BourvilFilmography

Born:: July 27, 1917 in Petrot-Vicquemare, Seine-Maritime, France
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: French actor/singer Bourvil (his professional name taken from the Bourville district of his native Normandy) was musically inclined from his youth, when he played trumpet in a municipal band. Developing his singing while in military service, Bourvil first stepped on stage in 1937 as an amateur...Read More

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Le Cercle Rouge

Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, François Perier

Synopsis: Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police Read More

10/20/70
Le Mur De L'Atlantique

Actors: Bourvil, Sophie Desmarets, Terry-Thomas, Sara Franchetti

Synopsis: Leon (Bourvil) is the owner of a cafe in a small town in occupied France in this comedic war story. Like most French of the time, he tries to get along with the German invaders. When his daughter (Sara Franchetti) brings home a downed British aviator, Leon becomes involved by helping the man Read More

10/14/70
Clodo Et Les Vicieuses

Actors: Pauline Carton, Bourvil, Raymond Souplex

1970
L'Arbre de Noël

Actors: William Holden, Virna Lisi, Bourvil, Brook Fuller, Madeleine Damien

Synopsis: Laurent (William Holden) is willing to give his terminally ill son Pascal (Brook Fuller) anything to make his last days comfortable. The unfortunate boy is stricken with leukemia after being showered with radioactive poison when an airplane exploded. Laurent takes Pascal back to Paris where he and Read More

10/10/69
Le Cerveau

Actors: Bourvil, David Niven, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven plays The Brain, so named because it was he who mapped out the British Great Train Robbery (it says here). Now The Brain plans to lift a fortune in NATO money, which is being Read More

3/7/69
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies

Actors: Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Peter Cook, Walter Chiari, Tony Curtis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy concerns the annual auto race in Monte Carlo and boasts an international cast of all-star thespians. Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) is the scheming villain and auto tycoon who will stop at nothing to win the car race. When Chester (Tony Curtis) wins half of the car Read More

1969
L'Étalon

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Michel Lonsdale, Jacques Legras, R.J. Chauffard

Synopsis: This sexually suggestive comedy also manages to simultaneously lampoon the French social security system. Chaminade (Bourvil) is the veterinarian who watches as a woman jumps off the roof of a small building. After the girl is caught by a folksinger with a striking physique, he rushes to offer Read More

1969
Les Cracks

Actors: Bourvil, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Monique Tarbes, Michel de Re, Bernard Verley

Synopsis: This madcap comedy concerns a bicycle race from Paris to San Remo at the turn of the century. Duroc (Bourvil) has invented a bicycle with a new and improved coasting feature. He is forced to try out his new invention when he flees a bill collector who tries to impound his bicycle. He Read More

3/1/68
La Grande Lessive

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Jean Tissier, Roland Dubillard, Jean Poiret, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy concerns a college professor who stages a one-man vendetta against television. A hare-brained inventor has produced an aerosol spray that when applied effectively renders television antennae useless. Armand (Bourvil) enlists the help of a gymnast who scales heights to apply Read More

1968
Les Arnaud

Actors: Bourvil, Christine Delaroche, Michel de Re

Synopsis: Beloved French comic Bourvil stars in a dramatic role as the compassionate magistrate Arnaud. He comes to the aid of the young law student Andre (Adamo) when the impoverished youth is falsely accused of murder. This plodding, moralistic drama preaches that troubled youths often need a second Read More

10/13/67
La Grande Vadrouille

Actors: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Terry-Thomas, Marie Dubois, Andréa Parisy, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: In this British war comedy, set in WW II, a bomber crew is shot down over Paris during the Nazi occupation. They are helped out of the city by several good-hearted Frenchman. They make it to the steambath where they had an important rendezvous. They then begin the final part of their escape. A Read More

