Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 09, 1934
Place of Birth
Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Credits
49 titles
Pierre Perret
Biography
Pierre Perret (born 9 July 1934 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne) is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis. He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned to work with jargon and slang. At the age of 14 he signed up to the conservatoire de musique de Toulouse and to a dramatic arts institute. But he wasn't admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris because he had some problems with military justice during his military service. In the meantime, he set up his first band of four musicians in his own name, with whom he played at events throughout the region. In 1957, he was snapped up by Eddie Barclay who signed him on. It was in the studio of Barclay where he met his future wife, Simone Mazaltarim. In 1958, Perret carried on touring round Parisian cabaret bars and crossed France and Africa as a part of the American group, The Platters. In November that year, a pleurisy forced him to take two years off in a sanatorium. A master of the subtleties of the French language and French slang (he even rewrote some of Jean de La Fontaine's fables), his songs are often cheeky (for example Le zizi (The willy), asking questions in a seemingly naive child's tone, but has written more serious political songs, such as La bête est revenue, La petite kurde, Vert de Colère or Lily. In 1995, he recorded in duet with Sophie Darel the French song Maître Pierre for the album C'était les Années Bleues. He participated in the committee for the simplification of the administrative language (COSLA). Source: Article "Pierre Perret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Un monde, un regard
Pierre Perret From A to Z
Self
Under the Stars of Paris
Usager petit-déjeuner St. Leu
The Golden Age of Songs From Our Childhood
Self
La Boîte à secrets
Self
The Secret Song
Self
La tribu de Pierre Perret chante... Au café du canal
Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Singer, composer, actor (archive footage)
Amanda
Self
Folie passagère
Self
Fais-moi une place
Self
Le Café du pont
Novel
C à vous
Self - Guest
Pierre Perret - 50 ans de chansons - Olympia
Self
Pierre Perret - Casino de Paris 2003
Self
Star Academy
Self
Stars à domicile
Self
Vivement dimanche
Self
Le cadeau des cadeaux
Dorothée : Le cadeau de la rentrée
Self
Les Fables Géométriques
Narrateur
Téléthon
Self
Collaricocoshow
Self
Le monde est à vous
Self
Sacrée soirée
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
Télématin
Self
Aujourd'hui la vie
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self
Charles and Lucie
Original Music Composer
We'll Grow Thin Together
Original Music Composer
Fan School
Self
Mosaïque
Self
30 millions d'amis
Self
Système 2
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Apostrophes
Self
Midi Première
Self
Midi trente
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Judge Roy Bean
Roy Bean
Samedi soir
Self
A Savage Summer
Potatoes
Clovis Parizel
À bout portant
Self
Discorama
Self
Stars at Noon
Self
Children of Chaos
Youth from the center (uncredited)