Bourvil

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-07-27 (53 years old)

Deathday

1970-09-23

Place of Birth

Prétot-Vicquemare, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Bourvil

Biography

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.

Acting

1962

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

as Le chanteur à la télévision

1958

Les Misérables

as Thénardier

2023

Les Rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

1970

Le Cercle Rouge

as Commissioner François Mattei

1966

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

as Augustin Bouvet, house painter

1965

The Sucker

as Antoine Maréchal

1962

The Longest Day

as Mayor of Colleville

1959

Way of Youth

as Charles Michaud

1969

The Brain

as Anatole

1970

Atlantic Wall

as Léon Duchemin

1963

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

as Georges Lachaunaye

1969

Monte Carlo or Bust!

as Monsieur Dupont

1968

The Big Wash

as Armand Saint-Just

1950

Miquette

as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande

1960

Fortunate

as Noël Fortunat

1953

1954

2015

Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants

as Self (archive footage)

1963

My Wife's Husband

as André Colombey

1956

La Traversée de Paris

as Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver

1951

Mr. Peek-a-Boo

as Léon Dutilleul

1959

The Green Mare

as Honoré Haudouin

1954

April Fools' Day

as Émile Dupuy

1965

The Big Swag

as Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer

1942

Sideral Cruises

as Scientist

1963

Don't Tempt the Devil

as Albert Gaudet, investigating judge

1959

1969

1943

A Star to the Sun

as (uncredited)

1960

Captain Blood

as Baladin Cogolin

1965

The Wise Guys

as Hector Valentin

1968

The Hotshots

as Jules Auguste Duroc

1958

Sunday Encounter

as Jean Brévent

1970

The Stud

as William Chaminade

1961

All the Gold in the World

as Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont

1954

Cadet Rousselle

as Jérôme Baguindet

1958

The Mirror Has Two Faces

as Pierre Tardivet

1952

Crazy for Love

as Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine

1955

The Hussars

as le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis

1947

Not So Stupid

as Léon Ménard

1962

1948

By the Window

as Gaston 'Pilou'

1967

Les Arnaud

as Judge Henri Arnaud

1948

White as Snow

as Léon Ménard

1949

1958

Serenade of Texas

as Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf

1963

Josefa's Loot

as Pierre Corneille

1950

The Prize

as Isidore Pastouret

1966

Three Disordered Children

as Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics

1950

Le roi Pandore

as Léon Ménard, le gendarme

1965

The Dirty Game

as Lalande

2007

2008

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4)

as Self (archive footage)

2022

La Traversée de Bourvil

as Self (archive footage)

1961

The Busybody

as André Loriot

1962

Tartarin de Tarascon

as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped

1971

Clodo

as Gaston (uncredited)

1954

Le Fil à la patte

as Camille Bouzin

1951

Alone in Paris

as Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard

1947

1964

La Bonne Planque

as Antoine Perrin

1945

Hanged Man's Farm

as Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce

2009

Bourvil : Bien... si bien

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Lino Ventura, la part intime

as Self (archive footage)

2016

Bourvil, un homme vrai

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

Production

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