Popeck

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-05-18 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Popeck

Biography

Popeck (born Judka Herpstu; 18 May 1936) is a French actor and stand-up comedian. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania, Judka Herpstu was born in Paris. He was among the children saved from the Holocaust by the OSE, but his mother was murdered in Auschwitz. He studied acting at the Cours Simon and started his career on stage under the name Jean Herbert. In 1968, Herpstu created the character of Popeck, a grumpy Eastern-European immigrant dressed in a 3-piece suit, wearing a bowler hat and speaking French with a strong Yiddish accent. Sketches featuring Popeck made Herpstu known to the larger public, and the actor identified ...

Acting

1975

2009

1990

2019

Sixty

as Self - Comedian

1975

The Restroom Robbery

as Un policier à la gare

1984

Adam et Ève

as monsieur Ben-Hoït.

1982

T'es folle ou quoi ?

as Le plombier

1973

Themroc

as Le tailleur de crayons

2002

The Pianist

as Rubenstein

2001

Face à face

as Paul Laffargue

2016

The Jews

as Lucien

1986

Banana's Boulevard

as Le père Goldenberg

2011

A Child's Battle

as Toussaint

1992

Shabbot Shalom!

as Grand-père Rabbin

Production

1990

1990

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