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Francis Blanche

Francis Blanche

Actor

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.

Born: July 20, 1921 in Paris, France

Died: July 6, 1974 (Age 52)

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Francis Blanche  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
4.4
ActorStrumberger1967
Movie
7.7
ActorMonsieur Adolphe1967
Movie
4.4
ActorMarco Lombardi1970
Movie
5.9
ActorSchulz1959
Movie
5.7
ActorAbsalon1964
Movie
4.3
ActorLa Prudence1967
Movie
5.2
ActorLe polyvalent1969
Movie
4.5
ActorPasquale Marchetti1956
Movie
4.3
ActorMr. de Chatiez1973
Movie
4.4
ActorCaptain Hans Vogel1967
Movie
4.5
ActorAuguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani1971
Movie
5.4
ActorGédéon1967
Movie
5.2
ActorMario l'enchanteur1965
Movie
6.8
ActorFrancis1964
Movie
7.3
ActorLe procureur général1962
Movie
6.9
ActorL'inspecteur Maurice Leloup1967
Movie
6.1
Actorle douanier belge1962
Movie
7.9
ActorMaître Folace1963
Movie
7
ActorBoris Vassiliev1964
Movie
5.5
Actorpadre Scirer1972
Movie
6.7
ActorChief Insp. Cucherat1963
Movie
5.2
ActorGaribaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien1954
Movie
5.5
ActorMr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")1964
Movie
6.4
Actor1964
Movie
6.1
ActorNino Papatakis1964
Movie
6.1
ActorLe docteur Loupioc1968
Movie
4.5
ActorMezio1961
Movie
5.9
ActorFerdinand Haudouin1959
Movie
5.7
ActorM. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique »)1963
Movie
6
ActorMe Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (Le Divorce)1960
Movie
5.5
Actorle percepteur Dupuis1970
Movie
5
ActorWilliam, Foster Valmorin, l'américain1960
Movie
4.4
ActorLe vagabond1973
Movie
5.6
ActorMorloch1962
Movie
5.9
ActorFranz1963
Movie
6.1
ActorM. de Brétevielle1963
Movie
5.9
Actor1960
Movie
6.2
Actorvon Krussendorf1960
Movie
5.3
ActorCommendator Borgioli1961
Movie
5.2
ActorVictor Hutin, le père de Sophie1974
Movie
5.1
ActorJean du Bois d'Ombelles1950
Movie
4.8
ActorBartoli1962
Movie
3.4
Actorspinosa1969
Movie
3.7
ActorHector Grogenol1971
Movie
4.6
ActorFrancis1975
Movie
6.3
Actorun voisin1957
Movie
5.1
ActorIvanov1966
Movie
6.1
ActorNorbert1973
Movie
3.7
ActorModeste Miette1971
Movie
5.3
ActorAntoine Tartarin1962
Movie
3.8
ActorFrancis Bertolde dit 'Le book'1969
Movie
6.1
ActorCamille, le patron du bistrot1959
Movie
4
ActorLouis Dujardin1965
Movie
5.5
ActorFellous1962
Movie
5.9
ActorHis Excellency Curacagua1959
Movie
6.4
ActorM. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux1953
Movie
4.1
ActorCopec1967
Movie
5.9
ActorChappuis1960
Movie
5.6
ActorDarbon, le galeriste1973
Movie
5.4
ActorLe prieur1961
Movie
4.3
ActorLoïc de Kerfuntel1969
Movie
4.5
ActorMaximiliano1969
Movie
6.3
ActorLe médecin1974
Movie
5.1
ActorPietro l'Aretino1973
Movie
5.7
ActorFélix1964
Movie
4.8
ActorFélix1960
Movie
6
ActorBlanchin1961
Movie
4.6
ActorMr Pédro Andromèze1963
Movie
6.3
ActorLe docteur Grego1967
Movie
5
Actorle chauffeur1964
Movie
4.1
ActorFélix1961
Movie
4.8
ActorNicolas1954
Movie
5.6
ActorMaurice Gombaud1971
Movie
5.5
ActorConstant1966
Movie
6
ActorLa Bonbonne1957
Movie
4.9
Actorl'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité)1964
Movie
5.9
ActorIl maggiordomo (uncredited)1958
Movie
6.4
ActorAugusto1960
Movie
6.5
ActorHugon1971
Movie
6.2
ActorSelf1948
Movie
6.1
ActorCommissioner Pigna1972
Movie
3.3
ActorMonsieur Achille Eloy1966
Movie
5.8
ActorAmi de Gilbert1942
Movie
4.8
ActorÉdouard1963
Movie
6.5
ActorPlantin1964
Movie
4.7
ActorL'adjudant1964
Movie
4.8
ActorArnakos1963
Movie
ActorMichel Barbarin1950
Movie
5.2
ActorGilles1951
Movie
4.4
ActorCommissaire Lenoir1964
Movie
6
ActorEdouard1962
Movie
4.5
Actorun voisin1956
Movie
6.1
Actor1960
Movie
3.3
ActorGaston Payrac1973
Movie
5.8
Actor1974
Movie
5.6
ActorSigfrid1971
Movie
5.7
Actor1959
Movie
5.9
ActorNathaël Grissom1974
Movie
5.5
ActorEmile1964
Movie
5.5
ActorLe surveillant général1959
Movie
5.1
Actor1959
Movie
5.4
Actor1958
Movie
Actor1960
Movie
7.3
Actor1965
Movie
2.7
Actor1962
Movie
6.8
Actor1965
Movie
5.2
ActorThe Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")1967
Movie
5
ActorLe passant à la pipe (uncredited)1968
Movie
2.3
Actor1969
Movie
5.4
Actor1972
TV Show
8.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1957-1975
TV Show
6.9
ActorSelf
2 Episodes
1972-1975
TV Show
ActorSelf
4 Episodes
1971
TV Show
7.4
ActorSelf
2 Episodes
1956-1966
TV Show
8.9
ActorLe patron du restaurant
1 Episode
1965
TV Show
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1968-1980
Movie
5.8
ActorLe druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité1967
Movie
7.7
ActorSelf (archive footage)2022
Movie
5.6
Actor1970
Movie
5.2
WritingLyricist1954
Movie
7.3
WritingScreenplay1973
Movie
5.3
DirectingDirector1962
Movie
5.1
WritingWriter1981
Movie
4.8
WritingWriter1954
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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