Thierry Roland

Thierry Roland

Born: August 4, 1937
Died: June 16, 2012
in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Thierry Roland (4 August 1937 – 16 June 2012) was a French sports commentator. He was born in the city of Boulogne-Billancourt, and died in Paris of a cerebrovascular event at age 74.

Roland was France's leading football commentator for fifty-nine years. He began his career as a radio journalist for ORTF when he was just sixteen years old. He then became a television sports journalist at the age of twenty. He commentated on more than 1,000 football matches, including thirteen World Cups (beginning with the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile) and nine UEFA European Championships.

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Movies for Thierry Roland...

Title: La Guerre de la TNT
Character: Self
Released: November 22, 2011
Type: TV
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Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Title: Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0
Title: Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0
Character: Self
Released: June 19, 1996
Type: Movie
C'est une histoire d'amour banale présentée comme un match de foot ordinaire. Ce sont donc Thierry Roland et Jean-Michel Larqué qui commentent, avec leurs mots (d'amour) et leurs noms (d'oiseaux), la première année de vie en couple de Delphine et Yvan, filmés pas à pas, dans leurs ébats et leurs éclats.
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Title: Les Guignols de l'info
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 1988
Type: TV
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The Joint Brothers
Title: The Joint Brothers
Character: Le commentateur du match de foot (voice)
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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A Real Young Girl
Title: A Real Young Girl
Character: TV Commentator (voice) (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with her underwear around her ankles. And, in true teenaged tradition, she spends a lot of time writing in her diary.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: En direct de...
Character: self
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: TV