Roland Giraud

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-02-14 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Rabat, Morocco

Roland Giraud

Biography

Roland Giraud (born 14 February 1942) is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe, Le Splendid. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers...à lundi. He acquired greater recognition for Papy fait de la résistance, and again, for his appearance in Coline Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin, making him one of the most popular actors of the 1980s. He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in Villeneuve-sur...

Acting

1981

A Business of Men

as Benedetti

2009

Changing Sides

as Adolphe Nicart

2010

The Italian

as Charles Lemonnier

1990

Simple mortel

as L'expert

1986

Vaudeville

as Victor

1987

The Little Coquette

as Jean-Louis

1978

Take It from the Top

as Le psychanalyste

1987

Promised... sworn!

as Jean-Charles

1983

Gramps Is in the Resistance

as Général Herman Spontz

1979

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears

as Director of the bank

1981

Le Maître d'école

as Monsieur Meignant, unionized teacher

1986

Make It Mine

as Loic Mast

2011

Beur sur la ville

as Le préfet Flaubert

1977

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

as Le duc d'Orléans

1983

Outward Signs of Wealth

as Gérard Picard, lessor of Béatrice

2013

The Gilded Cage

as Francis Caillaux

1993

La chambre 108

as Charles Renoir

2000

Great Idea

as Wagner

1987

Cross

as Eli Cantor

1992

Sup de fric

as Jimmy Leroy

1990

Le Provincial

as Bernard Aragnouet

1985

Slices of Life

as Jean, l'astronaute

1965

The Big Swag

as Man waiting on the platform (uncredited)

1999

Santa's Secretary

as Sébastien Roche

2014

Joyeuses Pâques

as Stéphane

1979

Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !

as Autour des phallocrates - L'associé de François

2016

2006

Pas de panique

as Jacques Chambercy

2017

Let It Snow

as Papy André

2010

Le Technicien

as Jean-Pierre, le technicien de surface

1979

French Fried Vacation 2

as Mr. Camus, the cuckold

2008

2002

Impair et père

as Pierre Jouffroy

2018

Tricky Old Dogs

as Antoine

1989

L'Invité surprise

as Jacquemart

1983

My Other Husband

as Mr. Belhomme aka 'Jeff'

2003

Y aura pas école demain

as Antoine Moreau

1967

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

as Fantômas' henchman (uncredited)

1990

Mister Frost

as Raymond Reynhardt

1989

Périgord noir

as Antoine

1981

Le Roi des cons

as L'inspecteur principal Boldec

2000

Les ritaliens

as Moreau

1997

Run for Your Life

as Le ministre

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