Louis de Funès
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.
The Wing or the Thigh?
(Charles Duchemin)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
(Victor Pivert)
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
(Ludovic Cruchot)
Fantomas Unleashed
(Commissaire Juve)
Fantomas
(Commissaire Juve)
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
(Commissaire Juve)
Hibernatus
(Hubert de Tartas)
Oscar
(Bertrand Barnier)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
(Self (archive footage))
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
(Ludovic Cruchot)
The Gendarme in New York
(Ludovic Cruchot)
Captain Fracasse
(Scapin)
The Gendarme Gets Married
(Ludovic Cruchot)
Les Rois de la comédie
(Self (archive footage))
The Discord
(Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze)
Twelve Hours to Live
The Miser
(Harpagon)
The Exchange Student
(Charles Bosquier)
The Gendarme Takes Off
(Ludovic Cruchot)
Perched on a Tree
(Henri Roubier)
The Tattoo
(Félicien Mézeray)
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
(Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
(Stanislas Lefort, chef d'orchestre à l'Opéra de Paris)
Joe: The Busybody
(Antoine Brisebard)
The Sucker
(Léopold Saroyan)
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
The Cabbage Soup
(Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude))
The Sleepwalker
(Anatole, the suspicious husband)
The One Man Band
(Evan Evans)
Squeak-squeak
(Léonard Monestier)
Delusions of Grandeur
(Don Salluste de Bazan)
Carom Shots
(Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321)
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
(Maurice Berger)
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
(Blaireau)
The Gentleman from Epsom
(Gaspard Ripeux)
Toto in Madrid
(Professor Montiel)
People in Luck
(Antoine Beaurepaire (segment "Le Gros Lot"))
Crazy in the Noodle
(Pierre Cousin)
The Little Bather
(Louis-Philippe Fourchaume)
A Certain Mister
(Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
(Emile, manvalet)
If Paris Were Told to Us
(Antoine Allègre)
The Restaurant
(M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien)
Louis de Funès Intime
(Self - Archive)
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
(Self (archive footage))
La Traversée de Paris
(Jambier, grocer)
My Brother from Senegal
(Le docteur)
April Fools' Day
(Le garde-champêtre)
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
(Un habitant du quartier)
The Overtaxed
(Ettore)
Frou-Frou
(le colonel Cousinet-Duval)
A Mouse with the Men
(Marcel)
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
(Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
(Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc)
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
(Paul Ernzer)
She and Me
(le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette)
Mister Taxi
(le peintre de la place du Tertre)
Peek-a-boo
(Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs)
The Sheep Has Five Legs
(Pilate)
Let's Rob the Bank
(Victor Garnier)
Some Like It... Cold
(Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money)
Last Refuge
(The Driver)
Cruise for the Unknown One
(The cook (uncredited))
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
(M. Chanteau)
My Friend Sainfoin
(Guide)
Bed for Two
(The waiter)
Bibi Fricotin
(Fisherman)
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
(Gino)
Fugitive from Montreal
Just Out
((uncredited))
Life Together
(Maître Stéphane)
Mademoiselle Nitouche
(A housekeeper)
Babies Galore
(Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance)
The Scheming Women
(Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce)
The American Beauty
(Police station secretary / Head of personnel)
Hello Smile!
(Bonoeil)
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
(Paul Duvernois)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
(Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants"))
Judgement of God
(L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited))
The Passerby
(The lock keeper)
Life Is a Game
(Thief)
Dandelions by the Roots
(Jacques, le cousin de Jérôme, dit « Jockey-Jack », petit truand)
We Will Go to Deauville
(Ludovic Lamberjacques)
The Fighting Drummer
(Weapon master)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
(The counselor)
The Crazy Jungle
Small Local Trains
(Émile Durand)
The Hussars
(le bedeau Luigi)
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
(Officier de la Gestapo)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
(l'oncle Robert)
The Game of Love
(le projectionniste ambulant)
Louis de Funès champion du box office
Daddy's Gang
(l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin)
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
(Hotel director)
Trust Me!
(Tumlatum)
Slightly Ahead
(Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière)
Lawless Street
(Hippolyte)
The Vendetta
(Amoretti)
My Wife Is Formidable
(Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel)
The Babes Make the Law
(Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus)
Les impures
(Le chef de train)
Mission in Tangier
(Spanish General at the Cabaret)
Love Is Not a Sin
(Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.)
The Flea in the Ear
(Auguste Ferraillon)
Run Away Mr. Perle
(Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo)
The Respectful Prostitute
(Nightclub customer)
Wolves Hunt at Night
(Le Barman)
To Hell with Virtue
(Mr. Lorette)
Crime Does Not Pay
(Barman)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
(Self (archive footage))
The Knight of the Night
(Adrien Verduret)
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
(D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer)
Captain Slipper
(Mr. Rachoux, bank director)
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
(Le photographe Triboudot)
The Secret of Helene Marimon
(Gardener Ravan)
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
(Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
(Self (archive footage))
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
The Gamblers
(Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev)
Antoine & Antoinette
(Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce)
Matrimonial Agency
(Mr. Charles)
Les Compagnes de la nuit
(Un Client qui joue aux cartes)
Men Think Only of That
(Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess)
I Love Only You
(Le chef d'orchestre)
Louis de Funès Forever
(Himself (archive footage))
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
(M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus)
The Sparrows of Paris
(Doctor)
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
(Self (archive footage))
Tourments
(Eddy Gorlier)
Six Hours to Lose
(Chauffeur of his excellency)
The Turkey
(Le gérant)
Without Leaving an Address
(Le futur papa qui lit le journal)
La Belle au bois dormant
(Un astrologue)
My Pal the Gypsy
(Mr. Védrines, publisher)
Innocents in Paris
(Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi)
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
(Constantin, domestique du baron)
L'art et la manière de rire
Marriage Episodes
(M. Boulingrin)
Champions Juniors
(Le père autoritaire)
The Red Rose
(Poet who eats glasses)
The Seven Deadly Sins
(Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse"))
Napoleon
(Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited))
Millionaires for One Day
(L'avocat de Philippe)
The Strollers
(Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited))
Service Entrance
(Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien)
Les Dents longues
(l'employé du laboratoire photo)
No Exit
(le garçon d'étage)
Dr. Knock
(Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited))
I Was It Three Times
(L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited))
Farewell Mister Grock
(Spectator (uncredited))
The Temptation of Barbizon
(Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited))
Last Chance Castle
(Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat"))
Du Guesclin
(L'astrologue)
Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
Law of the Streets
('Paulo les chiens')
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
(Self (archive footage))
Adémaï at the border post
(Soldier (uncredited))
The Straw Lover
(Bruno, the psychiatrist)
Poison
(André)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
(Self (archive footage))
They Were Five
(Albert, le régisseur)
Le Café liégeois
(le monsieur en habit)
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
(Self (archive footage))
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
(Self (archive footage))
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
(Self (archive footage))
Trip to America
(l'employé d'Air France)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
(Self (archive footage))
Queen Margot
(René, l'astrologue)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Am laufenden Band
(Self - Guest)
Louis de Funès, inoubliable
(Louis de Funès)
V.I.P. Schaukel
(Self)
Cadet Rousselle
(Self (archive footage))
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Numéro un
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
((archive footage))
Midi trente
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self (archive footage))