Biography
Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays (originally de Fays, his grandfather changed the spelling for unknown reasons), 16 August 1934 in Valenciennes, Nord) is a popular French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer. Description ab...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Man Who Saw the Bear
2025
as Grégoire
Two men from different generations form an unlikely bond while protecting a runaway circus bear in the French countryside, discovering shared passions...

The Man Who Saw the Bear
2025
Director, Screenplay
Two men from different generations form an unlikely bond while protecting a runaway circus bear in the French countryside, discovering shared passions...

Sailing Home
2024
as Pierre Choveau
Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul is going through a rough patch. Up to his ears in debts, he pulls away from his family. Determined to take his lif...

Fêlés
2024
as Pierre

Two Words as the Key
2023
as Michel
Stories about parent-child relationships, fate, and the unknown forces that guide our steps unfold across several continents. A Japanese businessman w...
Sous les nénuphars
2023
as Claude Monet

Jeanne du Barry
2023
as Le Duc de Richelieu
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Loui...

La Plus belle pour aller danser
2023
as Albert
Marie-Luce Bison, 14 years old, is raised by her father in a cheerful boarding house for seniors where he is the director. It is soon the costume part...

Umami
2023
as Rufus
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defea...

Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
2023
as Panoramix
Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.

Epic Tails
2023
as Zeus (voice)
An adventurous mouse sets off to battle dangerous creatures in Ancient Greece, including Poseidon.

A Christmas Story
2022
as Himself
Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday sp...

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022
as Self
Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, k...

Tricky Old Dogs 2
2022
as Pierrot
To come to the aid of migrants he was hiding in Paris, Pierrot takes them to the South-West to Antoine, who himself is already welcoming Mimile, in th...

Je t'aime, filme-moi !
2022
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads ...

The Angel in the Wall
2021
as Pietro
Under threat of eviction, an old man hides himself inside his flat, ready for anything - except the cruel twist of fate that will force him to reasses...

Rabbit's Paw
2021
In Petersburg during perestroika there are two people, Alya and Nika. She is a little funny Petersburg intellectual; he is a French architect. They ca...

Brutus vs Cesar
2020
as Alorix
Faced with the tyranny of Caesar who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him.

À cause des filles…?
2019
as Orphée
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips ...

Tricky Old Dogs
2018
as Pierrot
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.

Pierre Richard, le discret
2018
as Himself
A documentary directed by Gregory Monro.

Além do Homem
2018
as Marcel Lefavre
Brazilian writer Alberto Luppo has lived in Paris for years and does not want to return to his home country. But when a French anthropologist disappea...

On refait les grands duos d'humour
2018
as Self

Mme Mills, une voisine si parfaite
2018
as Mrs. Mills / Léonard
Hélène leads a sad life as editor of cheesy romance novels. But one day, when the old and delightfully eccentric American Mrs. Mills moves into the ap...

Family Is Family
2018
as Joseph Duquesne, Valentine's father
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal mercha...

Little Spirou
2017
as Grand Papy
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at t...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
Thanks
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr. Stein Goes Online
2017
as Pierre Stein
Pierre, widowed and retired, has not been out of his house for two years. He discovers the joys of the internet thanks to Alex, a young man hired by h...

Lost in Paris
2017
as Duncan
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have a...

L'insonne ouverture
2016
Desdemona, a troubled DJ, hosts a late-night radio show called “L'insonne”. Her listeners are often strange creatures of the night who share their sto...
Dialogue avec Pierre Richard
2016
as Himself
Agafia
2015
as Dimitri
A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.

La Folle Histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons
2015
as Self

Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
2015
as Self

Le Vendredi 13 de Pierre Richard
2014
as Lui même
Surrounded by his friends and an orchestra of fifteen musicians, Pierre Richard made his first Olympia in 2014, the year of his 80th birthday. It offe...

Le Vendredi 13 de Pierre Richard
2014
Writer
Surrounded by his friends and an orchestra of fifteen musicians, Pierre Richard made his first Olympia in 2014, the year of his 80th birthday. It offe...

Paper Souls
2013
as Victor
A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.

The Little Blond Boy with a White Sheep
2013
as La grand-mère
It's school time again. During a writing test, Pierre escapes his grey school by recalling the happy memories of his holidays spent with his sheep.

Prodavets igrushek
2013
Nicolas Bersen is a Frenchman with Russian roots. He lives in Paris and works as a toy seller. Neither the mother nor the French bride - the daughter ...

Départ immédiat
2012
as Self

Mes héros
2012
as Jean, Jacques' old friend
A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.

Antoine’s four Seasons
2012
as Le grand-père
Ten year-old Anthony has red hair, as did Antonio Vivaldi. For his birthday, his grandfather gives him a book. He would have preferred a video game, b...

All Together
2012
as Albert
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on ...

The Great Restaurant
2010
as Le père de Pierre
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.

Eleanor's Secret
2009
as Adrien (voice)
Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. N...

Cineman
2009
as Self
A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.

Victor
2009
as Victor
When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.

