End of the extraordinary history of Pierre Bellemare

Pierre Bellemare, man of television, of radio, writer and presenter is deceased on May 26th with the hôpial Foch de Suresnes at the 88 years age.

This compulsive eater of work present on the waves and the screens accompanied us during more than 60 years. Born in October 1929 in Boulogne Billancourt in a family from three children of which it is youngest.

After having lost his mother and having missed her vat, it becomes in 18 years the assistant of its brother–in–law Pieere Hiegel, director of the programs on Radio operator Luxembourg. It then wishes to pursue a career in the medium of the media. In 1946, he marries Micheline Grillon of which he has two children, Françoise Louise Bellemare, lawyer at the bar of Paris and Pierre Dhostel, TV host. In 1954, it meets Jacques Antoine (hunting for the (French) Treasury) who entrusts to him the animation of a radio broadcast and a game show, “Tele Match” which it presents with Roger Couderc. In 1958, it founds the Tecipress production company (Tele/cinema/press).

In 1960, it meets the mother of its second daughter, Roselyne Bacchi whom it marries in 1976 after having acknowledged with his wife the existence of a double life. It is also the creation of “the head and the legs” will be diffused on rtf Television then will have several successive versions between 1964 and 1970 (Champions, Not a second to be lost, Rider alone. The game stopped in 1966 returns in 1975 on Antenne2; it ensures simultaneously of the emissions of entertainment (the camera invisible that it created with Jacques Rouland on a sequence “Keep the smile on Europe 1 in 1963 and adapted American emission Candid Camera. This emission which it animated with Jacques Rouland, Jean Poiret, Pierre Tchernia, Jean Paul Blondeau and Jacques Legras stops after 50 numbers.

One also remembers the intervention of Pierre Bellemare to make club of Paris a large club. After four hours of antenna, 17,400 associates for 842,000 francs of promise (approximately 128,000 euros) had been added up. It will be necessary four months so that the PFC becomes officially Paris Saint–Germain Football–Club following the bringing together with the club of German St in Bush hammer.

After having presented the emissions Only the truth, Enter without struck then Incriminating evidences in 1975, it arrives on TF1 in 1979 when it animates the emission of news in brief It arrived one day Of 1980 to 1981, it animates Paris of TF1 then I have a secrecy.

In 1987, it takes as a starting point the American concept of Home Network Shopping and creates on TF1 the first French emission of armchair shopping, the Magazine of the object, which becomes Téléshopping in November 1988. It bases the same year the company “Home sholesing service “and product of the equivalent emissions on other chains: M6 Boutique on M6. While presenting the Club armchair shopping on Paris Première, it creates in 1998 the first channel entirely devoted to armchair shopping 24/24: LTA chains diffused from Belgium with Gosselies.

From 1992 to 1995, he is regular chronicler at the side of Christophe Dechavanne in the emission Cuckoo it is us! , on TF1, where he tells “extraordinary stories”.

From May 1999 to May 2000, it coprésente with Noëlla Finzi, in first part of evening on France 3, Silly things of Mr. Pierre

In 2005, Pierre Bellemare presents Monday to Friday on France 3 of 13:55 to 15:00 two docu–fiction: Incredible stories follow–up of mysterious Stories and on RTL9 starting from September Starting from 2006, impossible Investigations was transferred initially on NT1, then on AB3et AB4 and finally on HD1.

Between September 2009 and June 2011, one finds it as a judge and a referee, in the game show In all letters, presented by Julien Courbet on France 2 then in 2013,

It presents a series of documentaries on the Second World War and takes part in the Famous people in the sides of Philippe Bouvard. The cinema used it in its own role or characters with mood deadpan.

Since the announcement of its death, the homages do not stop, starting with that of the president of the Republic. The world of the radio and television point out its gift of storyteller, his kindness, his humour of Jean Luc Reichman with Jean Pierre Foucault via Stéphane Bern or Daniela Lumbroso or Cyril Hanouna.

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