Francis Blanche

Q: What is Francis Blanche's most recent movie or series?

Francis Blanche's most recent release is Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche, which premiered on March 19, 2022.

Jul 20, 1921 — Jul 6, 1974 (52 years) Paris, France

109 Movies 1 Series

Francis Blanche was born in Paris, France and works as an actor. Their credits include Belle de Jour as Mr. Adolphe. Their work further includes Crooks in Clover and The Great Spy Chase. Their filmography spans 109 films and 1 TV production across 84 years, working mainly across genres like comedy, drama, romance.

Known for

La Polka des menottes

as un voisin

52R.I.P.

109Movies

1Series

Known for

La Polka des menottes

as un voisin

52 R.I.P.

R.I.P.

109

Movies

Series

Movies

⭐ 5.2

By the Blood of Others

1974

⭐ 6.8

Good Enough to Eat

1951

Adieu Berthe

1970

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

1963

⭐ 4.7

Jaloux comme un tigre

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Le canard en fer blanc

The Sleeping Sentinel

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

1953

⭐ 4.9

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

⭐ 5.0

A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik

The Oldest Profession

The Men in the Family

1968

⭐ 5.4

No Pockets in a Shroud

Romulus and the Sabines

Rita the Field Marshal

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

Champagne for Savages

TV Shows

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Say it with Flowers

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A Whale That Had a Toothache

Francis

1975

Film

No Pockets in a Shroud

Film

Film

Pierre, the perverted financier

1974

Film

OK Patron

Victor Hutin, Sophie's father

1974

Film

By the Blood of Others

Doctor

1974

Film

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

Gaston Payrac

1973

Film

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

Film

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Francis Blanche still alive?

Francis Blanche passed away on July 6, 1974 at age 52.

What are the most famous roles of Francis Blanche?

Francis Blanche is best known for roles in Belle de Jour, Crooks in Clover, The Great Spy Chase.

How many movies has Francis Blanche been in?

Over a 32-year career (since 1942), Francis Blanche has appeared in 117 movies and 6 TV shows.

What was Francis Blanche's first movie?

The career of Francis Blanche began with Frédérica (1942).

What is Francis Blanche's most recent movie or series?

Francis Blanche's most recent release is A Whale That Had a Toothache, which premiered on April 15, 1975.

What TV shows has Francis Blanche appeared in?

On television, Francis Blanche has appeared in Cinépanorama, À bout portant, Samedi soir, Midi trente.

François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their studios in Eze.

Blanche was born in an artistic family, mainly of stage actors—including his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painter—. He completed his secondary schooling at fourteen, the youngest in France to do so at the time.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Blanche was part of Robert Dhéry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954.

Blanche teamed up with Pierre Dac to form a comic duo best remembered for Le Sâr Rabindranath Duval, a sketch about a phony and nonsensical Indian clairvoyant and guru (1957). They also created a popular and equally nonsensical radiophonic series, loosely based on a highly improbable espionage and conspiration plot, Malheur aux barbus, which was broadcast on Paris Inter in 213 episodes from 1951 to 1952. The same plot and characters were revived on Europe 1 in a series called Signé Furax, enjoying no less than 1,034 daily episodes between 1956 and 1960. Both broadcasts were phenomenal audience successes in the pre-television era. Blanche was also renowned for broadcasting phone pranks, in which he entertained listeners by making the most improbable situations sound plausible.

He wrote poems, and the lyrics of 673 songs. On stage, he acted in Tartuffe and Néron and, in 1955, Chevalier du Ciel, an operetta by Luis Mariano at the Gaîté-Lyrique theatre.

Blanche also enjoyed a successful cinematographic career, both as an actor and scriptwriter. He appeared as a hard-headed German colonel ("Obersturmführer Schulz") opposite Brigitte Bardot in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (1959). He was one of the favourite actors of French filmmaker Georges Lautner, and played Maître Folace (a shady solicitor counselling a colourful gangster mob) in Les Tontons flingueurs (1963). Blanche also appeared in Boris Vassilief's Les Barbouzes (1964).

He delighted in parodying classical music, adapting famous works such as Schubert's "Die Forelle" (The Trout) into a crazy and slightly risqué piece about a 16-year-old romantic girl obsessed with Schubert's song to the point of giving birth to a live trout while performing it on her piano. Similarly, he turned Beethoven's 5th Symphony into a lengthy and quite repetitive musical glorification of the clothes peg and its fictitious inventor, Jérémie-Victor Opdebec.

Blanche died at the age of 52, from a heart attack with a background of untreated Type 1 diabetes. He is buried in Èze cemetery.

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