Christophe Bourseiller
Known for: Acting
Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller, is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006. He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara. From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in War of the Buttons, the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy and Pierre Jolivet. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays. At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s. Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards. On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter Franck Ferrand. In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You?" by Bourin Éditeur. Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of Pascal Ory. Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers. In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter. Source: Article "Christophe Bourseiller" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Series
Fort Boyard
Self
1990
Series
C ce soir, le débat
Self - Guest
2021
Series
Eurocops
Boulou
1988
Series
Chez Maupassant
Maître Grappe
2007
Series
Chillers
Paul
1990
Series
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Tous complotistes !?
Self
2025
Film
L'Innocent
Prison Director
2012
Film
Mr. Know-It-All
Doctor Jais
2018
Film
Pardon Mon Affaire
Lucien
1976
Film
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Monsieur Gerbère, SVT teacher
2009
Film
Girls
Bernard
1980
Film
The Married Woman
Nicolas
1964
Film
French Postcards
Pascal
1979
Film
War of the Buttons
Gaston (uncredited)
1962
Film
Bolero
1981
Film
Love Lasts Three Years
Le curé
2011
Film
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Christophe Jeanson
1967
Film
Bankers Also Have Souls
Jean-Philippe Loriol
1982
Film
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Lucien
1977
Film
Clara and the Why Notes
Frédérique
1981
Film
Indiscrétions
Benjamin Lacombe
2013
L'Été 36
Bernard
1986
Film
Un crime de guerre
Vergnaud
1994
Film
The Art Dealer
Hurtado
2015
Film
P.R.O.F.S.
Francis
1985
Film
Courage fuyons
Christophe
1979
Film
Take It from the Top
Le garçon de café
1978
Film
Three Seats for the 26th
Serge
1988
Series
La case en +
Self
2017
Film
Three Blind Mice
The French Cop
2003
Film
Asphalt
Mechanic
1981
Film
La Galette du roi
Jérémie Harris
1986
Film
Si ma gueule vous plaît...
Womanizer at play-back
1981
Film
Tout le monde peut se tromper
Edgar
1983
Film
L'Année des Guignols - Goodbye Louis XVI !
(voix)
2005
Film
Simple mortel
Fabien
1990
Film
Boulevard des hirondelles
Maurice David
1993
Film
Trapped by a Dream
Le producteur
1993