Louis de Funès
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-07-31
Day of Death
1983-01-27 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Louis de Funès
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2023)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
(2023)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
(2021)
(2020)
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
as Self (archive footage)
(2019)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
as Self (archive footage)
(2016)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
as Self (archive footage)
(2015)
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
(2013)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Louis de Funès Forever
as Himself (archive footage)
(2013)
(2007)
Louis de Funès Intime
as Self - Archive
(2007)
Operation: Secret Agents, Spies & Thighs
as (archive footage)
(2003)
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
as Self (archive footage)
(1982)
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Chief Warrant Officer Ludovic Cruchot
(1981)
The Cabbage Soup
as Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
(1980)
The Miser
as Harpagon
(1979)
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Ludovic Cruchot
(1978)
The Discord
as Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
(1976)
The Wing or the Thigh?
as Charles Duchemin
(1973)
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
as Victor Pivert
(1971)
Delusions of Grandeur
as Don Salluste de Bazan
(1971)
Perched on a Tree
as Henri Roubier
(1971)
Joe: The Busybody
as Antoine Brisebard
(1970)
The One Man Band
as Evan Evans
(1970)
The Gendarme Takes Off
as Ludovic Cruchot
(1969)
Hibernatus
as Hubert de Tartas
(1968)
The Little Bather
as Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
(1968)
The Gendarme Gets Married
as Ludovic Cruchot
(1968)
The Tattoo
as Félicien Mézeray
(1967)
Oscar
as Bertrand Barnier
(1967)
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
as Commissioner Juve
(1967)
The Exchange Student
as Charles Bosquier
(1966)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera
(1966)
The Restaurant
as M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien
(1965)
The Sucker
as Léopold Saroyan
(1965)
Fantomas Unleashed
as Commissaire Juve
(1965)
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
as Léon Haudepin, general insurance agent (segment "Les Bons Vivants")
(1965)
The Gendarme in New York
as Ludovic Cruchot
(1964)
Fantomas
as Commissaire Juve
(1964)
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Ludovic Cruchot
(1964)
Dandelions by the Roots
as Jockey Jack
(1964)
Let's Rob the Bank
as Victor Garnier
(1964)
A Mouse with the Men
as Marcel
(1963)
People in Luck
as Antoine Beaurepaire (« Le Gros Lot »)
(1963)
Squeak-squeak
as Léonard Monestier
(1963)
Carom Shots
as Norbert Charolais, General Director of 321
(1963)
Le Café liégeois
as le monsieur en habit
(1962)
Crime Does Not Pay
as Barman
(1962)
The Vendetta
as Amoretti
(1962)
The Gentleman from Epsom
as Gaspard Ripeux
(1962)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
as Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc
(1962)
We Will Go to Deauville
as Ludovic Lamberjacques
(1961)
The American Beauty
as Police station secretary / Head of personnel
(1961)
Captain Fracasse
as Scapin
(1961)
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
as Paul Ernzer
(1960)
Small Local Trains
as Émile Durand
(1960)
Some Like It... Cold
as Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
(1960)
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Officier de la Gestapo
(1959)
Toto in Madrid
as Professor Montiel
(1959)
The Overtaxed
as Ettore
(1959)
My Pal the Gypsy
as Mr. Védrines, publisher
(1958)
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
as Maurice Berger
(1958)
Life Together
as Maître Stéphane
(1958)
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
as Blaireau
(1957)
Crazy in the Noodle
as Pierre Cousin
(1956)
If Paris Were Told to Us
as Antoine Allègre
(1956)
Law of the Streets
as 'Paulo les chiens'
(1956)
La Traversée de Paris
as Jambier, grocer
(1956)
Hello Smile!
as Bonoeil
(1956)
Daddy's Gang
as l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin
(1956)
Babies Galore
as Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance
(1956)
Slightly Ahead
as Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
(1956)
The Flea in the Ear
as Auguste Ferraillon
(1955)
Napoleon
as Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
(1955)
The Babes Make the Law
as Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus
(1955)
The Hussars
as le bedeau Luigi
(1955)
Frou-Frou
as le colonel Cousinet-Duval
(1955)
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
as M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus
(1955)
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
as D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer
(1955)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
as l'oncle Robert
(1955)
(1954)
April Fools' Day
as Le garde-champêtre
(1954)
The Scheming Women
as Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce
(1954)
The Game of Love
as le projectionniste ambulant
(1954)
No Exit
as le garçon d'étage
(1954)
Les impures
as Le chef de train
(1954)
Mademoiselle Nitouche
as A housekeeper
(1954)
Tourments
as Eddy Gorlier
(1954)
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
as Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above
(1954)
The Sheep Has Five Legs
as Pilate
(1954)
Men Think Only of That
as Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess
(1954)
The Secret of Helene Marimon
as Gardener Ravan
(1954)
Service Entrance
as Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien
(1954)
Peek-a-boo
as Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs
(1954)
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
as Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot
(1954)
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as M. Chanteau
(1954)
Trust Me!
as Tumlatum
(1954)
La Belle au bois dormant
as Un astrologue
(1954)
Marriage Episodes
as M. Boulingrin
(1953)
Innocents in Paris
as Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi
(1953)
To Hell with Virtue
as Mr. Lorette
(1953)
Captain Slipper
as Mr. Rachoux, bank director
(1953)
Les Compagnes de la nuit
as Un Client qui joue aux cartes
(1953)
Les Dents longues
as l'employé du laboratoire photo
(1953)
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
as Le photographe Triboudot
(1953)
The Sparrows of Paris
as Doctor
(1953)
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
as Hotel director
(1953)
The Knight of the Night
as Adrien Verduret
(1953)
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
as Paul Duvernois
(1953)
The Virtuous Scoundrel
as Emile, manvalet
(1953)
(1953)
My Brother from Senegal
as Le docteur
(1952)
They Were Five
as Albert, le régisseur
(1952)
The Respectful Prostitute
as Nightclub customer
(1952)
Mister Taxi
as le peintre de la place du Tertre
(1952)
She and Me
as le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette
(1952)
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse")
(1952)
Judgement of God
as L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited)
(1952)
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
as Un habitant du quartier
(1952)
I Was It Three Times
as L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited)
(1952)
Matrimonial Agency
as Mr. Charles
(1952)
Wolves Hunt at Night
as Le Barman
(1952)
Love Is Not a Sin
as Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.
(1952)
Run Away Mr. Perle
as Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo
(1952)
The Fighting Drummer
as Weapon master
(1952)
(1951)
Life Is a Game
as Thief
(1951)
Dr. Knock
as Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited)
(1951)
Without Leaving an Address
as Le futur papa qui lit le journal
(1951)
The Red Rose
as Poet who eats glasses
(1951)
Bibi Fricotin
as Fisherman
(1951)
Poison
as André
(1951)
My Wife Is Formidable
as Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel
(1951)
The Turkey
as Le gérant
(1951)
The Passerby
as The lock keeper
(1951)
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
as The counselor
(1951)
The Sleepwalker
as Anatole, the suspicious husband
(1951)
Champions Juniors
as Le père autoritaire
(1951)
Trip to America
as l'employé d'Air France
(1951)
The Straw Lover
as Bruno, the psychiatrist
(1950)
(1950)
Bed for Two
as The waiter
(1950)
(1950)
Lawless Street
as Hippolyte
(1950)
A Certain Mister
as Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois
(1950)
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
as Gino
(1950)
The Strollers
as Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited)
(1950)
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
as Constantin, domestique du baron
(1950)
Farewell Mister Grock
as Spectator (uncredited)
(1950)
The Gamblers
as Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev
(1950)
Adémaï at the border post
as Soldier (uncredited)
(1950)
My Friend Sainfoin
as Guide
(1949)
I Love Only You
as Le chef d'orchestre
(1949)
Mission in Tangier
as Spanish General at the Cabaret
(1949)
Millionaires for One Day
as L'avocat de Philippe
(1949)
Du Guesclin
as L'astrologue
(1949)
Just Out
as (uncredited)
(1948)
Cruise for the Unknown One
as The cook (uncredited)
(1947)
Antoine & Antoinette
as Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce
(1947)
Last Chance Castle
as Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat")
(1947)
Six Hours to Lose
as Chauffeur of his excellency
(1947)
Last Refuge
as The Driver
(1946)
The Temptation of Barbizon
as Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited)
Crew
(1981)
The Cabbage Soup
Author
(1980)
The Miser
Director, Screenplay
(1979)
(1967)
Oscar
Adaptation
(1966)
The Restaurant
Writer