Préjean,  Cervi,  Simon,  Tarride,  Gabin,  "Davis",  Simenon,  Laughton,  Tenine,  Renoir,  Baur,  Richard,  Rühmann,  "Teuling"

Georges Simenon, photographed before his residence in Epalinges, Switzerland, near Lausanne, in the midst of the thirteen actors who have portrayed Maigret in films or on television.

Albert Préjean: Signé Picpus (1942), Cécile est morte (1943), Les Caves du Majestic (1944). Gino Cervi: Maigret à Pigalle (1966) and nineteen adaptations on Italian TV, from 1965 to 1968. Michel Simon: Brelan d'as (1952).

Abel Tarride: Le Chien jaune (1932). Jean Gabin: Maigret tend un piège (1958), Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959), Maigret voit rouge (1963). Rupert Davis [sic]: 52 television episodes from 1959 to 1963. [Note: This is not a photo of Rupert Davies, but Jan Teuling. See a similar scene, with the same figure mislabeled, in the 1989 Paris Match commemorative article on the occasion of Simenon's death.*]

Charles Laughton: L'Homme à la tour Eiffel (1949). Boris Tenine: adaptations on Soviet TV in 1969. Pierre Renoir: La Nuit du carrefour (1932). Harry Baur: La Tête d'un homme (1933).

Jean Richard: 15 television adaptations since 1967. Hans Rühmann: Maigret fait mouche (Germany, 1966). Jan Teuling [sic]: 12 adaptations on Dutch TV from 1965 to 1968. [This photo is mislabled as Jan Teuling, and is actually a second one of Gino Cervi!]