Michel Galabru
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Michel Louis Edmond Galabru is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 born on 27 October 1922 in Safi
Safi, Morocco
Safi is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Doukkala-Abda Region, it has a population of 282,227 , but is also the centre of an agglomeration which has an estimated 793,000 inhabitants ....

, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

.

Career

Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with such renowned directors as Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....

, Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

, Luc Besson
Luc Besson
Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.-Early life:...

 (for Subway
Subway (film)
Subway is a 1985 French film directed by Luc Besson, starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert and is part of the Cinema du look movement.-Plot:...

), and Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

. He is also known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès
Louis de Funès
Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

 in Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez is a 1964 French comedy film with Louis de Funès. The film mostly takes place in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Louis de Funès plays Ludovic Cruchot, the sergeant of gendarmerie of Saint-Tropez...

, Le gendarme se marie
Le gendarme se marie
The Gendarme Gets Married is the continuation of the gendarme series, starring Louis de Funès. It is followed by three more films. The series of comic films was started by Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez, this was the Cruchot's daughter's final appearance....

, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres
Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres
The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials is a continuation of the Gendarme series starring Louis de Funès. It is followed by one more film, Le gendarme et les gendarmettes.- Plot :...

, Le gendarme en balade
Le gendarme en balade
The gendarme to stroll is a continuation of the gendarme series starring Louis de Funès. It is followed by two more films, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres and Le gendarme et les gendarmettes. It is also preceded by three "Le Gendarme" films....

, Le gendarme à New York
Le gendarme à New York
Gendarme in New York is the sequel to the French comedy film Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez. It stars Louis de Funès as the gendarme. With Michel Galabru, Christian Marin, Grosso and Modo, Alan Scott-Plot:...

, Le gendarme et les gendarmettes
Le gendarme et les gendarmettes
The gendarme and the gendarmettes is the sixth and last movie of the Gendarme series starring Louis de Funès, in his final performance. This was also director Jean Girault's final film.- Synopsis :...

, Le petit baigneur, L'avare, and Nous irons a Deauville
Nous irons à Deauville
Nous irons à Deauville , is a French comedy film from 1963, directed by Francis Rigaud, written by Francis Rigaud and Jacques Vilfrid, starring Michel Serrault and Louis de Funès . The film is known under the titles: "We Will Go to Deauville" , "Io.....

(with Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...

).

He has also worked with actors Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi
Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...

 and Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...

 in La Cage aux Folles
La Cage aux Folles (film)
La Cage aux Folles is a 1978 French-Italian film adaptation of the 1973 play La Cage aux Folle by Jean Poiret. It is co-written and directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault.-Plot:...

, La Cage aux Folles II
La Cage aux Folles II
La Cage aux Folles II is a French-Italian film released in 1980. It is a sequel to 1979's La Cage aux Folles. It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin, , the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his mate of over twenty...

, and La Cage aux Folles 3; Le viager; Les gaspars; Le room service; Antonio Vivaldi, un prince à Venise; and L'ibis rouge.

Awards

In 1977, Galabru received a César
César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....

 for Best Actor for his portrayal of Joseph Bouvier in Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...

's The Judge and the Assassin
The Judge and the Assassin
The Judge and the Assassin is a 1976 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film won two César Awards in 1977.-Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Judge Rousseau*Michel Galabru as Sgt. Joseph Bouvier*Isabelle Huppert as Rose...

.

See also

  • War of the Buttons
    War of the Buttons (1962 film)
    La Guerre des boutons or War of the Buttons is a 1962 French film directed by Yves Robert, about two rival kid gangs whose playful combats escalate into violence. The title derives from the buttons that are cut-off from the rival team's clothes as combat trophies...

    (1962)
  • Nous irons à Deauville
    Nous irons à Deauville
    Nous irons à Deauville , is a French comedy film from 1963, directed by Francis Rigaud, written by Francis Rigaud and Jacques Vilfrid, starring Michel Serrault and Louis de Funès . The film is known under the titles: "We Will Go to Deauville" , "Io.....

    (1962)
  • Le Petit Baigneur (1968)
  • Section spéciale
    Section spéciale
    Section spéciale is a 1975 French film, directed by Costa Gavras. It stars Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani, François Maistre, Jacques Spiesser, Henri Serre, Heinz Bennett and Claude Piéplu...

    (1975)
  • Surprise Sock
    Surprise Sock
    Surprise Sock is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Jean-François Davy and starring Anna Karina.-Cast:* Bernadette Lafont – Bernadette* Anna Karina – Nathalie* Christine Pascal – Juliette* Michel Galabru – L'obsédé de la télévision...

    (1978)
  • L'avare
    L'avare (1980 movie)
    L'avare is a French comedy movie from 1980, directed by Louis de Funès and Jean Girault, written by Louis de Funès and Jean Girault, and starring by Louis de Funès. The English title of the film is The Miser. It is an adaptation of Moliere's famous comedy L'Avare ou L'École du mensonge .De Funès...

    (1980)
  • Uranus
    Uranus (1990 film)
    Uranus is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists....

    (1990)
  • Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar (1999)
  • Mumu
    Mumu (film)
    Mumu is a French film directed by fr:Joël Séria, released in 2010. The screenplay, of a largely autobiographical nature, was written by the director from 1993 - a long planned project for Séria who had not directed a full-length film since 1987.-Plot:...

    (2010)

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