Louis de Funes

Born 31 July 1914
Died 27 January 1983
The legendary French comedian actor

Louis de Funes was born in July 31, 1914 in Courbevoie, in a Spanish aristocrats family from Seville. Father - Carlos Luis de Funès de Galarza, worked as a professional lawyer, but became a diamonds cutter when he moved to France. His mother was with Spanish and Portuguese roots. The parents moved to France in 1904, when their families were against their marriage.
For a long time de Funes worked as a bookkeeper, furrier and even shoeshine boy. Nevertheless, de Funes had the bias to piano. Seriously engaged sometimes he wrote his own music. Even in youth he appeared on the Paris Club stage in the role of comedian. He really liked it and he could show it to the public.
Before coming to the cinema he wrote to the dramatic course SIMON. There he played a romantic young people. Such roles he clearly didn't like, so he leaves the course and engaged in music again.

During the Paris occupation in World War II, Louis de Funes was learning to play the piano in music school. De Funes was not ready for military action, as evidenced by his weight of 55 kg. That extremely disappointed and embarrassed him. Thus he didn't get into the army. But, nevertheless, Louis experienced the fear of death. Literally in the first days of occupation German soldier fell in a restaurant where he worked and ordered him to sing the voice of Marlene Dietrich. Perhaps, from this moment Louis finally decided to become a comedian. He is perfectly mastered this role and German soldiers decided to save the life of the future comedian.
The fact that he can become a comedian, de Funes convinced by making laugh his beloved wife and few friends. Roles in the theater were tiny, so he had to earn money in nightclubs. However, some of the audience he was able to bring to the hiccups, and one elderly gentleman laughed so hard during the Louis concert that he almost died of a heart attack.

However, soon he received a call from Claude Zidi with a proposal to play in the film "L' Aile Ou La Cuisse". It was salvation for de Funes. After some time he agreed and started shooting.
"L' Aile Ou La Cuisse" was funny, interesting, exciting story with an original and wonderful sense of humor. Louis de Funes and Coluche, so different and not similar comedians perfectly complement each other, creating on the screen bright and unusual actors tandem.
A wonderful film, a classic French comedy. It is extremely tasty movie, with a pleasant aroma of first-class humor, with a spicy, intriguing flavor of adventure. For the real gourmets. Claude Zidi sang by his film the present national anthem of French cuisine, this food, and the popularity of the movie are a triumph of good taste.
After there were another few pictures, among which continued adventures of gendarmes. The film " Le Gendarme Et Les Gendarmettes" was the last film in his film career.
Louis de Funes and a detachment of gendarmes loyal, as always, to win enemies and criminals, this time making it so enchanting, and loudly, that when the final credits, even tear shudders. Overblown film and pops up in the memory of excerpts, dramatic moments and staff, that catch the eye immediately, and stored for a long time.
Louis de Funes acted with his son - Olivier. Apparently, Oliver didn't like this sphere, but because of his father's will, he had to do it. As a result, Olivier starred in six films, then the sky called him and he became a pilot.

