 1968 Pierre Richard starred in the film Blessed Alexander. The meeting with the director of this film, Yves Robber, became a landmark for the actor. In 1972, he invited Richard to play the lead role in the comedy "Tall Blonde in a Black Boot." This film became a classic of cinema, and the audience learned about Richard's talent.

In 1970, Richard made his directorial debut with the comedy Scattered. The main character Pierre Malaquet, also played by Pierre, works for an advertising agency. A year later, Richard's second work as director, screenwriter and actor followed - "The Misfortune of Alfred", a film about a man who did not manage to commit suicide.

In 1974, the sequel to the comedy "The Return of the Tall Blond" was released, which enjoyed no less success. After another 2 years, Pierre Richard starred in the film "Toy", after which he woke up world famous. The main character of the comedy, the boy Eric, was played by the young performer Fabrice Greco, who later built an acting career. It is interesting that the soundtrack for this picture was written by the composer Vladimir Kosma, who is the author of the music from many films with the participation of Pierre Richard.

In 1978, Pierre Richard released the picture "I am timid, but I am being treated" about a young man who is embarrassed to make acquaintance with a girl he likes. In the same year, the shooting of the comedy "The Escape" ends, where the actor got the role of the lawyer of the escaped criminal Golara (Victor Lanu). The situation was aggravated by the fact that the lawyer was accused of complicity, and now Richard's hero is forced to hide with the convict.

In 1980, the comedy "It's not me, it's him!" Followed, in which Pierre was reincarnated as a "literary negro". Soon the film "Umbrella Stab" was released, where its hero, an aspiring actor, mistakenly signs a contract with a mafia, thinking that he is a film producer.

In 1981, the artist starred in the film "Unlucky" with Gerard Depardieu, this work was the beginning of their popular tandem. In the future, they replenished the joint filmography with the popular comedies "Daddies" and "Runaways". It was Pierre Richard's golden age.

In 1984, Yves Robber again invited Richard to his project called Gemini. This time, the actor played two roles at once - Matthias and the fictional brother Matthieu, who meet with sisters, heiresses of a large fortune. In 1988, the artist's filmography was replenished with two films - "To the Left of the Elevator", where Richard reincarnated as an artist, and "The Nail Eater", in which the French chansonnier Charles Aznavour became the comedian's partner.

In the first half of the 90s, with the participation of Pierre Richard, the films "Dreaming is not harmful", "Psychos in the wild", "Marital love" were released. In 1996, the actor appeared in the film by Georgian director Nana Dzhorzhadze "A Thousand and One Recipes for a Culinary in Love". Richard received the prize of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for her, and the film was nominated for an Oscar.

In 2000, Pierre Richard became the main character in the film Without a Family, in which he played a wandering artist. In 2003, the actor tried on the image of Robinson Crusoe in an adventure film by producer Claude Léger. In a modern interpretation, the main character is the owner of his own business, who was dropped off by rebellious workers on a desert island. A year later, the artist gets a dramatic role in the film "When we are gone." In 2006, Richard accepted an invitation from his Russian colleagues to play in the comedy series Parisians.

Another work of the actor is the film Agafya, filmed in 2015 in France. Almost 3 decades later, Richard again played in a duet with Gerard Depardieu. Rarely appearing on the screen these years, the actor played a lot on stage. With theatrical performances, he traveled half the world, including the capital of Russia. In an interview, Pierre emphasized that he fell in love with Russian open spaces. At one time he visited the Far East, the Urals, Murmansk and the Volga.

In 2017, the premiere of the comedy "Miracles in Paris" took place, in which it was about the disappearance of the Parisian grandmother of the heroine Fiona (Fiona Gordon). Striving to find a relative, the girl meets the love of life of Dominic (Dominic Abel). Pierre Richard played the role of the eccentric old man Duncan.

In the melodrama "Mr. Stein Goes Online" the comedian got the main role of an elderly romantic who lost the meaning of life after the death of his wife. To get the father out of depression, the daughter buys him a computer. On social networks, Richard's hero finds a new love. The actor himself admitted that he tried to use Facebook for communication, but eventually abandoned the idea. But the star mastered the WhatsApp application, with which he still communicates with his family today.

Another picture of 2017 release, in the creation of which the master participated, is the family comedy "Baby Spiru". In the film, Pierre Richard appeared as the grandfather of a boy whom his relatives want to send to a specialized boarding house, but Spiru himself does not intend to leave his beloved school.

Pierre Richard willingly talks about himself, but he always takes the topic of women out of the discussion. It is known that for a long time the actor was an exemplary husband and father. The first wife Daniel Minazzoli, a ballerina, gave birth to the actor two sons: Olivier Defe, who later became a saxophonist, and Christophe Defe, who received the specialty of a double bass player.

At some point, Richard abruptly changed his personal life. After the divorce, the actor met with several young ladies, although he himself did not comment on the rumors. He was credited with having a relationship with actress Muriel Dubrule and a Moroccan model named Aisha. As Pierre later admitted, he found an approach to women thanks to his sense of humor and talent as a storyteller.

For many years, Pierre's romance with the Brazilian model Saila Lacerda, who is 25 years younger than the master, has been going on, which is completely invisible from the joint photos. As the artist recalls, it was love at first sight, he long sought the location of his beloved. Sale had no idea who she was talking to: in Brazil, European cinema is practically unknown, besides, the language barrier interfered: both lovers did not know each other's language. After a long period of courtship, the beauty gave up: she filed for divorce from her husband-photographer and went to Europe after Pierre.

Richard says that he is lazy, and this is incompatible with work, so he treats the acting profession as fun. Another hobby is winemaking, which the actor is engaged in on an estate in France.

Richard does not like new clothes, preferring worn clothes and worn out shoes. The actor is not attracted to jewelry and other luxury items. But Pierre Richard loves traveling, fishing, tennis and car racing. He says that he was born with an entrepreneurial acumen, so he achieves goals, even if you have to "walk over corpses to them."

Now the actor still maintains an excellent professional form and appears on the French screen. The performer believes that the energy and love of life were passed on to him from his mother, who in her 80s loved to get on the wheel of a sports car herself. Pierre finds inspiration in communicating with young people, so he often agrees to shoot in projects where young comedians play.

In 2018, Richard's participation in the comedy You Can't Run From Your Family, in which he played alongside Danny Boone, Lin Reno, Laurence Arne. Together with Sophie Marceau, the actor appeared in the film "Madame Mills, the Perfect Neighbor."

In the near future, filming of the film "Gloomy Desert" should begin, where the participation of not only the famous artist, but also the French pop star Patricia Kaas is announced.

1967 - "Idiot in Paris" 1972 - "Tall blond in a black boot" 1976 - "Toy" 1978 - "Escape" 1981 - "Unlucky" 1983 - "Daddies" 1984 - "Gemini" 1986 - "Runaways" 1996 - "A Thousand and one recipe for a loving cook "2003 -" Robinson Crusoe "2015 -" Agafia "2017 -" Miracles in Paris "2017 -" Mr. Stein goes online "2018 -" You can't run away from your family "

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