

Cast & creator
Best known for Fort Boyard, C ce soir, Chez Maupassant
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.
Also known as: Christophe Gintzburger-Kinsbourg, Christophe Bruce, Chris Tophe
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film credits
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television credits
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1962–2025 · acting roles
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Self
1990
Self - Guest
2021
Maître Grappe
2007
Paul
1990
Boulou
1988
Self (archive footage)
2022
Christophe Jeanson
1967
Le curé
2011
Monsieur Gerbère, SVT teacher
2009
Lucien
1976
Nicolas
1964

Pascal
1979
Gaston (uncredited)
1962
Bernard
1980
Lucien
1977
Prison Director
2012
Self
2025
Doctor Jais
2018
Frédérique
1981
Serge
1988
Jean-Philippe Loriol
1982
The French Cop
2003
Benjamin Lacombe
2013
Jérémie Harris
1986
Francis
1985
Self
2017
Christophe
1979
Vergnaud
1994
Le producteur
1993
Edgar
1983
Le garçon de café
1978
Womanizer at play-back
1981
(voix)
2005Bernard
1986
Hurtado
2015
Mechanic
1981
Fabien
1990
Writer
2019
Presenter
2019
Maurice David
1993