Raymond Gérôme

Raymond Gérôme

Born: May 17, 1920
Died: February 3, 2002
in Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium
Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor.

Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.

In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde.

Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas.

Source: Article "Raymond Gérôme" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Title: Original Sin
Character: Jean-Philippe Etienne
Released: March 20, 1997
Type: TV
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
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Lulu, roi de France
Title: Lulu, roi de France
Character: Baron de Vaux
Released: December 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.
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L'Opération Corned Beef
Title: L'Opération Corned Beef
Character: Ghislain Chauffereau, beau-père de Jean-Jacques
Released: February 6, 1991
Type: Movie
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
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The French Revolution
Title: The French Revolution
Character: Jacques Necker
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Title: Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Character: chief inspector Cazalières
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Les avocats du diable
Title: Les avocats du diable
Character: Maître Jules Corvisart
Released: May 19, 1981
Type: Movie
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Title: L'Exercice du pouvoir
Character: Georges Argand
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
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Dear Inspector
Title: Dear Inspector
Character: Head of Criminal Division
Released: January 18, 1978
Type: Movie
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
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Animal
Title: Animal
Character: Le comte de Saint-Prix
Released: October 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Title: Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Character: Lord Henry Wotton
Released: July 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Basil Hallward is a mediocre painter. His exhibitions owe their success to his social position and nothing more. But one day Basil meets Dorian Gray, symbol of youth and a certain beauty.
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La Femme de paille
Title: La Femme de paille
Character: Anton Korff
Released: December 3, 1976
Type: Movie
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Title: Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character: Vigerie
Released: November 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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Divine
Title: Divine
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in the game and ventures into an intrigue where simulation and sincerity are dangerously confused.
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Le chien des Baskerville
Title: Le chien des Baskerville
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Released: October 3, 1974
Type: Movie
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One Morning in June 1940
Title: One Morning in June 1940
Character: Le colonel
Released: June 29, 1974
Type: Movie
18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
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Title: Le Secret des Flamands
Character: Palestrino Cavalieri
Released: January 3, 1974
Type: TV
Inspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.
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The Magnificent One
Title: The Magnificent One
Character: Général Pontaubert
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
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Un ange au paradis
Title: Un ange au paradis
Character: Basset
Released: October 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Title: A Slightly Pregnant Man
Character: Dr Chaumont de Latour
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Flavigny
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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The Conspiracy
Title: The Conspiracy
Character: Vignaud
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
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Big Deal
Title: Big Deal
Character: Genève
Released: March 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
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Travels with My Aunt
Title: Travels with My Aunt
Character: Mario
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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The Deadly Trap
Title: The Deadly Trap
Character: Commissaire Chameille
Released: June 9, 1971
Type: Movie
An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Céleste
Title: Céleste
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
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Dix petits nègres
Title: Dix petits nègres
Character: Malgrave
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Tropic of Cancer
Title: Tropic of Cancer
Character: M. Le Censeur
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Expat American writer Henry Miller hustles his way through Paris in a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Title: Under the Sign of the Bull
Character: Jérôme Laprade, le beau-frère et financier d'Albert
Released: March 28, 1969
Type: Movie
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Le commissaire
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
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La Toile d'araignée
Title: La Toile d'araignée
Character: Lord, l'inspecteur de police
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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Lagardère
Title: Lagardère
Character: Philippe d'Orléans
Released: April 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen years pass. Lagardère has raised Aurore as his own, but her mother seeks her out and has her abducted by her men. With the help of two friends, Lagardère rescues the girl and confronts her kidnappers.
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A Little Virtuous
Title: A Little Virtuous
Character: Maxime Kerman
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Carlo Werhoff
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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The Night of the Generals
Title: The Night of the Generals
Character: Colonel
Released: January 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Maloine
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Monseigneur Lluegos
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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The Other Truth
Title: The Other Truth
Released: April 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
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Tell Me Whom to Kill
Title: Tell Me Whom to Kill
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot.
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Le mari ne compte pas
Title: Le mari ne compte pas
Character: Édouard, ami de Léon
Released: April 2, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Pimentel
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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The Denunciation
Title: The Denunciation
Character: Pierre Malet
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Title: The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Character: Le général Vrovkine
Released: December 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Title: Napoléon II, the Eagle
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Jimmy
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
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The Greengage Summer
Title: The Greengage Summer
Character: Renard
Released: May 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
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Princess of Cleves
Title: Princess of Cleves
Released: March 22, 1961
Type: Movie
When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.
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The French Game
Title: The French Game
Character: Pierre
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.
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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Title: Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Character: Le Commissaire
Released: May 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
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Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Title: Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. She's not insensitive to the charms of M. Paul, a false kingpin who is in fact a son of a good family and a thrill-seeker. Planning a heist at the home of one of Paul's snobbish friends, she arrests the real Sam O'Connor, an escaped convict, with the help of her father. Then she and Paul confess their love for each other.
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Young Girls Beware
Title: Young Girls Beware
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
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Élisa
Title: Élisa
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
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Title: Plaisir du théâtre
Character: Édouard, ami de Léon
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: TV