Claude Piéplu was a French stage and film actor. Full name: Claude Léon Auguste. Born on May 10, 1923 in Paris (France).

Son of a cook, he began working at fifteen. He was a runner in a bank while taking drama lessons. In 1944 he was taken into the Mathurins theater company. He graduated from acting courses at the Comédie-Française (Maurice Escande's class). Then for a long time he was an actor in the Fabbri theater company (he played in 175 productions). His liveliness of character and absolute lack of conservatism is shown by the fact that in 1975 he decided never to act in plays of the classical repertoire, only in modern ones.

He made his film debut in 1948 in Christian-Jaque's film "Man to Men (One on One)". In 1960 he played the role of a salesman of "Old England" in Henri Verneuil's film based on Alain Moury's novel "The Case of One Night". Claude Piéplu acted in films, mostly in secondary characters, but performed roles brilliantly, masterfully, filling them with psychological nuance, inimitable humor and irony.

Among his best roles: Monsieur Paté in Philippe de Broca's "The Devil by the Tail" (1969), an officer in the adaptation of Jules Romains' book "Friends" (1965, dir. Yves Robert), Monteil in Bertrand Blier's thriller "If I Were a Spy" (1967), a colonel in "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) and a police commissioner in "The Phantom of Liberty" (1973) - both films by Luis Buñuel, Paul Delamare in Claude Chabrol's detective film "Blood Wedding / Blood Relatives" (1973), a camp director in Claude Miller's psychological drama "The Best Way to Walk" (1976), Bernard's father in the comedy "It Wasn't Worth It!" (1996).