Louis de Funès
Born: 1914-07-31 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: 1983-01-27
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2023
- L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
- Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
- Louis de Funès, le rire éternel as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain as Self (archive footage)
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
2020
- La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress as Self (archive footage)
2017
- De Gaulle, the Last King of France as Self (archive footage)
2016
- Bourvil, un homme vrai as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self (archive footage)
- Louis de Funès Forever as Himself (archive footage)
- Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
2012
- Louis de Funès, inoubliable as Louis de Funès
2011
- Meeting with Joe: The Busybody as Self (archive footage)
2007
- Louis de Funès Intime as Self - Archive
2003
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes as Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
1981
- The Cabbage Soup as Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
1980
- The Miser as Harpagon
1979
- The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Ludovic Cruchot
1978
- The Discord as Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
1976
- The Wing or the Thigh? as Charles Duchemin
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
1974
- Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
1973
- The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as Victor Pivert
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- Cadet Rousselle as Self (archive footage)
- Delusions of Grandeur as Don Salluste de Bazan
- Jo as Antoine Brisebard
- Perched on a Tree as Henri Roubier
1970
- The Gendarme Takes Off as Ludovic Cruchot
- The One Man Band as Evan Evans
1969
- Hibernatus as Hubert de Tartas
1968
- The Gendarme Gets Married as Ludovic Cruchot
- The Tattoo as Félicien Mézeray
- The Little Bather as Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
1967
- Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard as Commissaire Juve
- The Exchange Student as Charles Bosquier
- Oscar as Bertrand Barnier
1966
- Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Stanislas Lefort
- The Restaurant as M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien
1965
- The Gendarme in New York as Ludovic Cruchot
- The Sucker as Léopold Saroyan
- Fantomas Unleashed as Commissaire Juve
- How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning as Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
1964
- Fantomas as Commissaire Juve
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Ludovic Cruchot
- A Mouse with the Men as Marcel Ravelais
- Let's Rob the Bank as Victor Garnier
- Dandelions by the Roots as Jacques
1963
- Squeak-squeak as Léonard Monestier
- Carom Shots as Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321
- People in Luck as Antoine Beaurepaire (segment "Le Gros Lot")
- Le Café liégeois as le monsieur en habit
1962
- The Gentleman from Epsom as Gaspard Ripeux
- The Devil and the Ten Commandments as Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc
- We Will Go to Deauville as Ludovic Lamberjacques
- Crime Does Not Pay as Barman
- The Vendetta as Amoretti
1961
- Captain Fracasse as Scapin
- The American Beauty as Police station secretary / Head of personnel
- In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles! as Paul Ernzer
1960
- Some Like It... Cold as Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
- Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century as Officier de la Gestapo
- Small Local Trains as Émile Durand
1959
- The Overtaxed as Ettore
- My Pal the Gypsy as Mr. Védrines, publisher
- Toto in Madrid as Professor Montiel
1958
- Neither Seen Nor Recognized as Blaireau
- Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight as Maurice Berger
- Life Together as Maître Stéphane
1957
- Crazy in the Noodle as Pierre Cousin
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- La Traversée de Paris as Jambier, grocer
- Slightly Ahead as Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
- If Paris Were Told to Us as Antoine Allègre
- Law of the Streets as 'Paulo les chiens'
- Daddy's Gang as l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin
- Hello Smile! as Bonoeil
- Babies Galore as Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance
- The Flea in the Ear as Auguste Ferraillon
1955
- Napoleon as Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
- Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me as M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus
- The Babes Make the Law as Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus
- The Impossible Mr. Pipelet as l'oncle Robert
- Mädchen ohne Grenzen
- Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model as D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer
- Frou-Frou as le colonel Cousinet-Duval
- The Hussars as le bedeau Luigi
1954
- The Sheep Has Five Legs as Pilate
- Peek-a-boo as Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs
- Strange Desire of Mr. Bard as M. Chanteau
- Papa, Mama, the Maid and I as Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above
- Queen Margot as René, l'astrologue
- The Game of Love as le projectionniste ambulant
- The Secret of Helene Marimon as Gardener Ravan
- Mademoiselle Nitouche as A housekeeper
- Marriage Episodes as M. Boulingrin
- April Fools' Day as Le garde-champêtre
- Men Think Only of That as Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess
- The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne as Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot
- No Exit as le garçon d'étage
- Service Entrance as Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien
- La Belle au bois dormant as Un astrologue
- The Scheming Women as Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce
- Trust Me! as Tumlatum
- The Impure Ones as Le chef de train
- Tourments as Eddy Gorlier
1953
- Inside a Girls' Dormitory as Le photographe Triboudot
- My Brother from Senegal as Le docteur
- The Virtuous Scoundrel as Emile, manvalet
- L'art et la manière de rire
- The Knight of the Night as Adrien Verduret
- The Tour of the Grand Dukes as Hotel director
- Innocents in Paris as Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi
- Les Dents longues as l'employé du laboratoire photo
- Lightly and Shortly Dressed as Paul Duvernois
- Companions of the Night as Un Client qui joue aux cartes
- The Sparrows of Paris as Doctor
- To Hell with Virtue as Mr. Lorette
- Captain Slipper as Mr. Rachoux, bank director
1952
- Love Is Not a Sin as Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.
- The Fighting Drummer as Weapon master
- The Seven Deadly Sins as Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse")
- The Respectful Prostitute as Nightclub customer
- Wolves Hunt at Night as Le Barman
- The Crazy Jungle
- I Was It Three Times as L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited)
- Judgement of God as L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited)
- Run Away Mr. Perle as Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo
- Mr. Leguignon Lampiste as Un habitant du quartier
- Matrimonial Agency as Mr. Charles
- They Were Five as Albert, le régisseur
- She and Me as le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette
- Mister Taxi as Le peintre de la place du Tertre
1951
- Poison as André
- Without Leaving an Address as Le futur papa qui lit le journal
- Champions Juniors as Le père autoritaire
- Trip to America as l'employé d'Air France
- No Vacation for Mr. Mayor as The counselor
- Life Is a Game as Thief
- The Turkey as Le gérant
- The Straw Lover as Bruno, the psychiatrist
- The Passerby as The lock keeper
- My Wife Is Formidable as Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel
- Dr. Knock as Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited)
- The Red Rose as Poet who eats glasses
- Bibi Fricotin as Pêcheur
- The Sleepwalker as Anatole, the suspicious husband
1950
- Farewell Mister Grock as Spectator (uncredited)
- Adémaï at the border post as Soldier (uncredited)
- Lawless Street as Hippolyte
- Not Any Weekend for Our Love as Constantin, domestique du baron
- Twelve Hours to Live
- The Gamblers as Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev
- The King of the Bla Bla Bla as Gino
- My Friend Sainfoin as Guide
- Bed for Two as The waiter
- First Communion as Un prete (Uncredited)
- Fugitive from Montreal
- A Certain Mister as Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois
- The Strollers as Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited)
1949
- I Love Only You as Le chef d'orchestre
- Just Out as (uncredited)
- Millionaires for One Day as L'avocat de Philippe
- Du Guesclin as L'astrologue
- Mission in Tangier as Spanish General at the Cabaret
1948
- Cruise for the Unknown One as The cook (uncredited)
1947
- Last Refuge as The Driver
- Six Hours to Lose as Chauffeur of his excellency
- Antoine & Antoinette as Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce
- Last Chance Castle as Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat")
1946
- The Temptation of Barbizon as Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited)