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Louis de Funès
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Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (French pronunciation: lwi də fynɛs; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel. His acting style is remembered for its high energy performance, a wide range of facial expressions and an engaging, snappy impatience. He was enormously successful in several countries for many years, but remained almost unknown in the English-speaking world. He was only noted in the United States in 1974 with the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. In a 1968 poll, he was voted France's favourite actor. In a personal statement, he claimed to be interested only in films that would draw an audience of at least 500,000. Unlike the characters he played, de Funès was said to be a very shy person in real life. Capable of an extremely rich and rapidly changing range of facial expressiveness, de Funès was nicknamed "the man with forty faces per minute". In many of his films, he played the role of a humorously excitable, cranky, middle-aged or mature man with a propensity to hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger. Along with his short height, (he measured 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)) and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a highly comic effect. This was particularly visible when he was paired with Bourvil, who was always given roles of calm, slightly naive, good-humoured men. In de Funès' successful lead role in a cinematic versi
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L'Homme Orchestre
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Les plus belles musiques de films de Louis de Funès (Musiques originales de Raymond Lefèvre)
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Louis de Funès : Contes et fables
Révisons Nos Classiques
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Les Fables De La Fontaine Par Louis De Funès, Fernandel Et Gérard Philipe
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L'Homme Orchestre (BOF)
Le corbeau et le renard
Les comiques français : Louis de Funès, Vol. 1 (Raconte les Fables de La Fontaine et Molière)
Les fables de Jean de La Fontaine
Louis de Funès raconte les fables de Jean de La Fontaine (Les plus grands contes et fables)
Louis de Funès raconte les fables de la Fontaine
Louis de Funès raconte les fables de Jean de La Fontaine