Daniel Boulanger

Daniel Boulanger (24 January 1922 – 27 October 2014) was a French novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter. He has also played secondary roles in films and was a member of the Académie Goncourt from 1983 until his death. He was born in Compiègne, Oise.
Boulanger is most known for his roles as the detective hunting down Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless", the neighbor of Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut's "Bed and Board" and as a comical gangster in "Shoot the Piano Player", another Truffaut feature. On 27 October 2014, Boulanger died at the age of 92.