Bourvil

Acting · Born 1917-07-27 in Prétot-Vicquemare, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge as Le chanteur à la télévision
• Les Misérables as Thénardier
• Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
• Le Cercle Rouge as Commissioner François Mattei
• Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Augustin Bouvet
• The Sucker as Antoine Maréchal
• The Longest Day as Mayor of Colleville
• Way of Youth as Charles Michaud
• The Brain as Anatole
• Atlantic Wall as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur