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Francis Blanche
Born · July 20, 1921
Died · July 6, 1974 (52 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Bio
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.
Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2022
Pierre Dac et Francis Blanche : Le Meilleur du Parti d'en Rire
Lui-même
0.0
2020
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2009
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Francis
5.0
1975
No Pockets in a Shroud
Nathaël Grissom
5.4
1974
Say it with Flowers
4.0
1974
France, Incorporated
Pierre, le financier pervers
4.1
1974
OK Patron
Victor Hutin, Sophie's father
5.0
1974
Par le sang des autres
Le médecin
5.0
1974
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Gaston Payrac
1.0
1973
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Wanderer
5.1
1973
Le Solitaire
Norbert
5.3
1973
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
Pietro l'Aretino
2.0
1973
I. You. They.
Darbon, le galeriste
4.0
1973
I've Had It
Mr. de Chatiez
5.0
1973
The Terror with Cross-Eyes
Commissioner Pigna
0.0
1972
The Eroticist
padre Scirer
5.7
1972
Midi trente
Self · (2 episodes)
6.0
1972
Scandal Man
4.0
1972
La Grande Maffia
Modeste Miette
3.0
1971
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Sigfrid
4.0
1971
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Hector Grogenol
4.0
1971
Les jambes en l'air
Hugon
4.0
1971
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Maurice Gombaud
3.7
1971
The Great Java
Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani
6.1
1971
Samedi soir
Self · (4 episodes)
6.0
1971
Alice au pays des merveilles
King of hearts
5.7
1970
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Marco Lombardi
3.3
1970
Adieu Berthe
Léo Bertold
0.0
1970
The Stud
Tax collector Dupuis
4.9
1970
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor
3.5
1969
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Loïc de Kerfuntel
3.0
1969
Aux frais de la princesse
1.0
1969
Erotissimo
Le polyvalent
6.0
1969
Le bourgeois gentil mec
Spinosa
1.0
1969
Les gros malins
Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book'
1.0
1969
Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Maximiliano
4.5
1969
À bout portant
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
1968
The Big Wash
Doctor Loupioc
6.0
1968
Salut Berthe !
Passerby with the pipe (uncredited)
4.4
1968
Rita the Field Marshal
Captain Hans Vogel
5.2
1967
Du mou dans la gâchette
La Prudence
5.6
1967
The Great Gadget
Copec
3.2
1967
Belle de Jour
Monsieur Adolphe
7.4
1967
Le canard en fer blanc
Le docteur Grego
3.8
1967
The Oldest Profession
The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")
5.1
1967
Deux Romains en Gaule
Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité
6.5
1967
Order of the Daisy
L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup
6.3
1967
The Big Grasshopper
Gédéon
6.2
1967
The Men in the Family
Strumberger
5.2
1967
Les enquiquineurs
Monsieur Achille Eloy
3.0
1966
Les malabars sont au parfum
Ivanov
3.3
1966
The Sleeping Sentinel
Constant
4.7
1966
Under Your Hat
Mario l'enchanteur
3.6
1965
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
0.0
1965
The Real Bargain
Paul Souflé
1.0
1965
Le bonheur conjugal
Le patron du restaurant · (1 episode)
0.0
1965
Les baratineurs
Louis Dujardin
4.0
1965
Les Gorilles
Félix
5.5
1964
The Great Spy Chase
Boris Vassiliev
6.8
1964
Chance at Love
Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La")
5.8
1964
The Big Scare
5.9
1964
Les pieds nickelés
Commissaire Lenoir
5.8
1964
Male Hunt
Nino Papatakis
6.6
1964
Champagne for Savages
Francis
6.0
1964
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
5.2
1964
Clémentine chérie
l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité)
6.0
1964
Requiem pour un caïd
Emile
5.8
1964
Jaloux comme un tigre
le chauffeur
2.0
1964
Dandelions by the Roots
Absalon
5.6
1964
Actualités télérévisées
Presenter
0.0
1964
The Black Tulip
Plantin
6.2
1964
Les gros bras
Mr. Pédro Andromèze
3.8
1963
Crooks in Clover
Maître Folace
7.7
1963
Sweet and Sour
Franz
4.6
1963
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Chief Insp. Cucherat
6.5
1963
The Virgins
M. de Brétevielle
4.6
1963
People in Luck
M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique »)
5.6
1963
The Abominable Man of Customs
Arnakos
5.0
1963
Who Stole the Body?
Édouard
6.5
1963
Tartarin de Tarascon
Antoine Tartarin
4.8
1962
The Hideout
Edouard
0.0
1962
Snobs!
Morloch
5.7
1962
Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
0.0
1962
The Seventh Juror
Attorney General
6.9
1962
The Vendetta
Bartoli
5.4
1962
Hitch-Hike
le douanier belge
5.5
1962
Operation Gold Ingot
Fellous
0.0
1962
Romulus and the Sabines
Mezio
5.0
1961
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Commendator Borgioli
2.0
1961
House of Sin
Blanchin
4.0
1961
Les Livreurs
Félix
0.0
1961
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Prior
5.2
1961
The Bear
Chappuis
6.0
1960
Little Girls and High Finance
6.5
1960
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
7.3
1960
We Like It Cold
von Krussendorf
6.5
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")
4.9
1960
Le pillole di Ercole
Augusto
0.0
1960
Easy Come Easy Go
Félix
4.0
1960
Long Live the Duke!
0.0
1960
Some Like It... Cold
William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain
5.5
1960
Match contre la mort
0.0
1959
The Green Mare
Ferdinand Haudouin
5.6
1959
Babette Goes to War
Schulz
5.5
1959
Too Late to Love
Camille, le patron du bistrot
5.6
1959
The Indestructible
Francis Blanchard
5.0
1959
The Motorcycle Cops
His Excellency Curacagua
5.0
1959
Discorama
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1959
Toto in Paris
Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
6.2
1958
The Little Professor
General overseer
3.1
1958
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Chazot
4.0
1958
Anyone Can Kill Me
La Bonbonne
5.9
1957
La Polka des menottes
un voisin
6.8
1957
Honoré de Marseille
Pasquale Marchetti
5.7
1956
Life is beautiful
un voisin
4.5
1956
Cinépanorama
Self · (2 episodes)
8.0
1956
Peek-a-boo
Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien
4.9
1954
Trust Me!
Nicolas
5.4
1954
Midnight... Quai de Bercy
M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux
6.5
1953
Good Enough to Eat
Gilles
6.5
1951
Ils ont vingt ans
Michel Barbarin
0.0
1950
The Sad Sack
Jean du Bois d'Ombelles
0.0
1950
The Killer is Listening
Self
1.0
1948
Frédérica
Ami de Gilbert
4.0
1942