Raymond Gérôme

Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor.

Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.

In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde.

Gérôme died in 2002, at his home in Les Lilas.

Selected filmography

1954: One Step to Eternity - Un client de la boîte 1955: L'Affaire des poisons - Le roi Louis XIV (uncredited) 1957: Élisa - Villedieu 1957: Méfiez-vous fillettes - Jacques 1957: Mademoiselle and Her Gang - L'avocat 1957: Dangerous Exile - Citizen-Director of the Revolution 1960: Murder at 45 R.P.M. - Le commissaire 1961: La Princesse de Clèves - Le Roi 1961: The Greengage Summer - Inspector Renard 1961: Goodbye Again - Jimmy (uncredited) 1961: Le Cœur battant - Pierre 1961: Napoleon II, the Eagle - Apponyi 1961: The Triumph of Michael Strogoff 1962: La Dénonciation - Patrice de Laborde 1962: Le Masque de fer - Pimentel 1965: Dis-moi qui tuer - La voix au téléphone (voix seulement) (voice) 1966: The Second Twin - Le juge 1967: The Night of the Generals - Colonel (War Room) 1967: Lagardère - Philippe d'Orléans (TV series) 1967: Lettre à Carla 1968: A Little Virtuous - Kerman 1969: The Brain - The Commander 1969: Under the Sign of the Bull - Jérôme Laprade - le beau-frère d'Albert 1970: Tropic of Cancer - M. Le Censeur 1970: Céleste - Le chef des barbouzes français 1971: The Deadly Trap - Commissaire Chameille 1972: Travels with My Aunt - Mario 1973: La belle affaire - Genève 1973: Le complot - Vignaud 1973: The Day of the Jackal - Flavigny 1973: A Slightly Pregnant Man - Gérard Chaumont de Latour 1973: Un ange au paradis - Basset 1973: Le Magnifique - General Pontaubert 1975: Divine - Le garçon de café 1977: Le portrait de Dorian Gray - Lord Henry Wotton 1977: Tendre poulet - Director of Criminal Division 1977: Animal - Count of Saint-Prix 1978: L'Exercice du pouvoir - Georges Argand 1980: The Umbrella Coup - President of RG 1981: Julien Fontanes, magistrat - Jean-Claude Lorentzen 1988: Let Sleeping Cops Lie - Cazalieres 1989: La Révolution française - Jacques Necker (segment "Années Lumière, Les") 1991: L'Opération Corned-Beef - Ghislain Chauffereau 1991: Money - Morf 2000: Sade - President of Maussane (final film role)

French dubbing 1963: The Pink Panther - Tucker 1964: My Fair Lady - Professor Higgins 1967: Doctor Dolittle - Doctor Dolittle 1968: The Devil Rides Out - Duke de Richleau 1973: Live and Let Die - Tee Hee 1978: Watership Down - General Woundwort 1986: Big Trouble in Little China - Lo Pan 1989: The Return of the Musketeers - Count de Rochefort 1991: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Sheriff of Nottingham 1991: An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - Cat R. Waul 1992: Tom and Jerry: The Movie - Lickboot 1995: Pocahontas - Governor Ratcliffe 1996: Spy Hard - General Rancor