Acting
Michel Galabru
FR, ES, EN, IT cinema · 233 credits
Born
27 October 1922
Died
4 January 2016 (aged 93)
Birthplace
Safi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
Also known as Michel Louis Edmond Galabru
Michel Louis Edmond Galabru (27 October 1922 – 4 January 2016) was a French actor. Galabru appeared in more than 250 films and worked with directors such as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson (for Subway), and Jean-Luc Godard. He is also well known for his collaborations with Louis de Funès in Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez, Le gendarme se marie, Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres, Le gendarme en balade, Le gendarme à New York, Le gendarme et les gendarmettes, Le petit baigneur, L'avare, Jo (film) and Nous irons a Deauville (with Michel Serrault). He worked with the actors Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles, La Cage aux Folles II, and La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding; and Le viager. Source: Article "Michel Galabru" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Filmography
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
Open at Night
as Michel Galabru
The World Petanque Tour
as Louis Cabanel
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
as Self (archive footage)
Jules et Marcel
as Jules Raimu
The Robbed Robber
as André Gourgousse
The Great Restaurant II
as The Unworthy Grandfather
Mumu
as Gâtineau
Love Like Poison
as Jean Falguères
The Baker's Wife
as Aimable Castanier
Little Nicholas
as Minister
Cineman
as Le Docteur
Neuilly Yo Mama!
as Sénateur
À deux c'est plus facile
as Joseph Coudré
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
as Self (archive footage)
Welcome to the Sticks
as Julie's Great Uncle
Final Arrangements
as Monsieur Froissard
The Maiden and the Wolves
as Albert Garcin
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
as Le Pape Benoît XIII
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
as Hubert Dunant
Coup de vache
as Raymond Malassis
San Antonio
as Achille
Silence of the Sea
as André Larosière
Raining Cats and Frogs
as L'éléphant (voice)
The Car Keys
as Teacher
Actors
as Executed actor
Léopold
as Léopold Salvat
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Abraracourcix
Foul Play
as Michel Galabru
Let There Be Light!
as Dieu le méridional
Marceeel!!!
as Marcel
Christmas at Bunny's
as Le Père Noël
My Man
as 3rd client
Chaudemanche, père et fils
1996
Chaudemanche, père et fils
as Eugène Chaudemanche
Rainbow pour Rimbaud
as Robert's father
La Poule aux œufs d'or
as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse, Director
L'École des femmes
as Arnolphe
Le Mas Théotime
as Clodieus
Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
as Honorin, le maire
Polly West est de retour
as Honorin, mayor
Belle Époque
as Danglard
Sleeping Waters
as Fouchard
Room Service
as Fernand Castanier
Honorin et la Loreleï
as Honorin, le maire
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
as Mr Lemmel
The Cocottes
as Honorin, le maire
Epiphany Sunday
as Georges
Uranus
as Monglat
Feu sur le candidat
as Robert Cavaillon
Deux flics à Belleville
as Commissioner Santucci
Le Provincial
as Ernest Cazavant
No Time for Justice
as The investigating judge
The French Revolution
as Abbé Maury
L'Invité surprise
as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
Le commissaire épate le FBI
1989
Le commissaire épate le FBI
as Commissaire Tarquinini
Sans défense
as Jules Rampin
Envoyez les violons
as Dino Pizzoli
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
as Jean-Etienne Nasal
Poule et frites
as Martinez
Grand Guignol
as Charlie
Keep Your Right Up
as Admiral
I Hate Actors
as Bison
Kamikaze
as Albert
The Joint Brothers
as Le père de Momo
Follow My Gaze
as L'instituteur
Subway
as Le Commissaire Gesberg
Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez
as Charles de Lespinasse
La Cage aux Folles 3
as Charrier
The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Marraine
Slices of Life
as Le paysan
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons
as Commissaire Dufresne
Partenaires
as Charlie
Our Story
as Emile Pecqueur
New Year's Eve At Bob's
as Douglas
Salt on the Skin
as Bideau
The Cheat
as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
Adam et Ève
as Léon Blachurpe
Les Fausses Confidences
as M. Rémy
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
as Ponsard, publisher
Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
as André Martell
One Deadly Summer
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
Le Braconnier de Dieu
as Hilaire
It's Called Catastrophe
as Fernand Dubuisson
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
The Graduates of the Last Row
as Marcel, le directeur
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Victor Réglisson
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
as Michel Frémont, union representative
Salut, j'arrive
as Gaston, Minou's father
On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
as 'Tonton' Aristote
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as M. Jourdain
Le bahut va craquer
as le proviseur
Choice of Arms
as Commissioner Bonnardot
Is This Reasonable?
