Louis de Funès
Acting
Born: July 31, 1914 · Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: January 27, 1983 (aged 68)
Highest Rated
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis de Funès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
1973
The Wing or the Thigh?
1976
The Cabbage Soup
1981
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964
Fantomas
1964
Delusions of Grandeur
1971
The Sucker
1965
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
The Gendarme Gets Married
1968
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
Fantomas Unleashed
1965
Photos (7)
Movies (156)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Stanislas Lefort
Fantomas Unleashed
Commissaire Juve
The Miser
Harpagon
Napoleon
Soldier Laurent Passementier (uncredited)
Oscar
Bertrand Barnier
Hibernatus
Hubert de Tartas
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Victor Pivert
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Ludovic Cruchot
The Sucker
Léopold Saroyan
Delusions of Grandeur
Don Salluste de Bazan
The Tattoo
Félicien Mézeray
The Gendarme Gets Married
Ludovic Cruchot
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Ludovic Cruchot
The Fighting Drummer
Weapon master
Six Hours to Lose
Chauffeur of his excellency
The Respectful Prostitute
Nightclub customer
The Gendarme in New York
Ludovic Cruchot
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
The Little Bather
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
The Exchange Student
Charles Bosquier
Fantomas
Commissaire Juve
The Gendarme Takes Off
Ludovic Cruchot
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Commissaire Juve
The Wing or the Thigh?
Charles Duchemin
My Brother from Senegal
Le docteur
Last Refuge
The Driver
The Cabbage Soup
Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
Jo
Antoine Brisebard
Let's Rob the Bank
Victor Garnier
Just Out
(uncredited)
The One Man Band
Evan Evans
The Restaurant
M. Septime, patron d'un grand restaurant parisien
Squeak-squeak
Léonard Monestier
Carom Shots
Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Blaireau
Marriage Episodes
M. Boulingrin
Poison
André
The Discord
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze
Perched on a Tree
Henri Roubier
A Mouse with the Men
Marcel Ravelais
La Traversée de Paris
Jambier, grocer
Slightly Ahead
Le père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
Adémaï at the border post
Soldier (uncredited)
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Pilate
Captain Fracasse
Scapin
The Gamblers
Piotr Petrovitch Shvokhnev
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Antoine Vaillant, l'escroc
Peek-a-boo
Michel Lebœuf, le commissaire de la brigade des mœurs
Without Leaving an Address
Le futur papa qui lit le journal
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Léon Haudepin (sketch "Les Bons Vivants")
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Léon Haudepin, agent général d'assurances (sketch “Les Bons Vivants”)
The Gentleman from Epsom
Gaspard Ripeux
The Seven Deadly Sins
Martin Gaston, the Frenchman (segment "La Paresse")
Queen Margot
René, l'astrologue
The Turkey
Le gérant
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Le photographe Triboudot
The Overtaxed
Ettore
Antoine & Antoinette
Émile, le garçon épicier et un invité à la noce
Dandelions by the Roots
Jacques
Crazy in the Noodle
Pierre Cousin
Dr. Knock
Le malade qui a perdu 100 grammes (uncredited)
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
M. Calomel, voisin à l'étage au-dessus
Some Like It... Cold
Ange Galopin, creditor who wants to recover the money
People in Luck
Antoine Beaurepaire (segment "Le Gros Lot")
The Passerby
The lock keeper
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Mr. Calomel, neighbor on the floor above
Crime Does Not Pay
Barman
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
The counselor
Champions Juniors
Le père autoritaire
The American Beauty
Police station secretary / Head of personnel
Frou-Frou
le colonel Cousinet-Duval
Innocents in Paris
Célestin, le chauffeur de taxi
If Paris Were Told to Us
Antoine Allègre
Les Dents longues
l'employé du laboratoire photo
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
Maurice Berger
Life Together
Maître Stéphane
The Game of Love
le projectionniste ambulant
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Le commissaire de police qui ne dit mot
Toto in Madrid
Professor Montiel
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
2021
My Friend Sainfoin
Guide
Babies Galore
Célestin Ratier, représentant des industries de l'enfance
April Fools' Day
Le garde-champêtre
Trip to America
l'employé d'Air France
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
1955
Bibi Fricotin
Pêcheur
Life Is a Game
Thief
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Emile, manvalet
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
2014
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
M. Chanteau
No Exit
le garçon d'étage
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
Un habitant du quartier
Mission in Tangier
Spanish General at the Cabaret
Farewell Mister Grock
Spectator (uncredited)
The Knight of the Night
Adrien Verduret
Trust Me!
