Biography: life and films
Maurice Bénichou is a French actor. He was born in Tlemcen, Algeria on 23rd January 1943.His best films as an actor include Jean-Pierre Sentier's Le jardinier (1981), Michael Haneke's thriller Caché (2005), Eric Caravaca's Le Passager (2006), Hiner Saleem's Les Toits de Paris (2007) and Roschdy Zem's Omar m'a tuer (2011).
Maurice Bénichou has so far appeared in 42 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Michael Haneke (3 films), Renaud Cohen (2), Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (2), Jacques Fansten (2) and Hiner Saleem (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (19 films), comedy (12), comedy-drama (9), Thriller (6), comedy-romance (4), crime-thriller (3) and romance (2).
Our average rating for Maurice Bénichou over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Paris n'existe pas (1969) [a]
Les Camisards (1972) [a]
Le Petit Marcel (1976) [a]
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976) [a]
L'Animal (1977) [a]
La Vocation suspendue (1978) [a]
Le Jardinier (1981) [a]
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? (1982) [a]
La Fracture du myocarde (1990) [a]
Fausto (1993) [a]
La Petite apocalypse (1993) [a]
Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes (1993) [a]
Mordbüro (1997) [a]
L'Homme est une femme comme les autres (1998) [a]
Quand on sera grand (2000) [a]
Candidature (2001) [a]
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) [a]
C'est le bouquet! (2002) [a]
Caché (2005) [a]
Boxes (2007) [a]
Inju, la bête dans l'ombre (2008) [a]
Jusqu'à toi (2009) [a]
Mensch (2009) [a]
Le Chat du rabbin (2011) [a]
Si tu meurs, je te tue (2011) [a]
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The best French war films ever made
The Golden Age of French cinema
