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Louis de Funès
🎂 Jul 31, 1914 — 🕯️ Jan 27, 1983 (68 years)
Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Louis de Funès, born in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France , is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1946 with The Temptation of Barbizon. Best known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!, playing Stanislas Lefort. Also starred in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob and The Wing or the Thigh?. Their filmography spans 170 movies and 12 TV shows over 80 years, across genres including comedy, sci-fi, crime.
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
Fantomas
1964
Fantomas Unleashed
1965
The Cabbage Soup
1981
Delusions of Grandeur
1971
The Exchange Student
1967
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976
The Sucker
1965
The Gendarme Takes Off
1970
Hibernatus
1969
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964
The Tattoo
1968
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967
The Gendarme in New York
1965
The Gendarme Gets Married
1968
The Discord
1978
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
La Traversée de Paris
1956
The Miser
1980
Squeak-squeak
1963
The Little Bather
1968
Oscar
1967
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958
The Restaurant
1966
Perched on a Tree
1971
Joe: The Busybody
1971
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965
The One Man Band
1970
The American Beauty
1961
Carom Shots
1963
Captain Fracasse
1961
Napoleon
1955
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962
The Gentleman from Epsom
1962
If Paris Were Told to Us
1956
A Mouse with the Men
1964
People in Luck
1963
Matrimonial Agency
1952
Poison
1951
Les Dents longues
1953
Life Together
1958
The Temptation of Barbizon
1946
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
1958
Let's Rob the Bank
1964
The Overtaxed
1959
Mission in Tangier
1949
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1960
Queen Margot
1954
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
1982
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The Cabbage Soup
Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
1981
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The Miser
Harpagon
1980
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Ludovic Cruchot
1979
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The Discord
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
1978
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Charles Duchemin
1976
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Louis de Funès
1914-07-31 · Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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.Louis de Funès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.