Louis de Funès

Acting · Born 1914-07-31 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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…

Filmography

• The Wing or the Thigh? as Charles Duchemin
• The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob as Victor Pivert
• Oscar as Bertrand Barnier
• Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Ludovic Cruchot
• Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Stanislas Lefort
• Joe: The Busybody as Antoine Brisebard
• The Sucker as Léopold Saroyan
• Delusions of Grandeur as Don Salluste de Bazan
• La Traversée de Paris as Jambier, grocer
• The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Ludovic Cruchot

TV

• Le Grand Échiquier as Self
• Am laufenden Band as Self - Guest
• V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Numéro un as Self
• Cinépanorama as Self
• Champs-Elysées as Self
• Champs-Elysées as (archive footage)
• Midi trente as Self
• Sacrée Soirée as Self (archive footage)