Michel Galabru

Michel Galabru

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

27/10/1922

Day of Death

04/01/2016
(94) years old

Place of Birth

Safi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]

Biography

Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 1922 – 4 January 2016) was a French actor. Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for Subway), and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also well known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

2023

Les Rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Open at Night

as Michel Galabru

2013

The World Petanque Tour

as Louis Cabanel

2012

La page blanche

as Philippe

2011

The Robbed Robber

as André Gourgousse

2011

The Great Restaurant II

as The Unworthy Grandfather

2011

Jules et Marcel

as Jules Raimu

2010

The Baker's Wife

as Aimable Castanier

2010

Love Like Poison

as Jean Falguères

2010

Mumu

as Gâtineau

2009

À deux c'est plus facile

as Joseph Coudré

2009

Cineman

as Le Docteur

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Little Nicholas

as Minister

2009

Neuilly Yo Mama!

as Sénateur

2008

Final Arrangements

as Monsieur Froissard

2008

Welcome to the Sticks

as Julie's Great Uncle

2008

The Maiden and the Wolves

as Albert Garcin

2007

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice

as Le Pape Benoît XIII

2007

Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross

as Hubert Dunant

2004

Coup de vache

as Raymond Malassis

2004

Silence of the Sea

as André Larosière

2004

San Antonio

as Achille

2003

The Car Keys

as Teacher

2003

Raining Cats and Frogs

as L'éléphant (voice)

2000

Léopold

as Léopold Salvat

2000

Actors

as Executed actor

1999

Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar

as Abraracourcix

1998

Foul Play

as Michel Galabru

1998

Let There Be Light!

as Dieu le méridional

1998

Marceeel!!!

as Marcel

1997

Christmas at Bunny's

as Le Père Noël

1996

Rainbow pour Rimbaud

as Robert's father

1996

Chaudemanche, père et fils

as Eugène Chaudemanche

1996

My Man

as 3rd client

1995

L'École des femmes

as Arnolphe

1995

Le mas Théotime

as Clodieus

1995

La poule aux oeufs d'or

as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse

1994

Honorin et l'enfant prodigue

as Honorin, le maire

1993

Polly West est de retour

as Honorin, mayor

1992

Belle Époque

as Danglard

1992

Sleeping Waters

as Fouchard

1992

Room Service

as Fernand Castanier

1992

Honorin et la Loreleï

as Honorin, le maire

1991

Epiphany Sunday

as Georges

1991

The Cocottes

as Honorin, le maire

1990

Deux flics à Belleville

as Commissioner Santucci

1990

Uranus

as Monglat

1990

Feu sur le candidat

as Robert Cavaillon

1990

Le Provincial

as Ernest Cazavant

1990

No Time for Justice

as The investigating judge

1989

L'Invité surprise

as Le commissaire Le Bourreux

1989

Sans défense

as Jules Rampin

1989

The French Revolution

as Abbé Maury

1989

Una casa a Roma

as Cardinale

1989

Le commissaire épate le FBI

as Commissaire Tarquinini

1988

L'Argent

as Daigremont

1988

Envoyez les violons

as Dino Pizzoli

1987

Keep Your Right Up

as Admiral

1987

Grand Guignol

as Charlie

1987

The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque

as Jean-Etienne Nasal

1987

Poule et frites

as Martinez

1986

Kamikaze

as Albert

1986

The Joint Brothers

as Le père de Momo

1986

I Hate Actors

as Bison

1986

Follow My Gaze

as L'instituteur

1985

La Cage aux Folles 3

as Charrier

1985

Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez

as Charles de Lespinasse

1985

Subway

as Le Commissaire Gesberg

1985

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

1985

Slices of Life

as Le paysan

1984

Partenaires

as Charlie

1984

The Cheat

as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane

1984

Adam et Ève

as Léon Blachurpe

1984

Our Story

as Emile Pecqueur

1984

Salt on the Skin

as Bideau

1983

Gramps Is in the Resistance

as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »

1983

Vous habitez chez vos parents ?

as André Martell

1983

It's Called Catastrophe

as Fernand Dubuisson

1983

C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ...

as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla

1983

One Deadly Summer

as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father

1983

Le Braconnier de Dieu

as Hilaire

1982

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber

1982

The Graduates of the Last Row

as Marcel, le directeur

1982

On s'en fout… nous on s'aime

as 'Tonton' Aristote

1982

Is There a Frenchman in the House?

as Victor Réglisson

1982

Salut, j'arrive

as Gaston, Minou's father

1982

Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !

as Michel Frémont, union representative

1982

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

as M. Jourdain

1981

Si ma gueule vous plaît...

as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO

1981

Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers

as le colonel Desjument

1981

Choice of Arms

as Commissioner Bonnardot

1981

Le bahut va craquer

as le proviseur

1981

Signé Furax

as Black

1981

Is This Reasonable?

as Émile Dugoineau, usher

1981

The Ones That Got Away

as Emile Loubignac

1980

La Cage aux Folles II

as Simon Charrier

1980

le vol d'Icare

as Morcol

1980

A Week's Vacation

as Mancheron

1980

The Under-Gifted

as le commissaire

1980

Le Guignolo

as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Ale...

