André Maranne


André Maranne is a French actor best known for playing roles in English-language films starting in the mid-1950s.

Career

Born André Gaston Maillol in Toulouse, France, Maranne's best known role was probably Sergeant François Chevalier in six of The Pink Panther films alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Before the Pink Panther, he appeared as a French officer in The War Lover and had a cameo role in the James Bond movie Thunderball.
He appeared in such diverse television programmes as Merton Park Studios' Scotland Yard, Jason King, Fawlty Towers, Lord Peter Wimsey, Yes Minister, All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who.
Maranne was also a co-presenter of four in the French teaching programme, Bonjour Françoise on the BBC in the 1960s and acted in all eight episodes of La Chasse au Trésor as well as all 24 episodes of Ensemble-French for Beginners in the 1970s, also for the BBC. Maranne provided English audio translation of French-speaking interviewees in the 1988 ITV documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy.

Selected filmography