Christian Clavier
Acting
Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film. Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
Avis de tempête
André Malraux
Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia
Astérix (voice)
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Le Jurisconsulte
Cocorico 2
Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
Le Jurisconsulte
Million Dollar Madness
Hippolyte
Christian Clavier: La Vis Comica
The Rookie Guide
Karol Kowalski
Not Without My Shrink
Olivier Béranger
Cocorico
Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage
Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Robert Poutifard
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Employee of the Month
Michel Gougnat, syndicaliste
Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Claude Verneuil
Christmas with the Tuches
Le Père Noël
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Le Jurisconsulte
Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
Jean Boulin
Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ?
Self
Meet the Malawas
Julien Gosset-Grainville
Ibiza
Philippe
Wide Load
Foster
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
Claude Verneuil
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Astérix (voice)
Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures
Comte de Champignac
Finding Momo
Alain Prioux
With Open Arms
Jean-Etienne Fougerole
If I Were a Boy
Docteur PACE
A Bag of Marbles
Docteur Rosen
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Jacquouille la Fripouille/Antoine-Claude Jacquouillet/Edmond Jacquart
Babysitting 2
Alain
Do Not Disturb
Michel Leproux
The Secret of Arkandias
Agenor Arkandias
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Claude Verneuil
Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
Self / Various characters
Le Bœuf clandestin
monsieur Berthaud
Les affaires sont les affaires
Le marquis de Porcellet
Serial Teachers
Cutiro / Tirocu
You Don't Choose Your Family
César
Il était une fois... « Le père Noël est une ordure »
Self
La Cage aux folles
Georges
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
Bitter Victory
Vincent Cluzel
The Imaginary Invalid
Argan
The Red Inn
Pierre Martin
The Price to Pay
Jean-Pierre Ménard
L'Entente cordiale
François de La Conche
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Jérôme Tarayre
The Antidote
Jacques-Alain Marty « JAM »
Les Visiteurs revisités
Self
The Corsican File
Rémi François, aka Jack Palmer
Albert est méchant
Patrick Lechat
Lovely Rita
Edgar Lamarck
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Self - Actor
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Astérix
Just Visiting
Andre
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
Astérix
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard / Prosper le Purineur / Jacouillet
Les Sœurs Soleil
Un spectateur
Panique au Plazza
Jean-Louis Bonnot, Mr. Coïk's secretary
Guardian Angels
Père Hervé Tarain / La « mauvaise conscience »
Dead Tired
Christian Clavier
Revenge of a Blonde
Gérard Bréha
The Thirst for Gold
Urbain Donnadieu
The Visitors
Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
Pierre
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
L'avocat
L'Opération Corned Beef
Jean-Jacques Granianski, le pigeon manipulé
Fantôme sur l'oreiller
Brice Michaud
Un fil à la patte
Fernand de Bois d'Enghien
Double mixte
Bob Smith
My Best Pals
Jean-Michel Tuilier
Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
le petit chef de la DDASS
Mieux vaut courir
Simon
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
Edouard
Twist Again in Moscow
Iouri
L'été 36
Alexis
Slices of Life
L'ami du dragueur / Charles-Henri / L'amant anti-chien
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Jean-Jacques aka 'Katia'
Gramps Is in the Resistance
Michel Taupin
Rock and Torah
Isaac Stern
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Jean-Jacques dit « Katia »
Elle voit des nains partout !
le fourbe
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Antoine Bonfils
Clara and the Why Not
Charles
Rat Race
Jérôme Osendron
Cocktail Molotov
Le Beatnick
French Fried Vacation 2
Jérôme Tarayre
Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Man in the couple with the 2CV
French Fried Vacation
Jérôme Tarayre
Like a Turtle on Its Back
un fêtard dans la voiture
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Le conteur (voice)
Tell Her That I Love Her
François
Spoiled Children
Le réalisateur TV
The Devil in the Box
Renaud
The Bottom Line
Café-theater actor (uncredited)
F as in Fairbanks
Le serveur
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Un flic
Let Joy Reign Supreme
The servant of the inn
Un bol d'air
Christian
The Restroom Robbery
L'agent de sécurité homosexuel (uncredited)
The Suspects
Photographer
Bonne présentation exigée
Le chauffagiste
The Year 01
A debate viewer