Roland Giraud

Roland Giraud — Biography

Roland Giraud is an actor with a theatre background who has worked in French cinema and television since the 1970s. He owes his wide recognition to Papy fait de la résistance and to Trois hommes et un couffin, directed by Coline Serreau. His career continued into the 2010s with productions such as La Cage dorée.

He began with theatre training in the 1960s, joined the company founded by Coluche in 1971 and around the same time worked with the Le Splendid troupe. His first film role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers... à lundi. In the following years he became a fixture of French comedies, playing the Duc d'Orléans in You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine, Meignant in Le Maître d'école, General Herman Spontz in Papy fait de la résistance and Robespierre in Liberté, Égalité, Choucroute. In La vie dissolue de Gérard Floque (1986) he played Gérard Floque, and he was Jean Valjean in Elle voit des nains partout !.

Later he appeared in films such as Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück and Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir, then in De l'autre côté du lit (2008) and Beur sur la ville (2011). He married the actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. His daughter Géraldine, also an actress, was murdered at the age of thirty-six in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.