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 Dhérys theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhérys 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 sen 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 Vassiliefs Les Barbouzes (1964).He delighted in parodying classical music, adapting famous works such as Schuberts Die Forelle (The Trout) into a crazy and slightly risqué piece about a 16-year-old romantic girl obsessed with Schuberts song to the point of giving birth to a live trout while performing it on her piano. Similarly, he turned Beethovens 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.
Nino Papatakis
Film 1964
Attorney General
Film 1962
Film 1960
padre Scirer
Film 1972
Boris Vassiliev
Film 1964
Chief Insp. Cucherat
Film 1963
Franz
Film 1963
M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique »)
Film 1963
Doctor Loupioc
Film 1968
Le polyvalent
Film 1969
M. de Brétevielle
Film 1963
Ferdinand Haudouin
Film 1959
Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani
Film 1971
Captain Hans Vogel
Film 1967
Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien
Film 1954
Pasquale Marchetti
Film 1956
Strumberger
Film 1967
Gédéon
Film 1967
William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain
Film 1960
Tax collector Dupuis
Film 1970
Michel Barbarin
Film 1950
Francis
Film 1964
La Prudence
Film 1967
le douanier belge
Film 1962
Gilles
Film 1951
Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
Film 1964
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Commissaire Lenoir
Film 1964
Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")
Film 1960
Morloch
Film 1962
Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book'
Film 1969
Self (archive footage)
Film 2022
Modeste Miette
Film 1971
L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup
Film 1967
Nicolas
Film 1954
Antoine Tartarin
Film 1962
Édouard
Film 1963
Mr. Pédro Andromèze
Film 1963
Mr. de Chatiez
Film 1973
Bartoli
Film 1962
Félix
Film 1964
Edouard
Film 1962
Le docteur Grego
Film 1967
un voisin
Film 1956
Maurice Gombaud
Film 1971
Wanderer
Film 1973
Nathaël Grissom
Film 1974
Francis
Film 1975
Chappuis
Film 1960
Arnakos
Film 1963
Sigfrid
Film 1971
Gaston Payrac
Film 1973
Ivanov
Film 1966
Darbon, le galeriste
Film 1973
Pietro l'Aretino
Film 1973
Camille, le patron du bistrot
Film 1959
Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor
Film 1969
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un voisin
Film 1957
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General overseer
Film 1958
Emile
Film 1964
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His Excellency Curacagua
Film 1959
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Prior
Film 1961
The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")
Film 1967
King of hearts
Film 1970
Passerby with the pipe (uncredited)
Film 1968
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Maximiliano
Film 1969
Léo Bertold
Film 1970
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Monsieur Adolphe
Film 1967
Blanchin
Film 1961
Marco Lombardi
Film 1970
M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux
Film 1953
Copec
Film 1967
Fellous
Film 1962
Norbert
Film 1973
Schulz
Film 1959
Constant
Film 1966
Hector Grogenol
Film 1971
Jean du Bois d'Ombelles
Film 1950
Commendator Borgioli
Film 1961
Mezio
Film 1961
Spinosa
Film 1969
von Krussendorf
Film 1960
le chauffeur
Film 1964
Mario l'enchanteur
Film 1965
Louis Dujardin
Film 1965
Félix
Film 1960
Félix
Film 1961
Loïc de Kerfuntel
Film 1969
Victor Hutin, le père de Sophie
Film 1974
La Bonbonne
Film 1957
l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité)
Film 1964
Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
Film 1958
Augusto
Film 1960
Hugon
Film 1971
Monsieur Achille Eloy
Film 1966
Self
Film 1948
Presenter
Film 1964
Ami de Gilbert
Film 1942
Commissioner Pigna
Film 1972
Self (archive footage)
Film 2009
Plantin
Film 1964
Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité
Film 1967
Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La")
Film 1964
Lui-même
Film 2020
Self
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1971
Self
Tv 1972
Le patron du restaurant
Tv 1965
Self
Tv 1956
Self
Tv 1959