Discover the latest news from Richard Bohringer, twice César-winning actor, but also musician, director and screenwriter, who will celebrate his 82nd birthday on January 16.
An actor with a legendary voice and outspokenness, adored by his audience, what has become of the actor, director, author and musician Richard Bohringer, who will celebrate his 82nd birthday on January 16?
2023, a month on the boards
From mid-October to mid-November this year, Richard Bohringer performed the play on stage Fifteen roundsa single on stage adapted from his eponymous book published in 2016 and directed by his daughter Romane. Presented at the Théâtre de l’Atelier, this show-reading looked back on his life and his fight, through various scenes and careful, discreet staging.
A relative absence
If Richard Bohringer has become more rare on the screens in recent years after the failure in theaters in 2006 of his production It’s Beautiful a City at Night (14,197 admissions for 77 prints), it’s because cinema French stopped calling him. Perhaps to blame “that damn character” as he called it in 2009, invited by Mireille Dumas, and his outspokenness, which earned him enmities in the profession.
Like a wounded animal, Bohringer rebelled against this rejection of the profession. Suffering from hepatitis C in 2009, he was also weakened and away from the screens for almost two years.
Coadic Guirec / Bestimage With his daughter Romane in 1994
During the 2010s, Jean-Pierre Mocky put him to work, as did Hélène Fillières (Une histoire d’amour), Philippe Lefebvre (Une nuit) and Angelina Jolie (Vue sur mer). Recently, we could see him in La Enfermedad del domingo and L’Amour flou (2018), Place des victories (2019), They were 10 (2020), The Heroics (2021) and Syndrome E (2022).
At the same time, the actor also wrote several books, some of which are autobiographical.
Debuts on stage and two Cesars
In 1966 and 67, he made his stage debut with two plays of which he was the author, Zorglub And The Giraffes. His first role in the cinema in La Maison, a film directed by Michel Simon. He obtained his first main role with L’Italien des roses, then moved on to supporting roles, from pawn in Les Sous-doués to cowardly husband then blackmailer in I Married a Shadow.
After a César for best supporting actor for L’Addition, he delivered a remarkable performance in Péril en la domicile. A few years later, in 1988, he was recognized with a César for Best Actor for his character of Pelo in Le Grand chemin. He also plays the lead role in the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
Alternating song, theater and cinema, we find him in A wonderful era… by Gérard Jugnot (1991), but also Tango (1993) by Patrice Leconte and La Vérité si je mens! (1997) by Thomas Gilou.
Today, 57 years after his debut on the stage, he remains a lover of life, and one of the unique faces and voices of French cinema.