A Happy Man
2009
as Pierre

King Guillaume
2009
as William Fernand
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to co...

Paris 36
2008
as Max, aka 'Monsieur TSF'
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of ...

Mia and the Migoo
2008
as Pedro, le père de Mia
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mount...

The Snake
2006
as Cendras
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim....

Pierre et fils
2006
as Pierre père

Try Me
2006
as Yves-Marie's father
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."

Le Cactus
2005
as Christian
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurabl...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
as Self
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant ...

Pierre Richard - Détournement de Mémoire
2005
as Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard - Détournement de Mémoire
2005
Writer

Dérives
2005
Short movie

After We're Gone
2004
as Jean-René
The dying aristocrat Jean-René decides to execute one of the treasured desires and invites in the lock theatrical company that its participants have r...

Transit
2004
as Medical examiner

Robinson Crusoe
2003
as Robinson Crusoe
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

The Very Merry Widows
2003
as Maurice Donnay
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. ...

Without Family
2000
as Vitalo Pedrotti
Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is ...

27 Missing Kisses
2000
as Captain
A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill is a teenager who is sent to ...
Scénarios sur la drogue
2000
as Segment "Les mots attendrot"

Droit dans le mur
1997
as Romain
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing ...

Droit dans le mur
1997
Director, Writer
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing ...

A Chef in Love
1996
as Pascal Ichak
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the ea...

L'Amour conjugal
1995
as Squirrat
This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the...

The Chess Game
1994
as Ambroise
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talen...

Loonies at Large
1993
as Bertrand Daumale
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...

Old Rascal
1992
as Charlie
A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure.

One Can Always Dream
1991
as Charles De Boylesve
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.

One Can Always Dream
1991
Director, Writer
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.

Promotion canapé
1990
as L'informateur
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Welcome Aboard!
1990
as The Hitchhiker
A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
1988
as Yann Ducoudray
Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young wom...

Nailcruncher
1988
as Mangeclous
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.

The Fugitives
1986
as François Pignon
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained ro...

Les Rois du gag
1985
as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous television comics, Gaëtan, finds himself in the littl...

Slices of Life
1985
as Dubois - le commandant de bord (uncredited)
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

Dialogue de sourds
1985
as The paraplegic

The Twin
1984
as Matthias Duval / Mathieu Duval
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin ...

The ComDads
1983
as François Pignon
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...

The ComDads
1983
Producer
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...

Pick Up Your Belongings
1983
as Pierre Cohen
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.

La Chèvre
1981
as François Perrin
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detecti...

Umbrella Coup
1980
as Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. H...
Une nuit rêvée pour un poisson banal
1980
as Man who asks for the bill (uncredited)
In an elevator, a group of young people are in conversation...

It's Not Me, It's Him
1980
as Pierre Renard
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and ...

It's Not Me, It's Him
1980
Director, Screenplay
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and ...

Out of It
1978
as Jean-Philippe Duroc, Gaulard's lawyer
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot wh...

Too Shy to Try
1978
as Pierre Renaud
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000...

Too Shy to Try
1978
Director, Screenplay
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000...

The Toy
1976
as François Perrin, journalist
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needin...

The Toy
1976
Producer
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needin...

The Castaways of Turtle Island
1976
as Jean-Arthur
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists ...

The Bottom Line
1976
as François
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine...

The Wild Goose Chase
1975
as Pierre Vidal
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is i...

Trop c'est trop
1975
as Cameo
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They...

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
as François Perrin
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Fra...

I'm Losing My Temper
1974
as Pierre Durois
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actr...

I'm Losing My Temper
1974
Writer
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actr...

A Cloud in the Teeth
1974
as Prévot
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.

Juliette et Juliette
1974
as Bob Rozenec
Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a ...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
as Pierre Gastié-le-Roy
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfa...

I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
1973
Director, Writer
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfa...

The Right of the Maddest
1973
as Le gendarme élève motorisé
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see t...

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
as François Perrin
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identif...

The Troubles of Alfred
1972
as Alfred Dhumonttiey
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Reco...

The Troubles of Alfred
1972
Director, Writer
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Reco...

Distracted
1970
as Pierre Malaquet
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Distracted
1970
Writer, Director
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Perrault 70
1970
Joe and Janny get lost and find themselves in the enchanted universe of Charles Perrault's tales. During their adventures, they will have to help Litt...

Three Men on a Horse
1969
as Painter
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.

Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
1969

The Fighting Cock
1969
as Pierre
A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle...

Woman in Chains
1968
as L'artiste qui a besoin de lumière (uncredited)
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gi...

Very Happy Alexander
1968
as Colibert
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides t...

Idiot in Paris
1967
as Un agent de police
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drun...

The Mad Dog
1966
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Ha...
J'ai les peintres
1966
as Un peintre

Roméos et Jupettes
1966
Three young women seek advice on how to navigate the pressures of dating, men, and socializing.
J'ai les peintres
1966
Screenplay

Skin and Bones
1961
as Pierini
Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his presenc...

The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
as un étudiant peintre (uncredited)
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy fam...
Josephe
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