Jean Bastia (21 February 1919 in Bastia, Corsica - 16 February 2005), was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer. [1]
Jean Richard was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities.
Henri René Guieu was a French science fiction writer and ufologist, who published primarily with the pseudonym Jimmy Guieu. He occasionally used other pseudonyms as well, including Claude Vauzière for a young adult series, Jimmy G. Quint for a number of espionage novels, Claude Rostaing for two detective novels and Dominique Verseau for six erotic novels.
Roger Pierre was a French comedian and actor.
Jean Servais was a Belgian film and stage actor. He acted in many 20th century French cinema productions, from the 1930s through the early 1970s.
Alfred Roger Adam was a French stage and film character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles.
Raymond Pellegrin was a French actor.
Gabriel Gobin was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 1990. He was born in Hacquegnies, Belgium and died in Brie-Comte-Robert, France.
Max Elloy was a French film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1967.
Paul Bonifas was a French actor, born in Paris.
Robert Rollis was a French actor. He mainly starred as a film actor, but also appeared in television and also in theatre in the 1950s and early 1960s. Amongst many roles, he starred in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons in 1962.
Charles Bouillaud (1904–1965) was a French actor.
Béatrice Altariba is a French actress who was active between 1956 and 1969.
Jacques Bernard is a French actor. His mother, Josyane, was a motion picture actress active from the end of the 1920s until the beginning of sound film. He appeared in Les Enfants terribles (1950) by Jean-Pierre Melville and Darling Caroline (1951). He was born in Paris.
Jean Bernard-Luc, real name Lucien Boudousse, was a 20th-century French screenwriter and dialoguist.
Jacques Emmanuel, real name Jacques Emmanuel Welfling, was a French actor, screenwriter and librettist.
Albert Michel (1909–1981) was a French stage, film and television actor.
Nina Myral, stage name of Eugénie, Hortense Gruel, was a 20th-century French actress, dancer and singer.
Jack Ary was a French film and television actor.
Cinédis was a French film distribution company active from the 1930s to the 1960s, releasing a mixture of French films and dubbed imports from abroad. The company enjoyed its strongest years during the 1950s, when French audience numbers reached their peak. It handled a number of co-productions between France and Italy. The artist René Ferracci designed many of the company's posters.
The Gendarme of Champignol is a 1959 comedy film directed by Jean Bastia and starring Jean Richard, Roger Pierre and Noël Roquevert. It also featured Véronique Zuber, the 1955 Miss France winner. Location shooting took place around Val-d'Oise. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Mandaroux. It is a sequel to the 1957 film Nous autres à Champignol and was followed by Le caïd de Champignol a third and final entry in the series in 1966.