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
Belmondo, itinéraire... as Self
The Great Restaurant II as The Unworthy Grandfather
The Robbed Robber as André Gourgousse
Jules et Marcel as Jules Raimu

2010

Mumu as Gâtineau
Love Like Poison as Jean Falguères
The Baker's Wife as Aimable Castanier

2009

Little Nicholas as Minister
Neuilly Yo Mama! as Sénateur
Cineman as Le Docteur
À deux c'est plus facile as Joseph Coudré
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)

2000

Actors as Executed actor
Léopold as Léopold Salvat

1999

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar as Abraracourcix

1998

Vivement dimanche as Self
Let There Be Light! as Dieu le méridional
Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde as Self
Foul Play as Michel Galabru
Marceeel!!! as Marcel

1997

Christmas at Bunny's as Le Père Noël

1996

My Man as 3rd client
Rainbow pour Rimbaud as Robert's father
Chaudemanche, père et fils as Eugène Chaudemanche

1995

L'École des femmes as Arnolphe
La Poule aux œufs d'or as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
Le Mas Théotime as Clodieus

1994

Honorin et l'enfant prodigue as Honorin, le maire

1993

Polly West est de retour as Honorin, mayor

1992

Coucou c'est nous ! as Self
Belle Époque as Danglard
Honorin et la Loreleï as Honorin, le maire
Sleeping Waters as Fouchard
Room Service as Fernand Castanier

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
Le Provincial as Ernest Cazavant
No Time for Justice as The investigating judge
Deux flics à Belleville as Commissioner Santucci
Feu sur le candidat as Robert Cavaillon
The Silence Of Elsewhere as Henri

1989

The French Revolution as Abbé Maury (« Les Années Lumière »)
The French Revolution as Abbé Maury
Sans défense as Jules Rampin
Una casa a Roma as Cardinale
La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro as Bartholo
L'Invité surprise as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
Le commissaire épate le FBI as Commissaire Tarquinini

1988

L'Argent as Daigremont
Sueurs froides as Jacques Chalmont
Envoyez les violons as Dino Pizzoli

1987

Sacrée soirée as Self
Nulle part ailleurs as Self
Matin Bonheur as Self
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque as Jean-Etienne Nasal
Grand Guignol as Charlie
Keep Your Right Up as Admiral
Poule et frites as Martinez

1986

Kamikaze as Albert
Follow My Gaze as L'instituteur
The Joint Brothers as Le père de Momo
I Hate Actors as Bison

1985

Subway as Le Commissaire Gesberg
The Telephone Always Rings Twice as Marraine
La Cage aux Folles 3 as Charrier
Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez as Charles de Lespinasse
Slices of Life as Le paysan
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons as Commissaire Dufresne

1984

Our Story as Emile Pecqueur
Partenaires as Charlie
Salt on the Skin as Bideau
The Cheat as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
New Year's Eve At Bob's as Douglas
Adam et Ève as Léon Blachurpe
Les Fausses Confidences as M. Rémy

1983

One Deadly Summer as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
Gramps Is in the Resistance as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
Le Braconnier de Dieu as Hilaire
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
It's Called Catastrophe as Fernand Dubuisson
Vous habitez chez vos parents ? as André Martell
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger as Ponsard, publisher

1982

Champs-Elysées as Self
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme as M. Jourdain
Salut, j'arrive as Gaston, Minou's father
The Graduates of the Last Row as Marcel, le directeur
Is There a Frenchman in the House? as Victor Réglisson
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! as Michel Frémont, union representative
On s'en fout… nous on s'aime as 'Tonton' Aristote

1981

Signé Furax as Black
The Ones That Got Away as Emile Loubignac
Choice of Arms as Commissioner Bonnardot
Is This Reasonable? as Émile Dugoineau, usher
Le bahut va craquer as le proviseur
Si ma gueule vous plaît... as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
The Impostures of Scapin as Géronte
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers as le colonel Desjument

1980

The Miser as Maître Jacques
The Under-Gifted as M. Grasset, commissaire de police
I'm Photogenic as Commendator Del Giudice
Le Guignolo as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
La Cage aux Folles II as Simon Charrier
A Week's Vacation as Mancheron
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold as Thibaut
Le Vol d'Icare as Morcol
Une merveilleuse journée as Pinède
It All Depends on Girls as Lucien
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur as Tartuffe

1979

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Jérôme Gerber
Cop or Hood as Commissioner Grimaud
Heart to Heart as le cousin Gabriel
Duets on Sofa as Bernard, the lawyer
The Winner as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
The City of Silences as Nathan Farijacque
The Bit Between the Teeth as Charles Dréant
Ciao, You Guys as Ecological Farmer
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! as Don Fernand

1978

La Cage aux Folles as Simon Charrier
Le Pion as Schulinspektor
Question of Love as Le procureur
Surprise Sock as L'obsédé de la télévision
Horoscope as Plancheteau
Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived as Le Capitaine

1977

Le Chandelier as Maître André
The Cat as Francisci
Group Portrait with a Lady as Walter Pelzer
Genre masculin as Pierre
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés as Nestor Burma
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing as M. de Beaugenay

1976

The Judge and the Assassin as Joseph Bouvier
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's as Julien Mercier
La Grande Récré as Le Commissaire
The Braggart as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
The Groper as Eugène Lajoux

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
Numéro un as Self
Midi Première as Self
Special Section as Le président Cournet
Mad Race to Cote d'Azur as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
Cigalon as Cigalon
Monsieur Balboss as Commissioner Balboss
The Red Ibis as Raymond
The Dangerous Mission as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang as Commissaire Lalatte
Les vacanciers as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
The Fuhrer Runs Amok as Monsieur Achtung
No Pockets in a Shroud as Thomas
Par ici la monnaie as Bishop
C'est jeune et ça sait tout ! as M. Lambris
There's a Bone in the Mill as Emile
Bedmania as Charles
Two Big Girls in Pyjamas as Canavese

1973

The Big Store as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
Le Concierge as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) as Maître Lamothe
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen as Peloux
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris as Jules Payrac
Man in the Trunk as Baby
Big Deal as The commissioner

1972

Le Grand Échiquier as Self
Midi trente as Self
The Annuity as Léon Galipeau
The Egg as Gaston Berthoullet
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots as Cardinal
Les joyeux lurons as Le chanoine Bossuet

1971

Jo 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

The Fighting Cock as Albert
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille as Maître Le Gouen
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus as Eugène, policeman
Les gros malins as Vicar
Aux frais de la princesse as Dagobert
La Honte de la famille as Maspie le Grand
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus as The Inspector

1968

The Little Bather as Scipio
The Gendarme Gets Married as Jérôme Gerber
The Most Beautiful Month as Besson
The Men in the Family as Brigadier
A Strange Kind of Colonel as Colonel

1967

Vacances pour Jessica as Bill

1966

Angelique and the King as Bontemps
Brigade Anti Gangs as Larmeno
The Postman Goes to War as Claparède
Your Money or Your Life as Maître Laprise, Notary
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général as Abel T. Léonard
The Sleeping Sentinel as Florin
Les enquiquineurs as Le garde-champêtre

1965

The Gendarme in New York as Jérôme Gerber
Les baratineurs as Entrepreneur
Me and the Forty Year Old Man as Bricaud
The Real Bargain as Colmar

1964

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Jérôme Gerber
Les Gorilles as The newbie traffic warden
Clémentine chérie as FBI engineer
Les Pieds nickelés as Ribouldingue

1963

My Wife's Husband as Maximin
La bande à Bobo as Bourrache
Good King Dagobert as Pépin
The Trip to Biarritz as Touffanel

1962

War of the Buttons as Bacaillé's father
Lafayette as Innkeeper
Adieu Philippine as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
We Will Go to Deauville as Mr. Mercier
Parades as Giles
La salamandre d'or as Alchemist
L'Auberge de l'ange gardien as Le général Dourakine
Tartarin de Tarascon as Barbassou
The Cross and the Banner as Bob

1961

Famous Love Affairs as Champagne, le domestique du roi
One Night at the Beach as le commissaire
The Marriage of Figaro as Bartholo
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
The New Aristrocrats as Father Menuzzi

1960

A Game for Six Lovers as César
The Delinquents as Fred
Cyrano de Bergerac as Ragueneau

1959

The Dreadful as Pelou
The Three Musketeers as M. Bonacieux
The Indestructible as Augustin Robustal
Riff Raff Girls as Bit part

1958

Follow Me Young Man as Aristide Oranos

1955

Three of the Canebière as Pénible

1954

Letters from My Windmill as Anselme

1952

Ma femme, ma vache et moi

1949

Last Hour, Special Edition as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited)
La Bataille du feu as Firefighter