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Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

French actor and comedian
July 31, 1914 (January 27, 1983)

The Troops & Troop-ettes

V.O.: Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes
Fr. 1982. Comedy by Jean Girault, Tony Aboyantz with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac. A tactical police officer faces the problems created by the presence of female trainees in his brigade.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1981. Fantasy comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 122 min.
Fr. 1978. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Julien Guiomar. An industrialist, mayor of his village, upsets his wife who leaves him and becomes his opponent in the elections.
Runtime: 97 min.

The Troops & Aliens

V.O.: Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres
Fr. 1978. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maria Mauban. After witnessing the flight of a flying saucer, a police officer experiences difficulties with his superiors who do not believe him.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1976. Comedy by Claude Zidi with Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar. The publisher of a gastronomic guide battles against the president of a restaurant chain.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

V.O.: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
Fr. 1973. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Claude Giraud, Suzy Delair. A petulant business person must disguise himself as a Jewish rabbi to escape from Arab secret agents.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Bernard Blier. A playwright, who has committed a murder, goes to great lengths to hide the corpse from both the police and potential buyers of his home.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Serge Korber with Louis de Funès, Geraldine Chaplin, Olivier de Funès. A motorist and his passengers accidentally leave the road and perch on a tree at the side of a cliff.
Runtime: 90 min.

Delusions of Grandeur

V.O.: La Folie des grandeurs
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Gérard Oury with Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch. Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman decides to plot his revenge by passing off his valet as a nephew returning from America.
Runtime: 105 min.

The Troops on Vacation

V.O.: Le Gendarme en balade
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre. Retired armed police officers try to relive their past adventures.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Band

V.O.: L'Homme orchestre
Fr. 1970. Musical by Serge Korber with Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Olivier de Funès. The director of a ballet company must take care of the baby of one of his dancers.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Fantasy comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane. The tribulations of an industrialist who is forced to take in a man found in a state of hibernation.
Runtime: 82 min.

The Tattoo

V.O.: Le Tatoué
Fr. 1968. Comedy by Denys de La Patellière with Louis de Funès, Jean Gabin, Dominique Davray. An art dealer buys a ""Modigliani"" tattooed on the back of a former legionnaire.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1968. Comedy by Robert Dhéry with Robert Dhéry, Louis de Funès, Colette Brosset. A sailboat builder seeks to rehire an engineer he arrogantly fired.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Troops get Married

V.O.: Le Gendarme se marie
Fr. 1968. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru. An armed police officer falls madly in love with the widow of a police colonel.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Édouard Molinaro with Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Claude Gensac. An industrialist learns that his accountant is stealing from him and is his daughter's lover.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, François Leccia, Ferdy Mayne. A middle school principal is in trouble with his son.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1967. Police comedy by André Hunebelle with Louis de Funès, Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot. Commissioner Juve travels to Scotland to continue his fight against super-criminal Fantomas.
Runtime: 102 min.

The Restaurant

V.O.: Le Grand Restaurant
Fr. 1966. Police comedy by Jacques Besnard with Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier, Rosa Maria Rodriguez. The owner of a restaurant is drawn into a police adventure following the disappearance of a customer.
Runtime: 95 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.
Fr. 1965. Sketches by Gilles Grangier, Georges Lautner with Bernard Blier, Louis de Funès, Darry Cowl. Three episodes set in the world of prostitution.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1965. Police comedy by André Hunebelle with Louis de Funès, Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot. A master criminal threatens to kidnap an eminent scholar.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Troops in New York

V.O.: Le Gendarme à New-York
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre. Some gendarmes from Saint-Tropez set out to to represent the French police in an international congress.
Runtime: 90 min.

