Saturday, March 25, 2006

de Funès, Louis (1914-1975).

This French comedian is perhaps the Czechs’ favorite foreign actor. De Funès made his name in dozens of film comedies in the fifties and sixties where he typically played overbearing and quick-tempered figures of authority. The most famous of these is his role as the gendarme of St. Tropez who battles against nude bathers and tries to rise in the police hierarchy. His popularity among Czechs stems from a combination of his distinctive looks – he was short and bald with a plastic face – his prodigious gifts as a physical comedian, and brilliant Czech dubbing by the actor František Filipovský. All of de Funès’s films are reprised annually on Czech Television.

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At 9:47 PM, Blogger Term Papers said...

I think the most famous of these is his role as the gendarme of St. Tropez who battles against nude bathers and tries to rise in the police hierarchy.


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