France: death of actor Yves Rénier, hero of the television series "Commissioner Moulin"
The actor Yves Rénier died at the age of 78.
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The actor and director Yves Rénier, unforgettable interpreter of the television series of the "Commissioner Moulin" for more than 30 years, died on the night of Friday to Saturday April 24 from a heart attack at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine , near Paris, his wife told AFP.
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Aged 78, the actor had moved on to directing in recent years with in particular the TV movie dedicated to Jacqueline Sauvage, with Muriel Robin, a great audience success.
Yves Rénier began his film career in 1961 in
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
by director Claude Autant-Lara.
After this first experience, he painfully connects several films without real success.
It was in 1965 that he met with public success in the mini-series
Belphégor
by Claude Barma, where he shared the bill with singer Juliette Gréco.
Keen on various facts, it is his character of Commissioner Moulin who definitely gives him notoriety.
Created in 1976 by Paul Andréota and Claude Boissol, the television series was interrupted in 1982 before being resumed in 1989 by Yves Rénier and Georges Moréas, author of detective novels and retired ex-commissioner.
Public and critical success
“
The character had to ring true,
” he told
Le Monde
in 1994. The series, which ended in 2008, was a public and critical success.
In parallel, he interpreted several roles in the cinema, before moving on to directing.
In 2018, her two-part TV movie
Jacqueline Sauvage, it was him or me
, with Muriel Robin in the title role, achieved the best audience of the year for a French fiction, close to 9 million viewers on the channel. TF1.
Prior to that, Yves Rénier had directed
Flic quite simply
(2016) on the Guy Georges affair with Mathilde Seigner, and
Chief Health Officer
(2012).
(With
AFP
)
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