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Louis de Funes
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| Known for: | The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob, Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot at, The Wing and the Thigh |
| Birth name: | Louis Germain de Funès de Galarza |
| Birthday: | 31 July 1914,Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France |
| Height: | 5' 4½" (1.64 m) |
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Trivia
Voted France's favorite actor in a public opinion poll in 1968.
Father of Daniel Charles Louis de Funès de Galarza (b. 12 July 1937), Patrick Charles de Funès de Galarza (b. 27 January 1944) and actor Olivier De Funès.
He was the French dubbing voice of actors Totò and Renato Rascel.
He was owner of the Chateau de Clermont near to Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique, France.
Was portrayed as a gambler in the Lucky Luke comic book "The One-Armed Bandit".
Collaborated with Claude Gensac, often playing his character's wife, in ten movies.
Between 1964 and 1979, he had topped France's box-office of the year's most successful movies seven times. His most popular movie ever was La grande vadrouille (1966), drawing an audience of 17,27 million Frenchmen.
Favorite actor of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Spoke Spanish and English.
Considered actress Claude Gensac as kind of a "lucky charm", imposing the production team to cast her in any bit role in his later films, if not as his on-screen wife.
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