Louis de Funès
Acting
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.
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
Louis de Funès champion du box office
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
Self (archive footage)
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
Louis de Funès Forever
Himself (archive footage)
Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès Intime
Self - Archive
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Self (archive footage)
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
The Cabbage Soup
Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
The Miser
Harpagon
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Ludovic Cruchot
The Discord
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
The Wing or the Thigh?
Charles Duchemin
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Victor Pivert
Delusions of Grandeur
Don Salluste de Bazan
Joe: The Busybody
Antoine Brisebard
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
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
Fantomas Unleashed
Commissaire Juve
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
The Gendarme in New York
Ludovic Cruchot
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, le cousin de Jérôme, dit « Jockey-Jack », petit truand
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
Crazy in the Noodle
Pierre Cousin
La Traversée de Paris
Jambier, grocer
Slightly Ahead
Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
The Flea in the Ear
Auguste Ferraillon
Babies Galore
Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance
Daddy's Gang
l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin
Law of the Streets
'Paulo les chiens'
Hello Smile!
Bonoeil
If Paris Were Told to Us
Antoine Allègre
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
The Hussars
le bedeau Luigi
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
l'oncle Robert
Frou-Frou
le colonel Cousinet-Duval
The Babes Make the Law
Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus
Napoleon
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer
No Exit
le garçon d'étage
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above
Queen Margot
René, l'astrologue
Peek-a-boo
Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Pilate
Service Entrance
Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien
Marriage Episodes
M. Boulingrin
April Fools' Day
Le garde-champêtre
Men Think Only of That
Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot
Trust Me!
Tumlatum
The Secret of Helene Marimon
Gardener Ravan
Tourments
Eddy Gorlier
Mademoiselle Nitouche
A housekeeper
La Belle au bois dormant
Un astrologue
The Impure Ones
Le chef de train
The Scheming Women
Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce
The Game of Love
le projectionniste ambulant
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
M. Chanteau
The Knight of the Night
Adrien Verduret
My Brother from Senegal
Le docteur
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Paul Duvernois
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Le photographe Triboudot
Captain Slipper
Mr. Rachoux, bank director
Companions of the Night
Un Client qui joue aux cartes
Innocents in Paris
Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi
To Hell with Virtue
Mr. Lorette
The Sparrows of Paris
Doctor
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Hotel director
Les Dents longues
l'employé du laboratoire photo
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Emile, manvalet
L'art et la manière de rire
She and Me
le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette
The Fighting Drummer
Weapon master
Run Away Mr. Perle
Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo
I Was It Three Times
L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited)
The Crazy Jungle
The Respectful Prostitute
Nightclub customer
Mister Taxi
Le peintre de la place du Tertre
Judgement of God
L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited)
Love Is Not a Sin
Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.
Matrimonial Agency
Mr. Charles
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
Un habitant du quartier
The Seven Deadly Sins
Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse")
Wolves Hunt at Night
Le Barman
They Were Five
Albert, le régisseur
My Wife Is Formidable
Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel
Poison
André
The Turkey
Le gérant
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
The counselor
Trip to America
l'employé d'Air France
Life Is a Game
Thief
The Passerby
The lock keeper
The Sleepwalker
Anatole, the suspicious husband
Dr. Knock
Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited)
The Red Rose
Poet who eats glasses
Without Leaving an Address
Le futur papa qui lit le journal
The Straw Lover
Bruno, the psychiatrist
Bibi Fricotin
Pêcheur
Champions Juniors
Le père autoritaire
The Gamblers
Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev
Lawless Street
Hippolyte
The Strollers
Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited)
Fugitive from Montreal
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Gino
Twelve Hours to Live
Adémaï at the border post
Soldier (uncredited)
Bed for Two
The waiter
A Certain Mister
Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois
My Friend Sainfoin
Guide
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Constantin, domestique du baron
Farewell Mister Grock
Spectator (uncredited)
Millionaires for One Day
L'avocat de Philippe
Just Out
(uncredited)
I Love Only You
Le chef d'orchestre
Mission in Tangier
Spanish General at the Cabaret
Du Guesclin
L'astrologue
Cruise for the Unknown One
The cook (uncredited)
Antoine & Antoinette
Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce
Last Refuge
The Driver
Last Chance Castle
Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat")
Six Hours to Lose
Chauffeur of his excellency
The Temptation of Barbizon
Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited)