Raymond Gérôme
Biography
Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor.
Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.
In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde.
Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas.
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Filmography
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
1999
as Self
Lulu, roi de France
1995
as Baron de Vaux
Money
1991
as Morf
L'Opération Corned Beef
1991
as Ghislain Chauffereau, beau-père de Jean-Jacques
The French Revolution
1989
as Jacques Necker
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
1988
as chief inspector Cazalières
Les Avocats du Diable
1981
as Maître Jules Corvisart
L'Exercice du pouvoir
1978
as Georges Argand
Dear Inspector
1978
as Head of Criminal Division
Animal
1977
as Le comte de Saint-Prix
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
1977
as Lord Henry Wotton
La Femme de paille
1976
as Anton Korff
Le Gentleman des Antipodes
1976
as Vigerie
Divine
1975
Le chien des Baskerville
1974
as Sherlock Holmes
One Morning in June 1940
1974
as Colonel
The Magnificent One
1973
as General Pontaubert
- No poster
Un ange au paradis
1973
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973
as Dr Chaumont de Latour
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Flavigny
The Conspiracy
1973
as Vignaud
Big Deal
1973
as Genève
Travels with My Aunt
1972
as Mario
The Deadly Trap
1971
as Commissaire Chameille