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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 31, 1914
Died
January 27, 1983
Place of Birth
Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Also Known As
- Louis de Funes
- Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza
- L. de Funès
- Луи де Фюнес
- Λουί ντε Φυνές
- ლუი დე ფიუნესი
- لویی دوفونس
Louis de Funès
3.1 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
6.5
Self (archive footage)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
2023
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
2023
7.1
Self (archive footage)
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
2022
7.2
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
6.0
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
2021
6.0
Louis de Funès champion du box office
2021
7.0
Self (archive footage)
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
2020
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
2019
7.0
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
2017
Credits
L'Âge d'or de la pub
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.5
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.0
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.5
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.1
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.2
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
2021
6.0
Louis de Funès champion du box office
2021
6.0
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.0
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.7
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Bourvil, un homme vrai
as Self (archive footage)
2016
6.0
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
as Self (archive footage)
2015
5.5
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
2014
0.0
Louis de Funès Forever
as Himself (archive footage)
2013
6.8
Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
2013
6.5
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
2013
0.0
Louis de Funès, inoubliable
as Louis de Funès
2012
0.0
Louis de Funès Intime
as Self - Archive
2007
7.3
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.1
Sacrée Soirée
as Self (archive footage)
1987
5.1
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
1982
6.0
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Champs-Elysées
as (archive footage)
1982
6.3
The Cabbage Soup
as Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
1981
6.4
The Miser
as Harpagon
1980
6.3
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Ludovic Cruchot
1979
6.1
The Discord
as Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
1978
6.4
The Wing or the Thigh?
as Charles Duchemin
1976
7.2
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Am laufenden Band
as Self - Guest
1974
6.5
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as Victor Pivert
1973
7.4
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Delusions of Grandeur
as Don Salluste de Bazan
1971
7.4
Cadet Rousselle
as Self (archive footage)
1971
0.0
Joe: The Busybody
as Antoine Brisebard
1971
7.2
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V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Perched on a Tree
as Henri Roubier
1971
5.3
The Gendarme Takes Off
as Ludovic Cruchot
1970
6.3
The One Man Band
as Evan Evans
1970
6.0
Hibernatus
as Hubert de Tartas
1969
6.7
The Gendarme Gets Married
as Ludovic Cruchot
1968
6.5
The Tattoo
as Félicien Mézeray
1968
6.4
The Little Bather
as Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
1968
6.6
The Exchange Student
as Charles Bosquier
1967
6.8
Oscar
as Bertrand Barnier
1967
7.3
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
as Commissaire Juve
1967
6.7
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as Stanislas Lefort
1966
7.9
The Restaurant
as M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien
1966
6.8
Fantomas Unleashed
as Commissaire Juve
1965
6.7
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
1965
5.5
The Gendarme in New York
as Ludovic Cruchot
1965
6.3
The Sucker
as Léopold Saroyan
1965
7.4
Fantomas
as Commissaire Juve
1964
6.8
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Ludovic Cruchot
1964
7.0
A Mouse with the Men
as Marcel
1964
5.6
Dandelions by the Roots
as Jacques, le cousin de Jérôme, dit « Jockey-Jack », petit truand
1964
5.4
Let's Rob the Bank
as Victor Garnier
1964
6.5
Le Café liégeois
as le monsieur en habit
1963
6.0
Squeak-squeak
as Léonard Monestier
1963
6.8
Carom Shots
as Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321
1963
6.1
People in Luck
as Antoine Beaurepaire (segment "Le Gros Lot")
1963
5.5
We Will Go to Deauville
as Ludovic Lamberjacques
1962
5.6
The Gentleman from Epsom
as Gaspard Ripeux
1962
6.2
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc
1962
5.5
Crime Does Not Pay
as Barman
1962
5.1
The Vendetta
as Amoretti
1962
5.4
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
as Paul Ernzer
1961
6.0
The American Beauty
as Police station secretary / Head of personnel
1961
6.0
Captain Fracasse
as Scapin
1961
5.3
Small Local Trains
as Émile Durand
1960
6.8
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Officier de la Gestapo
1960
6.2
Some Like It... Cold
as Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
1960
5.5
My Pal the Gypsy
as Mr. Védrines, publisher
1959
4.0
The Overtaxed
as Ettore
1959
7.1
Toto in Madrid
as Professor Montiel
1959
6.4
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
as Maurice Berger
1958
5.9
Life Together
as Maître Stéphane
1958
5.7
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Blaireau
1958
6.9
Crazy in the Noodle
as Pierre Cousin
1957
6.0
La Traversée de Paris
as Jambier, grocer
1956
7.3
Slightly Ahead
as Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
1956
6.1
The Flea in the Ear
as Auguste Ferraillon
1956
5.3
Babies Galore
as Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance
1956
5.1
Daddy's Gang
as l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin
1956
5.4
Law of the Streets
as 'Paulo les chiens'
1956
7.0
Hello Smile!
