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