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2 unusual facts about Louis de Funès


Le Cellier

At the end of his life, the actor Louis de Funès came to live in the castle, which had been inherited by his wife, a descendant of the Maupassants.

Slapstick

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.


Green Wheat

1954: Le Blé en herbe (English title: The Game of Love), film by Claude Autant-Lara, with: Edwige Feuillère, Pierre-Michel Beck, Nicole Berger, Robert Berri and Louis de Funès ;

Olivier de Funès

Olivier de Funès (born 11 August 1949 in Paris), is a French former film actor and Air France pilot, son of renown actor Louis de Funès.


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Le Diable et les Dix Commandements

The cast list includes several famous French actors: Fernandel, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Lino Ventura, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Aznavour, and a very young Alain Delon, but according to Bosley Crowther only one from seven episodes tickled him, in which play Louis de Funes and Jean-Claude Brialy.