1945: La tentation de Barbizon

1946: Six heures à perdre

1946: Dernier refuge

1947: Antoine et Antoinette

1947: Croisière pour l'inconnu

1948: Du Guesclin

1949: Vient de paraître

1949: Mon ami Sainfoin

1949: Mission à Tanger

1949: Millionnaires d'un jour

1949: Au revoir M. Grock

1949: Rendez-vous avec la chance

1949: Pas de week-end pour notre amour

1949: Un certain monsieur

1949: Je n'aime que toi

1949: Le jugement de Dieu

1950: La rue sans loi

1950: Adémaï au poteau-frontière

1951: Knock

1951: Les joueurs

1951: Un amour de parapluie

1951: Bibi Fricotin

1951: Boniface Somnambule

1951: Boîte à vendre

1951: Sans laisser d'adresse

1951: La rose rouge

1951: Champions Juniors

1951: Le roi du bla bla bla

1951: La poison

1951: Pas de vacances pour Monsieur le Maire

1951: Le dindon

1951: L'amant de paille

1951: Folie douce

1951: Ma femme est formidable

1952: Les Sept péchés capitaux

1952: Ils étaient cinq

1952: Les dents longues

1952: Agence matrimoniale

1952: La fugue de Monsieur Perle

1952: Innocents in Paris

1952: Elle et moi

1952: Je l'ai été trois fois

1952: Monsieur Taxi

1952: Monsieur Leguignon Lampiste

1952: Le huitième art et la manière

1952: Moineaux de Paris

1952: L'amour n'est pas un péché

1952: La putain respectueuse

1952: Les loups chassent la nuit

1953: Les compagnes de la nuit

1953: La vie d'un honnête homme

1953: Le rire

1953: L'étrange désir de Monsieur Bard

1953: Dortoir des grandes

1953: Au diable la vertu

1953: Légère et court vêtue

1953: Capitaine Pantoufle

1953: Le secret d'Hélène Marimon

1953: Faites-moi confiance

1953: Mon Frangin du Sénégal

1954: Poisson d'avril

1954: Ah! Les belles bacchantes

1954: Le Blé en herbe

1954: Le chevalier de la nuit

1954: Les corsaires du Bois de Boulogne

1954: Escalier de service

1954: Fraternité (TV)

1954: Les hommes ne pensent qu'à ça

1954: Huis clos

1954: Les intrigantes

1954: Mam'zelle Nitouche

1954: The Sheep Has Five Legs

1954: Papa, maman, la bonne et moi

1954: Les pépées font la loi

1954: La reine Margot

1954: Scènes de ménage

1954: Tourments

1955: Napoléon

1955: Ingrid - Die Geschichte eines Fotomodells

1955: Les impures

1955: L'impossible Monsieur Pipelet

1955: Les hussards

1955: La bande à papa

1955: Bonjour sourire

1955: Si Paris nous était conté

1955: Frou-Frou

1955: Mädchen ohne Grenzen

1956: La Traversée de Paris

1956: La Famille Anodin

1956: Papa, maman, ma femme et moi

1956: Bébés à gogo

1959: La loi des rues

1956: Courte tête

1957: Comme un cheveu sur la soupe

1958: Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida

1958: Ni vu, ni connu

1958: La vie à deux

1959: I Tartassati (French title: Fripoullard & Cie)

1959: Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito

1959: Certains l'aiment froide

1959: Mon pote le gitan

1960: Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles

1960: Le capitaine Fracasse

1960: Les tortillards

1961: La Vendetta

1961: Le Crime ne paie pas

1961: La belle Américaine

1961: Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siècle

1962: Un clair de lune à Maubeuge

1962: Le gentleman d'Epsom

1962: Les veinards

1962: Nous irons à Deauville

1962: Le diable et les dix commandements

1963: Des pissenlits par la racine

1963: Pouic-Pouic

1963: Carambolages

1963: Faites sauter la banque!

1964: Fantômas

1964: Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez

1964: Une souris chez les hommes

1965: Le corniaud

1965: Fantômas se déchaîne

1965: Le gendarme à New York

1965: Les bons vivants

1966: La Grande Vadrouille

1966: Le grand restaurant

1966: Fantômas contre Scotland Yard

1967: Les grandes vacances

1967: Oscar

1968: Le petit baigneur

1968: Le tatoué

1968: Le gendarme se marie

1969: Hibernatus

1970: L'homme orchestre

1970: Le gendarme en balade

1971: La folie des grandeurs

1971: Jo

1971: Sur un arbre perché

1973: Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob

1976: L'aile ou la cuisse

1978: La zizanie

1978: Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres

1979: L'avare

1981: La soupe aux choux

1982: Le gendarme et les gendarmettes

During the occupation of Paris in the Second World War, he continued his piano studies at a music school, where he fell in love with a secretary, Jeanne Barthelémy de Maupassant, a grandniece of the famous author Guy de Maupassant. She had fallen in love with "the young man who played jazz like god".
They married in 1943 and remained together for forty years, until Funès' death in 1983.
They had two sons: Patrick (born on January 27, 1944) and Olivier (born on August 11, 1947). Patrick became a doctor who now practices in Saint-Germain en Laye. Olivier became an actor for a brief while. He became known for the roles he had in his father's films (Les Grandes Vacances, Fantômas se déchaine, Oscar, Le Grand Restaurant, Hibernatusare the most famous). He is now an aviator for Air France Europe.
Louis de Funes was a rather mysterious person. 47-year-old son - Olivier talked about his father: "He was a pure aristocrat, who loved his own and only wife, liked fishing and grow roses. He did not like the noisy, everyday lives. It was seemed he was living in his own world, trying not to allow others to touch this world".

A week before his death, Louis told his wife: "I know what will be my very good joke." - "What?" - "My funeral. I have to play it so that they nicker not stop ... "
Louis de Funes died Jan. 27, 1983. His last words were an appeal to his wife in which he said: "I miss one in my room ...". On this "Donald Duck" epic was finished.

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