Michel Galabru
Born: 1922-10-27 in Safi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
Died: 2016-01-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 1922 – 4 January 2016) was a French actor. Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for Subway), and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also well known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès in Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez, Le gendarme se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, Le gendarme en balade, Le gendarme à New York, Le gendarme et les gendarmettes, Le petit baigneur, L'avare, Jo (film) and Nous irons a Deauville (with Michel Serrault). He worked with the actors Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles, La Cage aux Folles II, and La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding; and Le viager. Source: Article "Michel Galabru" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
2023
- Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Open at Night as Michel Galabru
2013
- The World Petanque Tour as Louis Cabanel
- Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son as Self (archive footage)
2012
- La page blanche as Philippe
2011
- Bref as Michel Galabru
- The Great Restaurant II as The Unworthy Grandfather
- Jules et Marcel as Jules Raimu
- The Robbed Robber as André Gourgousse
- Belmondo, itinéraire... as Self
2010
- Mumu as Gâtineau
- Love Like Poison as Jean Falguères
- The Baker's Wife as Aimable Castanier
2009
- Cineman as Le Docteur
- Little Nicholas as Minister
- Neuilly Yo Mama! as Sénateur
- À deux c'est plus facile as Joseph Coudré
- Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Welcome to the Sticks as Julie's Great Uncle
- Final Arrangements as Monsieur Froissard
- The Maiden and the Wolves as Albert Garcin
- Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker as Self
2007
- Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross as Hubert Dunant
- Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice as Le Pape Benoît XIII
2004
- San Antonio as Achille
- Silence of the Sea as André Larosière
- Coup de vache as Raymond Malassis
- Michel Galabru au Marigny - On nous a menti ! as Self
2003
- Raining Cats and Frogs as L'éléphant (voice)
- The Car Keys as Teacher
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self
1999
- Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar as Abraracourcix
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- Foul Play as Michel Galabru
- Let There Be Light! as Dieu le méridional
- Le plus grand cabaret du monde as Self
- Marceeel!!! as Marcel
1997
- Christmas at Bunny's as Le Père Noël
1996
- My Man as 3rd client
- Chaudemanche, père et fils as Eugène Chaudemanche
- Rainbow pour Rimbaud as Robert's father
1995
- Le mas Théotime as Clodieus
- L'École des femmes as Arnolphe
- La poule aux oeufs d'or as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
1994
- Honorin et l'enfant prodigue as Honorin, le maire
1993
- Polly West est de retour as Honorin, mayor
1992
- Belle Époque as Danglard
- Coucou c'est nous ! as Self
- Room Service as Fernand Castanier
- Honorin et la Loreleï as Honorin, le maire
- Sleeping Waters as Fouchard
1991
- The Cocottes as Honorin, le maire
- Epiphany Sunday as Georges
- Les Disparus de Saint-Agil as Mr Lemmel
1990
- Stars 90 as Self
- Uranus as Monglat
- Feu sur le candidat as Robert Cavaillon
- The Silence Of Elsewhere as Henri
- Le Provincial as Ernest Cazavant
- No Time for Justice as The investigating judge
- Deux flics à Belleville as Commissioner Santucci
1989
- The French Revolution as Abbé Maury
- La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro) as Bartholo
- Una casa a Roma as Cardinale
- The French Revolution as Abbé Maury (segment "Années Lumière, Les")
- Le commissaire épate le FBI as Commissaire Tarquinini
- Sans défense as Jules Rampin
- L'Invité surprise as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
1988
- Sueurs froides as Jacques Chalmont
- L'Argent as Daigremont
- Envoyez les violons as Dino Pizzoli
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- Matin Bonheur as Self
- Grand Guignol as Charlie
- Keep Your Right Up as Admiral
- The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque as Jean-Etienne Nasal
- Poule et frites as Martinez
1986
- Kamikaze as Albert
- The Joint Brothers as Le père de Momo
- Follow My Gaze as L'instituteur
- I Hate Actors as Bison
1985
- Subway as Le Commissaire Gesberg
- La Cage aux Folles 3 as Charrier
- Slices of Life as Le paysan
- The Telephone Always Rings Twice as Marraine
- Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons as Commissaire Dufresne
- Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez as Charles de Lespinasse
- Monsieur de Pourceaugnac as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
1984
- Our Story as Emile Pecqueur
- New Year's Eve At Bob's as Douglas
- The Cheat as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
- Salt on the Skin as Bideau
- Les Fausses Confidences as M. Rémy
- Adam et Ève as Léon Blachurpe
- Partenaires as Charlie
1983
- Gramps Is in the Resistance as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
- One Deadly Summer as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
- En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger as Ponsard, publisher
- C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
- Vous habitez chez vos parents ? as André Martell
- It's Called Catastrophe as Fernand Dubuisson
- Le Braconnier de Dieu as Hilaire
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
- Is There a Frenchman in the House? as Victor Réglisson
- Salut, j'arrive as Gaston, Minou's father
- The Graduates of the Last Row as Marcel, le directeur
- On s'en fout… nous on s'aime as 'Tonton' Aristote
- Le Bourgeois gentilhomme as M. Jourdain
- Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! as Michel Frémont, union representative
1981
- Choice of Arms as Commissioner Bonnardot
- Si ma gueule vous plaît... as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
