Actor

Louis de Funès

July 31, 1914 · Courbevoie, 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.

Notable work

7.9
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
as Stanislas Lefort
7.4
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
as Victor Pivert
7.2
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
as Charles Duchemin
6.4
The Cabbage Soup (1981)
as Claude Ratinier (Le Glaude)
7
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
as Ludovic Cruchot
6.8
Fantomas (1964)
as Commissaire Juve
7.4
Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
as Don Salluste de Bazan
7.4
The Sucker (1965)
as Léopold Saroyan
6.1
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
as Ludovic Cruchot
6.5
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
as Ludovic Cruchot
6
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
as Maréchal des Logis-chef Ludovic Cruchot
6.7
Fantomas Unleashed (1965)
as Commissaire Juve

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