Claude Giraud

Claude Giraud

Born: February 5, 1936
Died: November 3, 2020
in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Claude Giraud (5 February 1936 in Chamalières – 3 November 2020) was a French actor.

Claude Giraud studied with Tania Balachova at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier; Berthe Bovy and Jean Meyer at the École de la rue Blanche (École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre, ENSATT). In November 1957 he was accepted as a student at CNSAD Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, where he studied with Jean Debucourt and Fernand Ledoux. Upon his graduation he was the first male student to win all three categories during the Concourse (Classical Comedy, Modern Comedy, Tragedy). In 1962 he was the first recipient of the newly created Prix Gérard Philipe. He was engaged at the Comédie Française in 1962 as a pensionnaire. Besides his debut role as Valère in Molière's The Miser, he played Arsace in Corneille's Bérénice, and the narrator in the stage adaptation of André Gide's short story Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (The Return of the Prodigal Son). Disappointed that he was only cast in small roles, he left the Comédie Française after a few months to start his film career. He played the leading role as Capitaine Langlois in François Leterrier's movie adaptation of Jean Giono's novel A King Without Distraction in 1962. He was Oedipus in the film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. He joined the Compagnie Marie Bell to play a US tour in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., and Princeton in October–November 1963. For his presentation of Hippolite in Phèdre and Titus in Bérénice at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, he was awarded the Theater World Award. He played the role of the soldier Georges in Roger Vadim's Circle of Love, a film adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's scandalous play La Ronde (play). Between 1964 and 1966, Claude Giraud played the part of Philippe de Plessis-Bellières beside Michèle Mercier in three Angélique films: Angélique, Marquise des Anges, Marvelous Angelique, and Angelique and the King. He returned to the Comédie Française in 1972 and became the 460th sociétaire in 1976. He left again in 1982 to join Jean-Laurent Cochet's newly created Théâtre Hébertot.

He gained fame in TV series as hero Morgan/Jacques de Saint-Hermine in the adventure series Les Compagnons de Jéhu by Michel Drach adapted from the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Bernard Toublanc-Michel engaged him in 1967 for the role of d'Aulnay in Adolphe ou l'âge tendre. The TV series Les rois maudits, where he played the role of Sir Roger Mortimer, was another huge success. In 1973, he played the fictional Arab revolutionary leader Mohamed Larbi Slimane, who poses as Rabbi Zeiligman in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob with Louis de Funès. In the TV movie Mamie Rose (1976) he played Claude Jade's husband Régis, whose marriage is saved by an au-pair granny played by Gisèle Casadesus.

Other TV series include Mathias Sandorf (1979), in which he played corrupt banker Silas Toronthal, based on Jules Verne's eponymous novel.

He married Catherine Marquand (1943-2012), a fellow acting student at the Conservatoire, in 1963. They had a son, Louis (*1963), and a daughter, Marianne (*1966), who is also an actress and married to French actor and director Jean Martinez. ...

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Le fantôme du lac
Title: Le fantôme du lac
Character: Victor Lanzi
Released: January 20, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Black Angel
Title: The Black Angel
Character: Romain Bousquet
Released: November 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
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Title: Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: Ackmann
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Title: L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Character: Karlsen
Released: February 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
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Coma dépassé
Title: Coma dépassé
Character: Le Docteur Magnien
Released: September 30, 1990
Type: Movie
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La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
Title: La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
Character: Le comte Almaviva
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.
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Title: Molierissimo
Character: Molière
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Ulysses 31
Character: Ulysses (voice)
Released: October 3, 1981
Type: TV
Ulysses and his crew struggle against the divine entities that rule the universe, the ancient gods from Greek mythology.
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Title: Les Fiancées de l'empire
Character: Maxime d'Aurillac
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Sándor Mátyás
Character: Torontál Simon
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: TV
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Le Loup blanc
Title: Le Loup blanc
Character: Hervé de Vaunoy
Released: November 30, 1977
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes to Paris to denounce these abuses.
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Lorenzaccio
Title: Lorenzaccio
Character: Scoroncocolo
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
This stage play from 1977 is adapted from the well-known play "Lorenzaccio" written by French poet and playwright Alfred de Musset. Set in 16th-century Florence, the play revolves around the complex and tormented protagonist Lorenzo, known as Lorenzaccio, who faces inner conflicts as he struggles with his desire for personal freedom and the responsibility he feels towards his city. Between political corruption, morality, and the struggle for justice; the stage blends with historical drama and psychological exploration.
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Mamie Rose
Title: Mamie Rose
Character: Régis
Released: February 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Agathe and Regis have a little boy, Benoît, who is very capricious and sometimes aggressive. The couple, on the verge of divorce, is planning to go on vacation in order to better reflect on their decision. To do this, Agathe and Regis publish an ad in a newspaper: "Young couple seeks au pair grandmother to take care of little boy, 10 years old...". An old lady, Rose, shows up. She arrives with a fish and a bird she can't part with. The first contacts with Benoît are very unpleasant. Not discouraged, she realizes that he is unhappy and that he suffers a lot from feeling unloved in his family.
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Milady
Title: Milady
Character: Grumbach, le banquier
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Rodolphe Boulanger
Released: November 29, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Oil War Will Not Happen
Title: The Oil War Will Not Happen
Character: Toumer
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Directed by Souheil Ben-Barka.
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Mohamed Larbi Slimane / Rabbi Zeiligman
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Lord Roger Mortimer de Wigmore, comte de March
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: TV
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
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Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Character: Cléante
Released: June 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Orgon and his mother swear by Tartuffe, the self-styled devout who lives off them. The other members of the family, scandalized by the clergyman's hold over them, will do anything to expose his hypocrisy. Michel Bouquet plays an almost monstrous Tartuffe, whose only weakness lies in his feelings for Elmire.
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Sortie de secours
Title: Sortie de secours
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
A failed actress sinks into neurosis and mythomania. To give relief to her dismal existence, she engages in all kinds of activities ranging from false testimony to occasional prostitution.
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Phèdre
Title: Phèdre
Character: Hyppolyte
Released: October 16, 1968
Type: Movie
In the absence of her royal husband Theseus, thought to be dead, Phaedra declares her love to Hippolyte, Theseus's son from a previous marriage.
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The Tender Age
Title: The Tender Age
Character: d'Aulnay
Released: June 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a sixteen-millimeter camera and a team of friends, Henri embarks on this adventure, playing the role of Adolphe himself. Despite all the warnings, he lived through the passion and ordeal of the novel's hero, right to the end. Different times and circumstances will not change this.
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Title: Les Compagnons de Jehu
Character: Morgan
Released: September 21, 1966
Type: TV
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Angelique and the King
Title: Angelique and the King
Character: Philippe de Plessis-Bellières
Released: January 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Philippe de Plessis-Bellières
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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Angelique
Title: Angelique
Character: Philippe de Plessis-Bellieres
Released: December 8, 1964
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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Circle of Love
Title: Circle of Love
Character: Georges
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
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A King Without Distraction
Title: A King Without Distraction
Character: le capitaine Langlois
Released: August 30, 1963
Type: Movie
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.