Roland Giraud
Roland Giraud is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971.
Roland Giraud

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- Name
- Roland Giraud
- Occupation
- Actor
- Born
- 1942 · Rabat.
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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Roland Giraud is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971.
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Biography
Around this time he worked also with the troupe, Le Splendid. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers..à lundi. He acquired greater recognition for Papy fait de la résistance, and again, for his appearance in Coline Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin. He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.

Roland Giraud au théatre en mars 2012 (Auderghem-Belgique).
Michaël Bemelmans
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Key facts
• Name — Roland Giraud • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1966–present
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears (1979) • Clara et les Chics Types (1981) • Signes extérieurs de richesse (1983) • Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983) • Three Men and a Cradle (1985) • Tranches de vie (1985) • Sans peur et sans reproche (1988) • Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück (1991) • A Mere Mortal (Simple mortel) — 1991 • Beur sur la ville (2011) • The Gilded Cage (2013)
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The register further records that roland Giraud is recorded as human. The register further records that roland Giraud is recorded with the occupation actor. Institutional cataloguing adds that roland Giraud is recorded with the occupation television actor. Recorded with the gender male. Born on 14 February 1942.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Fiche biographique de Roland Giraud, Allociné (consulté le 4 février 2018).
- 2.En toute liberté. Le passeur. 978-2-36890-012-3.
- 3.En toute liberté. Le passeur. 978-2-36890-012-3.
- 4.Roland Giraud : Sa femme, la comédienne Maaike Jansen, s'est éteinte 20 ans après leur fille Géraldine. Un fait divers qui n'a jamais été élucidé. Pure People. 28 janvier 2025.
- 5.Fiche de Roland Giraud, sur Gala.fr (consulté le 4 février 2018).
- 6.L’affaire Giraud, une histoire de femmes. Flammarion. 2009.
- 7.« Place des protestants », émission religieuse diffusée sur France 2 le 11 février 2018.
- 8.Suite de Trois hommes et un couffin.
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