He turns 82 in January: What will happen to Richard Bohringer, the actor with the unforgettable voice?

An actor with a legendary voice and sincerity that audiences adore, what happened to actor, director, author and musician Richard Boehringer, who turns 82 on January 16?

2023, one month on the boards

From mid-October to mid-November this year, Richard Boringer performed on stage. Fifteen roundsHis adapted single on stage name book Released in 2016 and directed by his daughter Romane. Presented at the Atelier Theatre, this show-reading retraces his life and struggles, with various scenes and careful, thoughtful staging.

relative absence

If Richard Bohringer has become rarer on the screen in recent years, after the failure of his 2006 play A Beautiful City by Night (14,197 admissions for 77 performances), it’s because the French cinema stopped calling him. Probably guilty “That Damn Character” As he called it, invited by Mireille Dumas in 2009 and his frankness, which earned him enmity in the profession.

Like a wounded animal, Boehringer rebelled against the rejection of this profession. Suffering from hepatitis C in 2009, he was also weakened and was away from the screens for almost two years.

In the 2010s, Jean-Pierre Mocky employed him, as did Alain Fileres (Une histoire d’amour), Philippe Lefebvre (Une nuit) and Angelina Jolie (Vue sur mer). He was recently seen in the films La Enfermedad del domingo and L’Amour flou (2018), Place des Victories (2019), They were 10 (2020), The Heroics (2021) and Syndrome E (2022).

At the same time, the actor wrote several books, some of which are autobiographical.

Stage debut and two Cesars

In 1966 and 1967, he made his stage debut with two plays he wrote. Zorglub and Giraffes. His first film role was in La Maison, a film directed by Michel Simon. She landed her first leading role in L’Italien des Roses, then moved on to supporting roles, from a pawnbroker in Les Sous-doués to a cowardly husband as a blackmailer in I Married a Shadow.

After César for Best Supporting Actor for L’Addition, he gave a great performance in Péril en la domicile. A few years later, in 1988, he was awarded the César for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pelo in Le Grand chemin. He also plays the lead role in the film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Alternative song, theater and cinema, we find it in a wonderful era… Gérard Junot (1991), but also Tango (1993) by Patrice Leconte and La Vérité si je mens! (1997) Thomas Gilloo.

Today, 57 years after his debut on the stage, he remains a lover of life and one of the outstanding faces and voices of French cinema.