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name: "Maurice Risch"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/maurice-risch"
fi1m_id: "maurice-risch"
imdb_id: "nm0728208"
tmdb_id: 18779
wikidata_id: "Q529417"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 January 1943"
died: "28 March 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:42:31.458842+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Maurice Risch

## Identity

Maurice Risch

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/maurice-risch
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** maurice-risch
- **IMDb ID:** nm0728208
- **TMDB ID:** 18779
- **Wikidata ID:** Q529417
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Risch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529417, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728208/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18779

Actor. Born 25 January 1943 in Paris, France. Died 28 March 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 January 1943, Paris, France
- **Died:** 28 March 2025
- **Also known as:** Maurice Albert Risch
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Risch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529417, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728208/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18779

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Last Metro*](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md) (75)

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## Biography

Maurice Risch (also credited as Maurice Albert Risch) is a French actor. He was born on 25 January 1943 in Paris and trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.

He began his film career in 1966 with a role in *Le Grand Restaurant* alongside Louis de Funès, who also cast him in *The Exchange Student* (1967). Risch appeared as Raymond Boursier in François Truffaut's *The Last Metro* (1980) and as Maréchal des Logis Beaupied in two *Gendarme* films (1979 and 1982). He provided the voice of Châteaupétrus in *Asterix in Britain* (1986) and took supporting roles in films including *We Won't Grow Old Together* (1972), *The Discord* (1978), *Umbrella Coup* (1980) and *Beau-père* (1981). He has also maintained a stage career.

Risch died on 28 March 2025.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Last Metro* (1980), Fi1m 75, as Raymond Boursier — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Drôles De Parents* (2012), Writer
- *Les Bidochon - Telle est la réalité* (2009), as Robert
- *Ma femme s'appelle Maurice* (2008), as Maurice
- *The Big Apartment* (2006), as Ravambuse, le gérant
- *By the Pricking of My Thumbs* (2005), as M. Coupelay
- *Day Off* (2001), as Grogneau
- *La bonne adresse* (1990), as Bernard
- *Pyjama pour six* (1988), as Robert
- *Asterix in Britain* (1986), as Chateaupetrus (voice)
- *Superslob* (1986), as Gros dégueulasse
- *Justice de flic* (1986), as Inspector Bernadac
- *La Smala* (1984), as Gégène
- *Vive les femmes !* (1984), as Mammouth
- *The Defective Detective* (1984), as Inspector Farret
- *My Pastor Among the Thais* (1983), as Le curé Maximin
- *Lettre de la Sierra Morena* (1983), as Sancho Pança
- *The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes* (1982), as Maréchal des Logis Beaupied
- *M the Damned* (1982), as Hans Beckert
- *Les p’tites têtes* (1982), as Henri
- *The Red Shade* (1981), as Marcel
- *Beau Pere* (1981), as Nicolas
- *Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent* (1981), as Philippe
- *Silence on aime* (1981), as Raoul · Director
- *Signé Furax* (1981), as L'ivrogne de l'Obélisque
- *The Impostures of Scapin* (1981), as Sylvestre
- *Umbrella Coup* (1980), as Le producteur de Paris
- *The Last Metro* (1980), as Raymond Boursier — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-metro.md)
- *Les Incorrigibles* (1980), series, as Bruno
- *The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space* (1979), as Henri Beaupied
- *The Discord* (1978), as L'imbécile
- *A Sea Urchin in the Pocket* (1977), as Benjamin T'serglaess
- *Nono Nénesse* (1976), as Arthur
- *The Castaways of Turtle Island* (1976), as Joël Dupoirier, dit « Gros Nono »
- *The Groper* (1976), as Ernesto Capoli, Ernesto
- *Around the World in 80 Days* (1975), Actor
- *The Fuhrer Runs Amok* (1974), as Johnny
- *Hail the Artist* (1973), as un photographe
- *Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful* (1972), as Un rédacteur
- *We Won't Grow Old Together* (1972), as Michel
- *The Egg* (1972), as Gustave
- *Les Cent Livres des Hommes* (1970), series, as Gargantua
- *The Man with Connections* (1970), as Adjutant Clochon
- *Frédéric* (1970), as Strole
- *The Exchange Student* (1967), as Stéphane Michonnet
- *The Restaurant* (1966), as Julien, un serveur et violoncelliste forcé
- *At Theatre Tonight* (1966), series, as Pierre, Strole

## Gallery

- ![Maurice Risch](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-dfd77207f3f6.jpg) Maurice Risch — Daniel Blajan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Maurice_Risch_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg/1280px-Maurice_Risch_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![L'acteur Maurice Risch lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez.](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-856e47d8c8c5.jpg) L'acteur Maurice Risch lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez. — Daniel Blajan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Maurice_Risch_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres_%E2%80%94_5.jpg/1280px-Maurice_Risch_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres_%E2%80%94_5.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Les acteurs Maurice Risch et Louis de Funès lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez.](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-975c600bd91a.jpg) Les acteurs Maurice Risch et Louis de Funès lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez. — Daniel Blajan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Maurice_Risch_et_Louis_de_Fun%C3%A8s_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg/1280px-Maurice_Risch_et_Louis_de_Fun%C3%A8s_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Les acteurs Maurice Risch et Guy Grosso lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez.](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-f4a5b85b3519.jpg) Les acteurs Maurice Risch et Guy Grosso lors du tournage du film Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres en 1978, à Saint Tropez. — Daniel Blajan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Maurice_Risch_et_Guy_Grosso_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg/1280px-Maurice_Risch_et_Guy_Grosso_1978_%E2%80%94_Tournage_Le_Gendarme_et_les_Extra-terrestres.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Maurice Risch](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-6fc293d0a76f.jpg) Maurice Risch — Image via TMDB
- ![Maurice Risch](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-a89c3fb4dde9.jpg) Maurice Risch — Image via TMDB
- ![Maurice Risch](https://film.one/media/person/3922951/gallery-d85327ceb6fa.jpg) Maurice Risch — Image via TMDB

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