as Émile Dugoineau, usher
Signé Furax
as Black
The Ones That Got Away
as Emile Loubignac
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
as le colonel Desjument
The Impostures of Scapin
as Géronte
Si ma gueule vous plaît...
as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
The Miser
as Maître Jacques
La Cage aux Folles II
as Simon Charrier
Le Guignolo
as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
The Under-Gifted
as M. Grasset, commissaire de police
A Week's Vacation
as Mancheron
I'm Photogenic
as Commendator Del Giudice
It All Depends on Girls
as Lucien
Une merveilleuse journée
as Pinède
Le Vol d'Icare
as Morcol
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
as Tartuffe
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Jérôme Gerber
Duets on Sofa
as Bernard, the lawyer
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
as Don Fernand
Heart to Heart
as le cousin Gabriel
The Bit Between the Teeth
as Charles Dréant
Ciao, You Guys
as Ecological Farmer
Cop or Hood
as Commissioner Grimaud
The Winner
as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
The City of Silences
as Nathan Farijacque
Le Pion
as Schulinspektor
Horoscope
as Plancheteau
La Cage aux Folles
as Simon Charrier
Surprise Sock
as L'obsédé de la télévision
Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived
as Le Capitaine
Question of Love
as Le procureur
Le Chandelier
as Maître André
Group Portrait with a Lady
as Walter Pelzer
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
as Nestor Burma
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
as M. de Beaugenay
Genre masculin
as Pierre
The Cat
as Francisci
The Judge and the Assassin
as Joseph Bouvier
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
as Julien Mercier
The Braggart
as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
La Grande Récré
as Le Commissaire
The Groper
as Eugène Lajoux
The Red Ibis
as Raymond
Special Section
as Le président Cournet
Monsieur Balboss
as Commissioner Balboss
Cigalon
as Cigalon
Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
The Dangerous Mission
as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
Par ici la monnaie
as Bishop
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
as Commissaire Lalatte
No Pockets in a Shroud
as Thomas
The Fuhrer Runs Amok
as Monsieur Achtung
C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
as M. Lambris
Two Big Girls in Pyjamas
as Canavese
Les vacanciers
as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
Bedmania
as Charles
The Big Store
as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
Man in the Trunk
as Baby
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
as Peloux
Big Deal
as The commissioner
Le Concierge
as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
as Jules Payrac
L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
as Maître Lamothe
The Annuity
as Léon Galipeau
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
as Cardinal
The Egg
as Gaston Berthoullet
Les joyeux lurons
as Le chanoine Bossuet
Jo
as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
La Grande Maffia
as Father #1
The Gendarme Takes Off
as Jérôme Gerber
Et qu'ça saute !
as Gutiérrez
Les gros malins
as Vicar
Aux frais de la princesse
as Dagobert
The Fighting Cock
as Albert
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Maître Le Gouen
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
as The Inspector
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Eugène, policeman
La Honte de la famille
as Maspie le Grand
The Gendarme Gets Married
as Jérôme Gerber
The Little Bather
as Scipio
The Men in the Family
as Brigadier
A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Colonel
The Most Beautiful Month
as Besson
Your Money or Your Life
as Maître Laprise, Notary
Angelique and the King
as Bontemps
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
as Abel T. Léonard
Brigade Anti Gangs
as Larmeno
The Sleeping Sentinel
as Florin
The Postman Goes to War
as Claparède
Les enquiquineurs
as Le garde-champêtre
The Gendarme in New York
as Jérôme Gerber
The Real Bargain
as Colmar
Les baratineurs
as Entrepreneur
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Jérôme Gerber
Les Pieds nickelés
as Ribouldingue
Les Gorilles
as The newbie traffic warden
Clémentine chérie
as FBI engineer
My Wife's Husband
as Maximin
The Trip to Biarritz
as Touffanel
Good King Dagobert
as Pépin
War of the Buttons
as Bacaillé's father
We Will Go to Deauville
as Mr. Mercier
Tartarin de Tarascon
as Barbassou
La salamandre d'or
as Alchemist
Lafayette
as Innkeeper
L'Auberge de l'ange gardien
as Le général Dourakine
Adieu Philippine
as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Parades
as Giles
The Marriage of Figaro
as Bartholo
Famous Love Affairs
as Champagne, le domestique du roi
One Night at the Beach
as le commissaire
The New Aristrocrats
as Father Menuzzi
Cyrano de Bergerac
as Ragueneau
The Delinquents
as Fred
Riff Raff Girls
as Bit part
The Indestructible
as Augustin Robustal
The Dreadful
as Pelou
The Three Musketeers
as M. Bonacieux
Follow Me Young Man
as Aristide Oranos
Three of the Canebière
as Pénible
Letters from My Windmill
as Anselme
La Bataille du feu
as Firefighter
Last Hour, Special Edition
as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited)