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Francis Blanche
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François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 â 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their studios in Eze.
Blanche was born in an artistic family, mainly of stage actorsâincluding his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painterâ. He completed his secondary schooling at fourteen, the youngest in France to do so at the time.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Blanche was part of Robert DhĂ©ry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, staâŠ
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François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 â 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their studios in Eze. Blanche was born in an artistic family, mainly of stage actorsâincluding his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painterâ. He completed his secondary schooling at fourteen, the youngest in France to do so at the time. In the 1940s and 1950s, Blanche was part of Robert DhĂ©ry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert DhĂ©ry, Colette Brosset (DhĂ©ry's then-wife), and Louis de FunĂšs; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Blanche teamed up with Pierre Dac to form a comic duo best remembered for Le SĂąr Rabindranath Duval, a sketch about a phony and nonsensical Indian clairvoyant and guru (1957). They also created a popular and equally nonsensical radiophonic series, loosely based on a highly improbable espionage and conspiration plot, Malheur aux barbus, which was broadcast on Paris Inter in 213 episodes from 1951 to 1952. The same plot and characters were revived on Europe 1 in a series called SignĂ© Furax, enjoying no less than 1,034 daily episodes between 1956 and 1960. Both broadcasts were phenomenal audience successes in the pre-television era. Blanche was also renowned for broadcasting phone pranks, in which he entertained listeners by making the most improbable situations sound plausible. He wrote poems, and the lyrics of 673 songs. On stage, he acted in Tartuffe and NĂ©ron and, in 1955, Chevalier du Ciel, an operetta by Luis Mariano at the GaĂźtĂ©-Lyrique theatre. Blanche also enjoyed a successful cinematographic career, both as an actor and scriptwriter. He appeared as a hard-headed German colonel ("ObersturmfĂŒhrer Schulz") opposite Brigitte Bardot in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (1959). He was one of the favourite actors of French filmmaker Georges Lautner, and played MaĂźtre Folace (a shady solicitor counselling a colourful gangster mob) in Les Tontons flingueurs (1963). Blanche also appeared in Boris Vassilief's Les Barbouzes (1964). He delighted in parodying classical music, adapting famous works such as Schubert's "Die Forelle" (The Trout) into a crazy and slightly risquĂ© piece about a 16-year-old romantic girl obsessed with Schubert's song to the point of giving birth to a live trout while performing it on her piano. Similarly, he turned Beethoven's 5th Symphony into a lengthy and quite repetitive musical glorification of the clothes peg and its fictitious inventor, JĂ©rĂ©mie-Victor Opdebec. Blanche died at the age of 52, from a heart attack with a background of untreated Type 1 diabetes. He is buried in Ăze cemetery. Source: Article "Francis Blanche" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Francis Blanche's Filmography
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Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Dac et Francis Blanche : Le Meilleur du Parti d'en Rire
as Lui-mĂȘme
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 Ă 4)
as Self (archive footage)
A Whale That Had a Toothache
as Francis
No Pockets in a Shroud
as Nathaël Grissom
Say it with Flowers
as GĂ©rard Rollain
France, Incorporated
as Pierre, the perverted financier
OK Patron
as Victor Hutin, Sophie's father
By the Blood of Others
as Doctor
La DerniÚre Bourrée à Paris
as Gaston Payrac
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Wanderer
Le Solitaire
as Norbert
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
as Pietro l'Aretino
I. You. They.
as Darbon, le galeriste
I've Had It
as Mr. de Chatiez
The Terror with Cross-Eyes
as Commissioner Pigna
The Eroticist
as padre Scirer
Scandal Man
as Paluche
La Grande Maffia
as Modeste Miette
Il furto Ăš l'anima del commercio!?...
