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Grosse Fatigue
''Dead Tired'' (french: Grosse Fatigue) is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Michel Blanc. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Michel Blanc is a great film actor. However, he has been accused of sexually abusing actresses Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Mathilda May, of behaving like a cad at Cannes and of accepting dubious publicity deals, such as appearances in supermarkets, behind the back of his agent. The evidence is there for everyone to see, but Blanc knows he is innocent. He seeks assistance from fellow actress Carole Bouquet to shed light on this matter, and he discovers that he has a perfect double, Patrick Olivier, who, having suffered all his life from his likeness to Michel Blanc, has decided to use this to his financial advantage. Cast * Michel Blanc as himself / Patrick Olivier * Carole Bouquet as herself * Philippe Noiret as himself * Josiane Balasko as herself * Marie-Anne Chazel as herself * Christian Clavier as himself * Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc (born 16 April 1952) is a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. Michel Blanc has also shown his versatility by appearing in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film ''Monsieur Hire''. He is one of the few people to have won awards at the Cannes Film Festival in both a creative and performing role, winning the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Male Acting Prize in 1986 Cannes Film Festival, 1986 and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay, Best Screenplay Prize in 1994. On stage As an actor As a director Filmography As an actor As a director References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blanc, Michel 1952 births Living people French male film actors French film directors French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hallyday
David Hallyday (born David Michael Benjamin Smet; 14 August 1966) is a French singer, songwriter and amateur sports car racer. Early life Hallyday was born in Boulogne-Billancourt and is the son of the French singers Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan. David Hallyday is a first cousin of actor Michael Vartan. He is the older half-brother of actress Laura Smet. Career Hallyday is most known for writing music for others, including a collaboration with his father on the 1999 album '' Sang pour sang''. He appeared in the teenage comedy '' He's My Girl'' (1987), also performing its title theme song. "He's My Girl" reached #79 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #72 on ''Cash Box.'' His 1991 album Rock 'n' Heart spawned a bigger hit, "Ooh La La", which reached #51 on the Hot 100. Personal life Hallyday married Estelle Lefébure in 1989; they divorced in 2001. They have two children, Emma and Ilona. He married Alexandra Pastor, the daughter of businessman Michel Pastor, in 2004. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Billerey
Raoul Billerey (1920 - 2010) was a French actor. Partial filmography *''The Three Musketeers'' (1953) *''Cadet Rousselle'' (1954) - Un soldat à l'auberge des Trois Pichets / Un garde au Tribunal Révolutionnaire / Un sans-culotte *'' The Impossible Mr. Pipelet'' (1955) - Un pompier (uncredited) *''La fierecilla domada'' (1956) - Truhán *''Mémoires d'un flic'' (1956) - Un truand (uncredited) *''Ce soir les jupons volent'' (1956) - Un photographe *''Fernand cow-boy'' (1956) - Mario *''The Twilight Girls'' (1957) - Bill (uncredited) *''Action immédiate'' (1957) - Fondane *''Back to the Wall'' (1958) - (uncredited) *'' Le Bossu'' (1959) *''Austerlitz'' (1960) - Savary *'' Captain Blood'' (1960) - Un homme de Concini (uncredited) *'' Captain Fracasse'' (1961) - Mérindol *'' Le Miracle des loups'' (1961) - Jérôme *''Cartouche'' (1962) - Un complice de Cartouche *''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1962) - Amédée *''Le Chevalier de Pardaillan'' (1962) - Bussy *''Le masque de fer'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Moynot
Bruno Moynot (born 20 December 1950, in Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France ) is a French actor and theatre director. Part of the famous French comedy group Le Splendid, he is best known for his roles in Patrice Leconte's ''Les Bronzés'' and its sequels, and as Zedko Preskovitch in ''Le Père Noël est une ordure''. He is actually the owner of Le Splendid and the Théâtre de la Renaissance The name Théâtre de la Renaissance has been used successively for three distinct Parisian theatre companies. The first two companies, which were short-lived enterprises in the 19th century, used the Salle Ventadour, now an office building on t ... with Christian Spillemaecker. Filmography External links * 1950 births Living people People from Bois-Colombes French male film actors French theatre directors {{france-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Richard
Jean-Louis Richard (17 May 1927 – 3 June 2012) was a French actor, film director and scriptwriter. Biography Born as Jean Marius Richard in Paris, Richard was Jeanne Moreau's first husband from 1949 to 1951. Partial filmography *1960: '' À bout de souffle'' (by Jean-Luc Godard) - A Journalist (uncredited) *1960: ''Austerlitz'' (by Abel Gance) *1961: ''Me faire ça à moi'' - Chief *1962: ''Jules et Jim'' (by François Truffaut) - Café customer (uncredited) *1963: ''La Peau douce'' (by François Truffaut) - Man in the street (uncredited) *1964: '' Mata Hari, Agent H21'' *1966: ''Fahrenheit 451'' *1968: ''Je t'aime, je t'aime'' (by Alain Resnais) - L'homme du wagon-restaurant *1980: ''Le Dernier Métro'' (by François Truffaut) - Daxiat *1981: ''Le Professionnel'' (by Georges Lautner) - Colonel Martin *1982: '' Le Choc'' (by Robin Davis) - Maubert, l'inspecteur de la DST *1982: ''Le gendarme et les gendarmettes'' (by Jean Girault et Tony Aboyantz) - The Brain *1983: ''Life I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Morel (actor)
