Francis Blanche
Age: 52 | From: Paris, France
Person Details
Birthday: 1921-07-20 16:24:26
Death: 1974-07-06 16:24:26
Aliases: Francis-Jean Blanche
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Paris, France
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 31
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Midi trente
(1972) Self
Belle de Jour
(1967) Monsieur Adolphe
À bout portant
(1968) Self
The Black Tulip
(1964) Plantin
The Seventh Juror
(1962) Le procureur général
Le Bourgeois gentil mec
(1969) spinosa
Ils ont vingt ans
(1950) Michel Barbarin
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard...
(1959) Camille, le patron du bistrotActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1975 | Francis | |
| 1974 | Nathaël Grissom | |
| Victor Hutin, le père de Sophie | ||
| Le médecin | ||
| 1973 | Gaston Payrac | |
| Le vagabond | ||
| Norbert | ||
| Pietro l'Aretino | ||
| Darbon, le galeriste | ||
| Mr. de Chatiez | ||
| 1972 | Commissioner Pigna | |
| padre Scirer | ||
| Self | ||
| 1971 | Maurice Gombaud | |
| Modeste Miette | ||
| Sigfrid | ||
| Hector Grogenol | ||
| Hugon | ||
| Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani | ||
| Self | ||
| 1970 | Marco Lombardi | |
| Léo Bertold | ||
| le percepteur Dupuis | ||
| 1969 | Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor | |
| Loïc de Kerfuntel | ||
| Le polyvalent | ||
| Francis Bertolde dit 'Le book' | ||
| Maximiliano | ||
| spinosa | ||
| 1968 | Self | |
| Le docteur Loupioc | ||
| 1967 | Captain Hans Vogel | |
| La Prudence | ||
| Copec | ||
| Monsieur Adolphe | ||
| Le docteur Grego | ||
| Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité | ||
| L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup | ||
| Gédéon | ||
| Strumberger | ||
| 1966 | Monsieur Achille Eloy | |
| Ivanov | ||
| Constant | ||
| 1965 | Mario l'enchanteur | |
| Le patron du restaurant | ||
| Louis Dujardin | ||
| 1964 | L'adjudant | |
| Félix | ||
| Boris Vassiliev | ||
| N/A | ||
| Commissaire Lenoir | ||
| Nino Papatakis | ||
| Francis | ||
| Mr. Humlaupt | ||
| L'Allemand | ||
| l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité) | ||
| le chauffeur | ||
| Absalon | ||
| Presenter | ||
| Plantin | ||
| 1963 | Mr Pédro Andromèze | |
| Maître Folace | ||
| Franz | ||
| Chief Insp. Cucherat | ||
| M. de Brétevielle | ||
| M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique ») | ||
| Arnakos | ||
| Édouard | ||
| 1962 | Antoine Tartarin | |
| Edouard | ||
| Morloch | ||
| Le procureur général | ||
| Bartoli | ||
| le douanier belge | ||
| Fellous | ||
| 1961 | Mezio | |
| Commendator Borgioli | ||
| Blanchin | ||
| Félix | ||
| Le prieur | ||
| 1960 | Chappuis | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| von Krussendorf | ||
| Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (Le Divorce) | ||
| Augusto | ||
| Félix | ||
| William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain | ||
| 1959 | Ferdinand Haudouin | |
| Schulz | ||
| Camille, le patron du bistrot | ||
| His Excellency Curacagua | ||
| Self | ||
| 1958 | Il maggiordomo (uncredited) | |
| 1957 | La Bonbonne | |
| un voisin | ||
| 1956 | Pasquale Marchetti | |
| un voisin | ||
| Self | ||
| 1954 | Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien | |
| Nicolas | ||
| 1953 | M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux | |
| 1951 | Gilles | |
| 1950 | Michel Barbarin | |
| Jean du Bois d'Ombelles | ||
| 1948 | Self | |
| 1942 | Ami de Gilbert | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Writer | |
| 1973 | Screenplay | |
| 1954 | Lyricist | |
| Writer | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |