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Gérard Buhr is a Actor French born on 8 may 1928 at Strasbourg (France)

Gérard Buhr

Gérard Buhr
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Birth name Gérard Louis Victor Simon Buhr
Nationality France
Birth 8 may 1928 at Strasbourg (France)
Death 8 january 1988 (at 59 years) at Paris (France)

Gérard Buhr, né le 8 mai 1928 à Strasbourg et mort le 8 janvier 1988 à Paris, est un acteur français. Il est également scénariste pour la télévision et auteur de plusieurs romans noirs sous le pseudonyme de Victor Harter.

Biography

Réfugié avec sa famille près de Cannes en 1940, il y rencontre Gérard Philipe qui aura une influence décisive sur sa carrière.

Habitué des seconds rôles, il se fait remarquer dans Fanfan la Tulipe, où il retrouve Gérard Philipe, et Mémoires d'un flic, avec Michel Simon, avant que son rôle de souteneur dans Bob le flambeur de Jean-Pierre Melville lui vaille les bonnes notes de la critique. En 1954, il crée la pièce d'André Malraux, La Condition humaine, tirée du roman éponyme. Il partage l'affiche avec Curd Jürgens dans Michel Strogoff en 1956 et semble alors une étoile montante du cinéma européen grâce à sa maîtrise du français, de l'allemand et de l'anglais et un physique à la Kirk Douglas, tel que le décrit Cinémonde dans un article d'époque.

Mais la super-production Normandie-Niémen ne connaît pas le succès escompté et Gérard Buhr se retrouve à jouer les seconds rôles dans Le cave se rebiffe, Léon Morin prêtre, où il retrouve Jean-Pierre Melville, et le mythique Monocle noir, avec Paul Meurisse.

C'est ensuite au théâtre que son destin de comédien le reconduit où il joue les Six hommes en question de Robert Hossein et Frédéric Dard en 1963.

En 1965, sous le pseudonyme de Victor Harter, il publie au Fleuve noir son premier roman d'espionnage, dont le héros, nommé Turpin, amateur de jolies femmes et de maserati, lui ressemble étrangement. Il donne une dizaine de titres à cette série et signe également des romans noirs.

En 1966, il joue le rôle de Claus von Stauffenberg dans La Nuit des généraux, avec Peter O'Toole et Omar Sharif, rôle qui sera repris par Tom Cruise dans Walkyrie en 2008. Sa carrière semble prendre un deuxième souffle en 1967, quand il devient le partenaire de Marlon Brando dans La Nuit du lendemain. En 1969, c'est Le Clan des Siciliens, aux côtés de Jean Gabin, Alain Delon et Lino Ventura. Mais l'élan se brise, et hormis Chacal de Fred Zinnemann en 1972, il restera cantonné dans des rôles mineurs jusqu'à la fin de sa vie.

Le petit écran lui offre une fin de carrière, sinon brillante, néanmoins fructueuse, en tant que scénariste pour la société de production TélFrance, dirigée par Michel Canello. Citons Ton Amour et ma jeunesse, Pont dormant et Le Pèlerinage (adaptation de son propre roman Choucroute au sang), mais également en tant qu'acteur dans la série Châteauvallon en 1985.

Il meurt en 1988 à son domicile parisien d'une rupture d'anévrisme à l'âge de 59 ans. Il avait épousé en 1963 Patricia Karim, jeune artiste dramatique belge née à Spa en 1935 ; ils ont eu deux enfants : Frederick, né en 1963 à Paris, et Delphine née en 1966 à Enghien-les-Bains.

Best films

Michael Strogoff (1956)
(Actor)
Normandy - Neman (1960)
(Actor)

Usually with

Albert Michel
Albert Michel
(11 films)
Robert Le Béal
Robert Le Béal
(10 films)
Robert Dalban
Robert Dalban
(8 films)
Marcel Rouzé
Marcel Rouzé
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gérard Buhr (74 films)

