Cast & creator
Bourvil
Best known for Champs-Elysées, Spécial cinéma, Midi trente
André Robert Raimbourg (27 July 1917 – 23 September 1970), better known as André Bourvil, and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Bourvil's father was killed in the First World War before he was born. As a result, he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, from which he took his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on 23 January 1943. After a battle with Kahler's syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville, Yvelines. In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naïve, such as his roles opposite the hyperactive, dishonest and bossy ones played by Louis de Funès. Bourvil's characters not only managed to make viewers laugh, but also to save themselves, often unwittingly, from the Machiavellian designs of his adversaries. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more dramatic roles such as the handyman in L'Arbre de Noël (1969). In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for and the young son who has fallen ill. The audience can identify with the character played by Bourvil, just as they can in his comic roles, so often as a simple man. One can also note his role of Monsieur Thénardier in the film adaptation of Les Misérables (1958), and his penultimate role as the policeman Mattei in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge (1970). In March 1948, Bourvil took part in the complete recording of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann with artists of the Paris Opéra-Comique conducted by André Cluytens, playing the four 'servant' roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bourvil, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: André Zacharie Raimbourg, André Bourvil, André Robert Raimbourg, Бурвиль
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1942–2025 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (80)
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Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)
1982
Spécial cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1974
Midi trente
Self (archive footage)
1972
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
The Longest Day
Mayor of Colleville
1962
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Augustin Bouvet
1966
Le Cercle Rouge
Commissioner François Mattei
1970
The Sucker
Antoine Maréchal
1965
La Traversée de Paris
Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
1956
The Three Musketeers
Planchet
1953
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Monsieur Dupont
1969
The Brain
Anatole
1969
Atlantic Wall
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
1970
Les Misérables
Thénardier
1958
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Museum guard
1953
Way of Youth
Charles Michaud, père
1959
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
My Wife's Husband
André Colombey
1963
The Christmas Tree
Verdun
1969
All the Gold in the World
Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont
1961
Les Arnaud
Judge Henri Arnaud
1967
The Dirty Game
Lalande
1965
The Hotshots
Jules Auguste Duroc
1968
The Mirror Has Two Faces
Pierre Tardivet
1958
A Star to the Sun
(uncredited)
1943
One Hundred Francs Per Second
Self
1953
The Wise Guys
Hector Valentin
1965
Captain Blood
Baladin Cogolin
1960
Light-Fingered George
Georges Lachaunaye
1963
Clodo
Gaston (uncredited)
1971
Fortunate
Noël Fortunat
1960
The Stud
William Chaminade
1970
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
2023
Sunday Encounter
Jean Brévent
1958
Sideral Cruises
Scientist
1942
Jean Gabin, le dernier des géants
Self (archive footage)
2015
A Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage)
2020
The Hunchback of Paris
Passepoil
1959
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Léon Dutilleul
1951
The Prize
Isidore Pastouret
1950
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Le chanteur à la télévision
1962
The Busybody
André Loriot
1961
Foutraque (!)
himself
Josefa's Loot
Pierre Corneille
1963
Three Disordered Children
Eugène Laporte, entrepreneur de travaux publics
1966
Miquette
Urbain de la Tour-Mirande
1950
The Singer from Mexico
Bilou
1957
Crazy for Love
Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine
1952
Bourvil : le rire et la tendresse
Self (Footage Archives)
2025
The Green Mare
Honoré Haudouin
1959
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
2018
Le Fil à la patte
Camille Bouzin, clerc de notaire et auteur de chansonnettes lestes
1954
April Fools' Day
Émile Dupuy
1954
Hanged Man's Farm
Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce
1945
Bourvil, un homme vrai
Self (archive footage)
2016
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
2009
Don't Tempt the Devil
Albert Gaudet, investigating judge
1963
Les Culottes rouges
Fendard
1962
Le Roi Pandore
Léon Ménard, le gendarme
1950
Le Tournage du Corniaud… Tout sauf un long fleuve tranquille
Self (archive footage)
2015
La Traversée de Bourvil
Self (archive footage)
2022
White as Snow
Léon Ménard
1948
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
Leon Ménard
1949
Cadet Rousselle
Jérôme Baguindet
1954
Tartarin de Tarascon
Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
1962
The Hussars
le trompette Flicot Jean-Louis
1955Grrr....
Lui-même
1952Grrr....
Writer
1952
Alone in Paris
Henri Milliard, le jeune marié campagnard
1951
The Big Scare
1964
Bourvil, du comique paysan au génie de l'acteur
Self (archive footage)
2015
The Big Wash
Armand Saint-Just
1968
Serenade of Texas
Me Jérôme Quilleboeuf
1958
La Bonne Planque
Antoine Perrin
1964
The Big Swag
Louis Bourdin, metro ticket puncher and writer
1965
Not So Stupid
Léon Ménard
1947Studio en folies
Self
1947
By the Window
Gaston 'Pilou'
1948
Les Magnifiques sauvages
Music
2023
Bourvil : Bien... si bien
Self (archive footage)
2009