Personal Info

Birth date

1925-02-10 (100 Years)

Day of death

2012-09-15

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Also known as

Pierre Cuq

Пьер Монди

Pierre Mondy

Biography

Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director.

He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma.

Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career. In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic.

As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).

Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault.

Source: Article "Pierre Mondy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

Vivement dimanche

3

Overview:

Champs-Elysées

6.286

Overview:

Midi Première

10

Overview:

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Overview:

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Sacrée soirée

6.5

Overview:

Midi trente

6

Overview:

À bout portant

8

Overview:

Numéro un

6

Overview:

A French variety show.

Cinépanorama

8

Overview:

Stars 90

6.2

Overview:

At Theatre Tonight

6.667

Overview:

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

Les Cordier, juge et flic

5.429

Overview:

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

Nulle part ailleurs

5.6

Overview:

The Octopus

7.9

Overview:

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

Matin Bonheur

NYR

Overview:

Palace

6.7

Overview:

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Petit déjeuner compris

6.3

Overview:

A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.

Édouard et ses filles

10

Overview:

La Dame de Monsoreau

NYR

Overview:

Énigmes de l'histoire

NYR

Overview:

Billet doux

3

Overview:

Cadet Rousselle

NYR

Overview:

Les Dossiers de l'Agence O

10

Overview:

L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.

Commissaire Cordier

7.8

Overview:

Love and the Frenchwoman

4.9

Overview:

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.

Asterix in Britain

6.772

Overview:

One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.

Asterix vs. Caesar

6.54

Overview:

Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the Emperor himself, Julius Caesar...

Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?

7.281

Overview:

1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.

The Night of the Generals

6.8

Overview:

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Weekend at Dunkirk

6.915

Overview:

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Acting

2011La Grève des femmes as Emile

2009Le temps est à l'orage as Félix

2009A Man and His Dog as Le cuistot

2008L'Amour dans le sang as Self

2008Fallen from the Sky as Émile

2008La Dame de Monsoreau (2 Episodes) as Baron de Médicis

2007Graduate at 70! as Louis Merlet

2005Joseph as Joseph

2005Commissaire Cordier (12 Episodes) as Commissaire Pierre Cordier

2004The Costly Truth as Antoine Bossy

2003Lovely Rita as Marcel

2003Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self

2003Bingo! as le directeur du théâtre

2001Les Filles à papa as Jean-Jacques Daloiseau

1998Vivement dimanche (2 Episodes) as Self

1994Le fils préféré as le dentiste usurier

1994Les Cordier, juge et flic (60 Episodes) as Pierre Cordier

1991Rumeurs as Yves-Martin Bussières

1991Les Dessous de la passion as Matutchek

1990Édouard et ses filles (6 Episodes) as Edouard

1990Stars 90 (2 Episodes) as Self

1989Fantôme sur l'oreiller as Le chauffeur

1988Palace (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Client qui participe à la partouze / Client de l'ascenseur du 14e, Directeur de Tourisme international, Le vérificateur de chez Canibouffe, Robert

1987Sacrée soirée (6 Episodes) as Self

1987Nulle part ailleurs (1 Episode) as Self

1987Matin Bonheur (2 Episodes) as Self

1987C'est encore mieux l'après-midi as Richard Marchelier

1986Asterix in Britain as Cétinlapsus (voice)

1986Le Dindon as Vatelin

1985Asterix vs. Caesar as Caius (voice)

1985Slices of Life as Le Président

1984Billet doux (6 Episodes) as Philippe Josper, associé de l'agence de publicité

1984Pinot simple-flic as Rochu

1984The Octopus (6 Episodes) as Don Amilcare Attilio Brenno

1983Love Lies as Marcel Thiebault