Gérard Hérold

Gérard Hérold

Born: September 10, 1939
Died: August 19, 1993
in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
Gérard Hérold (Mulhouse, 10 September 1939 - Paris, 19 August 1993) was a French actor, appearing in several films, TV series and on theatre.

Gérard Hérold was born in Alsace in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) on 10 September 1939. He studied acting at the School of Dramatic Art in Strasbourg. In Paris, he was able to complete his artistic training by working with actor and director Antoine Vitez and also Gérard Vergez.

He started performing in 1967 in the soap opera La vie begins at midnight in the role of 'Roland Sénéchal' alongside Geneviève Fontanel. In 1973, he played the hero in Les Fraises d'automne and King Alphonse V in the soap opera Le Secret des Flamands with Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Claude Dauphin. Édouard Molinaro then hired him in 1975 for the role of 'Delorme' in his film The Pink Phone co-starring with Mireille Darc, then by Michel Drach for Tell Me About Love (Parlez-moi d'amour), Pierre Granier-Deferre for Farewell, Chicken co-starring with Lino Ventura and José Giovanni and then in 1976 for Comme a Boomerang with Alain Delon.

In 1977, Philippe Monnier gave Gerard Hérold the role of 'Bill' alongside Claude Brasseur in Monsieur Papa and then director Robert Lamoureux gave him the role of 'Commander Gilles' in The Seventh Company in the Moonlight in 1977. Other roles in 'Death of a Rotten' with Alain Delon and the interpretation of Alain Valdez in 2 of Molinaro's films with Marie-Hélène Breillat, 'Claudine goes away' and 'Claudine en ménage'.

In the 1980s, Alain Delon hired him for his films For the Skin of a Cop and The Battant. In the German series Lindenstraße by Hans W. Geißendörfer, Gérard Hérold performed the role of 'Frédéric de Pasquale' and 'Jean-Luc Mourrait', the lover of Tanja Schildknecht (Sybille Waury). His last role was Patrick, in 1991 alongside Gerard Depardieu in My father, the hero as 'Gerard Lauzier'.

He also performed on stage in various plays, including in 1958 at Théâtre National de Strasbourg.

He was married to actress Catherine Navarro and had a daughter named Anne. He died of a heart attack on 19 August 1993.

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

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My Father the Hero
Title: My Father the Hero
Character: Patrick
Released: October 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
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L'Amuse-gueule
Title: L'Amuse-gueule
Released: September 9, 1989
Type: Movie
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Rouget le braconnier
Title: Rouget le braconnier
Character: Ulysse Leblanc
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
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The Defective Detective
Title: The Defective Detective
Character: Jean-Benoît
Released: October 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
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Title: Billet doux
Character: Mathieu Dervaux, le "Comité de l'agence
Released: October 4, 1984
Type: TV
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The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Gérard
Released: August 8, 1984
Type: Movie
In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.
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The Fighter
Title: The Fighter
Character: Sauvat
Released: February 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
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For a Cop's Hide
Title: For a Cop's Hide
Character: Pradier
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
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Madame Claude 2
Title: Madame Claude 2
Character: Max
Released: August 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
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Title: La Traque
Character: Nicolas "Nico" Muller
Released: November 28, 1980
Type: TV
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Jean-Sans-Terre
Title: Jean-Sans-Terre
Character: The florist
Released: September 7, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Petit déjeuner compris
Character: M. Khandar
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: TV
A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
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Ciao, You Guys
Title: Ciao, You Guys
Character: Roberto
Released: June 27, 1979
Type: Movie
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Les marloupins
Title: Les marloupins
Character: Jean-Louis Corbier
Released: January 6, 1979
Type: Movie
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Title: Gaston Phébus
Character: Charles de Navarre
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Claudine
Character: Alain Valdés
Released: April 12, 1978
Type: TV
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Death of a Corrupt Man
Title: Death of a Corrupt Man
Character: Dupaire
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
Title: The Seventh Company Outdoors
Character: Commandant Gilles, résistant recherché
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
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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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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: Bill
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Character: Vaulnet
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
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The French Detective
Title: The French Detective
Character: Inspector Moitrié
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
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The Pink Telephone
Title: The Pink Telephone
Character: M. Jacques Delorme, l'ingénieur conseil, Fielding
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Title: Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Character: Hérault de Séchelles
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
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Title: Le Secret des Flamands
Character: Le roi Alphonse V
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.