Francis Blanche

Francis Blanche

Acting 1921-07-20 Paris, France

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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2022 Self (archive footage)
2009 Self (archive footage)
1981 Writer
1974 Nathaël Grissom
1974 Gérard Rollain
1974 Doctor
1974 Victor Hutin, Sophie's father
1974 Pierre, the perverted financier
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1973 Mr. de Chatiez
1973 Gaston Payrac
1973 Darbon, le galeriste
1973 Pietro l'Aretino
1973 Norbert
1973 Screenplay
1972 padre Scirer
1972 Paluche
1972 Commissioner Pigna
1972 Self
1971 Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani
1971 Modeste Miette
1971 Hugon
1971 Self
1970 Tax collector Dupuis
1970 King of hearts
1970 Léo Bertold
1970 Marco Lombardi
1969 Le polyvalent
1969 Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book'
1969 Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor
1969 Achille
1969 Maximiliano
1969 Spinosa
1969 Loïc de Kerfuntel
1968 Doctor Loupioc
1968 Strumberger
1968 Passerby with the pipe (uncredited)
1968 Self
1967 Captain Hans Vogel
1967 Gédéon
1967 La Prudence
1967 L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup
1967 Le docteur Grego
1967 The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")
1967 Mr. Adolphe
1967 Copec
1967 Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité
1966 Constant
1966 Monsieur Achille Eloy
1965 Paul Souflé
1965 Mario l'enchanteur
1965 Louis Dujardin
1965 Le patron du restaurant
1964 Nino Papatakis
1964 Boris Vassiliev
1964 Francis
1964 Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
1964 L'oncle Absalon, le savant farfelu
1964 Commissaire Lenoir
1964 Félix
1964 Émile aka 'le Boxeur'
1964 Chauffeur
1964 Nuisance at the Miss ceremony (uncredited)
1964 Presenter
1964 Plantin
1964 Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La")
1963 Maître Folace
1963 Chief Insp. Cucherat
1963 Franz
1963 M. Bricheton (segment "Le Repas gastronomique")
1963 Mr. de Brétevielle
1963 Édouard
1963 Mr. Pédro Andromèze
1962 Attorney General
1962 le douanier belge
1962 Morloch
1962 Antoine Tartarin
1962 Bartoli
1962 Edouard
1962 Capitano Fornace
1962 Fellous
1962 Director
1961 Prior
1961 Blanchin
1961 Commendator Borgioli
1961 Mezio
1961 Félix
1960 William Foster Valmorin, American
1960 Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")
1960 Chappuis
1960 Bank manager
1960 von Krussendorf
1960 Félix
1960 Augusto
1959 Ferdinand Haudouin
1959 Camille, le patron du bistrot
1959 Francis Blanchard
1959 Mr. Pascal
1959 His Excellency Curacagua
1959 Schulz
1959 Self
1958 General overseer
1958 Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
1957 un voisin
1957 La Bonbonne
1956 Pasquale Marchetti
1956 un voisin
1956 Self
1954 Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien
1954 Nicolas
1954 Lyricist
1954 Writer
1953 M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux
1951 Gilles
1950 Michel Barbarin
1950 Jean du Bois d'Ombelles
1942 Ami de Gilbert