A Funny Boss

V.O.: Un Drôle de caïd
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Jacques Poitrenaud with Louis de Funès, Maurice Biraud, Dany Saval. Two burglars are forced to accept a young girl as a partner.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Troops of St. Tropez

V.O.: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru. The adventures of a village gendarme transferred to Saint-Tropez in the middle of a summer camp.
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. 1964. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Yvonne Clech, Michel Tureau. With the help of his family, a brave merchant tries to rob a bank.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by André Hunebelle with Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot. Fantomas, a clever bandit, takes on a police officer and a journalist.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Jean Girault with Louis de Funès, Mireille Darc, Philippe Nicaud. Seeing his fortune compromised by his wife's eccentricities, a business person tries to sell shares to his daughter's suitor.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Marcel Bluwal with Jean-Claude Brialy, Louis de Funès, Sophie Daumier. The rise of a young upstart.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

V.O.: Le Diable et les dix commandements
Fr. 1962. Sketches by Julien Duvivier with Fernandel, Louis de Funès, Alain Delon. Various sketches showing how humanity comes to break God's commandments.
Runtime: 120 min.

Le Roi du tiercé

V.O.: Le Gentleman d'Epsom
Fr. 1962. Mores comedy by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Madeleine Robinson. A retired officer frequents the horse-racing scene where he cashes in on his supposed knowledge of racehorses.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1962. Sketches by Jean Girault, Philippe de Broca, Jack Pinoteau with Francis Blanche, Louis de Funès, Darry Cowl. The misadventures of the winners of various contests.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1962. Comedy by Francis Rigaud with Michel Serrault, Claude Brasseur, Louis de Funès. The multiple troubles faced by two couples on vacation.
Runtime: 85 min.

The American Beauty

V.O.: La Belle Américaine
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia with Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset, Louis de Funès. A splendid car, property of a modest worker, causes many incidents.
Runtime: 100 min.

Crime Doesn't Pay

V.O.: Le Crime ne paie pas
Fr. 1961. Sketches by Gérard Oury with Edwige Feuillère, Michèle Morgan, Annie Girardot. Four criminal cases set in different times.
Runtime: 158 min.
Fr. 1961. Police comedy by Maurice Delbez with Louis de Funès, Marthe Mercadier, Pierre Dudan. Fearing being suspected of murder, various people take turns hiding a corpse.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1961. Adventures by Pierre Gaspard-Huit with Jean Marais, Geneviève Grad, Gérard Barray. Penniless, a baron abandons his castle to follow a travelling theatre troupe and falls in love with a young actress who turns out to be the biological daughter of a noble.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Jean Bastia with Roger Pierre, Jean Richard, Christian Marin. The son of an industrialist joins a troupe of travelling comedians.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Norbert Carbonnaux with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Pierre Brasseur, Dahlia Lavi. A naive young man maintains his optimism despite the difficult events he has gotten mixed up in.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Steno with Toto, Louis de Funès, Aldo Fabrizi.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Jean Bastia with Louis de Funès, Jean Richard, Francis Blanche. An ancestor leaves his fortune to the one of his descendants who will suffer from an incurable disease.
Runtime: 91 min.

My Pal the Gypsy

V.O.: Mon pote le gitan
Fr. 1959. Mores comedy by Francois Gir with Louis de Funès, Jean Richard, Michel Subor. Gypsies seek to avenge the honour of one of their own.
Runtime: 100 min.

Taxi en vacances

V.O.: Taxi, roulotte et corrida
Fr. 1958. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Louis de Funès, Paulette Dubost, Raymond Bussières. While on vacation in Spain, a Parisian cab driver gets into trouble with gangsters.
Runtime: 82 min.

Life as a Couple

V.O.: La Vie à deux
Fr. 1958. Sketches by Clément Duhour with Pierre Brasseur, Lilli Palmer, Fernandel. A writer decides to leave his fortune to a happy couple.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1958. Comedy by Yves Robert with Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Moustache. A mischievous poacher is driving a small village's rural police officer to despair.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1957. Comedy by Maurice Régamey with Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Jacques Jouanneau. After a failed suicide attempt, a depressed musician hires contract killers.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1956. Satire by Norbert Carbonnaux with Fernand Gravey, Micheline Dax, Jean Richard. An adventurer poses as a great trainer with racing tips to a naive man.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1956. Police comedy by Guy Lefranc with Fernand Raynaud, Noël Roquevert, Louis de Funès. After preventing an armed robbery, a shy bank employee discovers that the robber is his father.
Runtime: 90 min.

