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