Louis de Funès
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
181
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis de Funès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Champs-Elysées
Champs-Elysées
Sacrée Soirée
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Numéro un
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Cinépanorama
People in Luck
Midi trente
Napoleon
No Exit
Fugitive from Montreal
Matrimonial Agency
The Sucker
Fantomas
Life Is a Game
Squeak-squeak
The Cabbage Soup
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Oscar
Small Local Trains
The Hussars
Hibernatus
Crime Does Not Pay
Carom Shots
V.I.P. Schaukel
The Wing or the Thigh?
The Vendetta
Tourments
Captain Slipper
Hello Smile!
Delusions of Grandeur
Mister Taxi
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Frou-Frou
The Restaurant
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
The Overtaxed
The Discord
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
The Gendarme in New York
Perched on a Tree
Du Guesclin
Fantomas Unleashed
The Scheming Women
The Gendarme Takes Off
Les impures
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
La Traversée de Paris
To Hell with Virtue
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
The Little Bather
The One Man Band
Am laufenden Band
If Paris Were Told to Us
Queen Margot
The American Beauty
The Passerby
Without Leaving an Address
Life Together
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Game of Love
Twelve Hours to Live
Captain Fracasse
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Toto in Madrid
Let's Rob the Bank
Louis de Funès Forever
The Respectful Prostitute
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
The Strollers
She and Me
Les Compagnes de la nuit
Les Rois de la comédie
Law of the Streets
Cadet Rousselle
Judgement of God
The Exchange Student
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
We Will Go to Deauville
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Antoine & Antoinette
Lawless Street
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Mademoiselle Nitouche
The Gentleman from Epsom
The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Innocents in Paris
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
I Was It Three Times
Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
April Fools' Day
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
The Babes Make the Law
The Tattoo
Louis de Funès Intime
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
The Secret of Helene Marimon
A Certain Mister
The Gendarme Gets Married
Daddy's Gang
The Miser
Dandelions by the Roots
Joe: The Busybody
The Temptation of Barbizon
A Mouse with the Men
My Pal the Gypsy
In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
I Love Only You
Six Hours to Lose
Wolves Hunt at Night
Les Dents longues
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Run Away Mr. Perle
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Bed for Two
My Wife Is Formidable
Crazy in the Noodle
Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
Some Like It... Cold
La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès
Men Think Only of That
Farewell Mister Grock
They Were Five
Last Chance Castle
Cruise for the Unknown One
Mission in Tangier
The Sparrows of Paris
Mädchen ohne Grenzen
Service Entrance
Dr. Knock
The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Trip to America
Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model
No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Peek-a-boo
The Red Rose
The Flea in the Ear
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Slightly Ahead
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Poison
Bourvil, un homme vrai
The Sleepwalker
Last Refuge
The Turkey
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
The Gamblers
Adémaï at the border post
Babies Galore
The Knight of the Night
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
The Fighting Drummer
The Virtuous Scoundrel
Louis de Funès, inoubliable
Marriage Episodes
The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Trust Me!
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
Le Café liégeois
Bibi Fricotin
Millionaires for One Day
The Straw Lover
My Brother from Senegal
The Crazy Jungle
Lightly and Shortly Dressed
La Belle au bois dormant
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire
Champions Juniors
Love Is Not a Sin
Just Out
My Friend Sainfoin
Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur
Il était une fois... Louis de Funès
L'art et la manière de rire
Louis de Funès champion du box office