Isabelle et le pélican

V.O.: Bébés à gogo
Fr. 1956. Comedy by Paul Mesnier with Jane Sourza, Raymond Souplex, Louis de Funès. A grumpy grandfather learns from a promotional contest that he can become rich if he has twelve grandchildren and starts harassing his son-in-law, who is already the father of nine toddlers.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1956. Social drama by Ralph Habib with Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Silvana Pampanini. Two teenagers escape from a reformatory and land in Paris, where they survive by committing a few petty thefts.
Runtime: 97 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. 1955. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Michel Simon, Gaby Morlay, Etchika Choureau. The thwarted love of a janitor's daughter with a young doctor.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1955. Dramatic comedy by Augusto Genina with Dany Robin, Gino Cervi, Philippe Lemaire. Four men are interested in a young flower merchant who dreams of wealth and glory.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1955. Burlesque by Claude Sautet with Henri Salvador, Annie Cordy, Jimmy Gaillard. A king has comedians kidnapped in order to cure his daughter's melancholy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1955. Mores comedy by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux. The daily life of a family of the Parisian petty bourgeoisie.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1955. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Giovanna Ralli.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1955. Satire by Raoul André with Louise Carletti, Suzy Prim, Louis de Funès. When their niece is kidnapped, three sisters set out to take on a gang of gangsters who are well known in the business.
Fr. 1954. Mores drama by Pierre Chevalier with Raymond Pellegrin, Micheline Presle, Dora Doll. After his release from prison, a young deviant is found by his former companions who force him to resume trafficking women.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1954. Mores comedy by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux. The daily life of a family of the Parisian petty bourgeoisie.
Runtime: 97 min.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1954. Burlesque by Jean Loubignac with Robert Dhéry, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières. A vice commissioner investigates incognito in a music hall where rehearsals for a new show are taking place.
Runtime: 65 min.

Sheep Has Five Legs

V.O.: Le Mouton a cinq pattes
Fr. 1954. Sketches by Henri Verneuil with Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Paulette Dubost. An old doctor tries to find quintuplets scattered around the world to reunite them for a village party.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1954. Musical by Yves Allégret with Fernandel, Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt. While anonymously directing an operetta that he wrote, a music teacher takes on the task of chaperoning a student on a trip to Paris.
Runtime: 90 min.

Agonies

V.O.: Tourments
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 1953. Fantasy by Robert Darène with Jean-Claude Pascal, Renée Saint-Cyr, Grégoire Aslan. Previously in love, a knight and his wife, a former ballerina, become a tormented and torn couple.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1953. Comedy by Norbert Carbonnaux with Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvaleix, Annette Poivre. To attract the attention of the public, three artists cut down trees in the Bois de Boulogne and declare that they are going to build a raft to repeat the Bombard experience.
Runtime: 74 min.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1953. Comedy by Jean Laviron with Henri Génès, Liliane Bert, Maurice Régamey. To hide his latest escapade from his wife, an unfaithful man buys a false alibi, which leads him into a spiral of lies and trouble.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1953. Comedy by Jean Laviron with Madeleine Lebeau, Jean Parédès, Louis de Funès. A maniac tells a lawyer that he is his wife's lover.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1953. Psychological drama by Claude Autant-Lara with Pierre-Michel Beck, Nicole Berger, Edwige Feuillère. The childhood friendship of two teenagers turns into a love affair.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1953. Drama by Geza von Radvanyi with Michel Simon, Yves Deniaud, Geneviève Page. An ugly, rich bachelor pays a young girl to give him a child.
Runtime: 108 min.
Fr. 1953. Melodrama by Henri Calef with Frank Villard, Isa Miranda, Jean Dubucourt. Married to an older man, a young woman has an affair with a soldier on leave.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1952. Musical by Georges Combret with Jacques Hélian, Roland Armontel, Gabriello. The problems of a municipal band director with Jacques H?lian's orchestra.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1952. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Michel Simon, Roland Alexandre, Monique Darbaud. An honest cab driver gets in trouble looking for a customer who has left her purse full of money in her vehicle.
Runtime: 75 min.
Fr. 1952. Comedy by Guy Lefranc with Dany Robin, François Périer, Jean Carmet. The tribulations of a newly married couple.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1952. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Bernard Blier, Michèle Alfa, Julien Carette. The tribulations of a bachelor who inherits a marriage agency.
Runtime: 109 min.

