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.

Kino niedostępny od Francis Blanche

Male Hunt

Nino Papatakis

Film 1964

The Seventh Juror

Attorney General

Film 1962

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti

Film 1960

The Eroticist

padre Scirer

Film 1972

The Great Spy Chase

Boris Vassiliev

Film 1964

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Chief Insp. Cucherat

Film 1963

Sweet and Sour

Franz

Film 1963

People in Luck

M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique »)

Film 1963

The Big Wash

Doctor Loupioc

Film 1968

Erotissimo

Le polyvalent

Film 1969

The Virgins

M. de Brétevielle

Film 1963

The Green Mare

Ferdinand Haudouin

Film 1959

The Great Java

Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani

Film 1971

Rita the Field Marshal

Captain Hans Vogel

Film 1967

Peek-a-boo

Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien

Film 1954

Honoré de Marseille

Pasquale Marchetti

Film 1956

The Men in the Family

Strumberger

Film 1967

The Big Grasshopper

Gédéon

Film 1967

Some Like It... Cold

William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain

Film 1960

The Stud

Tax collector Dupuis

Film 1970

Ils ont vingt ans

Michel Barbarin

Film 1950

Champagne for Savages

Francis

Film 1964

Du mou dans la gâchette

La Prudence

Film 1967

Hitch-Hike

le douanier belge

Film 1962

Good Enough to Eat

Gilles

Film 1951

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")

Film 1964

The Big Scare

Film 1964

Les pieds nickelés

Commissaire Lenoir

Film 1964

Love and the Frenchwoman

Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (segment "Le Divorce")

Film 1960

Snobs!

Morloch

Film 1962

Les gros malins

Francis Bertolde aka 'Le book'

Film 1969

Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche

Self (archive footage)

Film 2022

La Grande Maffia

Modeste Miette

Film 1971

Les Compagnons de la marguerite

L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup

Film 1967

Trust Me!

Nicolas

Film 1954

Tartarin de Tarascon

Antoine Tartarin

Film 1962

Who Stole the Body?

Édouard

Film 1963

Les gros bras

Mr. Pédro Andromèze

Film 1963

I've Had It

Mr. de Chatiez

Film 1973

The Vendetta

Bartoli

Film 1962

Les Gorilles

Félix

Film 1964

The Hideout

Edouard

Film 1962

Le canard en fer blanc

Le docteur Grego

Film 1967

Life is beautiful

un voisin

Film 1956

Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?

Maurice Gombaud

Film 1971

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

Wanderer

Film 1973

No Pockets in a Shroud

Nathaël Grissom

Film 1974

A Whale That Had a Toothache

Francis

Film 1975

The Bear

Chappuis

Film 1960

The Abominable Man of Customs

Arnakos

Film 1963

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...

Sigfrid

Film 1971

La Dernière Bourrée à Paris

Gaston Payrac

Film 1973

Les malabars sont au parfum

Ivanov

Film 1966

I. You. They.

Darbon, le galeriste

Film 1973

Racconti romani di una ex-novizia

Pietro l'Aretino

Film 1973

Too Late to Love

Camille, le patron du bistrot

Film 1959

Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus

Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor

Film 1969

The Indestructible

Film 1959

La Polka des menottes

un voisin

Film 1957

Say it with Flowers

Film 1974

The Little Professor

General overseer

Film 1958

Requiem pour un caïd

Emile

Film 1964

Match contre la mort

Film 1959

The Motorcycle Cops

His Excellency Curacagua

Film 1959

A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik

Film 1958

Long Live the Duke!

Film 1960

Pas de caviar pour tante Olga

Film 1965

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!

Film 1962

The Real Bargain

Film 1965

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

Prior

Film 1961

The Oldest Profession

The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")

Film 1967

Alice au pays des merveilles

King of hearts

Film 1970

Salut Berthe !

Passerby with the pipe (uncredited)

Film 1968

Aux frais de la princesse

Film 1969

Scandal Man

Film 1972

Faites donc plaisir aux amis

Maximiliano

Film 1969

Adieu Berthe

Léo Bertold

Film 1970

Little Girls and High Finance

Film 1960

Belle de Jour

Monsieur Adolphe

Film 1967

House of Sin

Blanchin

Film 1961

Ces messieurs de la gâchette

Marco Lombardi

Film 1970

Midnight... Quai de Bercy

M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux

Film 1953

The Great Gadget

Copec

Film 1967

Operation Gold Ingot

Fellous

Film 1962

Le Solitaire

Norbert

Film 1973

Babette Goes to War

Schulz

Film 1959

The Sleeping Sentinel

Constant

Film 1966

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

Hector Grogenol

Film 1971

The Sad Sack

Jean du Bois d'Ombelles

Film 1950

The Girl of a Thousand Months

Commendator Borgioli

Film 1961

Romulus and the Sabines

Mezio

Film 1961

Le bourgeois gentil mec

Spinosa

Film 1969

We Like It Cold

von Krussendorf

Film 1960

Jaloux comme un tigre

le chauffeur

Film 1964

Under Your Hat

Mario l'enchanteur

Film 1965

Les baratineurs

Louis Dujardin

Film 1965

Easy Come Easy Go

Félix

Film 1960

Les Livreurs

Félix

Film 1961

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

Loïc de Kerfuntel

Film 1969

OK Patron

Victor Hutin, le père de Sophie

Film 1974

Anyone Can Kill Me

La Bonbonne

Film 1957

Clémentine chérie

l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité)

Film 1964

Toto in Paris

Il maggiordomo (uncredited)

Film 1958

Le pillole di Ercole

Augusto

Film 1960

Les jambes en l'air

Hugon

Film 1971

Les enquiquineurs

Monsieur Achille Eloy

Film 1966

The Killer is Listening

Self

Film 1948

Actualités télérévisées

Presenter

Film 1964

Frédérica

Ami de Gilbert

Film 1942

The Terror with Cross-Eyes

Commissioner Pigna

Film 1972

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

Self (archive footage)

Film 2009

The Black Tulip

Plantin

Film 1964

Deux Romains en Gaule

Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité

Film 1967

Chance at Love

Adjutant (segment "Chance du guerrier, La")

Film 1964

Pierre Dac et Francis Blanche : Le Meilleur du Parti d'en Rire

Lui-même

Film 2020

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Francis Blanche

À bout portant

Self

Tv 1968

Samedi soir

Self

Tv 1971

Midi trente

Self

Tv 1972

Le bonheur conjugal

Le patron du restaurant

Tv 1965

Cinépanorama

Self

Tv 1956

Discorama

Self

Tv 1959