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Francis Blanche
François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 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 actors—including his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painter—. 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 Dhéry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Blanche teamed up with Pierre Dac to form a comic duo best remembered for Le Sâr 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 Signé 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 Néron and, in 1955, Chevalier du Ciel, an operetta by Luis Mariano at the Gaîté-Lyrique theatre. Blanche also enjoyed a successful cinematographic career, both as an actor and scriptwriter. He appeared as a hard-headed German colonel ("Obersturmführer 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 Maître 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 risqué 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, Jérémie-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 Èze cemetery. Source: Article "Francis Blanche" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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March 19th, 2022 | Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche | Self (archive footage) | TBD | |
December 1st, 2020 | Pierre Dac et Francis Blanche : Le Meilleur du Parti d'en Rire | Lui-même | 8 | |
October 13th, 2009 | Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) | Self (archive footage) | 6 | |
April 15th, 1975 | A Whale That Had a Toothache | Francis | 6.7 | |
October 25th, 1974 | No Pockets in a Shroud | Nathaël Grissom | 5.4 | |
September 4th, 1974 | Say it with Flowers | Gérard Rollain | 5.7 | |
June 4th, 1974 | France, Incorporated | Pierre, the perverted financier | 4.1 | |
June 1st, 1974 | OK Patron | Victor Hutin, Sophie's father | 5.7 | |
March 7th, 1974 | By the Blood of Others | Doctor | 5.2 | |
October 31st, 1973 | La Dernière Bourrée à Paris | Gaston Payrac | 5.5 | |
October 24th, 1973 | The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot | Wanderer | 4.9 | |
October 24th, 1973 | Le Solitaire | Norbert | 6.5 | |
September 21st, 1973 | Racconti romani di una ex-novizia | Pietro l'Aretino | 3.7 | |
June 28th, 1973 | I. You. They. | Darbon, le galeriste | 4.5 | |
February 23rd, 1973 | I've Had It | Mr. de Chatiez | 6 | |
September 2nd, 1972 | The Terror with Cross-Eyes | Commissioner Pigna | 10 | |
March 16th, 1972 | The Eroticist | padre Scirer | 5.6 | |
February 14th, 1972 | Scandal Man | Paluche | 6.5 | |
September 17th, 1971 | La Grande Maffia | Modeste Miette | 6 | |
July 9th, 1971 | Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... | Sigfrid | 5.3 | |
May 21st, 1971 | Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? | Hector Grogenol | 7.3 | |
May 13th, 1971 | Les Jambes en l'air | Hugon | 4.5 | |
April 15th, 1971 | Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot? | Maurice Gombaud | 4.2 | |
January 13th, 1971 | The Great Java | Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani | 6 | |
December 22nd, 1970 | Alice au pays des merveilles | King of hearts | 6.3 | |
April 8th, 1970 | Ces messieurs de la gâchette | Marco Lombardi | 4.1 | |
March 21st, 1970 | Adieu Berthe | Léo Bertold | TBD | |
February 13th, 1970 | The Stud | Tax collector Dupuis | 4.9 | |
November 5th, 1969 | Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus | Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor | 5 | |
August 14th, 1969 | Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille | Loïc de Kerfuntel | 6 | |
July 4th, 1969 | Aux frais de la princesse | Achille | 5 | |
June 7th, 1969 | Erotissimo | Le polyvalent | 5.7 | |
May 21st, 1969 | Le bourgeois gentil mec | Spinosa | 5 | |
May 13th, 1969 | Les gros malins | Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book' | 5 | |
February 5th, 1969 | Faites donc plaisir aux amis | Maximiliano | 6.3 | |
November 12th, 1968 | The Big Wash | Doctor Loupioc | 5.9 | |
August 20th, 1968 | Salut Berthe ! | Passerby with the pipe (uncredited) | 4.9 | |
May 8th, 1968 | The Men in the Family | Strumberger | 5.1 | |
December 21st, 1967 | Rita the Field Marshal | Captain Hans Vogel | 5.3 | |
August 30th, 1967 | Loose in the Trigger | La Prudence | 5.8 | |
June 21st, 1967 | The Great Gadget | Copec | 5.3 | |
May 24th, 1967 | Belle de Jour | Mr. Adolphe | 7.3 | |
April 22nd, 1967 | Le canard en fer blanc | Le docteur Grego | 4.8 | |
April 7th, 1967 | The Oldest Profession | The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui") | 5 | |
February 25th, 1967 | Deux Romains en Gaule | Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité | 7 | |
January 20th, 1967 | Order of the Daisy | L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup | 6.2 | |
January 11th, 1967 | The Big Grasshopper | Gédéon | 6.3 | |
November 9th, 1966 | Les enquiquineurs | Monsieur Achille Eloy | 5.5 | |
