RIP: Producer Pierre Grimblat dies at 93

Producer Pierre Grimblat ( "Navarro", "L'Instit") died

His name is not necessarily known to the public, yet Pierre Grimblat, who has just died at almost 94 years, is behind some of the most iconic series of French television. "He died in Paris . It was a great innovator. He brought a lot on television today ", said the producer Vera Belmont, who was a friend. His death was confirmed by several relatives, as the producer Nicolas Traube and journalist Michèle Cotta , who praised "a precursor, a wonderful friend."

"It was an extraordinary man, very talkative, a self-made man who had all professions around the show. He had the radio, it was singer streets ... It was a wonderful creator of fictions. He brought modernity. He was an artist, "said producer Jean-Luc Azoulay, which bought his company, Hamster in 1996.

Born in 1922, was a young and Grimblat true resistant to the first hour. Tried and sentenced to death in Nice by the Tribunal of the militia, he wrote his first poems cell. It is released by the Italians during their surrender to the US military. In 1947, he was noticed by Boris Vian and Raymond Queneau that help to enter the French Radio and Television (RTF). He quickly wrote screenplays and dialogues for movies and especially television, will air smell a few months in New York, runs a workshop creations and new ideas for Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet at Publicis and became the artistic director Philips discs.

But his big deal will writing and film production. Between 1969 and 1997, the Hamster company will produce more than 500 films, including many dramas for TF1 and the public service. We owe him the 106 episodes of Navarro with Roger Hanin, the series L'Instit with Gérard Klein or Quai number with Sophie Duez and The Guardian embodied by Roland Magdane or some sagas of the summer as The Castle of Olives or The Hearts burned . It was he who produced the television adaptation of Swedish matches of Robert Sabatier and 38 episodes of Black Series and Series Rose at the end of the 80s In the 90s, Hamster Films became the number one European drama production and diversifying into commercials.

The last months of the older man were very difficult. Weakened and unable to move, he could not accompany in February 2015 his old friend Roger Hanin in his last home and was very affected by the death of his son Jean-Jacques in October of the same year. renowned publicist, producer and sometimes actor, he suffered from widespread cancer that will ultimately correct in her 69 years. Lovers of Venice where he owned a large apartment, Pierre Grimblat had to give up several years ago to attend. He lived all the more evil that stillness he had lived at 100 miles an hour all his life, from a plane to a film set, frequently having lunch at Fouquet's or at Lipp, his two Parisian canteens. Married five times, Grimblat was a born seducer.
Well respected by his peers, Pierre Grimblat was considered the father of modern fiction in French, which was for thirty years the beautiful evenings of large national chains.

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