Post-war cop converted into a crime novelist, some of whom are suitable for the cinema, Roger Borniche died on Tuesday in Cannes at the age of 101, announced his wife Michèle.
He was particularly illustrated in the 50s with the tracking of figures of banditry like Pierrot the crazy, Jo Attia, Emile Buisson or René la Canne.
Films with Alain Delon, Daniel Auteuil, Depardieu
Roger Borniche claimed to have arrested 567 mobsters during his career. He then turned to writing detective novels which inspired several films: Flic story by Jacques Deray, with Alain Delon in 1975, René la Canne by Francis Girod, with Gérard Depardieu in 1977, or L'Indic de Serge Leroy with Daniel Auteuil in 1993. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and two of them tell his own story : Borniche story and L'inic .
Roger Borniche was born in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, in the Oise, on June 7, 1919. His father, a survivor of Verdun, is a house painter. Titi in Paris, Roger was first a comic trooper in 1937 then a singer at the Caveau de la République. Entering the police to escape the compulsory labor service, he resigned to avoid serving Vichy and was reinstated in 1944. He became an inspector of the National Security. He left the police in 1956 and became a private detective before embarking on detective novels. After having lived many years in California in the United States, Roger Borniche and his wife lived for five years in the district of California but in Cannes.
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