François Morel (born 10 June 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for appearing in sketch television series '' Les Deschiens'' (1993-2002). Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morel, Francois 1959 births French male film actors Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French film directors People from Orne Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Du Janerand
Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, father to Albert I of Belgium * Philippe d'Orléans (other), multiple people * Philippe A. Autexier (1954–1998), French music historian * Philippe Blain, French volleyball player and coach * Philippe Najib Boulos (1902–1979), Lebanese lawyer and politician * Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer * Philippe Daverio (1949–2020), Italian art historian * Philippe Dubuisson-Lebon, Canadian football player * Philippe Ginestet (born 1954), French billionaire businessman, founder of GiFi * Philippe Gilbert, Belgian bicycle racer * Philippe Petit, French performer and tightrope artist * Philippe Petitcolin (born 1952/53), French businessman, CEO of Safran * Philippe Russo, French singer * Philippe Sella, French rugby pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothée Jemma
Dorothée Jemma (born 16 June 1956) is a French actress specializing in dubbing. She is the dub voice of Jennifer Aniston, Melanie Griffith and Sheryl Lee. Biography Her father, Jean-Louis Jemma, is best known for the dub voice of Zorro Zorro (Spanish language, Spanish for 'fox') is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp magazine, pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. He is typically portrayed a .... She originally wanted to be a dancer, but her father turned her towards the world of theater. She started her career as an actress at the age of 16. Living in the countryside, she enjoys horseback-riding and skiing. Theater Filmography Dubbing References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jemma, Dorothee 1956 births Living people French film actresses French stage actresses French television actresses French video game actresses French voice actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrée Damant
Andrée Damant (20 September 1929 – 6 December 2022) was a French actress. Life and career Damant starred in many commercials. She also specialized in the roles of sympathetic Méridionales often Marseillaises pure strain, which led from time to time to interpret on screen characters from the world of Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionabl .... Damant died on 6 December 2022, at the age of 93. Filmography Theater References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Damant, Andree 1929 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses French film actresses French stage actresses French television actresses Actors from Avignon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a (né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, nine César Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or. His Polish–Jewish parents moved the family from his birthplace in Paris back to Kraków in 1937.Paul Werner, ''Polański. Biografia'', Poznań: Rebis, 2013, p. 13. Two years later, the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany started World War II, and the family found themselves trapped in the Kraków Ghetto. After his mother and father were taken in raids, Polanski spent his formative years in foster homes, surviving the Holocaust by adopting a false identity and concealing his Jewish heritage. Polanski's first feature-length film, ''Knife in the Water'' (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilda May
Mathilda May (born Karin Haïm; 8 February 1965) is a French film actress. Early life May was born in Paris, France. Her father, playwright Victor Haïm, is of Sephardic Jewish ( Greek-Jewish and Turkish-Jewish) descent. Her mother is the Swedish ballet teacher and choreographer Margareta Hanson. At age 16 May won the "Premier Prix du Conservatoire de Danse de Paris" (First Prize of the Paris Dance Conservatory). Career May's film work is primarily in French and made for the European market; she was the recipient of the Prix Romy Schneider in 1989. Non-French films she has appeared in include '' Naked Tango'' (1991), '' Becoming Colette'' (1991) and '' The Tit and the Moon'' (1994). In the United States she is best known for her role as an alien vampire in the 1985 science fiction- horror film '' Lifeforce'', directed by Tobe Hooper, in which she is naked for most of her performance. She also appeared in the 1996 space adventure game '' Privateer 2: The Darkening''. She play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry Lhermitte
Thierry Lhermitte (; born 24 November 1952) is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe ''Le Splendid'' in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as ''Les Bronzés'' (1978), ''Les Bronzés font du ski'' (1979), ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (1982) and ''Un indien dans la ville'' (1994). Honours and awards In 1981, he received the Prix Jean Gabin. He was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2001. He was made ''Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's estab ...'' in 2005. Filmography Actor Selected wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
