Personal Info
Birth date
1917-07-27 (107 Years)
Day of death
1970-09-23
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Prétot-Vicquemare, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Also known as
André Zacharie Raimbourg
André Bourvil
André Robert Raimbourg
Бурвиль
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.
Filmography
The Longest Day
7.585
Overview:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
7.929
Overview:
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.Les Misérables
7.2
Overview:
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.Le Cercle Rouge
7.617
Overview:
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.The Sucker
7.37
Overview:
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".The Christmas Tree
6.145
Overview:
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.The Brain
7.3
Overview:
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.La Traversée de Paris
7.259
Overview:
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8
Overview:
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.Monte Carlo or Bust!
5.9
Overview:
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.The Green Mare
5.6
Overview:
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians. Following this denunciation, their non-commissioned officer enters the Haudouin home and rapes the mother while Honoré is hidden under the bed. The resentment already existing between the Haudouin and Maloret families turns to hatred... A letter recalling the events is lost, which doesn't help matters.Crazy for Love
6.1
Overview:
A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.The Three Musketeers
6.3
Overview:
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.Mr. Peek-a-Boo
6.2
Overview:
Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan.All the Gold in the World
6.3
Overview:
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...My Wife's Husband
6.595
Overview:
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!The Stud
4.9
Overview:
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...Don't Tempt the Devil
6.4
Overview:
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.Captain Blood
6.5
Overview:
Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.The Dirty Game
5.8
Overview:
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.One Hundred Francs Per Second
5.3
Overview:
Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.The Mirror Has Two Faces
6.4
Overview:
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.Les Rois de la comédie
7.5
Overview:
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?The Hunchback of Paris
6.731
Overview:
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
5
Overview:
Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduating from the Conservatoire with a first prize, he lives on hope, offering his classical works to publishers. One day, while driving customers to the races, he plays a "toquard": Maubeuge, who wins. With his friends, he celebrates the event and, for dessert, composes a song for the occasion: "Tout ça ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge". Monique, a secretary at the radio station and one of the guests, had a record made of the tape recording. And this record, following a mistake, was broadcast on a religious music program. It's a runaway success: for Paul, it's fame and fortune. which he had obviously coveted, but more with his symphonies, opera and sonatas. No matter, the "Clair de lune à Maubeuge" (Moonlight in Maubeuge) allows two happily engaged couples to become happily married.Acting
2023Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
2022La Traversée de Bourvil as Self (archive footage)
2018Lino Ventura, la part intime as Self (archive footage)
2016Bourvil, un homme vrai as Self (archive footage)
2015Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille as Self (archive footage)
2015Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur as Self (archive footage)
2015Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants as Self (archive footage)
2009Bourvil : Bien... si bien as Self (archive footage)
2009Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage)
2008Comiques de toujours (Vol. 3 & 4) as Self (archive footage)
2007Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2 as Self (archive footage)
1982Champs-Elysées (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1974Spécial cinéma (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1972Midi trente (1 Episode) as Self (archive footage)
1971Clodo as Gaston (uncredited)
1970Le Cercle Rouge as Commissioner François Mattei
1970Atlantic Wall as Léon Duchemin
1970The Stud as William Chaminade
1969The Christmas Tree as Verdun
1969Monte Carlo or Bust! as Monsieur Dupont
1969The Brain as Anatole
1968The Big Wash as Armand Saint-Just
1968The Hotshots as Jules Auguste Duroc
1967Les Arnaud as Judge Henri Arnaud
1966Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Augustin Bouvet, house painter
1966Three Disordered Children as Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics
1965The Wise Guys as Hector Valentin
1965The Big Swag as Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer
1965The Dirty Game as Lalande
1965The Sucker as Antoine Maréchal
1964The Big Scare as Unknown
1964La Bonne Planque as Antoine Perrin
1963My Wife's Husband as André Colombey
1963Thank Heaven for Small Favors as Georges Lachaunaye
1963Josefa's Loot as Pierre Corneille
1963Don't Tempt the Devil as Albert Gaudet, investigating judge
1962Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge as Le chanteur à la télévision
1962Les Culottes rouges as Fendard
1962Tartarin de Tarascon as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
1962The Longest Day as Mayor of Colleville
1961The Busybody as André Loriot
1961All the Gold in the World as Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
1960Fortunate as Noël Fortunat
1960Captain Blood as Baladin Cogolin
1959The Hunchback of Paris as Passepoil
1959The Green Mare as Honoré Haudouin
1959Way of Youth as Charles Michaud
1958Serenade of Texas as Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf
1958Sunday Encounter as Jean Brévent
1958The Mirror Has Two Faces as Pierre Tardivet
1958Les Misérables as Thénardier
1957The Singer from Mexico as Bilou
1956La Traversée de Paris as Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
1956Cinépanorama (3 Episodes) as Self
1955The Hussars as le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis
1954Le Fil à la patte as Camille Bouzin
1954Cadet Rousselle as Jérôme Baguindet
1954April Fools' Day as Émile Dupuy
1954Royal Affairs in Versailles as Museum guard
1953The Three Musketeers as Planchet
1953One Hundred Francs Per Second as Self
1952Crazy for Love as Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
1951Alone in Paris as Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard
1951Mr. Peek-a-Boo as Léon Dutilleul
1950The Prize as Isidore Pastouret
1950Miquette as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
1950Le roi Pandore as Léon Ménard, le gendarme
1949Wear His Heart on His Sleeve as Leon Ménard
1948White as Snow as Léon Ménard
1948By the Window as Gaston 'Pilou'
1947Not So Stupid as Léon Ménard
1947Studio en folies as Self
1945Hanged Man's Farm as Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce
1943A Star to the Sun as (uncredited)
1942Sideral Cruises as Scientist
Sound
2023Les Magnifiques sauvages ... Music