Louis de Funès
Acting
Born 1914-07-31
Died 1983-01-27
Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
182 credits
César Award 1
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1
Awards
Won 1 César Award Award
César Award 1 won
- — César Award Won
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1 won
- 1973 Knight of the Legion of Honour Won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
60 credits
Sacrée soirée
Champs-Elysées
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Midi trente
Numéro un
Cinépanorama
V.I.P. Schaukel
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
The Sucker
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Hibernatus
The Wing or the Thigh?
Cadet Rousselle
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Fantomas
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Tattoo
The Gendarme Gets Married
The Miser
Am laufenden Band
The Cabbage Soup
The Gendarme in New York
The Little Bather
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Fantomas Unleashed
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
The Restaurant
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Poison
Squeak-squeak
Napoleon
The Exchange Student
The Gendarme Takes Off
Jo
Delusions of Grandeur
The Fighting Drummer
Last Refuge
The One Man Band
A Mouse with the Men
Oscar
Six Hours to Lose
The Discord
The Respectful Prostitute
Captain Fracasse
Peek-a-boo
La Traversée de Paris
Perched on a Tree
Queen Margot
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The Turkey
My Brother from Senegal
Louis de Funès Intime
Marriage Episodes
Without Leaving an Address
Carom Shots
The Seven Deadly Sins
Le Café liégeois
Writing
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Directing
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