February 2nd, 1966 | Les malabars sont au parfum | Ivanov | 4.5 | |
January 21st, 1966 | The Sleeping Sentinel | Constant | 5.3 | |
September 3rd, 1965 | Under Your Hat | Mario l'enchanteur | 4 | |
August 13th, 1965 | Pas de caviar pour tante Olga | Dufour | 9 | |
March 9th, 1965 | The Real Bargain | Paul Souflé | 4 | |
February 1st, 1965 | Les baratineurs | Louis Dujardin | 5 | |
December 23rd, 1964 | Les Gorilles | Félix | 6.4 | |
December 10th, 1964 | The Great Spy Chase | Boris Vassiliev | 6.9 | |
October 30th, 1964 | Chance at Love | Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") | 6.5 | |
October 28th, 1964 | The Big Scare | TBD | 5.8 | |
September 30th, 1964 | Les Pieds nickelés | Commissaire Lenoir | 6.2 | |
September 18th, 1964 | Male Hunt | Nino Papatakis | 6.5 | |
August 26th, 1964 | Champagne for Savages | Francis | 6.3 | |
August 14th, 1964 | The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers | Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel") | 5.4 | |
August 4th, 1964 | Clémentine chérie | Nuisance at the Miss ceremony (uncredited) | 6.2 | |
July 25th, 1964 | Requiem pour un caïd | Émile aka 'le Boxeur' | 6.3 | |
June 16th, 1964 | Jaloux comme un tigre | Chauffeur | 4.7 | |
May 6th, 1964 | Dandelions by the Roots | L'oncle Absalon, le savant farfelu | 5.4 | |
April 1st, 1964 | Actualités télérévisées | Presenter | TBD | |
February 28th, 1964 | The Black Tulip | Plantin | 6.3 | |
December 31st, 1963 | Les Gros Bras | Mr. Pédro Andromèze | 3.8 | |
November 27th, 1963 | Crooks in Clover | Maître Folace | 7.7 | |
September 4th, 1963 | Sweet and Sour | Franz | 5.1 | |
August 28th, 1963 | Thank Heaven for Small Favors | Chief Insp. Cucherat | 6.6 | |
May 22nd, 1963 | The Virgins | Mr. De Brétevielle | 4.8 | |
April 26th, 1963 | People in Luck | M. Bricheton (segment "Le Repas gastronomique") | 5.5 | |
March 1st, 1963 | The Abominable Man of Customs | Arnakos | 5.4 | |
February 1st, 1963 | Who Stole the Body? | Édouard | 7 | |
November 22nd, 1962 | Tartarin de Tarascon | Antoine Tartarin | 5.3 | |
September 21st, 1962 | The Hideout | Edouard | 7 | |
September 5th, 1962 | Snobs! | Morloch | 6 | |
April 20th, 1962 | Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! | Capitano Fornace | 10 | |
April 18th, 1962 | The Seventh Juror | Le procureur général | 6.8 | |
April 17th, 1962 | The Vendetta | Bartoli | 5.8 | |
March 16th, 1962 | Hitch-Hike | le douanier belge | 6.1 | |
March 13th, 1962 | Operation Gold Ingot | Fellous | 7 | |
November 15th, 1961 | Romulus and the Sabines | Mezio | 5.3 | |
November 5th, 1961 | The Girl of a Thousand Months | Commendator Borgioli | 5.5 | |
October 25th, 1961 | House of Sin | Blanchin | 5.5 | |
July 24th, 1961 | Les Livreurs | Félix | 8 | |
April 4th, 1961 | Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! | Prior | 5.6 | |
December 14th, 1960 | The Bear | Chappuis | 7 | |
October 30th, 1960 | Little Girls and High Finance | Bank manager | 7.7 | |
October 27th, 1960 | Le Olimpiadi dei mariti | TBD | 6.8 | |
September 20th, 1960 | We Like It Cold | von Krussendorf | 7.2 | |
September 16th, 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman | Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce") | 4.9 | |
September 10th, 1960 | Le pillole di Ercole | Augusto | 7 | |
May 26th, 1960 | Easy Come Easy Go | Félix | 7 | |
March 14th, 1960 | Long Live the Duke! | TBD | 8 | |
February 17th, 1960 | Some Like It... Cold | William Foster Valmorin, American | 5.6 | |
December 2nd, 1959 | Match contre la mort | Mr. Pascal | 8 | |
October 29th, 1959 | The Green Mare | Ferdinand Haudouin | 5.6 | |
September 18th, 1959 | Babette Goes to War | Schulz | 5.6 | |
May 5th, 1959 | Too Late to Love | Camille, le patron du bistrot | 5.8 | |
April 29th, 1959 | The Indestructible | Francis Blanchard | 7 | |
March 18th, 1959 | The Motorcycle Cops | His Excellency Curacagua | 5.5 | |
October 23rd, 1958 | Toto in Paris | Il maggiordomo (uncredited) | 6.3 | |
September 26th, 1958 | The Little Professor | General overseer | 3.9 | |
September 9th, 1958 | A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik | Chazot | 5 | |
December 6th, 1957 | Anyone Can Kill Me | La Bonbonne | 6.2 | |
September 4th, 1957 | La Polka des menottes | un voisin | 6.8 | |
December 12th, 1956 | Honoré de Marseille | Pasquale Marchetti | 6.3 | |
October 5th, 1956 | Life is beautiful | un voisin | 6.3 | |
October 15th, 1954 | Peek-a-boo | Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien | 5 | |
May 17th, 1954 | Trust Me! | Nicolas | 6.2 | |
May 21st, 1953 | Midnight... Quai de Bercy | M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux | 7.3 | |
June 8th, 1951 | Good Enough to Eat | Gilles | 6.8 | |
December 15th, 1950 | Ils ont vingt ans | Michel Barbarin | 10 | |
November 10th, 1950 | The Sad Sack | Jean du Bois d'Ombelles | 9 | |
January 1st, 1948 | The Killer is Listening | Self | 4.5 | |
November 18th, 1942 | Frédérica | Ami de Gilbert | 5.5 |