Bourvil
André Robert Raimbourg (27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil, and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Bourvil's father was killed in the First World War before he was born. As a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, from which he took his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943. After a battle with Kahler's syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines.
In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naïve, such as his roles opposite the hyperactive, dishonest and bossy ones played by Louis de Funès. Bourvil's characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries.
Bourvil was, however, also capable of more dramatic roles such as the handyman in L'Arbre de Noël (1969). In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the young son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, so often as a simple man. One can also note his role of Monsieur Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables (1958), and his penultimate role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge (1970).
In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the complete recording of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens, playing the four 'servant' roles.
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Fotos
Películas (75)
Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse
2025 · Self (Footage Archives)
Les Magnifiques sauvages
2023 · Music
Les Rois de la comédie
2023 · Self (archive footage)
La Traversée de Bourvil
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
A Night at the Opera
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, un homme vrai
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Bourvil : Bien... si bien
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Clodo
1971 · Gaston (uncredited)
Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · Commissioner François Mattei
Atlantic Wall
1970 · Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
The Stud
1970 · William Chaminade
The Christmas Tree
1969 · Verdun
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Monsieur Dupont
The Brain
1969 · Anatole
The Big Wash
1968 · Armand Saint-Just
The Hotshots
1968 · Jules Auguste Duroc
Les Arnaud
1967 · Judge Henri Arnaud
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966 · Augustin Bouvet
Three Disordered Children
1966 · Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics
The Wise Guys
1965 · Hector Valentin
The Big Swag
1965 · Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer
The Dirty Game
1965 · Lalande
The Sucker
1965 · Antoine Maréchal
The Big Scare
1964
La Bonne Planque
1964 · Antoine Perrin
My Wife's Husband
1963 · André Colombey
Light-Fingered George
1963 · Georges Lachaunaye
Josefa's Loot
1963 · Pierre Corneille
Don't Tempt the Devil
1963 · Albert Gaudet, investigating judge
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
1962 · Le chanteur à la télévision
Les Culottes rouges
1962 · Fendard
Tartarin de Tarascon
1962 · Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
The Longest Day
1962 · Mayor of Colleville
The Busybody
1961 · André Loriot
All the Gold in the World
1961 · Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
Fortunate
1960 · Noël Fortunat
Captain Blood
1960 · Baladin Cogolin
The Hunchback of Paris
1959 · Passepoil
The Green Mare
1959 · Honoré Haudouin
Way of Youth
1959 · Charles Michaud, père
Serenade of Texas
1958 · Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf
Sunday Encounter
1958 · Jean Brévent
The Mirror Has Two Faces
1958 · Pierre Tardivet
Les Misérables
1958 · Thénardier
The Singer from Mexico
1957 · Bilou
La Traversée de Paris
1956 · Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
The Hussars
1955 · le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis
Le Fil à la patte
1954 · Camille Bouzin, clerc de notaire et auteur de chansonnettes lestes
Cadet Rousselle
1954 · Jérôme Baguindet
April Fools' Day
1954 · Émile Dupuy
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953 · Museum guard
The Three Musketeers
1953 · Planchet
One Hundred Francs Per Second
1953 · Self
Crazy for Love
1952 · Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
Grrr....
1952 · Lui-même, Writer
Alone in Paris
1951 · Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
1951 · Léon Dutilleul
The Prize
1950 · Isidore Pastouret
Miquette
1950 · Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
Le Roi Pandore
1950 · Léon Ménard, le gendarme
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
1949 · Leon Ménard
White as Snow
1948 · Léon Ménard
By the Window
1948 · Gaston 'Pilou'
Not So Stupid
1947 · Léon Ménard
Studio en folies
1947 · Self
Hanged Man's Farm
1945 · Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce
A Star to the Sun
1943 · (uncredited)
Sideral Cruises
1942 · Scientist
Foutraque (!)
· himself
