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person_profile-Francis Blanche

Francis Blanche Died at age: 52

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Francis Blanche

Date of Birth:

Jul 20, 1921

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Jul 06, 1974

Biography of

Francis Blanche

    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.

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Francis Blanche

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Filmography of

Francis Blanche

Found 100 Movies in total

Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

... 1975

... 1974

OK Patron

Victor Hutin, le père de Sophie ( Actor )

... 1974

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

Gaston Payrac ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1973

Racconti romani di una ex-novizia

Pietro l'Aretino ( Actor )

... 1973

I. You. They.

Darbon, le galeriste ( Actor )

... 1973

I've Had It

Mr. de Chatiez ( Actor )

... 1973

The Eroticist

padre Scirer ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

La Grande Maffia

Modeste Miette ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1971

... 1971

... 1971

The Great Java

Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1970

The Stud

le percepteur Dupuis ( Actor )

... 1970

Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus

Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor ( Actor )

... 1969

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

Loïc de Kerfuntel ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1969

Erotissimo

Le polyvalent ( Actor )

... 1969

Le bourgeois gentil mec

spinosa ( Actor )

... 1969

The Big Wash

Le docteur Loupioc ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1968

Rita the Field Marshal

Captain Hans Vogel ( Actor )

... 1967

Du mou dans la gâchette

La Prudence ( Actor )

... 1967

The Great Gadget

Copec ( Actor )

... 1967

Belle de Jour

Monsieur Adolphe ( Actor )

... 1967

Le canard en fer blanc

Le docteur Grego ( Actor )

... 1967

The Oldest Profession

The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui") ( Actor )

... 1967

Deux Romains en Gaule

Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité ( Actor )

... 1967

Les Compagnons de la marguerite

L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup ( Actor )

... 1967

The Big Grasshopper

Gédéon ( Actor )

... 1967

The Men in the Family

Strumberger ( Actor )

... 1967

Les enquiquineurs

Monsieur Achille Eloy ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

The Sleeping Sentinel

Constant ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1965

... 1965

Les baratineurs

Louis Dujardin ( Actor )

... 1965

Les Gorilles

Félix ( Actor )

... 1964

The Great Spy Chase

Boris Vassiliev ( Actor )

... 1964

Chance at Love

L'adjudant ( Actor )

... 1964

The Big Scare

Franqui ( Actor )

... 1964

Les pieds nickelés

Commissaire Lenoir ( Actor )

... 1964

Male Hunt

Nino Papatakis ( Actor )

... 1964

Champagne for Savages

Francis ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1964

Clémentine chérie

l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité) ( Actor )

... 1964

Requiem pour un caïd

Emile ( Actor )

... 1964

Jaloux comme un tigre

le chauffeur ( Actor )

... 1964

Dandelions by the Roots

Absalon ( Actor )

... 1964

The Black Tulip

Plantin ( Actor )

... 1964

Les gros bras

Mr Pédro Andromèze ( Actor )

... 1963

Crooks in Clover

Maître Folace ( Actor )

... 1963

Sweet and Sour

Franz ( Actor )

... 1963

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Chief Insp. Cucherat ( Actor )

... 1963

The Virgins

M. de Brétevielle ( Actor )

... 1963

People in Luck

M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique ») ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

Who Stole the Body?

Édouard ( Actor )

... 1963

Tartarin de Tarascon

Antoine Tartarin ( Actor )

Director

... 1962

The Hideout

Edouard ( Actor )

... 1962

Snobs!

Morloch ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

The Seventh Juror

Attorney General ( Actor )

... 1962

The Vendetta

Bartoli ( Actor )

... 1962

Hitch-Hike

le douanier belge ( Actor )

... 1962

Operation Gold Ingot

Fellous ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1961

Les Livreurs

Félix ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

... 1960

... 1960

We Like It Cold

von Krussendorf ( Actor )

... 1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

Marceroux ('Le divorce') ( Actor )

... 1960

Easy Come Easy Go

Félix ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

Some Like It... Cold

William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1959

The Green Mare

Ferdinand Haudouin ( Actor )

... 1959

Babette Goes to War

Schulz ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959

The Motorcycle Cops

His Excellency Curacagua ( Actor )

... 1959

Toto in Paris

Il maggiordomo (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1958

... 1958

Anyone Can Kill Me

La Bonbonne ( Actor )

... 1957

La Polka des menottes

un voisin ( Actor )

... 1957

Honoré de Marseille

Pasquale Marchetti ( Actor )

... 1956

Life is beautiful

un voisin ( Actor )

... 1956

Peek-a-boo

Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor, un musicien ( Actor )

Lyricist

... 1954

Trust Me!

Nicolas ( Actor )

Writer

... 1954

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux ( Actor )

... 1953

Good Enough to Eat

Gilles ( Actor )

... 1951

Ils ont vingt ans

Michel Barbarin ( Actor )

... 1950

The Sad Sack

Jean du Bois d'Ombelles ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1948

Frédérica

Ami de Gilbert ( Actor )

... 1942