Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Birthday: 1914-07-31

Deathday: 1983-01-27

Place of birth: Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Also known as: Louis de Funes, Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza, L. de Funès, Луи де Фюнес, Λουί ντε Φυνές, ლუი დე ფიუნესი, لویی دوفونس

imdb_id: nm0000086

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.

Played in movies:

My Friend Sainfoin

Score: 8.0

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

Score: 7.9

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Score: 7.7

The King of the Bla Bla Bla

Score: 7.5

Les Rois de la comédie

Score: 7.5

Delusions of Grandeur

Score: 7.4

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Score: 7.4

The Sucker

Score: 7.4

Dr. Knock

Score: 7.4

Oscar

Score: 7.3

Louis de Funès Intime

Score: 7.3

La Traversée de Paris

Score: 7.3

Poison

Score: 7.2

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Score: 7.2

Joe: The Busybody

Score: 7.2

The Wing or the Thigh?

Score: 7.2

The Overtaxed

Score: 7.1

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

Score: 7.1

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Score: 7.0

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Score: 7.0

La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès

Score: 7.0

Law of the Streets

Score: 7.0

Queen Margot

Score: 6.9

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Score: 6.9

Louis de Funès Forever

Score: 6.8

Small Local Trains

Score: 6.8

The Restaurant

Score: 6.8

Squeak-squeak

Score: 6.8

The Exchange Student

Score: 6.8

Fantomas

Score: 6.8

The Turkey

Score: 6.7

Hibernatus

Score: 6.7

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Score: 6.7

Fantomas Unleashed

Score: 6.7

The Little Bather

Score: 6.6

Il était une fois... Louis de Funès

Score: 6.5

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Score: 6.5

Let's Rob the Bank

Score: 6.5

The Gendarme Gets Married

Score: 6.5

Toto in Madrid

Score: 6.4

The Tattoo

Score: 6.4

The Discord

Score: 6.4

The Cabbage Soup

Score: 6.4

The Gendarme Takes Off

Score: 6.3

Napoleon

Score: 6.3

My Brother from Senegal

Score: 6.3

The Miser

Score: 6.3

The Gendarme in New York

Score: 6.3

Cruise for the Unknown One

Score: 6.2

Mister Taxi

Score: 6.2

She and Me

Score: 6.2

The Gentleman from Epsom

Score: 6.2

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Score: 6.2

Without Leaving an Address

Score: 6.1

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

Score: 6.1

Antoine & Antoinette

Score: 6.1

Slightly Ahead

Score: 6.1

The Hussars

Score: 6.1

Carom Shots

Score: 6.1

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

Score: 6.1

The One Man Band

Score: 6.0

Trip to America

Score: 6.0

Le Café liégeois

Score: 6.0

Bourvil, un homme vrai

Score: 6.0

Adémaï at the border post

Score: 6.0

Mädchen ohne Grenzen

Score: 6.0

Captain Slipper

Score: 6.0

Louis de Funès champion du box office

Score: 6.0

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor

Score: 6.0

The Fighting Drummer

Score: 6.0

The American Beauty

Score: 6.0

Just Out

Score: 6.0

Fugitive from Montreal

Score: 6.0

Bed for Two

Score: 6.0

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

Score: 6.0

In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!

Score: 6.0

Crazy in the Noodle

Score: 6.0

Louis de Funès, Créature/Créateur

Score: 6.0

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

Score: 6.0

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel

Score: 6.0

Hello Smile!

Score: 5.9

The Virtuous Scoundrel

Score: 5.9

Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight

Score: 5.9

Twelve Hours to Live

Score: 5.9

The Seven Deadly Sins

Score: 5.9

Men Think Only of That

Score: 5.8

The Sparrows of Paris

Score: 5.8

Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me

Score: 5.8

To Hell with Virtue

Score: 5.8

Mission in Tangier

Score: 5.8

The Game of Love

Score: 5.8

April Fools' Day

Score: 5.8

Service Entrance

Score: 5.7

The Temptation of Barbizon

Score: 5.7

Les Compagnes de la nuit

Score: 5.7

Wolves Hunt at Night

Score: 5.7

Love Is Not a Sin

Score: 5.7

Life Together

Score: 5.7

Frou-Frou

Score: 5.7

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

Score: 5.7

If Paris Were Told to Us

Score: 5.7

Tourments

Score: 5.6

No Exit

Score: 5.6

Millionaires for One Day

Score: 5.6

The Knight of the Night

Score: 5.6

We Will Go to Deauville

Score: 5.6

Mademoiselle Nitouche

Score: 5.6

The Sheep Has Five Legs

Score: 5.6

A Mouse with the Men

Score: 5.6

The Sleepwalker

Score: 5.6

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

Score: 5.5

Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

Score: 5.5

Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille

Score: 5.5

Champions Juniors

Score: 5.5

The Gamblers

Score: 5.5

The Impossible Mr. Pipelet

Score: 5.5

Some Like It... Cold

Score: 5.5

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

Score: 5.5

People in Luck

Score: 5.5

Les Dents longues

Score: 5.4

The Vendetta

Score: 5.4

Trust Me!

Score: 5.4

Daddy's Gang

Score: 5.4

Captain Fracasse

Score: 5.4

Dandelions by the Roots

Score: 5.4

Matrimonial Agency

Score: 5.3

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model

Score: 5.3

Run Away Mr. Perle

Score: 5.3

The Flea in the Ear

Score: 5.3

The Babes Make the Law

Score: 5.3

Perched on a Tree

Score: 5.3

They Were Five

Score: 5.2

Farewell Mister Grock

Score: 5.2

The Strollers

Score: 5.2

Six Hours to Lose

Score: 5.2

Lightly and Shortly Dressed

Score: 5.2

Du Guesclin

Score: 5.1

The Red Rose

Score: 5.1

Inside a Girls' Dormitory

Score: 5.1

Crime Does Not Pay

Score: 5.1

Lawless Street

Score: 5.1

Babies Galore

Score: 5.1

The Respectful Prostitute

Score: 5.1

Marriage Episodes

Score: 5.0

La Belle au bois dormant

Score: 5.0

I Love Only You

Score: 5.0

The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne

Score: 5.0

Judgement of God

Score: 5.0

Bibi Fricotin

Score: 5.0

The Scheming Women

Score: 5.0

The Tour of the Grand Dukes

Score: 4.9

Peek-a-boo

Score: 4.9

Innocents in Paris

Score: 4.8

The Passerby

Score: 4.7

Life Is a Game

Score: 4.5

Last Refuge

Score: 4.5

I Was It Three Times

Score: 4.4

Last Chance Castle

Score: 4.3

Not Any Weekend for Our Love

Score: 4.2

My Pal the Gypsy

Score: 4.0

The Crazy Jungle

Score: 4.0

Les impures

Score: 3.8

A Certain Mister

Score: 3.7

My Wife Is Formidable

Score: 3.6

The Straw Lover

Score: 3.5

The Secret of Helene Marimon

Score: 2.8

Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son

Score: 0.0

L'art et la manière de rire

Score: 0.0

Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Cinépanorama

Score: 8.0

Le Grand Échiquier

Score: 8.0

V.I.P. Schaukel

Score: 7.5

Am laufenden Band

Score: 6.5

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

Champs-Elysées

Score: 6.3

Midi trente

Score: 6.0

Numéro un

Score: 6.0

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Score: 6.0

Sacrée Soirée

Score: 5.1

Cadet Rousselle

Score: 0.0

Louis de Funès, inoubliable

Score: 0.0