Le Figaro: Et si Louis de Funès n’avait jamais fait rire la France ? De Truffaut à Chabrol, la mue radicale d’un immense acteur tragique
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Louis de Funès
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a French actor and comedian. 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.
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entertainment · French actor and comedian (1914–1983) · comedian · film actor · film director · film producer · dub actor · screenwriter · stage actor · pianist · television actor · actor · also Louis de Funès, Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza, Louis de Funes, Louis Germain David de Funes de Galarza, Funès
Born 31 July 1914 · Died 27 January 1983 · Q2737
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2026· 3 entries
Moviefone: Louis de Funès
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ELLE: Cet acteur français va incarner Louis de Funès dans un biopic
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2024· 2 entries
Gala: VIDÉO - Louis de Funès, son petit-fils Laurent n’a rien touché après sa mort : “Ils ont déshérité mon père”
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ELLE: Héritage : Louis de Funès, 500 millions d’euros en cash
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2023· 1 entry
Moviefone: Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
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2022· 1 entry
Voici: Louis de Funès mort il y a 39 ans : l'écœurante escroquerie dont il avait été victime
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2021· 1 entry
Voici: Louis de Funès dur avec ses enfants : son fils Patrick témoigne de son éducation stricte
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2020· 1 entry
Gala: Louis de Funès : ces infarctus qui l’ont empêché de tourner une dernière fois avec Gérard Oury
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2019· 3 entries
Le Parisien: QUIZ. Musée Louis de Funès : êtes-vous incollable sur la légende du cinéma français ?
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Le Parisien: Louis de Funès : le Gendarme et les deux musées
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Another De Funès museum opened in Saint-Raphaël, Var
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2013· 1 entry
A museum dedicated to De Funès was created in the Château de Clermont where he had resided
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Les Fables de La Fontaine par Louis de Funès, Fernandel et Gérard Philipe”.
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1983· 2 entries
In the packed Saint-Martin church in Le Cellier, a town with a relatively small population
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Died 1983-01-27.
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1980· 1 entry
De Funès realised a long-standing dream of making a film version of Molière's play The Miser (L'Avare)
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1975· 1 entry
Oury turned again to De Funès for a film entitled Le Crocodile, in which he was to play the role of a South American dictator
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1973).
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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
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1970· 1 entry
Led to the unlikely pairing of De Funès with Yves Montand in that film
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1968· 1 entry
All three of his films were in the top ten in France for the year, topped by Le Petit Baigneur, with its memorable mass scene
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1964· 1 entry
Debuted in the first of the Fantômas series, which launched him into superstardom
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1956· 1 entry
When he appeared as the black-market pork butcher Jambier (another small role) in Claude Autant-Lara's well-known World War II comedy, La Traversée de Paris
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1945· 1 entry
Thanks to his contact with Daniel Gélin, De Funès made his film debut at the age of 31 with a bit part in Jean Stelli's La Tentation de Barbizon
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1943· 1 entry
And remained together for forty years until his death in 1983
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1936· 1 entry
Married Germaine Louise Élodie Carroyer, with whom he had one child: a son named Daniel; the couple divorced in late 1942
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1934· 1 entry
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-07-31.
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