as Bonoeil
1956
5.9
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
If Paris Were Told to Us
as Antoine Allègre
1956
5.7
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
1955
6.0
The Hussars
as le bedeau Luigi
1955
5.8
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
as M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus
1955
5.8
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as l'oncle Robert
1955
5.5
Frou-Frou
as le colonel Cousinet-Duval
1955
5.7
The Babes Make the Law
as Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus
1955
5.3
Napoleon
as Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
1955
6.3
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
as D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer
1955
5.3
No Exit
as le garçon d'étage
1954
5.6
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
as Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above
1954
5.5
Queen Margot
as René, l'astrologue
1954
6.9
Peek-a-boo
as Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs
1954
4.9
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Pilate
1954
5.6
Service Entrance
as Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien
1954
5.7
Marriage Episodes
as M. Boulingrin
1954
5.0
April Fools' Day
as Le garde-champêtre
1954
5.8
Men Think Only of That
as Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess
1954
5.8
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot
1954
5.0
Trust Me!
as Tumlatum
1954
5.4
The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Gardener Ravan
1954
2.8
Tourments
as Eddy Gorlier
1954
5.6
Mademoiselle Nitouche
as A housekeeper
1954
5.6
La Belle au bois dormant
as Un astrologue
1954
5.0
Les impures
as Le chef de train
1954
3.8
The Scheming Women
as Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce
1954
5.0
The Game of Love
as le projectionniste ambulant
1954
5.8
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as M. Chanteau
1954
6.0
The Knight of the Night
as Adrien Verduret
1953
5.6
My Brother from Senegal
as Le docteur
1953
6.3
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
as Paul Duvernois
1953
5.2
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Le photographe Triboudot
1953
5.1
Captain Slipper
as Mr. Rachoux, bank director
1953
6.0
Les Compagnes de la nuit
as Un Client qui joue aux cartes
1953
5.7
Innocents in Paris
as Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi
1953
4.8
To Hell with Virtue
as Mr. Lorette
1953
5.8
The Sparrows of Paris
as Doctor
1953
5.8
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as Hotel director
1953
4.9
Les Dents longues
as l'employé du laboratoire photo
1953
5.4
The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Emile, manvalet
1953
5.9
L'art et la manière de rire
1953
0.0
She and Me
as le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette
1952
6.2
The Fighting Drummer
as Weapon master
1952
6.0
Run Away Mr. Perle
as Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo
1952
5.3
I Was It Three Times
as L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited)
1952
4.4
The Crazy Jungle
1952
4.0
The Respectful Prostitute
as Nightclub customer
1952
5.1
Mister Taxi
as le peintre de la place du Tertre
1952
6.2
Judgement of God
as L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited)
1952
5.0
Love Is Not a Sin
as Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.
1952
5.7
Matrimonial Agency
as Mr. Charles
1952
5.3
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
as Un habitant du quartier
1952
5.7
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse")
1952
5.9
Wolves Hunt at Night
as Le Barman
1952
5.7
They Were Five
as Albert, le régisseur
1952
5.2
My Wife Is Formidable
as Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel
1951
3.6
Poison
as André
1951
7.2
The Turkey
as Le gérant
1951
6.7
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
as The counselor
1951
6.0
Trip to America
as l'employé d'Air France
1951
6.0
Life Is a Game
as Thief
1951
4.5
The Passerby
as The lock keeper
1951
4.7
The Sleepwalker
as Anatole, the suspicious husband
1951
5.6
Dr. Knock
as Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited)
1951
7.4
The Red Rose
as Poet who eats glasses
1951
5.1
Without Leaving an Address
as Le futur papa qui lit le journal
1951
6.1
The Straw Lover
as Bruno, the psychiatrist
1951
3.5
Bibi Fricotin
as Fisherman
1951
5.0
Champions Juniors
as Le père autoritaire
1951
5.5
The Gamblers
as Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev
1950
5.5
Lawless Street
as Hippolyte
1950
5.1
The Strollers
as Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited)
1950
5.2
Fugitive from Montreal
1950
6.0
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
as Gino
1950
7.5
Twelve Hours to Live
1950
5.9
Adémaï at the border post
as Soldier (uncredited)
1950
6.0
Bed for Two
as The waiter
1950
6.0
A Certain Mister
as Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois
1950
3.7
My Friend Sainfoin
as Guide
1950
8.0
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as Constantin, domestique du baron
1950
4.2
Farewell Mister Grock
as Spectator (uncredited)
1950
5.2
Millionaires for One Day
as L'avocat de Philippe
1949
5.6
Just Out
as (uncredited)
1949
6.0
I Love Only You
as Le chef d'orchestre
1949
5.0
Mission in Tangier
as Spanish General at the Cabaret
1949
5.8
Du Guesclin
as L'astrologue
1949
5.1
Cruise for the Unknown One
as The cook (uncredited)
1948
6.2
Antoine & Antoinette
as Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce
1947
6.1
Last Refuge
as The Driver
1947
4.5
Last Chance Castle
as Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat")
1947
4.3
Six Hours to Lose
as Chauffeur of his excellency
1947
5.2
The Temptation of Barbizon
as Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited)
1946
5.7