Bourvil
Popularity:0.166
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1917-07-27
Place of Birth:Prétot-Vicquemare, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
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Also Known As:André Zacharie Raimbourg, André Bourvil, André Robert Raimbourg, Бурвиль

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge (1962)
Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduating from the Conservatoire with a first...

Les Misérables (1958)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Les Rois de la comédie (2023)
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”,...

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a...

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied...

The Sucker (1965)
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only...

The Longest Day (1962)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

Way of Youth (1959)
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking...

The Brain (1969)
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know...

Atlantic Wall (1970)
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly...

Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic...

The Big Wash (1968)
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed...

Miquette (1950)
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships...

Fortunate (1960)
During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her...

The Singer from Mexico (1957)
Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.

The Three Musketeers (1953)
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham,...

Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

My Wife's Husband (1963)
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a...

La Traversée de Paris (1956)
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan....

April Fools' Day (1954)
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the...

The Green Mare (1959)
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor...

The Big Swag (1965)
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il...

Sideral Cruises (1942)
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15...

Don't Tempt the Devil (1963)
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.

The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him...

The Christmas Tree (1969)
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.

A Star to the Sun (1943)
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and...

Captain Blood (1960)
Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise...

The Wise Guys (1965)
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has...

The Hotshots (1968)
A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.

Sunday Encounter (1958)
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a...

The Stud (1970)
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his...

All the Gold in the World (1961)
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also...

Cadet Rousselle (1954)
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a...

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who...

Crazy for Love (1952)
A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.

The Big Scare (1964)
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.

The Hussars (1955)
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in...

Not So Stupid (1947)
Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous...

Les Culottes rouges (1962)
Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him...

By the Window (1948)
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a...

Les Arnaud (1967)
In the sunny landscapes of Provence, Henri Arnaud is a conscientious law student who's got a lovely girlfriend, Tina. The person who used to pay for...

White as Snow (1948)
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy...

Wear His Heart on His Sleeve (1949)
Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied...

Serenade of Texas (1958)
Music seller and singer on occasion, Jacques Gardel learns from master Jérôme Quilleboeuf that he inherits oil fields located in Big...

Josefa's Loot (1963)
Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she...

Three Disordered Children (1966)
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.

The Prize (1950)
Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a...

Le roi Pandore (1950)
A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means

The Dirty Game (1965)
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2 (2007)

Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur (2015)

La Traversée de Bourvil (2022)
September 23, 2022 marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of Bourvil (1917-1970). Radio, sketches, boulevard theater, operetta, cinema, songs...

The Busybody (1961)
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and...

Tartarin de Tarascon (1962)
A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip,...

Clodo (1971)
Clodo, a gentle mongrel dog, isn't having much luck. His shaggy appearance has earned him the name of hobo. Often scolded by his Parisian masters for...

One Hundred Francs Per Second (1953)
Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet...

Le Fil à la patte (1954)
Count Fernand du Bois d'Enghien typifies the pleasure seeker and as such he has a mistress of course, star singer Lucette Gauthier. But now Fernand...

Alone in Paris (1951)
Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket...

La Bonne Planque (1964)
Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To escape the police, Émile, accompanied by...

Hanged Man's Farm (1945)
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass....
