Bourvil
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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.
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Como Ator/Atriz
Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Cinépanorama
Self
La Grande Vadrouille
Augustin Bouvet
El día más largo
Mayor of Colleville
Le Corniaud
Antoine Maréchal
Le Bossu
Passepoil
Le Cercle rouge
Commissioner François Mattei
Les Misérables
Thénardier
Le Cerveau
Anatole
La Jument verte
Honoré Haudouin
Si Versailles m'était conté
Museum guard
La Traversée de Paris
Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Planchet
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Monsieur Dupont
Le Mur de l’Atlantique
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Les Grandes Gueules
Hector Valentin
Cadet Rousselle
Jérôme Baguindet
The Dirty Game
Lalande
L'Arbre de Noël
Verdun
Le Trou normand
Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
Garou-Garou, le passe-muraille
Léon Dutilleul
Le Capitan
Baladin Cogolin
Les Cracks
Jules Auguste Duroc
Tout l'or du monde
Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
Poisson d'avril
Émile Dupuy
Le Chemin des écoliers
Charles Michaud, père
Les Bonnes Causes
Albert Gaudet, investigating judge
La Cuisine au beurre
André Colombey