1980

I'm Photogenic

as Commendator Del Giudice

1980

The Miser

as Maître Jacques

1979

The Winner

as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier

1979

The City of Silences

as Nathan Farijacque

1979

Duets on Sofa

as Bernard, the lawyer

1979

The Bit Between the Teeth

as Charles Dréant

1979

Ciao, You Guys

as Ecological Farmer

1979

Cop or Hood

as Commissioner Grimaud

1979

Heart to Heart

as le cousin Gabriel

1978

Le Pion

as Schulinspektor

1978

La Cage aux Folles

as Simon Charrier

1978

Question of Love

as Le procureur

1978

Horoscope

as Plancheteau

1978

Surprise Sock

as L'obsédé de la télévision

1977

Le Chandelier

as Maître André

1977

The Cat

as Francisci

1977

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

as M. de Beaugenay

1977

Genre masculin

as Pierre

1977

Group Portrait with a Lady

as Walter Pelzer

1976

La Grande Récré

as Le Commissaire

1976

The Groper

as Eugène Lajoux

1976

The Braggart

as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet

1976

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

as Julien Mercier

1976

The Judge and the Assassin

as Joseph Bouvier

1975

Cigalon

as Cigalon

1975

Monsieur Balboss

as Commissioner Balboss

1975

Mad Race to Cote d'Azur

as Leonardos, Greek billionaire

1975

The Red Ibis

as Raymond

1975

Special Section

as Le président Cournet

1975

The Dangerous Mission

as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis

1974

The Fuhrer Runs Amok

as Monsieur Achtung

1974

Par ici la monnaie

as Bishop

1974

Bedmania

as Charles

1974

Les vacanciers

as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl

1974

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

as Commissaire Lalatte

1973

Man in the Trunk

as Baby

1973

The Big Store

as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie

1973

Le Concierge

as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires

1973

L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)

as Maître Lamothe

1973

Big Deal

as The commissioner

1972

Les joyeux lurons

as Le chanoine Bossuet

1972

The Egg

as Gaston Berthoullet

1972

The Annuity

as Léon Galipeau

1971

La Grande Maffia

as Father #1

1971

Joe: The Busybody

as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur

1970

The Gendarme Takes Off

as Jérôme Gerber

1970

Et qu'ça saute !

as Gutiérrez

1969

La Honte de la famille

as Maspie le Grand

1969

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

as Maître Le Gouen

1969

The Fighting Cock

as Albert

1969

Les gros malins

as Vicar

1969

L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus

as Eugène, policeman

1968

The Gendarme Gets Married

as Jérôme Gerber

1968

The Men in the Family

as Brigadier

1968

The Little Bather

as Scipio

1966

Les enquiquineurs

as Le garde-champêtre

1966

Brigade Anti Gangs

as Larmeno

1966

The Postman Goes to War

as Claparède

1966

Your Money or Your Life

as Maître Laprise, notary

1966

Angelique and the King

as Bontemps

1965

The Gendarme in New York

as Jérôme Gerber

1965

The Real Bargain

as Colmar

1965

Les baratineurs

as Entrepreneur

1964

Les Gorilles

as The newbie traffic warden

1964

Les pieds nickelés

as Ribouldingue

1964

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

as Jérôme Gerber

1964

Clémentine chérie

as FBI engineer

1963

My Wife's Husband

as Maximin

1963

La bande à Bobo

as Bourrache

1963

Good King Dagobert

as Pépin

1963

The Trip to Biarritz

as Touffanel

1962

La salamandre d'or

as Alchemist

1962

L'Auberge de l'ange gardien

as Le général Dourakine

1962

We Will Go to Deauville

as Mr. Mercier

1962

Tartarin de Tarascon

as Barbassou

1962

Adieu Philippine

as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision ...

1962

Parades

as Giles

1962

War of the Buttons

as Bacaillé's father

1962

Lafayette

as Innkeeper

1961

The Marriage of Figaro

as Bartholo

1961

The New Aristrocrats

as Father Menuzzi

1961

Famous Love Affairs

as Champagne, le domestique du roi

1961

One Night at the Beach

as le commissaire

1960

Cyrano de Bergerac

as Ragueneau

1960

The Delinquents

as Fred

1959

The Three Musketeers

as M. Bonacieux

1959

The Dreadful

as Pelou

1959

Riff Raff Girls

as Bit part

1959

The Indestructible

as Augustin Robustal

1958

Follow Me Young Man

as Aristide Oranos

1949

Last Hour, Special Edition

as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredi...

1949

La Bataille du feu

as Firefighter

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