Louis de Funès
- Acting
- July 31, 1914 · Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- January 27, 1983
Biography
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (French: [lwi d(ə) fynɛs]; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. According to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, he is France's favourite actor, having played over 150 roles in film and over 100 on stage. His acting style is remembered for its high-energy performance and his wide range of facial expressions and tics. A considerable part of his best-known acting was directed by Jean Girault. The larger-than-life, conservative petit bourgeois characters he played, who typically kissed up to authority while persecuting their subordinates, particularly resonated with the changing Western societies of the 1960s and drove him to success. Yet in private life, De Funès was a notoriously shy and reserved man, and a devout Catholic. One of the most famous French actors of all time, Louis de Funès remains to this day the most bankable actor in French cinema history. He enjoys widespread international recognition: in addition to his immense fame in the French-speaking world, he remains a household name throughout most of continental Europe including the former Eastern Bloc, the former Soviet Union, as well as Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Despite this international popularity, Louis de Funès remains an obscure figure in the English-speaking world. He was exposed to a wider audience only once in the United States, in 1973, with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, which is best remembered for its Rabbi Jacob dance scene and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. De Funès has two museums dedicated to his life and acting: one in the Château de Clermont, near Nantes, where he resided, as well as another in the town of Saint-Raphaël, Southern France. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis de Funès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- L'Âge d'or de la pub · Self
- Louis de Funès, le rire éternel · Self
- Les Rois de la comédie · Self
- Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain · Self
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président · Self
- Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
- Louis de Funès champion du box office
- La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès · Self
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress · Self
- De Gaulle, the Last King of France · Self
- Bourvil, un homme vrai · Self
- Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille · Self
- Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
- Louis de Funès Forever · Self
- Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
- Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son · Self
- Louis de Funès, inoubliable · Louis de Funès
- Meeting with Joe: The Busybody · Self
- Louis de Funès Intime · Self
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire · Self
- Sacrée soirée · Self
- The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes · Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
- Champs-Elysées · Self, (archive footage)
- The Cabbage Soup · Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude), Author
- The Miser · Harpagon, Screenplay
- The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space · Ludovic Cruchot, Screenplay
- The Discord · Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
- The Wing or the Thigh? · Charles Duchemin
- Numéro un · Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche · Self
- Am laufenden Band · Self
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob · Victor Pivert
- Midi trente · Self
- Le Grand Échiquier · Self
- Delusions of Grandeur · Don Salluste de Bazan
- Cadet Rousselle · Self
- Jo · Antoine Brisebard
- V.I.P. Schaukel · Self
- Perched on a Tree · Henri Roubier
- The Gendarme Takes Off · Ludovic Cruchot
- The One Man Band · Evan Evans
- Hibernatus · Hubert de Tartas
- The Gendarme Gets Married · Ludovic Cruchot
- The Tattoo · Félicien Mézeray
- The Little Bather · Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
- The Exchange Student · Charles Bosquier
- Oscar · Bertrand Barnier, Adaptation
- Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard · Commissaire Juve
- Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! · Stanislas Lefort
- The Restaurant · M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien, Writer
- Fantomas Unleashed · Commissaire Juve
- The Gendarme in New York · Ludovic Cruchot
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning · Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants"), Léon Haudepin, agent général d'assurances (sketch “Les Bons Vivants”)
- The Sucker · Léopold Saroyan
- Fantomas · Commissaire Juve
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez · Ludovic Cruchot
- A Mouse with the Men · Marcel Ravelais
- Dandelions by the Roots · Jacques
- Let's Rob the Bank · Victor Garnier
- Le Café liégeois · le monsieur en habit
- Squeak-squeak · Léonard Monestier
- Carom Shots · Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321
- People in Luck · Antoine Beaurepaire (segment "Le Gros Lot")
- We Will Go to Deauville · Ludovic Lamberjacques
- The Gentleman from Epsom · Gaspard Ripeux
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments · Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc
- Crime Does Not Pay · Barman
- The Vendetta · Amoretti
- In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles! · Paul Ernzer
- The American Beauty · Police station secretary / Head of personnel
- Captain Fracasse · Scapin
- Small Local Trains · Émile Durand
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century · Officier de la Gestapo
- Some Like It... Cold · Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
- My Pal the Gypsy · Mr. Védrines, publisher
- The Overtaxed · Ettore
- Toto in Madrid · Professor Montiel
- Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight · Maurice Berger
- Life Together · Maître Stéphane
- Neither Seen Nor Recognized · Blaireau