Claude Confortès (28 February 1928 – 15 June 2016) was a French movie and stage director and actor. As an actor, he starred in Yves Robert's "War of the Buttons" ("La Guerre des boutons") in 1962. He played a supporting role in "Germinal" in 1993. He was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris.