This is the best "Maigret" : Mr. Rupert Davies. Thank you so much for this video, my dear UtubeSherlock1111. Simply the best! Congratulations, thanks again and please keep up the good work.
There has been many actors who have played Maigret, but Rupert Davis was the best. Thats not only my opinion, but that of Simenon. He created the character, so he should know best
i loved this series so much i bought the citroen car the light fifteen it was like the series french eccentric and i wish i could relive those days again
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Rupert Davies Unforgettable, unsurpassable, the one and only Commissaire Jules Maigret "C'est Maigret, c'est Maigret. You are the flesh and bones of Maigret!" Belgian writer Georges Simenon said to him when they met. Later he gave him one of his novels with the inscription: "At last - I found the perfect Maigret!" and wrote in his memoirs about the actors who played Maigret: "Rupert Davies surpassed them all." An understanding and worldly-wise man full of fatherly kindness, gifted with a dry sense of humor. Nothing human is alien to him. (It's a silly prejudice that an actor has to be a Frenchman himself to portray one. Rupert Davies has proven otherwise.)
When I lived in Paris in the 90sI watched the French version from the 50s - wonderful rainy Parisian streets, beautiful evocative music - I can't find any on here, not yet anyway
Thank you so much for posting this!!! At last a chance to watch my favorite Maigret actor (Bruno Cremer is my 2nd favorite) again, after many years. I wonder if we'll ever see a DVD realease of this great series? German ZDF TV seems to have the whole series in their archives, but won't broadcast it again, since the costs are too high. Buying DVD copies from them is very expensive too.(and you get the German dubbed version only) Does anybody know what the BBC has in their archives?
Those who say Cremer's the best because he's French should be careful. Like a lot of the most iconic "French" people, including Herge and the creators of Asterix, Simenon himself was Belgian. And though Maigret has aspects of a real French detetctive, he's also very Belgian in character.
Bruno Cremer is fine, but many of us prefer the MAIGRET preferred by Georges Simenon himself, Jean Richard. There is even a site, called Avengers, Maigret, which analyses every episode w Richard, much missed, available on DVD in 3 metal boxes. Wonderful.
+mckavitt13 Cremer's good, but Simenon also acclaimed Davies more than once when the series was shown in France, when I was a teenager -- popular, too, which says something. He gave him a book inscribed to "the perfect Maigret". Since then the best I've seen is of all people Rowan Atkinson.
@@jenniferpierno6108 Remember these recordings are now over 60 years old. We are just so lucky that the whole run was preserved, when you think how the BBC butchered their archives ten years later.
Rupert Davies is also a good, credible Maigret, but the latter was never sexist towards his wife, not even to be witty, nor particularly Belgian, being on the contrary particularly Parisian. Furthermore, the filming matters. The Cremer versions are gorgeously filmed & much as i love & miss the actor Bruno Cremer, he & his protagonist's investigations could go onto the pharmaceutical market as a sleep medication. Always the same. Unlike Jean Richard, his character lacks that tendresse, that compassion, as well as the occasional barbed wit Simenon's creation is known for & which Gambon also gets across so well.
This is the best "Maigret" : Mr. Rupert Davies. Thank you so much for this video, my dear UtubeSherlock1111. Simply the best! Congratulations, thanks again and please keep up the good work.
Thank you for posting, BBC had the best.
There has been many actors who have played Maigret, but Rupert Davis was the best. Thats not only my opinion, but that of Simenon. He created the character, so he should know best
And Ewen Solon an excellent Lucas.
Not just Davies, but his wife, and the brilliant Lucas.
i loved this series so much i bought the citroen car the light fifteen it was like the series french eccentric and i wish i could relive those days again
+john jazz We had one too. 80 kph with a tailwind. but great.
john jazz
Rupert Davies bought the car from the series, he liked it so much.
The only Maigret of my youth. I did not see the other actors
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Rupert Davies
Unforgettable, unsurpassable, the one and only Commissaire Jules Maigret
"C'est Maigret, c'est Maigret. You are the flesh and bones of Maigret!" Belgian writer Georges Simenon said to him when they met. Later he gave him one of his novels with the inscription: "At last - I found the perfect Maigret!" and wrote in his memoirs about the actors who played Maigret: "Rupert Davies surpassed them all."
An understanding and worldly-wise man full of fatherly kindness, gifted with a dry sense of humor. Nothing human is alien to him.
(It's a silly prejudice that an actor has to be a Frenchman himself to portray one. Rupert Davies has proven otherwise.)
I agree with you - just as David Suchet is the definitive Poirot, so Mr Davies WAS Maigret - le Patron
Indeed he is the best ever Maigret
Bruno Cremer.
When I lived in Paris in the 90sI watched the French version from the 50s - wonderful rainy Parisian streets, beautiful evocative music - I can't find any on here, not yet anyway
Cool story!
When I lived in Paradise, CA., My next door neighbors told me about their experiences living in Occupied Holland during WWII.
Thank you so much for posting this!!!
At last a chance to watch my favorite Maigret actor (Bruno Cremer is my 2nd favorite) again, after many years.
I wonder if we'll ever see a DVD realease of this great series?
German ZDF TV seems to have the whole series in their archives, but won't broadcast it again, since the costs are too high.
Buying DVD copies from them is very expensive too.(and you get the German dubbed version only)
Does anybody know what the BBC has in their archives?
The long awaited release of these seems to be coming for 2021 with the announcement of issue on blu ray
Nothing is so new as something old.
Those who say Cremer's the best because he's French should be careful. Like a lot of the most iconic "French" people, including Herge and the creators of Asterix, Simenon himself was Belgian. And though Maigret has aspects of a real French detetctive, he's also very Belgian in character.
And Cremer was a bit Belge, wasn't he?
I still prefer Jean Richard in French, but Michael Gambon, despite Simenon, was so convincing, i am sad he only did 12 (excellent!!) episodes.
Like an old friend,eh Lucas?
Bruno Cremer is fine, but many of us prefer the MAIGRET preferred by Georges Simenon himself, Jean Richard. There is even a site, called Avengers, Maigret, which analyses every episode w Richard, much missed, available on DVD in 3 metal boxes. Wonderful.
+mckavitt13 Cremer's good, but Simenon also acclaimed Davies more than once when the series was shown in France, when I was a teenager -- popular, too, which says something. He gave him a book inscribed to "the perfect Maigret". Since then the best I've seen is of all people Rowan Atkinson.
the sound is terrible
I can't hear it. I thought I must be the only one
@@jenniferpierno6108 Remember these recordings are now over 60 years old. We are just so lucky that the whole run was preserved, when you think how the BBC butchered their archives ten years later.
Professor Ian mcclaine
Rupert Davies is also a good, credible Maigret, but the latter was never sexist towards his wife, not even to be witty, nor particularly Belgian, being on the contrary particularly Parisian.
Furthermore, the filming matters. The Cremer versions are gorgeously filmed & much as i love & miss the actor Bruno Cremer, he & his protagonist's investigations could go onto the pharmaceutical market as a sleep medication. Always the same. Unlike Jean Richard, his character lacks that tendresse, that compassion, as well as the occasional barbed wit Simenon's creation is known for & which Gambon also gets across so well.
best maigret ever,has to be bruno cremer French himself
Apparently Simeon took one look at Rupert Davies and said 'yes that's Maigret, a great bear of a man'.....
Bruno Cremer is better, being French. It doesn't matter what Simenon thought..