- The Impostures of Scapin as Géronte
- The Ones That Got Away as Emile Loubignac
- Signé Furax as Black
- Is This Reasonable? as Émile Dugoineau, usher
- Le bahut va craquer as le proviseur
- Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers as le colonel Desjument
1980
- I'm Photogenic as Commendator Del Giudice
- Le Guignolo as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
- The Under-Gifted as le commissaire
- Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold as Thibaut
- It All Depends on Girls as Lucien
- The Miser as Maître Jacques
- A Week's Vacation as Mancheron
- Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur as Tartuffe
- le vol d'Icare as Morcol
- La Cage aux Folles II as Simon Charrier
- Une merveilleuse journée as Pinède
1979
- The Bit Between the Teeth as Charles Dréant
- The Winner as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
- The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Jérôme Gerber
- Cop or Hood as Commissioner Grimaud
- Ciao, You Guys as Ecological Farmer
- Heart to Heart as le cousin Gabriel
- Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! as Don Fernand
- The City of Silences as Nathan Farijacque
- Duets on Sofa as Bernard, the lawyer
1978
- Horoscope as Plancheteau
- La Cage aux Folles as Simon Charrier
- Surprise Sock as L'obsédé de la télévision
- Question of Love as Le procureur
- Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived as Le Capitaine
- Le Pion as Schulinspektor
1977
- The Cat as Francisci
- The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés as Nestor Burma
- Group Portrait with a Lady as Walter Pelzer
- Le Chandelier as Maître André
- The Centipede Is Tap Dancing as M. de Beaugenay
- Genre masculin as Pierre
1976
- The Judge and the Assassin as Joseph Bouvier
- The Groper as Eugène Lajoux
- La Grande Récré as Le Commissaire
- The Braggart as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
- Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's as Julien Mercier
1975
- Midi Première as Self
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Numéro un as Self
- Special Section as Le président Cournet
- Mad Race to Cote d'Azur as Leonardos, Greek billionaire
- Monsieur Balboss as Commissioner Balboss
- The Red Ibis as Raymond
- The Dangerous Mission as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
- Cigalon as Cigalon
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- The Down-in-the-Hole Gang as Commissaire Lalatte
- No Pockets in a Shroud as Thomas
- C'est jeune et ça sait tout ! as M. Lambris
- There's a Bone in the Mill as Emile
- Par ici la monnaie as Bishop
- The Fuhrer Runs Amok as Monsieur Achtung
- Les vacanciers as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
- Two Big Girls in Pyjamas as Canavese
- Bedmania as Charles
1973
- Man in the Trunk as Baby
- Le Concierge as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
- The Big Store as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
- Some Too Quiet Gentlemen as Peloux
- L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) as Maître Lamothe
- La Dernière Bourrée à Paris as Jules Payrac
- Big Deal as The commissioner
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Midi trente as Self
- The Annuity as Léon Galipeau
- She No Longer Talks, She Shoots as Cardinal
- The Egg as Gaston Berthoullet
- Les joyeux lurons as Le chanoine Bossuet
1971
- Joe: The Busybody as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
- La Grande Maffia as Father #1
1970
- The Gendarme Takes Off as Jérôme Gerber
- Et qu'ça saute ! as Gutiérrez
1969
- Les gros malins as Vicar
- La Honte de la famille as Maspie le Grand
- L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus as Eugène, policeman
- The Fighting Cock as Albert
- Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus as The Inspector
- Aux frais de la princesse as Dagobert
- Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille as Maître Le Gouen
1968
- The Little Bather as Scipio
- The Gendarme Gets Married as Jérôme Gerber
- A Strange Kind of Colonel as Colonel
- The Most Beautiful Month as Besson
- The Men in the Family as Brigadier
1967
- Vacances pour Jessica as Bill
1966
- Angelique and the King as Bontemps
- Les enquiquineurs as Le garde-champêtre
- Your Money or Your Life as Maître Laprise, notary
- The Sleeping Sentinel as Florin
- The Postman Goes to War as Claparède
- Monsieur le Président Directeur Général as Abel T. Léonard
- Brigade Anti Gangs as Larmeno
1965
- The Gendarme in New York as Jérôme Gerber
- The Real Bargain as Colmar
- Les baratineurs as Entrepreneur
- Me and the Forty Year Old Man as Bricaud
1964
- Clémentine chérie as FBI engineer
- Les Gorilles as The newbie traffic warden
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Jérôme Gerber
- Les pieds nickelés as Ribouldingue
1963
- Good King Dagobert as Pépin
- The Trip to Biarritz as Touffanel
- My Wife's Husband as Maximin
- La bande à Bobo as Bourrache
1962
- Adieu Philippine as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
- War of the Buttons as Bacaillé's father
- Lafayette as Innkeeper
- We Will Go to Deauville as Mr. Mercier
- La salamandre d'or as Alchemist
- The Cross and the Banner as Bob
- Parades as Giles
- Tartarin de Tarascon as Barbassou
- L'Auberge de l'ange gardien as Le général Dourakine
1961
- The Marriage of Figaro as Bartholo
- Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
- The New Aristrocrats as Father Menuzzi
- One Night at the Beach as le commissaire
- Famous Love Affairs as Champagne, le domestique du roi
1960
- Cyrano de Bergerac as Ragueneau
- A Game for Six Lovers as César
- The Delinquents as Fred
1959
- The Three Musketeers as M. Bonacieux
- The Dreadful as Pelou
- Riff Raff Girls as Bit part
- The Indestructible as Augustin Robustal
1958
- Follow Me Young Man as Aristide Oranos
1955
- Three of the Canebière as Pénible
1954
- Letters from My Windmill as Anselme
1949
- Last Hour, Special Edition as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited
- La Bataille du feu as Firefighter