The Seven Deadly Sins

V.O.: Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Runtime: 120 min.

Run Away Mr. Perle

V.O.: La Fugue de Mr Perle
Runtime: 100 min.

The Respectful Prostitute

V.O.: La P... respectueuse
Runtime: 95 min.

The Red Rose

V.O.: La Rose rouge
Fr. 1951. Burlesque by Marcello Pagliero with les frères Jacques, Yves Deniaud, Dora Doll. In a cellar of Saint-Germain-des-Pr?s, a famous movie star is looking for a partner for his next movie, among the artists of the cabaret.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1951. Drama by Jack Pinoteau with Michel Jourdan, Arlette Merry, Jean Gaven. Demobilized, five young men who fought in the war together and swore to remain friends, find their beautiful promise put to the test, when returning to civilian life.
Runtime: 89 min.
Fr. 1951. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Fernand Gravey, Sophie Desmarets, Simone Valère. A sculptor believes he's being cheated by his wife.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1951. Burlesque by Marcel Blistène with Maurice Baquet, Colette Darfeuil, Alexandre Rignault. The members of a family are looking for a treasure hidden by the grandfather.
Runtime: 89 min.

Knock

V.O.: Le Docteur Knock
Fr. 1951. Comedy by Guy Lefranc with Louis Jouvet, Jean Brochard, Pierre Renoir. Ambitious, a new age doctor opposes an old practitioner in the vision and practice of medicine.
Runtime: 95 min.

Without Leaving an Address

V.O.: ...Sans laisser d'adresse
Fr. 1951. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud. In Paris, a brave cab driver takes charge of a young provincial who came to join her lover who is nowhere to be found.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1951. Spy drama by Bernard Borderie with Jean-Pierre Aumont, Fernand Ledoux, Carla Del Poggio. Attached to the counter-espionage services, a man is sent to Trieste to serve as bait for a group of spies.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1951. Drama by Henri Calef with Henri Vidal, Maria Mauban, Daniel Ivernel.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1949. Police comedy by Yves Ciampi with René Dary, Hélène Perdrière, Louis Seigner. The theft of two vases, one of which contains a secret formula, leads to many complications.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1949. History by Bernard de Latour with Fernand Gravey, Junie Astor, Noël Roquevert. In the 14th century, Constable Du Guesclin fights to rid France of English troops.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1949. Spy drama by André Hunebelle with Raymond Rouleau, Gaby Sylvia, Mila Parély.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1949. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Gaby Morlay, Pierre Larquey, Pierre Brasseur. The joy and disappointment of people in solidarity with a lottery ticket falsely announced as a winner.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1949. Musical drama by Pierre Montazel with Luis Mariano, Martine Carol, Raymond Bussières. The turbulent life of a famous singer prompts his wife to leave him.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1949. Biography by Pierre Billon with Grock, Suzy Prim, Héléna Manson. The life of famous Swiss clown Karl Adrien Wettach, known as Grock.
Runtime: 107 min.

Six Heures à perdre

V.O.: 6 Heures à perdre
Fr. 1947. Dramatic comedy by Alex Joffé, Jean Lévitte with André Luguet, Denise Grey, Pierre Larquey. Mistaken for another, a man succeeds in restoring quite a bit of order to the affairs of the one who is absent.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1947. Comedy by Jacques Becker with Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert. A young couple misplaces a winning lottery ticket.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1946. Comedy by Jean-Paul Paulin with Nathalie Nattier, Robert Dhéry, Jean Marchat. With the help of a serum, a doctor transforms the personalities of his patients.
Runtime: 85 min.

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