Bourvil

Born: 1917-07-27

Bourvil, born André Robert Raimbourg (27 July 1917, Prétot-Vicquemare, France – 23 September 1970, Paris) was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille (1966). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bourvil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

as Augustin Bouvet
Released: 1966-12-08

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to...

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Le Cercle Rouge

as Commissioner François Mattei
Released: 1970-10-19

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...

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as Mayor of Colleville
Released: 1962-09-25

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and...

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Les Misérables

as Thénardier
Released: 1958-03-11

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...

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Monte Carlo or Bust!

as Monsieur Dupont
Released: 1969-04-28

Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally...

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The Sucker

as Antoine Maréchal
Released: 1965-03-24

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a...

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The Brain

as Anatole
Released: 1969-03-07

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a...

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La Traversée de Paris

as Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
Released: 1956-10-26

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across...

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The Christmas Tree

as Verdun
Released: 1969-09-25

A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's...

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Mr. Peek-a-Boo

as Léon Dutilleul
Released: 1951-04-06

A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in...

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Captain Blood

as Baladin Cogolin
Released: 1960-10-05

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring...

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Way of Youth

as Charles Michaud
Released: 1959-09-23

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the...

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The Hunchback of Paris

as Passepoil
Released: 1959-11-26

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife...

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The Mirror Has Two Faces

as Pierre Tardivet
Released: 1958-10-15

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an...

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The Wise Guys

as Hector Valentin
Released: 1965-10-22

Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has...

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Atlantic Wall

as Léon Duchemin
Released: 1970-10-14

1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et...

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Thank Heaven for Small Favors

as Georges Lachaunaye
Released: 1963-08-28

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

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My Wife's Husband

as André Colombey
Released: 1963-12-20

After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But...

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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-10-13

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The Three Musketeers

as Planchet
Released: 1953-10-07

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love...

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

as Un gardien de musée
Released: 1954-02-10

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by...

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The Hotshots

as Jules Auguste Duroc
Released: 1968-03-01

A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of...

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All the Gold in the World

as Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
Released: 1961-11-01

Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He...

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Don't Tempt the Devil

as M. Albert Gaudet, juge d'instruction
Released: 1963-04-17

A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after...

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The Green Mare

as Honoré Haudouin
Released: 1959-10-29

A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death,...

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Les Arnaud

as Judge Henri Arnaud
Released: 1967-10-12

In the sunny landscapes of Provence, Henri Arnaud is a conscientious law student who's got a...

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The Big Wash

as Armand Saint-Just
Released: 1968-11-12

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an...

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Crazy for Love

as Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
Released: 1952-11-07

A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.

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Fortunate

as Noël Fortunat
Released: 1960-11-16

During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude...

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Tartarin de Tarascon

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-22

A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who,...

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The Big Scare

as uncredited
Released: 1964-10-28

Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.

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April Fools' Day

as Émile Dupuy
Released: 1954-07-28

Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a...

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Miquette

as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
Released: 1950-04-14

A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian...

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The Hussars

as le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis
Released: 1955-12-14

Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid...

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The Dirty Game

as Laland
Released: 1965-06-23

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

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La traversée de Bourvil

as Himself (archive)
Released: 2022-09-23

September 23, 2022 marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of Bourvil (1917-1970). Radio,...

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Hanged Man's Farm

as Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce
Released: 1945-12-05

A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry...

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Lino Ventura, la part intime

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2018-02-04

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The Busybody

as André Loriot
Released: 1961-12-20

André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain...

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Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2

as uncredited
Released: 2007-11-06

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Serenade of Texas

as Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf
Released: 1958-12-16

Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that...

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Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2015-10-06

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Cadet Rousselle

as Jérôme Baguindet
Released: 1954-10-20

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of...

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Josefa's Loot

as Pierre Corneille
Released: 1963-08-22

Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris....

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Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

as Le chanteur à la télévision
Released: 1962-12-19

Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After...

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Sunday Encounter

as Jean Brévent
Released: 1958-11-19

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been...

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The Singer from Mexico

as Bilou
Released: 1957-01-24

Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break...

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La Bonne Planque

as Antoine Perrin
Released: 1964-04-30

Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To...

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The Stud

as William Chaminade
Released: 1970-02-13

Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he...

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Les rois de la comédie

as Lui-même (archives)
Released: 2023-01-01

At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition....

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Alone in Paris

as Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard
Released: 1951-11-28

Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they...

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Clodo

as Gaston (uncredited)
Released: 1971-06-15

Clodo, a gentle mongrel dog, isn't having much luck. His shaggy appearance has earned him the...

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Le roi Pandore

as Léon Ménard, le gendarme
Released: 1950-03-31

A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen...

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Not So Stupid

as Léon Ménard
Released: 1947-07-19

Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle...

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Les Culottes rouges

as Fendard
Released: 1962-12-19

Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly...

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The Prize

as Isidore Pastouret
Released: 1950-09-20

Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame...

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White as Snow

as Léon Ménard
Released: 1948-04-28

Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In...

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Wear His Heart on His Sleeve

as Leon Ménard
Released: 1949-06-28

Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One...

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The Big Swag

as Louis Bourdin
Released: 1965-07-09

Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour...

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Le Fil à la patte

as Camille Bouzin
Released: 1954-12-06

Count Fernand du Bois d'Enghien typifies the pleasure seeker and as such he has a mistress of...

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One Hundred Francs Per Second

as Self
Released: 1953-01-09

Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's...

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Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants

as Lui-même
Released: 2015-01-12

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A Star to the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1943-02-24

Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her...

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Three Disordered Children

as Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics
Released: 1966-06-01

A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail...

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Sideral Cruises

as Un scientifique
Released: 1942-04-19

Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to...

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Bourvil, un homme vrai

as Himself
Released: 2016-12-11

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By the Window

as Gaston
Released: 1948-01-22

Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to...

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Bourvil : Bien... si bien

as uncredited
Released: 2009-12-23

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Champs-Elysées

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Spécial cinéma

as Self (archive footage)
First aired: 1974-09-25

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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