Long careers are rarer than they look, and Raymond Gérôme has become a familiar face whose work covers more eras of the industry than most. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know. Work has kept arriving for 69 years, which is its own kind of achievement. The role of Flavigny in 'The Day of the Jackal' is the one that keeps being brought up. 'The Magnificent One' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography.
Raymond Gérôme
Actor · Since 1967
81 years (May 17, 1920 – Feb 3, 2002)Koekelberg, BelgiumKoekelberg, Brussels, Belgium
41 Movies · 6 Series
Long careers are rarer than they look, and Raymond Gérôme has become a familiar face whose work covers more eras of the industry than most. The first credits arrived long before the title most people know. Work has kept arriving for 69 years, which is its own kind of achievement. The role of Flavigny in 'The Day of the Jackal' is the one that keeps being brought up. 'The Magnificent One' rounds out the better-known part of the filmography.
Raymond Gérôme (17 May 1920 — 3 February 2002) was a Belgian-born, French stage and screen actor.
Gérôme was born as Raymond Joseph Léon De Backer in Koekelberg. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he lent his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas.
In 1982 he was awarded a Pix du Brigadier for his performance in L'Extravagant Mister Wilde.