(“Mr. Bean” was having a 25th anniversary ... his lack of melodrama; he is a soft-boiled detective. There have been many Maigrets, in several languages, since the character first stepped ...

Rowan Atkinson isn’t the first comic actor to move into a dramatic role, but the leap is especially large as he tackles the part of the great French police detective created by Georges Simenon ...

British actor Atkinson is so popular as Mr Bean that this caricaturish identity — moulded ... Atkinson took on a very different and serious role of a fictional French detective, Jules Maigret. The ...

Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson failed to convince critics of his credentials as a heavyweight actor with his debut as the French detective Jules Maigret. Maigret Sets A Trap is the first in a pair of ...

Your Stan Laurel, your Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, your Droopy the cartoon pooch. As a detective, he’s a superhero, with keen powers of observation, but as a person, he’s the hangdog underdog ...

A fourth season of “Mr. Bean: The Animated Series” is set to return worldwide in 2025. Banijay’s Tiger Aspect Kids & Family has commissioned the series in partnership with Warner Bros.