Pierre Mondy
Born: 1925-02-10 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Died: 2012-09-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director. He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma. Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career. In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic. As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986). Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault. Source: Article "Pierre Mondy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
2013
- Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self (archive footage)
2011
- La Grève des femmes as Emile
2009
- A Man and His Dog as Le cuistot
- Le temps est à l'orage as Félix
2008
- La Dame de Monsoreau as Baron de Médicis
- L'Amour dans le sang as Self
- Fallen from the Sky as Émile
2007
- Graduate at 70! as Louis Merlet
2005
- Commissaire Cordier as Commissaire Pierre Cordier
- Joseph as Joseph
2004
- The Costly Truth as Antoine Bossy
2003
- Remue-ménage ... (Director)
- Bingo! as le directeur du théâtre
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self
- Lovely Rita as Marcel
2001
- Les Filles à papa as Jean-Jacques Daloiseau
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
1996
- Panique au Plazza ... (Stage Director)
1994
- Les Cordier, juge et flic as Pierre Cordier
- Le fils préféré as le dentiste usurier
1993
- Le Canard à l'orange ... (Director)
1991
- Rumeurs as Yves-Martin Bussières
- Les Dessous de la passion as Matutchek
- L'Amant de ma sœur ... (Director)
1990
- Stars 90 as Self
- Édouard et ses filles as Edouard
1989
- Double mixte ... (Director)
- Un fil à la patte ... (Director)
- Fantôme sur l'oreiller as Le chauffeur
1988
- Palace as Client qui participe à la partouze / Client de l'ascenseur du 14e
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Matin Bonheur as Self
- C'est encore mieux l'après-midi as Richard Marchelier
- Lily et Lily ... (Stage Director)
1986
- Asterix in Britain as Cétinlapsus (voice)
- Le Dindon as Vatelin
1985
- Asterix vs. Caesar as Caius (voice)
- Slices of Life as Le Président
1984
- The Octopus as Don Amilcare Attilio Brenno
- Pinot simple-flic as Rochu
- Billet doux as Philippe Josper, associé de l'agence de publicité
- J'ai deux mots à vous dire ... (Producer)
1983
- The Fighter as Rouxel
- Potiche ... (Director)
- Love Lies as Marcel Thiebault
- Le Braconnier de Dieu as Brother Grégoire
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Aujourd'hui la vie as Self
- Bankers Also Have Souls as Grégoire Dufour
- Patate as Rollo, dit 'Patate'
1981
- Signé Furax as Amédée Gonflard
1980
- Petit déjeuner compris as Gauthier Leroux
- Retour en force as Roger, bus driver and Teresa's new husband
- Le Coq de Bruyère as Le baron
1979
- Féfé de Broadway ... (Stage Director)
- Le Canard à l'orange ... (Stage Director)
- Démons de midi as François
- L'Hôtel du libre échange as Paillardin
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
- Histoire vraie as Varnetot
- Take It from the Top as Jean-Pierre Larcher
- Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived as Georges
1977
- Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
- The Seventh Company Outdoors as Paul Chaudard, quincailler
- Last Exit Before Roissy as Marlys
- La Vérité de Mme Langlois as The judge
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- The Seventh Company Has Been Found as Sergent-chef Chaudard
- The Pink Telephone as Benoît Castejac, propriétaire de Castejac & Cie
- Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis as Olivier Galmisch
1974
- Impossible Is Not French as Antoine Brisset
- Shut Up, Gulli as Bibi Kenavec
1973
- Prêtres interdits as Lacoussade
- Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? as Sergent-chef Chaudard
- La Cage aux folles ... (Stage Director)
1972
- Midi trente as Self
- The Troubles of Alfred as François Morel
- Ferraille et chiffons as Harry Brock
1971
- Cadet Rousselle as Self
- Papa, the Lil' Boats as Jeannot le Corse
1970
- Les Cent Livres des Hommes
- La Manière forte ... (Other)
- Frédéric ... (Stage Director)
1969
- Pierre and Paul as Pierre
- Call Me Mathilde as Commissioner (uncredited)
1968
- À bout portant as Self
- Les Dossiers de l'Agence O as Commissioner Lucas
1967
- The Night of the Generals as Kopatski
- Deux Romains en Gaule as Le restaurateur
- Pour avoir Adrienne ... (Stage Director)
- La Parisienne as Adolphe Dumesnil
1966
- At Theatre Tonight as Harry Brock
- Monsieur le Président Directeur Général as Denis Bonneval
- The Postman Goes to War as Massenet
- L'Âge heureux as Le régisseur
1965
- The Sleeping Car Murders as Le commissaire Tarquin
- The Buddies as Broudier
1964
- Weekend at Dunkirk as Dhéry
- Requiem pour un caïd as Inspector Antoine Delille
- Daggers Drawn as Robert Antonini
- Mission to Venice as Paul Trégard
1963
- People in Luck as Henri Duchemin (segment "Le Yacht")
- Bebert and the Train as Parmelin
- I misteri di Roma
- Son of the Circus as Philip Nardelli
- Till the End of the World as Pierre Desmoulins
1962
- The Mysteries of Paris as 'Le Chourineur'
- Hitch-Hike as André, le manager de Bobby
- Crime Does Not Pay as Clerget
- Law of Men as Judge Béguin
1961
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Caderousse
- Panurge's Sheep as Table neighbor at the restaurant (uncredited)
- In the Mouth of the Wolf as Commissaire Rémy
1960
- Austerlitz as Napoléon Bonaparte
- Boulevard as Dicky, l'ancien boxeur
- Love and the Frenchwoman as Édouard, le père de Bichette (segment "L'Adolescence")
- It Happened All Night as Antoine Fiesco
- The Wolves in the Sheepfold as Charlot
- Arden de Faversham as Thomas Arden
1959
- Way of Youth as Lulu
- Women Are Weak as André, Le mari d'Agathe
- You Have Nothing to Declare? as Alfred Dupont
- Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women as Max, small-time alcohol and cigarette dealer
1958
- Neither Seen Nor Recognized as M. Bluette
- Honey, Scare Me as Commissioner Morel
- A Legitimate Defense as Petit Bob
- Hardboiled Egg Time as Le maître nageur
- Life Together as Monsieur Lebeaut
1957
- The Tricyclist as Gendarme
- Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor as Romeo
- Que les hommes sont bêtes as Joselito
- Demoniac as André Vilsan
- Anyone Can Kill Me as Émile Chanu
- The Wheel as Jean Marcereau
- Young Girls Beware as Tonio
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Les Énigmes de l'Histoire
- People of No Importance as Pierrot Berty
- The Indiscreet as Albert
- An Evening at the Music Hall as Roger
- L'homme au parapluie as L'inspecteur Martin
- The Flea in the Ear as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise
1955
- The Affair of the Poisons as le capitaine François Desgrez
- Cherchez la femme as Georges Tessard
- The Ragpickers of Emmaus as Thomas
- Casse-cou, mademoiselle! as Marchand
1954
- Tout chante autour de moi as Paul Nollier
- Crainquebille as 'La Trogne'
1953
- The Healer as Robert, assistant de Laurent
- Captain Slipper as Henri, Emmanuel's friend
1952
- Forgotten Stones
- Matrimonial Agency as The client of the agency 'Nuptia'
- The Happiest of Men as Inspector Gaston
- Un jour avec vous as Georges
- Le Costaud des Batignolles as Accomplice
1951
- Without Leaving an Address as L'ami de Forestier
- Victor as un détenu
1950
- Lost Souvenirs as Agent (uncredited)
- The Elders of Saint-Loup as Puy-Tirejol
1949
- Rendezvous in July as Friend of the 'gabardiné' student (uncredited)