Louis de Funès

Known for ActingBorn 1914-07-31Died 1983-01-27Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Cinépanorama

Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress

Le Grand Échiquier

V.I.P. Schaukel

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

Mädchen ohne Grenzen

Just Out

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Louis de Funès Intime

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

La Folle Aventure de Louis de Funès

Numéro un

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

My Friend Sainfoin

Delusions of Grandeur

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Law of the Streets

The Sucker

No Vacation for Mr. Mayor

Oscar

The Wing or the Thigh?

Jo

Louis de Funès Forever

Dr. Knock

La Traversée de Paris

The King of the Bla Bla Bla

Am laufenden Band

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Poison

The Overtaxed

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Queen Margot

The Turkey

Il était une fois... Louis de Funès

Champs-Elysées

Les Rois de la comédie

The Fighting Drummer

The Exchange Student

Bed for Two

Adémaï at the border post

Fantomas

The Restaurant

Squeak-squeak

Hibernatus

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Fantomas Unleashed

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

Small Local Trains