Bourvil

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description

Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.

Template:DMCA

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

André Bourvil
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Bourvil in 1967
Born
André Robert Raimbourg

Script error: No such module "person date".
Prétot-Vicquemare, France
DiedScript error: No such module "person date".
Paris, France
OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textPage Template:Hlist/styles.css has no content.
  • Actor
  • singer
Years active1941–1970
EmployerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OrganizationTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
AgentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Notable creditTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
LabelTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
OpponentTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
Template:Pluralize from text
SpouseTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
PartnerTemplate:Pluralize from textTemplate:Pluralize from text
ChildrenPhilippe Raimbourg
Dominique Raimbourg
Template:Pluralize from text

Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".

André Robert Raimbourg (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil (Script error: No such module "IPA".), 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.[1]

Biography

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.[2] He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines.

File:Bourvil avec ses enfants Philippe et Dominique Raimbourg.jpg
Bourvil with his sons Philippe and Dominique Raimbourg, in 1959

Career

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.

Filmography

Page Template:Div col/styles.css has no content.

Songs

Nearly 300, among which the best known are:

  • "La tendresse"
  • "Salade de fruits"
  • "Les crayons"
  • "La Tactique du gendarme" (from the film Le roi Pandore)
  • "Ballade irlandaise"
  • "Un clair de lune à Maubeuge"
  • "Petit bal perdu" (C'était bien)
  • "Ma p'tite chanson"
  • "Je t'aime moi non plus" (humouristic version), in duet with Jacqueline Maillan

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Philippe Crocq; Jean Mareska (2006). Bourvil. De rire et de tendresse (in français). Éditions Privat. p. 12.

Template:Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Bourvil&oldid=280912"