Ronny Louis Edmond Coutteure (2 July 1951 – 21 June 2000) was a Belgian actor, director, author, TV presenter and restaurateur and worked in cinema, radio, television, opera and theatre. He was a celebrity in his home country of Belgium and in France but is most famous internationally for his supporting role of Remy Baudouin, comrade-in-arms of Indiana Jones in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Career

In theater, Ronny Coutteure staged and performed several works. He was the proprietor of the "pub-theatre" La ferme des hirondelles (Swallow Farm) in Fretin in northern France and he wrote and directed an opera, Les Contes d'un buveur de bière (Tales of a beer drinker) as well as teaching "biérologie" ("beer-ology"). Coutteure was a strong supporter of the culture and heritage of northern France and became a symbol of the culture of the frontier region with Belgium.

Ronny Coutteure

Death

He committed suicide by hanging on 21 June 2000 at La ferme des hirondelles at the age of 48 shortly after France 3 announced the cancellation of his show Ronny coup de cœur.

Ronny Coutteure

Radio / Television

1998 : Écouteuses, écouteurs, écoutez : Daily show on the Radio Fréquence Nord

1998-2000 : Ronny coup de cœur : TV Show on the TV Channel France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie

Ronny Coutteure

Filmography

Theatre

Author

1981 : De Belges histoires

1992 : D'amoureuses histoires

1997 : Le temps de la bière

1997-98 : Lucasfilm magazine

Discography

1980 : Eul' bibine à Fredo

1981 : Ils sont fous ces Français

1983 : Il y a du soleil à Lille

1984 : Le Roi du smurf

1989 : Pietje Lamelut et autres histoires

1994 : Contes d'un buveur de bière

References

External links

1951 births

2000 deaths

People from Wervik

Suicides by hanging in France

20th-century Belgian male actors