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 Bourvil

Bourvil

French actor, comedian and singer (1917-1970)
July 25, 1917 (September 23, 1970)
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Marcel Camus with Bourvil, Peter McEnery, Sophie Desmarets. In 1943, a Norman innkeeper unwittingly gets involved in the escape of a British aviator and the theft of documents from the German headquarters.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by Jean-Pierre Melville with Bourvil, Alain Delon, Yves Montand. A police officer sets a trap for three criminals who have just succeeded in a jewel heist.
Runtime: 140 min.

The Brain

V.O.: Le Cerveau
Fr. 1969. Police comedy by Gérard Oury with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven. An expert thief and two shady crooks enter into a rivalry over a train robbery.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Michael Lonsdale. A veterinarian wants to create a centre where men would come to the aid of women who are deprived of love.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Christmas Tree

V.O.: L'Arbre de Noël
Fr. 1969. Melodrama by Terence Young with William Holden, Virna Lisi, Bourvil. A widower struggles to ease the last days of his young son who is suffering from a terminal illness.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1968. Satire by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Jean Tissier, Francis Blanche. A teacher goes to war against television.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1967. Psychological drama by Léo Joannon with Bourvil, Salvatore Adamo, Christine Delaroche. A judge protects a law student who killed a blackmailer in self-defense.
Runtime: 92 min.

The Hotshots

V.O.: Les Cracks
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Robert Hirsch, Monique Tarbès. The inventor of a new bicycle decides to enter a race.
Runtime: 100 min.

Trois Enfants dans le désordre

V.O.: 3 Enfants dans le désordre
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Léo Joannon with Bourvil, Jean Lefebvre, Jeanne Colletin. To avoid the confiscation of his property, a man acknowledges the paternity of three children.
Runtime: 86 min.

Don't Look Now

V.O.: La Grande Vadrouille
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Terry-Thomas. A house painter and a conductor help British pilotescape from the Germans.
Runtime: 125 min.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Terence Young, Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani with Henry Fonda, Bourvil, Vittorio Gassman. Three espionage adventures.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Wise Guys

V.O.: Les Grandes Gueules
Fr. 1965. Adventures by Robert Enrico with Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Jean-Claude Rolland. The owner of a logging company hires prisoners on parole as loggers.
Runtime: 129 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Paul Meurisse, Françoise Deldick. A subway clerk gets involved in a heist he had imagined in a novel.
Runtime: 78 min.

La Cité de l'indicible peur

V.O.: La Grande Frousse
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche. A police officer pursues an escaped convict in a village terrorized by a monster.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Sucker

V.O.: Le Corniaud
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Gérard Oury with Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Venantino Venantini. A naive man innocently foils a smuggling plan.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Anna Magnani, Bourvil, Pierre Brasseur. The misadventures of a village grocer who made everyone believe that she received an inheritance.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Gilles Grangier with Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier. After returning from war, a man discovers his wife remarried and his small business transformed.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret. A man claims to have received a sign from heaven to loot church trunks.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. War drama by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Laurent Terzieff, Étienne Bierry. Despite being cowardly and fearful, a French prisoner in a German concentration camp participates in another prisoner?s escape plan.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1962. War drama by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Hans Christian Blech. On June 6, 1944, the Allied forces carried out a large-scale landing on the beaches of Normandy, which were guarded by German soldiers.
Runtime: 180 min.
Fr. 1962. Drama by Christian-Jaque with Pierre Brasseur, Marina Vlady, Bourvil. A woman accuses a nurse of her husband's murder.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1962. Comedy by Jean Cherasse with Pierre Perrin, Sophie Hardy, Claude Brasseur. A musician who earns his living as a cab driver waits for fame and fortune.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1961. Satire by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Armand Mestral. The misadventures of a pharmaceutical laboratory employee dealing with the troubles of everyday life.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Jean-Charles Dudrumet with Félix Marten, Magali Noël, Pierre Mondy. A photographer agrees to help a friend to fake a jewel theft.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by René Clair with Bourvil, Philippe Noiret, Annie Fratellini. Speculators who want to buy up all the property in a small village to turn it into a residential estate come up against a stubborn old farmer who refuses to sell his farm.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1960. Dramatic comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Michèle Morgan, Teddy Bilis. During World War II, a poacher who smuggled the wife of a resistance fighter into the free zone, falls in love with her.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1960. Adventures by André Hunebelle with Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli. A valiant knight puts his sword at the service of the young king of France to protect him from a plot.
Runtime: 115 min.

