Gérard Caillaud

Gérard Caillaud

Born: April 10, 1946
Died: January 27, 2023
in Poitiers, Vienne, France
Gérard Caillaud (10 April 1946 – 28 January 2023) was a French actor and theatre director.

Born in Poitiers on 10 April 1946, Caillaud studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique until 1971, when he became a resident of the Comédie-Française. He performed many pieces by Molière until his departure in 1978. From 1984 to 1997, he was director of the Théâtre des Mathurins, where he staged plays such as Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz, which won him a Molière Award for Best Director in 1990. On television, he played the role of Capitaine Bonaventure in the series Sœur Thérèse.com.

Gérard Caillaud died on 28 January 2023, at the age of 76.

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Balle perdue
Title: Balle perdue
Character: Leguerno
Released: October 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her house.She commits suicide a few moments later in the bathroom with her service weapon.Antoine swears to himself that he won't say a word about this dirty story and returns home. The next day, driven by curiosity, he decides to return to the scene of the tragedy...surprise, the corpse is no longer there...Antoine is not at the end of his troubles...the next day, he returns to the house and discovers another corpse in the bathtub...little by little, he sinks into a crazy story full of murders...He must hurry to elucidate the murders before it's too late.
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Fanfan
Title: Fanfan
Character: Le père de Laure
Released: June 16, 1993
Type: Movie
After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ends when sex enters into a relationship. Determined to prevent this from happening with his latest love-interest—a sexy young woman named Fanfan (Sophie Marceau)—he decides that platonic love is the solution. Despite the wonderful, romantic, and inventive ways Alexandre finds for them to spend time together, Fanfan is left disappointed by his refusal to make love to her. Their exciting relationship becomes jeopardized by Alexandre's unwillingness to change his new approach to love.
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Les Palmes de M. Schutz
Title: Les Palmes de M. Schutz
Character: Rodolphe Schutz
Released: January 9, 1991
Type: Movie
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
Title: Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: La Belle Anglaise
Character: Le commissaire de police
Released: October 7, 1988
Type: TV
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La Galette du roi
Title: La Galette du roi
Character: Chef at Restaurant
Released: January 29, 1986
Type: Movie
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
Title: Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
Character: Boubouroche - Le vieux monsieur
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Title: Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Character: Boucharon
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Us Two
Title: Us Two
Character: Bliche
Released: May 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.
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The Dogs
Title: The Dogs
Character: Commissioner Laborde
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: Movie
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
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Such a Lovely Town...
Title: Such a Lovely Town...
Character: Larsac
Released: February 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
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Title: Ce diable d'homme
Character: Beaumarchais
Released: May 4, 1978
Type: TV
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Black Journal
Title: Black Journal
Character: Man in Police Station (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
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Lorenzaccio
Title: Lorenzaccio
Character: Niccolini
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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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Dubois
Released: September 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Alceste hates all of humanity, denounces its hypocrisy, cowardice and compromise. But he nevertheless loves Célimène, flirtatious and slanderous. The virtuous thus launches into battles lost in advance which force him to flee.
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The Accuser
Title: The Accuser
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le juge Clément
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Monsieur Teste
Title: Monsieur Teste
Character: Joseph
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
On the terrace of a Parisian café, Paul Valéry observes his neighbor, Monsieur Teste. The two men strike up a conversation. A supporter of "neither god nor master", Mr. Teste engages in a regular introspection, as rigorous as it is passionate, and shares his thoughts with humor.
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La Station Champbaudet
Title: La Station Champbaudet
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies his visits to the widow with the sole aim of getting closer to the beautiful Aglaé. It was without counting on the husband of this one, whose jealousy could well play nasty tricks on the heartthrob of these ladies!
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Doris
Title: Doris
Character: Julien
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: Movie