Paris (AFP)
The actor and director Yves Rénier, unforgettable interpreter of "Commissioner Moulin" for more than 30 years, died on the night from Friday to Saturday of a heart attack at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine ), his wife told AFP.
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 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.
"The character had to ring true", he confided to the newspaper 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 TF1.
Prior to that, Yves Rénier had directed "Flic quite simply" (2016) on the Guy Georges affair with Mathilde Seigner, and "Chief medical officer for health" (2012).
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