as Sigfrid
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
as Hector Grogenol
Les Jambes en l'air
as Hugon
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
as Maurice Gombaud
The Great Java
as Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani
Alice au pays des merveilles
as King of hearts
Ces messieurs de la gĂąchette
as Marco Lombardi
Adieu Berthe
as LĂ©o Bertold
The Stud
as Tax collector Dupuis
Poussez pas grand-pĂšre dans les cactus
as Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as LoĂŻc de Kerfuntel
Aux frais de la princesse
as Achille
Erotissimo
as Le polyvalent
Le bourgeois gentil mec
as Spinosa
Les gros malins
as Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book'
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
as Maximiliano
The Big Wash
as Doctor Loupioc
Salut Berthe !
as Passerby with the pipe (uncredited)
The Men in the Family
as Strumberger
Rita the Field Marshal
as Captain Hans Vogel
Loose in the Trigger
as La Prudence
The Great Gadget
as Copec
Belle de Jour
as Mr. Adolphe
Le canard en fer blanc
as Le docteur Grego
The Oldest Profession
as The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")
Deux Romains en Gaule
as Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité
Order of the Daisy
as L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup
The Big Grasshopper
as Gédéon
Les enquiquineurs
as Monsieur Achille Eloy
Les malabars sont au parfum
as Ivanov
The Sleeping Sentinel
as Constant
Under Your Hat
as Mario l'enchanteur
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Dufour
The Real Bargain
as Paul Souflé
Les baratineurs
as Louis Dujardin
Les Gorilles
as FĂ©lix
The Great Spy Chase
as Boris Vassiliev
Chance at Love
as Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La")
The Big Scare
Les Pieds nickelés
as Commissaire Lenoir
Male Hunt
as Nino Papatakis
Champagne for Savages
as Francis
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
as Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
Clémentine chérie
as Nuisance at the Miss ceremony (uncredited)
Requiem pour un caĂŻd
as Ămile aka 'le Boxeur'
Jaloux comme un tigre
as Chauffeur
Dandelions by the Roots
as Absalon
No Poster
Actualités télérévisées
as Presenter
The Black Tulip
as Plantin
L'Ă©chelle
as Breton
Les Gros Bras
as Mr. PĂ©dro AndromĂšze
Crooks in Clover
as MaĂźtre Folace
Sweet and Sour
as Franz
Light-Fingered George
as Chief Insp. Cucherat
The Virgins
as Mr. De Brétevielle
People in Luck
as M. Bricheton (segment "Le Repas gastronomique")
The Abominable Man of Customs
as Arnakos
Who Stole the Body?
as Ădouard
Tartarin de Tarascon
as Antoine Tartarin
The Hideout
as Edouard
Snobs!
as Morloch
Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
as Capitano Fornace
The Seventh Juror
as Le procureur général
The Vendetta
as Bartoli
Hitch-Hike
as le douanier belge
Operation Gold Ingot
as Fellous
Romulus and the Sabines
as Mezio
The Girl of a Thousand Months
as Commendator Borgioli
No Poster
House of Sin
as Blanchin
Les Livreurs
as FĂ©lix
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Prior
The Bear
as Chappuis
Little Girls and High Finance
as Bank manager
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
We Like It Cold
as von Krussendorf
Love and the Frenchwoman
as Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")
Le pillole di Ercole
as Augusto
Easy Come Easy Go
as FĂ©lix
Long Live the Duke!
Some Like It... Cold
as William Foster Valmorin, American
Match contre la mort
as Mr. Pascal
The Green Mare
as Ferdinand Haudouin
Babette Goes to War
as Schulz
Too Late to Love
as Camille, le patron du bistrot
The Indestructible
as Francis Blanchard
The Motorcycle Cops
as His Excellency Curacagua
Toto in Paris
as Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
The Little Professor
as General overseer
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
as Chazot
Anyone Can Kill Me
as La Bonbonne
La Polka des menottes
as un voisin
Honoré de Marseille
as Pasquale Marchetti
Life is beautiful
as un voisin
Peek-a-boo
as Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien
Trust Me!
as Nicolas
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
as M. Boulay, l'Ă©picier libidineux
Good Enough to Eat
as Gilles
Ils ont vingt ans
as Michel Barbarin
The Sad Sack
as Jean du Bois d'Ombelles
The Killer is Listening
as Self
Frédérica
as Ami de Gilbert