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Actor

A View to a Kill, 2h11
Directed by John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Roger Moore, Tanya Roberts, Grace Jones, Patrick Macnee, Christopher Walken, Patrick Bauchau
Roles Auctioneer
Rating62% 3.1493453.1493453.1493453.1493453.149345
MI6 agent James Bond is sent to Siberia to locate the body of 003 and recover a microchip originating from the Soviet Union. Upon his return Q analyses the microchip, establishing it to be a copy of one designed to withstand an electromagnetic pulse and made by government contractor Zorin Industries.
The Vultures, 1h35
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes French war films, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Constantin, Marie Laforêt, Michel Creton, Jacques Villeret, François Perrot
Roles L'officier du camp de ravitaillement
Rating60% 3.0448153.0448153.0448153.0448153.044815
In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is charged to recover gold bars of six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to bring them into a safe place for the French government.
The Blood of Others, 2h15
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran
Roles German Major at Meurice Restaurant
Rating54% 2.706352.706352.706352.706352.70635
In Nazi occupied France, Jean Blomart sits by a bed in which his lover Hélène lies dying. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn about both characters and their relationship to each other. As a young man filled with guilt about his privileged middle-class life, Jean joins the Communist Party and breaks from his family, determined to make his own way in life. After the death of a friend in a political protest, for which he feels guilty, Jean quits the Party and concentrates on trade union activities. Hélène is a young designer who works in her family's confectionary shop and is dissatisfied with her conventional romance with her fiance Paul. She contrives to meet Jean, and although he initially rejects her, they form a relationship after she has an abortion following a reckless liaison with another man. Jean tells Hélène he loves her even though he believes he does not. He proposes to her and she accepts.
S.A.S. San Salvador, 1h35
Directed by Raoul Coutard
Origin France
Genres Action, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors Miles O'Keeffe, Raimund Harmstorf, Sybil Danning, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Catherine Jarrett
Rating33% 1.6892051.6892051.6892051.6892051.689205
Like in the books Malko is a nobleman whose family bequeathed him a huge castle and an aristocratic appearance but no sufficient means to sustain the inherited premises or to keep up the appropriate life style. This time it is the castle's roof that requires work and forces Malko to accept another CIA mission. The secret service is worried about rumours which endanger the US-American reputation. It was brought to the CIA's notice that a former collaborator named Enrique Chacon (Raimund Harmstorff) allegedly went rogue in San Salvador. Malko is supposed to investigate Chacon over the atrocities of death squads and then do whatever seems fit against the background of his findings. So he travels to San Salvador and goes about it. Soon he becomes a witness to the crimes of the death squads and eventually he has to realise how Chacon is indeed the driving force for all that. That leaves him no other choice than to render Chacon harmless for good before he can return to his castle and his fiancée, Countess Alexandra (Sybill Danning).
Five Days One Summer, 1h36
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films
Actors Sean Connery, Lambert Wilson, Betsy Brantley, Isabel Dean, Gérard Buhr, Anna Massey
Roles Brendel
Rating60% 3.0494453.0494453.0494453.0494453.049445
It is the story of an illicit romance, set in the Swiss Alps. Connery plays Douglas, a middle-aged Scottish doctor on vacation in the Alps in 1932 with a young woman, Kate (Betsy Brantley), whom he introduces as his wife. Douglas has brought Kate to the Alps for a mountain climbing trip. Douglas and Kate are absorbed with a psychological melancholy. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Kate has been in love with Douglas since she was a little girl and that she seduced him away from another woman. The flashbacks also reveal that Kate is not his wife, but his niece. But then, in their mountain retreat, climbing guide Johann (Lambert Wilson) appears and he develops an attraction for Kate.
Enigma
Enigma (1982)
, 1h38
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair
Roles le président du tribunal
Rating58% 2.9487652.9487652.9487652.9487652.948765
Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex doesn't know is that the CIA already has a code scrambler. By stealing the scrambler in Berlin, they are trying to convince the Russians that they don't have it.
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid, 1h32
Directed by George Kaczender
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Richard Harris, Jennifer Dale, George Peppard, Jeanne Moreau, Winston Rekert, Alexandra Stewart
Roles Hotel Clerk
Rating46% 2.319392.319392.319392.319392.31939
Les affaires de Jason, quinquagénaire et important financier, commencent à péricliter. Son angoisse s'assortit d'une diminution inquiétante de son érection, ce qui fait naître sa peur de ne plus pouvoir satisfaire Laura, sa jeune maîtresse. Tout en essayant de sauver son patrimoine financier convoité par un redoutable adversaire, Jason recourt à différentes méthodes pour tenter de pallier sa virilité défaillante : consultations psychiatriques, stimulations grâce au voyeurisme et autres excitations auxquelles se prête sa petite amie compatissante et même visite à une professionnelle du sexe. Mais rien n'y fait : sans cesse assailli par des fantasmes, son traumatisme s'aggrave et fait surgir des pensées suicidaires.
