
Richard Bohringer
Biography
Richard Bohringer is a French actor, singer, writer, and film director. He is the father of actresses Romane Bohringer and Lou Bohringer.
Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier, France, to a French mother, Huguette Foucault and a German father. His parents met during World War II, making him a child of war.
At his birth, his parents left him with his maternal grandmother who lived in an HLM in Deuil-La Barre, his mother leaving to live in Germany. His father, dispatched to the Russian front, was taken prisoner for five years. Despite these difficulties, Bohringer describes his childhood with his grandmother as a happy one. During his life, he was able to see his father only three times.
He made his stage debut near the end of the 1960s. His first play, Les Girafes, was produced by Claude Lelouch. He entered the world of film with his first feature, Gérard Brach's La Maison, in 1970.
In 1972, Richard Bohringer landed a significant role in L'Italien des Roses. It took until the beginning of the 1980s, however, for the actor, already in his forties, to truly make an impact, becoming one of the most notable French actors of this period. Beginning in 1981 with the film Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix, he followed with numerous other roles, winning two César Awards for L'Addition(1984) and The Grand Highway (1987).
Other notable performances include his work in Luc Besson's Subway (1985) and Gérard Jugnot's Une époque formidable... (1991). He also became a favored actor for Jean-Loup Hubert, playing the flighty husband in J'ai épousé une ombre (1983), and a collaborator with Jean-Pierre Mocky and his friend Bernard Giraudeau. In 1992, Bohringer and his daughter, Romane, were brought together on-screen by Claude Miller for The Accompanist.
In the 1990s, he became the presenter for Mission Appolo, a French-language variety show on Antenne 2, followed by the film Tango (1993), after which he worked more sparingly. Bohringer would then turn again to television with the series Un homme en colère (1997–2002).
Well before Bohringer began writing novels, he also attempted to write poetry set to music, himself a fan of slam poetry. He released a series of such albums between 1980 and 2002.
In 2010, at The European Theatre in Paris, France, he staged a one-man show adapted from his book Traîne pas sous la pluie. This began a tour of more than two years, with Bohringer regaling the public with stories of alcohol, travel, Africa, women, and more. In July 2011, he performed the show during The "Off" Festival of Avignon.
In January 2013, he created the play J'avais un beau ballon rouge, where he shared the stage with his daughter Romane for the first time. The play went on to great success on tour, and in Paris, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point.
A lover of literature, in April 2017, he read from the texts of Jack London and writer and war correspondent Olivier Weber during the opening night of festival of Literature and Journalism in Metz.
In 2018, he guest-starred in the television series À votre service.
In 2023, his daughter Romane put him onstage at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Quinze rounds, a solo performance derived from his work of the same title.
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Acting (109 movies)

The Party
1980

The Last Metro
1980

Agent Trouble
1987

Subway
1985

Martin and Lea
1979

I Married a Shadow
1983

The House
1970

Diva
1981

Wild Games
1997

Une fille dans l'azur
2001

Pom, le poulain
2006

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989

Inspector Blunder
1980

Death in a French Garden
1985

Wild Animals
1997

Animal
1977

Transfixed
2001

Admiral
2008

The Accompanist
1992

The Under-Gifted
1980

Bolero
1981

The Grand Highway
1987

Les Folles Années du Twist
1986

Fumer tue
2013

The Nonentity
1986

Kamikaze
1986

The Perfume of Yvonne
1994

Le Sourire
1994

Cavalcade
2005

The Seasons of Pleasure
1988

Tango
1993

Would I Lie to You?
1997

Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
1988

Comme une bête
1998

Une époque formidable
1991

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1981

Stan the Flasher
1990

Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
2003

The Cat's Meow
2001

Ville à vendre
1992

The War Is Over
1989

Barjo
1992

Total Khéops
2002

Diesel
1985

Louise's Diary 1942
2010

Virus au paradis
2003

Tied
2013

The White Queen
1991

La Lumière des étoiles mortes
1994

Carrot Top
2003

Flag
1987

Salt on the Skin
1984

L'Addition
1984

Alors... Heureux ?
1980

Le Pactole
1985

Unpredictable Nature of the River
1996

The Overeater
2003

The Big Pardon
1982

Cap Canaille
1983

Le Destin de Juliette
1983

Last Trading Post in India
1997

The Judge
1984

By the Sea
2015

Crime Spree
2003

La Petite Fadette
2004

Ragazzi
1991

Cent francs l'amour
1986

The Conquistadores
1976

L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
1994

La soule
1989

Au bout du rouleau
2002

Unruly
1999

Gallant Ladies
1990

Too Close to the Gods
1992

Ballade à blanc
1983

Transit
1982

Tykho Moon
1996

La pomme ou L'histoire d'une histoire
1965

Saraka Bo
1997

Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense
1988

Opera ball
1998

Murder in Bastia
2017

The Italian of the Roses
1973

Sunday's Illness
2018

Les frangines
1960

Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
1983

Welcome to Veraz
1991

Ada in the Jungle
1988

L'Amour flou
2018

A City Is Beautiful at Night
2006

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014

El diablo y la dama
1984

Victorious Square
2019

Le Renard jaune
2013

Vénéneuses
2017

Ubac
1987

Dors mon lapin
2014

Retour à la vie
1999

The Heart's Cry
1995

Rembrandt
1999
Directing (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Handsome Face | 1972 | Writer |
| The Punishment | 1973 | Writer |
| Ubac | 1987 | Writer |
| Les coquelicots sont revenus | 1999 | Writer |
| A City Is Beautiful at Night | 2006 | Producer |
| A City Is Beautiful at Night | 2006 | Original Music Composer |