Daniel Boulanger
Daniel Boulanger was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter.
Biography
Boulanger has also played secondary roles in films and was a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise.Boulanger is most known for his roles as the detective hunting down Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, the neighbor of Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut's Bed and Board and as a comical gangster in Shoot the Piano Player, another Truffaut feature. On 27 October 2014, Boulanger died at the age of 92.
Filmography
- 1960: À bout de souffle - Police Inspector Vital
- 1960: Les Jeux de l'amour - Un danseur au cabaret / l'homme à la Citroën
- 1960: Le Farceur - Un musicien
- 1960: Tirez sur le pianiste - Ernest
- 1961: L'Amant de cinq jours
- 1962: L'Œil du malin - Policeman
- 1966: Le Roi de cœur - Le Colonel Helmut von Krack
- 1967: The Oldest Profession
- 1968: La Mariée était en noir - Delvaux
- 1970: Domicile conjugal - Le voisin ténor
- 1970: Sortie de secours
- 1971: The Married Couple of the Year Two
- 1971: The Deadly Trap
- 1974: Toute une vie - The general
- 1976: Une femme fidèle
- 1978: La Zizanie - Le directeur du Crédit Agricole
- 1980: ''Le cheval d'orgueil''
Award and distinctions
- 1971 Prix de l'Académie française
- 1974 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle, Fouette, cocher !
- 1979 Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco
- 1983 llamado a l'Académie Goncourt