Tumlatum
The Straw Lover
Bruno, the psychiatrist
Le Café liégeois
le monsieur en habit
Wolves Hunt at Night
Le Barman
A Certain Mister
Thomas Boudeboeuf, journaliste à L'Avenir Sauveterrois
She and Me
le garçon de café qui embrasse Juliette
Service Entrance
Cesare Grimaldi, le père, artiste italien
The Vendetta
Amoretti
Law of the Streets
'Paulo les chiens'
We Will Go to Deauville
Ludovic Lamberjacques
The Strollers
Mr. Vincent, hardware store (uncredited)
Daddy's Gang
l'inspecteur principal Victor Eugène Merlerin
The Hussars
le bedeau Luigi
My Wife Is Formidable
Le skieur qui cherche une chambre d'hôtel
The Secret of Helene Marimon
Gardener Ravan
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Paul Ernzer
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Officier de la Gestapo
Small Local Trains
Émile Durand
The Scheming Women
Mr Marcange, l'auteur de la pièce
Hello Smile!
Bonoeil
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Paul Duvernois
Du Guesclin
L'astrologue
Lawless Street
Hippolyte
Twelve Hours to Live
1950
The Sleepwalker
Anatole, the suspicious husband
Louis de Funès champion du box office
2021
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Hotel director
I Love Only You
Le chef d'orchestre
Millionaires for One Day
L'avocat de Philippe
Judgement of God
L'homme qui se fait arracher une dent (uncredited)
Matrimonial Agency
Mr. Charles
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Gino
Captain Slipper
Mr. Rachoux, bank director
My Pal the Gypsy
Mr. Védrines, publisher
Run Away Mr. Perle
Le fou qui pêche dans un lavabo
First Communion
Un prete (Uncredited)
Mademoiselle Nitouche
A housekeeper
I Was It Three Times
L'interprète-secrétaire du sultan de Hammanlif (uncredited)
Mister Taxi
Le peintre de la place du Tertre
The Red Rose
Poet who eats glasses
Men Think Only of That
Célosso, Spanish husband of the Russian Countess
The Sparrows of Paris
Doctor
The Impure Ones
Le chef de train
They Were Five
Albert, le régisseur
The Babes Make the Law
Jeannot la Bonne Affaire, le barman du "Lotus
The Temptation of Barbizon
Le portier du cabaret "Le Paradis" (uncredited)
L'art et la manière de rire
1953
Cruise for the Unknown One
The cook (uncredited)
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
D'Arrigio - Modeschöpfer
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Constantin, domestique du baron
Fugitive from Montreal
1950
La Belle au bois dormant
Un astrologue
Tourments
Eddy Gorlier
Bed for Two
The waiter
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
l'oncle Robert
Last Chance Castle
Le client du bar qui reçoit Yolande dans ses bras ("scène avec N. Nattier et J. Marchat")
To Hell with Virtue
Mr. Lorette
Love Is Not a Sin
Mr. Cottin, the man with the dog, member of the U.R.A.F.
Companions of the Night
Un Client qui joue aux cartes
Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
2013
The Flea in the Ear
Auguste Ferraillon
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (24)
Sacrée soirée
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 5 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 3 eps
Numéro un
Self · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 2 eps
Cinépanorama
Self · 1 eps
Cadet Rousselle
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Am laufenden Band
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Self (archive footage)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Self (archive footage)
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès Intime
Self - Archive
Meeting with Joe: The Busybody
Self (archive footage)
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès Forever
Himself (archive footage)
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
Self (archive footage)
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
Self (archive footage)
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Self (archive footage)