Way of Youth

V.O.: Le Chemin des écoliers
Fr. 1959. Moral study by Michel Boisrond with Bourvil, Alain Delon, Françoise Arnoul. During the Occupation, a student worked the black-market to support his mistress.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1959. Mores comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert. Two peasant families are at odds following incidents that occurred during the Franco-German war of 1870.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1959. Adventures by André Hunebelle with Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabina Selman. A knight becomes the protector of a murdered noble?s daughter.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1958. Musical by Richard Pottier with Luis Mariano, Bourvil, Germaine Damar. A young French record salesman learns that he is the heir to oil fields in Texas.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

V.O.: Le Miroir à deux faces
Fr. 1958. Drama by André Cayatte with Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Gérard Oury. Despite her husband's opposition, a woman undergoes plastic surgery.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1958. Dramatic comedy by Marc Allégret with Bourvil, Danielle Darrieux, Arletty. Five years after their breakup, a man and a woman meet by chance on a bus and agree to meet the following Sunday.
Runtime: 93 min.
Fr. 1957. Drama by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Bourvil. A former convict seeks happiness by doing good.
Runtime: 210 min.

Four Bags Full

V.O.: La Traversée de Paris
Fr. 1956. Dramatic comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Jean Gabin, Bourvil, Louis de Funès. In 1942, the tribulations of two men involved in black market operations.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1956. Musical by Richard Pottier with Luis Mariano, Bourvil, Annie Cordy. A young Basque man accepts to replace the star singer of an operetta of which he is the look-alike.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1955. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Giovanna Ralli.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1954. Comedy by Gilles Grangier with Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Pierre Dux. After many adventures, a woman who has unjustly accused her husband of infidelity realizes her mistake.
Fr. 1954. Comedy by André Hunebelle with François Périer, Dany Robin, Bourvil. A young peasant has various adventures during the French Revolution.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Three Musketeers

V.O.: Les 3 Mousquetaires
Fr. 1953. Adventures by André Hunebelle with Georges Marchal, Bourvil, Gino Cervi. The knight D'Artagnan and his three musketeer friends are on a mission for the queen.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1953. Historic chronicle by Sacha Guitry with Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Georges Marchal. Evoking three centuries of French history, from Louis XIII to Cl?menceau.
Runtime: 165 min.

Crazy for Love

V.O.: Le Trou normand
Fr. 1952. Comedy by Jean Boyer with Bourvil, Brigitte Bardot, Pierre Larquey. To get an inheritance, a brave kid strives to get a school certificate.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1951. Dramatic comedy by Hervé Bromberger with Bourvil, Magali Noël, Yvette Etiévant.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1950. Comedy by Henri-Georges Clouzot with Louis Jouvet, Danièle Delorme, Bourvil. A young middle-class woman from the provinces goes to Paris to do theater.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1950. Comedy by Jean Boyer with Bourvil, Jacqueline Pagnol, Mireille Perrey. Since no girl in the village seemed worthy of being crowned as a rose, a committee of virtuous women decides to name the village's innocent ""rose.""
Runtime: 84 min.

Le Passe-muraille

V.O.: Garou-Garou, le passe-muraille
Fr. 1950. Fantasy comedy by Jean Boyer with Bourvil, Joan Greenwood, Marcelle Arnold. A civil servant discovers that he has the gift of walking through walls.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1948. Satire by André Berthomieu with Bourvil, Michèle Philippe, Louvigny. A naive accordionist goes to Paris, where he enjoys his success until he realizes that he is being made fun of.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1947. Comedy by Gilles Grangier with Bourvil, Suzy Delair, Michèle Philippe. A house painter becomes the guardian angel of a building.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1947. Comedy by André Berthomieu with Bourvil, Suzy Carrier, Bernard Lancret. A brave Norman farmer prevents his uncle from being cheated.
Fr. 1947. Comedy by André Berthomieu with Bourvil, Paulette Dubost, Mona Goya. Coming to Paris to work, a kind farmer gets mixed up in a case of theft .
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1945. Drama by Jean Dréville with Charles Vanel, Alfred Adam, Guy Decomble. When their father dies, the eldest of four sons takes over the family farm and forbids the other three to marry so as not to split up the property.
Runtime: 87 min.

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