Jean Richard (actor)

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Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur.<ref name="Lentz2002">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Better source needed He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's Maigret in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities.<ref name="bbc"/>

Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80.<ref name="bbc">Template:Cite web</ref>

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