12/8/66
Les Grandes Gueules

Actors: Bourvil, Lino Ventura, Marie Dubois, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: Jean-Claude Roland and Lino Ventura play Nick and Laurent, a pair of not completely rehabilitated ex-convicts in Les Grandes Gueules. The twosome is hired by Hector (Bourvil), a well-meaning, unworldly sawmill owner. At first refusing to take their lumberjacking jobs seriously, the larcenous Read More

10/22/66
Trois Enfants Dans Le Desordre

Actors: Bourvil, Jean Lefebvre, Rosy Varte, Jacques Legras

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy of manners, Eugene (Bourvil) is a businessman who is framed by his crooked partner and thrown in prison. To save his business and escape a long jail term, he adopts three children he has never seen. Freed from prison, Eugene is trapped when the three moppets and their Read More

1966
Guerre Secrete

Actors: Bourvil, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Annie Girardot, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international espionage agents. Stories involve a secret agent (Vittorio Gassman) who goes undercover as a kidnapper, an attempt to impede a Russian attack on two submarines, and an undercover Read More

6/23/65
Le Corniaud

Actors: Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Beba Loncar

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a clever fellow proves himself smarter than the gangsters who would exploit him. The trouble begins in Paris when the vacationing hero accidentally gets into an auto accident with a smuggler. The crook is most apologetic for the mishap and kindly offers to let him drive his Read More

3/24/65
Un Drôle de Paroissien

Actors: Bourvil, Jean Poiret, Francis Blanche, Jean Tissier

Synopsis: In this French farce, a lazy member of a family of down-and-out aristocrats refuses to help the destitute family survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
La Grosse Caisse

Actors: Bourvil, Paul Meurisse, Daniel Ceccaldi

Synopsis: Bourdin (Bourvil) is a ticket puncher on the Paris subway who writes a book about a train robbery in this routine comedy. After he is turned down by several publishers who find his story implausible, Bourdin recruits a gang of crooks to carry out the plan to prove it is possible. The plan Read More

1965
La Cite De L'Indicible Peur

Actors: Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret

1964
La Grande Frousse

Actors: Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche, Raymond Rouleau, Victor Francen

Synopsis: Triquet (Bourvil) is a policeman who is forced to retire early when he nabs too many crooks while he is not on the clock in this satirical crime comedy. He captures a criminal who is headed for the guillotine, but the condemned man escapes when the instrument of death malfunctions. Triquet is Read More

1964
La Cuisine au Beurre

Actors: Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier, Henri Vilbert, Andrex, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In this WWII comedy, a French POW escapes and hides at an inn. After the war, he stays at the inn to help the innkeeper, whom he has become involved with, rather than return to his wife. When the innkeeper's husband shows up ten years later, the POW goes back to his wife, whom he finds married to Read More

12/20/63
Le Magot De Josefa

Actors: Bourvil, Anna Magnani, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Josefa (Anna Magnani) is an Italian immigrant operating a small grocery store in France. The people of the town are indifferent to her until the rumor she will receive a monetary fortune from an American gangster relation. The mayor tries to butter her up, and a stranger poses as her long-lost Read More

10/2/63
Les Bonnes Causes

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Marina Vlady, Virna Lisi, Bourvil

Synopsis: In a biting, critical look at "justice" and how it does not necessarily work, director Christian-Jaque develops this tale of murder and deception via two principle, conniving characters and their upright opponents in the legal system. Catherine (Marina Vlady) is a heartless, self-serving woman Read More

4/17/63
Deo Gratias

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret, Jean Yonnel

1963
Les Culottes Rouges

Actors: Bourvil, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: Les Culottes Rouges, directed by Alex Joffe is a fairly routine wartime drama about two very different men who end up hiding out and running from the enemy together. Antoine (Laurent Terzieff) first comes across as an adventurous, brave, and selfless soldier when he is forced to take refuge with Read More

1962
The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

1962
Don't Tempt the Devil

Synopsis: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection. She goes to court where eventually, the real killer is revealed by his own jilted lover in this French drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962
Tout l'Or du Monde

Actors: Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Annie Fratellini

Synopsis: This standard comedy was one of the last films by director René Clair, who began his career in 1922! The story deals with two real-estate developers who try to buy up one particular town noted for the long life of its residents. A nearby spring may have something to do with their longevity, and Read More

11/1/61
Le Tracassin ou les Plaisirs De La Vie

Actors: Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Armand Mestral, Maria Pacome

Synopsis: French comic Bourvil has the lead role of Andre in this comedy that romps from one impossible situation to the next, all engendered by the problems that come with living in a big city. Andre is out looking for an apartment for himself and his fiancée so that they can get married. He also plans on Read More

1961
Fortunat

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Gaby Morlay, Rosy Varte

Synopsis: This is a routine, somewhat melodramatic wartime tale set in Occupied France and featuring Michele Morgan as Juliette, a woman with two children who is forced to flee the occupied zone for the French free zone after her partisan husband is captured by the Germans. Juliette cannot manage this Read More

11/16/60
Le Capitan

Actors: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli, Christian Fourcade

Synopsis: Andre Hunebelle directs this talky, standard costume drama set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. King Louis (Christian Fourcade) has his problems -- a power-hungry regent is trying to take the seat of government right out from underneath him. In order to stave off this bid for Read More

10/5/60
Le Bossu

Actors: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Hubert Noel

Synopsis: Set in the 18th century, this French swashbuckler centers on Lagardere (Jean Marais), an adventurer whose life is affected when he decides to help out a nobleman in distress. Lagardere's comic companion Passepoil (Bourvil) adds a light touch to the proceedings. But when the nobleman is vilely Read More

12/13/59
La Jument Verte

Actors: Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert, Sandra Milo, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: In this French drama a horse dealer is quite surprised when one of his mares foals a green colt. The verdant critter brings his family fame and fortune. When the mare dies, her picture is hung in a prominent place in the house. It is not long after her death, that the dealer dies, leaving his land Read More

10/29/59
Le Chemin Des Ecoliers

Actors: Bourvil, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This well-acted-though routine wartime drama is the second such film in a row for young Jean Claude Brialy, who plays a member of one of two families who are experiencing the effects of the German Occupation. In general, both morals and morale have declined in the families so that a lonely married Read More

9/23/59
Le Miroir à Deux Faces

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Elizabeth Manet, Gérard Oury

Synopsis: With Mirror Has Two Faces (Miroir a Deux Faces), French director Andre Cayatte takes a respite from his usual broadsides against the iniquities of the French judicial system. Michele Morgan stars as a plain, middle-aged woman, miserably unhappy with her go-nowhere existence. She submits to plastic Read More

9/5/58
Les Misérables

Actors: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Danièle Delorme, Gianni Esposito

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleagured Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime Read More

3/12/58
Serenade Au Texas

Actors: Bourvil, Yves Deniaud, Luis Mariano, Germaine Damar

1958
Un Drôle de Dimanche

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Bourvil, Arletty, Cathia Caro, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis: Un Drole de Dimanche (What a Sunday) stars Danielle Darrieux as Catherine and Bourvil as her ex-husband Jean. By chance, Catherine and Jean are reunited five years after she walked out of his life. In a fit of romantic nostalgia, Jean mentally reconstructs the events that led up to their Read More

1958
La Traversée de Paris

Actors: Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Jeanette Batti, Louis de Funès, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World War II, and the place is occupied France. Timorous cab driver Gabin finagles Bourvil into transporting four suitcases full of precious pork through Paris, under the noses of Read More

10/26/56
Le Chanteur De Mexico

Actors: Luis Mariano, Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Tilda Thamar

1956
Les Hussards

Actors: Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Louis de Funès

1955
Un Fil A La Patte

Actors: Noël-Noël, Suzy Delair, Henri Guisol, Bourvil

Synopsis: The title of this French bedroom farce translates to A Fly in the Ointment. That "fly" is music-hall performer Lucette (Suzy Delair), the current girlfriend of rakish roue Bois D'Enghien (Noel-Noel). Preparing to marry into a wealthy and honorable family, Boris is bedeviled by Lucette, who refuses Read More

1954
Cadet-Rousselle

Actors: Bourvil, François Perier, Dany Robin, Madeleine Le Beau

Synopsis: The Gallic swashbuckler Cadet-Rousselle stars Francois Perrier in the title role. In love with the mayor's daughter, Rousselle is separated from her by money and by his low-born parentage. He heads off to Paris, there to find fame and fortune and make himself worthy of his sweetheart. En route Read More

1954
Poisson d'avril

Actors: Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Pierre Dux, Denise Grey

1954
Si Versailles M'Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More

1954
Les Trois Mousquetaires

Actors: Georges Marchal, Gino Cervi, Yvonne Sanson, Bourvil

Synopsis: Of the dozens of film versions of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this 1953 film version is one of the few to remain faithful to the source. As always, the story begins when farm boy D'Artagnan (Georges Marschal) rides into Paris, intending to become a King's Musketeer. En route, he manages to offend Read More

10/7/53
Le Trou normand

Actors: Bourvil, Nadine Basile, Jane Marken [Jeanne], Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Synopsis: The title of this French low-comedy opus refers to a fancy, family-owned hotel. Village buffoon Hippolyte (Bourvil) hopes to inherit the hotel, but he's opposed by his crafty relatives. In order to qualify for the inheritance, Hippolyte is forced to enroll in grade school, from which he'd never Read More

5/12/52
The Prize

Actors: Bourvil, Christian Lude, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Filmed in 1950 as Le Rosier de Madame Husson, The Prize was produced and scripted by Marcel Pagnol, of "The Marseilles Trilogy" fame. The plot is motivated by a contest, wherein a prize of 100,000 francs will be bestowed upon the most virtuous maiden in a tiny French village. Virtue being a scarce Read More

1952
Seul Dans Paris

Actors: Bourvil, Magali Noël

1951
Le Passe-muraille

Actors: Joan Greenwood, Marcelle Arnold, Bourvil, Roger Treville, Gérard Oury, Henri Cremieux

Synopsis: Mr. Peek-a-Boo may seem like a puerile title, but it is a lot more graspable to non-French audiences than the original Garou Garou Le Passe Muraille. Bourvil stars as a minor bureaucrat who finds himself the reluctant recipient of magical powers. He is actually able to walk through solid walls Read More

1950
Le Rosier De Madame Husson

Actors: Jacqueline Pagnol, Germaine Dermoz, Bourvil, Mireille Perrey

1950
Miquette et Sa Mère

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Bourvil, Danièle Delorme, Saturnin Fabre, Mireille Perrey

Synopsis: Miquette et sa Mere was the second of Henri-Georges Clouzot's directorial efforts of 1949. Co-scripted by Clouzot, this lighthearted film is easier to digest than the director's more celebrated mysteries and melodramas. Daniele Delorme plays Miquette, a winsome lass who aspires to be an actress. Read More

1950
Le Roi Pandore

Actors: Mathilde Casadesus, Paulette Dubost, Bourvil, Georges Lannes

1949
Le Coeur Sur la Main

Actors: Bourvil, Mich_le Philippe, Robert Berri

1948
Blanc Comme Neige

Actors: Bourvil, Paulette Dubost, Robert Berri, Pauline Carton

1947
Par La Fenetre

Actors: Suzy Delair, Bourvil, André Alerme, Mona Dol

1947
Pas Si Bete

Actors: Bourvil, Bernard Lancret, Yves Deniaud

1946
La Ferme Du Pendu

Actors: Charles Vanel, Bourvil, Claudine Dupuis

Synopsis: A corrupt, lecherous farming son and the destruction he brings to his family is featured in this melodrama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1946

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