Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse
2025 · Movie
as Self (Footage Archives)
Bourvil
1917-07-27
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Prétot-Vicquemare, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Writers:
André Robert Raimbourg (27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil, and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Bourvil's father was killed in the First World War before he was born. As a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, from which he took his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943. After a battle with Kahler's syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines. In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naïve, such as his roles opposite the hyperactive, dishonest and bossy ones played by Louis de Funès. Bourvil's characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more dramatic roles such as the handyman in L'Arbre de Noël (1969). In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the young son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, so often as a simple man. One can also note his role of Monsieur Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables (1958), and his penultimate role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge (1970). In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the complete recording of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens, playing the four 'servant' roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bourvil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Les Rois de la comédie
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
La Traversée de Bourvil
2022 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022 · Movie
A Night at the Opera
2020 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
2016 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Bourvil : Bien... si bien
2009 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
1982 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
1974 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Midi trente
1972 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Clodo
1971 · Movie
as Gaston (uncredited)
Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · Movie
as Commissioner François Mattei
Atlantic Wall
1970 · Movie
as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
The Stud
1970 · Movie
as William Chaminade
The Brain
1969 · Movie
as Anatole
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Movie
as Monsieur Dupont
The Christmas Tree
1969 · Movie
as Verdun
The Big Wash
1968 · Movie
as Armand Saint-Just
The Hotshots
1968 · Movie
as Jules Auguste Duroc
Les Arnaud
1967 · Movie
as Judge Henri Arnaud
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 · Movie
as Augustin Bouvet
Three Disordered Children
1966 · Movie
as Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics
The Sucker
1965 · Movie
as Antoine Maréchal
The Big Swag
1965 · Movie
as Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer
The Wise Guys
1965 · Movie
as Hector Valentin
The Dirty Game
1965 · Movie
as Lalande
The Big Scare
1964 · Movie
La Bonne Planque
1964 · Movie
as Antoine Perrin
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
1963 · Movie
as Georges Lachaunaye
My Wife's Husband
1963 · Movie
as André Colombey
Don't Tempt the Devil
1963 · Movie
as Albert Gaudet, investigating judge
Josefa's Loot
1963 · Movie
as Pierre Corneille
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
1962 · Movie
as Le chanteur à la télévision
The Longest Day
1962 · Movie
as Mayor of Colleville
Les Culottes rouges
1962 · Movie
as Fendard
Tartarin de Tarascon
1962 · Movie
as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
All the Gold in the World
1961 · Movie
as Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
The Busybody
1961 · Movie
as André Loriot
Fortunate
1960 · Movie
as Noël Fortunat
Captain Blood
1960 · Movie
as Baladin Cogolin
Way of Youth
1959 · Movie
as Charles Michaud, père
The Green Mare
1959 · Movie
as Honoré Haudouin
The Hunchback of Paris
1959 · Movie
as Passepoil
Les Misérables
1958 · Movie
as Thénardier
Sunday Encounter
1958 · Movie
as Jean Brévent
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958 · Movie
as Pierre Tardivet
Serenade of Texas
1958 · Movie
as Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf
The Singer from Mexico
1957 · Movie
as Bilou
La Traversée de Paris
1956 · Movie
as Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
Cinépanorama
1956 · TV Show
as Self
The Hussars
1955 · Movie
as le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis
April Fools' Day
1954 · Movie
as Émile Dupuy
Cadet Rousselle
1954 · Movie
as Jérôme Baguindet
Le Fil à la patte
1954 · Movie
as Camille Bouzin, clerc de notaire et auteur de chansonnettes lestes
The Three Musketeers
1953 · Movie
as Planchet
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953 · Movie
as Museum guard
One Hundred Francs Per Second
1953 · Movie
as Self
Crazy for Love
1952 · Movie
as Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
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Grrr....
1952 · Movie
as Lui-même
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951 · Movie
as Léon Dutilleul
Alone in Paris
1951 · Movie
as Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard
Miquette
1950 · Movie
as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
The Prize
1950 · Movie
as Isidore Pastouret
Le Roi Pandore
1950 · Movie
as Léon Ménard, le gendarme
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
1949 · Movie
as Leon Ménard
By the Window
1948 · Movie
as Gaston 'Pilou'
White as Snow
1948 · Movie
as Léon Ménard
Not So Stupid
1947 · Movie
as Léon Ménard
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Studio en folies
1947 · Movie
as Self
Hanged Man's Farm
1945 · Movie
as Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce
A Star to the Sun
1943 · Movie
as (uncredited)
Sideral Cruises
1942 · Movie
as Scientist
Foutraque (!)
· Movie
as himself
