Raymond Gérôme

Personal Info

Birthday

May 17, 1920

Day of Death

2002-02-03

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Koekelberg, Brussels, Belgium

Also Known As

Raymond De Backer

Raymond Gerome

Gerome Raymond

Raymond Gérôme

Biography

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.

Known For

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

The Day of the Jackal

At Theatre Tonight

The Brain

Plaisir du théâtre

The Magnificent One

Animal

The Night of the Generals

Filmography

1999
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
as Self
1995
Lulu, roi de France
as Baron de Vaux
1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
as Ghislain Chauffereau, beau-père de Jean-Jacques
1989
The French Revolution
as Jacques Necker
1988
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
as chief inspector Cazalières
1981
Les Avocats du Diable
as Maître Jules Corvisart
1978
L'Exercice du pouvoir
as Georges Argand
Dear Inspector
as Head of Criminal Division
1977
Animal
as Le comte de Saint-Prix
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
as Lord Henry Wotton
1976
La Femme de paille
as Anton Korff
Le Gentleman des Antipodes
as Vigerie
1974
Le chien des Baskerville
as Sherlock Holmes
One Morning in June 1940
as Colonel
1973
The Magnificent One
as General Pontaubert
A Slightly Pregnant Man
as Dr Chaumont de Latour
The Day of the Jackal
as Flavigny
The Conspiracy
as Vignaud
Big Deal
as Genève
1972
Travels with My Aunt
as Mario
1971
The Deadly Trap
as Commissaire Chameille
1970
Céleste
as Leader of the French barbouzes
Dix petits nègres
as Malgrave
Tropic of Cancer
as Monsieur LeCenseur
1969
Under the Sign of the Bull
as Jérôme Laprade, le beau-frère et financier d'Albert
The Brain
as Commissioner
La Toile d'araignée
as Lord, l'inspecteur de police
1968
Les Aventures de Lagardère
as Philippe d'Orléans
A Little Virtuous
as Maxime Kerman
1967
The Night of the Generals
as Colonel
1965
Tell Me Whom to Kill
as Voice on the phone (voice)
1963
Le mari ne compte pas
as Édouard, ami de Léon
1962
The Iron Mask
as Pimentel
The Immoral Moment
as Pierre Malet
1961
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
as Le général Vrovkine
Napoléon II, the Eagle
as Apponyi
Goodbye Again
as Jimmy
The Greengage Summer
as Renard
Princess of Cleves
as The King
1960
The French Game
as Pierre
Murder at 45 R.P.M.
as Le Commissaire
1957
Mademoiselle and Her Gang
as Lawyer
Young Girls Beware
as Jacques
Élisa
as Villedieu