Pierre Renoir (March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother. Life and career Pierre Renoir was born on March 21, 1885, in Paris, at 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot. He was married to actress Véra Sergine from 1914 to 1925. For his best remembered role, as Jėricho the ragman in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), he was cast at short notice to replace the collaborator Robert Le Vigan; Jėricho's scenes had to be reshot after Le Vigan fled. Renoir was briefly the director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, taking over after the death of Louis Jouvet in 1951. Pierre Renoir's son was the cinematographer Claude Renoir (1913–93)not to be confused with Pierre's brother Claude Renoir, known as 'Coco' (1901–69). Selected filmography La Digue (1911, Short) - Pierre Wallen Les deux gosses (1916) - Le lieutenant Jacques d'Alboise Marion Delorme (1918) - Le roi Louis XIII The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) - Farmer Morgane, the Enchantress (1928) Night at the Crossroads (1932) - Le commissaire Maigret The Agony of the Eagles (1933) - Montander Madame Bovary (1934) - Charles Bovary La Route impériale (1935) - Maj. Hudson Tovaritch (1935) - Gorotchenko La Bandera (1935) - Le capitaine Weller Veille d'armes (1935) - Le commandant Brambourg Under Western Eyes (1936) - Un Policier Les loups entre eux (1936) - Gottfried Welter Quand minuit sonnera (1936) - Jean Verdier De Man Zonder Hart (1937) - Sourdier L'Île des veuves (1937) - Ralph Berry Boissière (1937) - Le général baron von Hubner The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Le colonel-comte Stepan Iporievitch Mollenard (1938) - Bonnerot La Marseillaise (1938) - Le Roi de France Louis XVI Légions d'honneur (1938) - L'avocat Dumas Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg (1938) - Ivan Borowsky The Lafarge Case (1938) - Charles Lafarge The Patriot (1938) - Le comte de Pahlen Satan's Paradise (1938) - Paraíso de Satã (1938) - Aristophélès La Piste du sud (1938) - Stolberg La Maison du Maltais (1938) - L'archéologue André Chervin Le révolté (1938) -