Bourvil
André Robert Raimbourg (27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil, and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Bourvil's father was killed in the First World War before he was born. As a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, from which he took his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943. After a battle with Kahler's syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines. In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naïve, such as his roles opposite the hyperactive, dishonest and bossy ones played by Louis de Funès. Bourvil's characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more dramatic roles such as the handyman in L'Arbre de Noël (1969). In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the young son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, so often as a simple man. One can also note his role of Monsieur Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables (1958), and his penultimate role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge (1970). In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the complete recording of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens, playing the four 'servant' roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bourvil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
(Le chanteur à la télévision)
Les Misérables
(Thénardier)
Les Rois de la comédie
(Self (archive footage))
Le Cercle Rouge
(Commissioner François Mattei)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
(Augustin Bouvet, peintre en bâtiment)
The Sucker
(Antoine Maréchal)
The Longest Day
(Mayor of Colleville)
Way of Youth
(Charles Michaud)
The Brain
(Anatole)
Atlantic Wall
(Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur)
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
(Georges Lachaunaye)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
(Monsieur Dupont)
The Big Wash
(Armand Saint-Just)
Miquette
(Urbain de la Tour-Mirande)
Fortunate
(Noël Fortunat)
The Singer from Mexico
(Bilou)
The Three Musketeers
(Planchet)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(Museum guard)
Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants
(Self (archive footage))
My Wife's Husband
(André Colombey)
La Traversée de Paris
(Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver)
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
(Léon Dutilleul)
April Fools' Day
(Émile Dupuy)
The Green Mare
(Honoré Haudouin)
The Big Swag
(Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer)
Sideral Cruises
(Scientist)
Don't Tempt the Devil
(Albert Gaudet, investigating judge)
The Hunchback of Paris
(Passepoil)
The Christmas Tree
(Verdun)
A Star to the Sun
((uncredited))
Captain Blood
(Baladin Cogolin)
The Wise Guys
(Hector Valentin)
The Hotshots
(Jules Auguste Duroc)
Sunday Encounter
(Jean Brévent)
The Stud
(William Chaminade)
All the Gold in the World
(Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont)
Cadet Rousselle
(Jérôme Baguindet)
The Mirror Has Two Faces
(Pierre Tardivet)
Crazy for Love
(Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine)
The Big Scare
The Hussars
(le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis)
Not So Stupid
(Léon Ménard)
Les Culottes rouges
(Fendard)
By the Window
(Gaston 'Pilou')
Les Arnaud
(Judge Henri Arnaud)
White as Snow
(Léon Ménard)
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
(Leon Ménard)
Serenade of Texas
(Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf)
Josefa's Loot
(Pierre Corneille)
Three Disordered Children
(Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics)
The Prize
(Isidore Pastouret)
Le Roi Pandore
(Léon Ménard, le gendarme)
The Dirty Game
(Lalande)
Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2
(Self (archive footage))
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)
(Self (archive footage))
Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur
(Self (archive footage))
La Traversée de Bourvil
(Self (archive footage))
The Busybody
(André Loriot)
Tartarin de Tarascon
(Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped)
Clodo
(Gaston (uncredited))
One Hundred Francs Per Second
(Self)
Le Fil à la patte
(Camille Bouzin)
Studio en folies
(Self)
Alone in Paris
(Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard)
La Bonne Planque
(Antoine Perrin)
Hanged Man's Farm
(Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce)
Bourvil : Bien... si bien
(Self (archive footage))
Lino Ventura, la part intime
(Self (archive footage))
Bourvil, un homme vrai
(Self (archive footage))
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
(Self (archive footage))
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
(Self (archive footage))
Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse
(Self (Footage Archives))
Spécial cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Midi trente
(Self (archive footage))
Champs-Elysées
(Self (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
