Maigret featured on a postage stamp

Jules Maigret, known as (Commissaire) Maigret to most people, including his wife, is a fictional police detective, created by writer Georges Simenon. 1979 postage stamp -- maigret File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1979 postage stamp -- maigret File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Some of his trademark features are his pipes, his mixed approach to detecting (at times relying on pure intuition, at times on method) and his tendency to pop into small cafes to have several alcoholic beverages. The Commisaire is born 1884 in Saint-Fiacre, although different birth dates can be concluded from the books. He is married to Henrietta, but she is almost exclusively referenced as Madame Maigret in the Books. They have no children. As with most protagonists in detective fiction, he is almost always successful. His sidekicks are not clichéd mindless puppets, only there to contrast with the brilliance of Maigret; instead, that role is reserved for the public prosecutor. Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... In countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system, the prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution. ...

Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight shorter stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. ...

Television adaptations

There have been numerous incarnations of Maigret on the small screen, all around the world. He has been portrayed by French, British, Irish, Austrian, Dutch and Japanese actors.

The most celebrated French version of Maigret is Bruno Cremer, who has played him in more than 40 adaptations. Bruno Cremer (6 October 1929, Saint-Mande), is a french actor who made a great part of his career on stage but also made successful performances for the cinema and the television. ...

The most familiar British version of the Chief Inspector was played by Rupert Davies. He starred in more than 50 adaptations for BBC TV in the 1960s. His portrayal won two of the highest accolades: his versions were dubbed back into French and played across the channel; and Simenon himself presented Davies with a novel inscribed to his "perfect Maigret". Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...

The British television channel ITV produced an adaptation of Maigret in 1992, in which Michael Gambon starred as Maigret. A less successful earlier version cast Richard Harris in the lead role, with a somewhat idiosyncratic reading of the character. Current ITV logo. ... Michael Gambon Sir Michael Gambon (born October 19, 1940) is an actor perhaps best known worldwide for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the two latest Harry Potter films; he is also a Samuel Beckett scholar. ... There are more than one Richard Harris: Richard Harris (actor) Richard Harris (correspondent) Richard Harris (prospector) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

External links

• Simenon's Maigret (bibliography, statistics, online texts, links)
• Maigret (television series) at the Internet Movie Database