Condorman
Condorman (1981)
, 1h30
Directed by Charles Jarrott, Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes La bande dessinée, Spy films, Superhero films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Dana Elcar, Vernon Dobtcheff
Rating56% 2.848732.848732.848732.848732.84873
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sending him crashing into the Seine River. Later after the incident, Woody is asked by his friend, CIA file clerk Harry, to perform what appears to be a civilian paper swap in Istanbul. Upon arriving in Istanbul, he meets a beautiful Soviet named Natalia Rambova, who poses as the Soviet civilian with whom the exchange is supposed to take place, but it is later revealed that she is in fact a KGB spy. Woody does not tell Natalia his real name, and instead fabricates his identity to her as a top American agent code-named "Condorman". During the encounter, Woody fends off a group of would-be assassins and saves her life by sheer luck before accomplishing the paper trade. Impressed by Woody, and disgusted by how she was treated by her lover/boss Krokov when she returns to Moscow, Natalia decides to defect and asks the CIA to have "Condorman" be the agent that helps her.
An Almost Perfect Affair, 1h33
Directed by Michael Ritchie, Marc Monnet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian De Sica, Dick Anthony Williams, Anna Maria Horsford
Rating53% 2.66222.66222.66222.66222.6622
Durant le festival de Cannes, un réalisateur entame une liaison avec l'épouse d'un producteur de cinéma.
Julia
Julia (1977)
, 1h58
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Biography, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell
Roles Passport Officer
Rating70% 3.5455353.5455353.5455353.5455353.545535
The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical student/physician Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian (Jane Fonda), a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) at a beachhouse.
The French Woman, 1h45
Directed by Just Jaeckin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Françoise Fabian, Dayle Haddon, Murray Head, Klaus Kinski, Vibeke Knudsen, Maurice Ronet
Roles Firmin
Rating48% 2.415292.415292.415292.415292.41529
Just Jaeckin (réalisateur d'"Emmanuelle") signe un thriller politico-érotique, emmené par Françoise Fabian, très convaincante dans le rôle de Madame Claude, la plus célèbre proxénète française.
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Directed by Louis Grospierre
Genres Drama
Actors Michel Bouquet, Claude Jade, Bernard Dhéran, Dani, Gérard Buhr, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Roles Andoire
Rating75% 3.7567253.7567253.7567253.7567253.756725
À cinquante ans, René Maugras (Michel Bouquet) a tout perdu. Ce riche patron de presse est tombé dans le coma et a été hospitalisé d'urgence. Il est sorti, depuis, de son état de santé inquiétant mais reste incapable de bouger et de communiquer. Il doit de plus commencer une rééducation qui s'avère particulièrement humiliante. Heureusement pour lui il y a Blanche (Claude Jade), son infirmière, qui l'entoure d'affection. Blanche prend son cas à cœur…
Love and Death, 1h25
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jessica Harper, Georges Adet, Olga Georges-Picot, James Tolkan
Roles Servant
Rating76% 3.8483.8483.8483.8483.848
When Napoleon (James Tolkan) invades Austria during the Napoleonic Wars, Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army. Desperate and disappointed after hearing the news that Sonja (Diane Keaton), his cousin twice removed, is to wed a herring merchant, he inadvertently becomes a war hero. He returns and marries the recently widowed Sonja, who does not want to marry Boris, but promises him that she will when she thinks that he is about to be killed in a duel. Their marriage is filled with philosophical debates, and no money. Their life together is interrupted when Napoleon invades the Russian Empire. Boris wants to flee but his wife, angered that the invasion will interfere with their plans to start a family that year, conceives a plot to assassinate Napoleon at his headquarters in Moscow. Boris and Sonja debate the matter with some degree of philosophical double-talk, and Boris reluctantly goes along with it. They fail to kill Napoleon and Sonja escapes arrest while Boris is executed, despite being told by a vision that he will be pardoned.
The Day of the Jackal, 2h23
Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Andrew Marton, Alain Bonnot
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Assassinat, Spy films, La provence, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Terence Alexander, Derek Jacobi, Alan Badel
Roles Gendarme on Telephone
Rating77% 3.897943.897943.897943.897943.89794
In the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart on 22 August 1962, an assassination attempt is made on the President of France General Charles de Gaulle by the militant French underground organisation OAS in anger over the French government granting independence to Algeria. As the president's motorcade passes, de Gaulle's unarmoured Citroën DS car is raked with machine gun fire, but the entire entourage escapes without injury. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-Thiry and several other members of the plot are captured and Bastien-Thiry is executed.
The Deadly Trap, 1h36
Directed by René Clément
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Faye Dunaway, Frank Langella, Barbara Parkins, Karen Blanguernon, Raymond Gérôme, Patrick Dewaere
Roles Le psychiatre
Rating55% 2.755342.755342.755342.755342.75534
Un couple d'Américains et leurs deux enfants viennent vivre à Paris. Déjà fragile, le couple est meurtri lors de l'enlèvement de leurs enfants. Le père voit alors resurgir son passé trouble d'agent spécial et d'espion industriel...