Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1922-10-27
- Day of Death2016-01-04 (93 years)
- Place of BirthSafi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
- Also Known AsMichel Louis Edmond Galabru
Michel Galabru
Biography
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...Read More
Acting Career
- 2017
Open at Night
As: Michel Galabru
- 2013
The World Petanque Tour
As: Louis Cabanel
- 2011
The Robbed Robber
As: André Gourgousse
- 2011
Bref
As: Michel Galabru
- 2011
The Great Restaurant II
As: The Unworthy Grandfather
- 2011
Jules et Marcel
As: Jules Raimu
- 2010
The Baker's Wife
As: Aimable Castanier
- 2010
Love Like Poison
As: Jean Falguères
2010Mumu
As: Gâtineau
2009À deux c'est plus facile
As: Joseph Coudré
2009Cineman
As: Le Docteur
- 2009
Little Nicholas
As: Minister
- 2009
Neuilly Yo Mama!
As: Sénateur
2008Final Arrangements
As: Monsieur Froissard
- 2008
Welcome to the Sticks
As: Julie's Great Uncle
2008The Maiden and the Wolves
As: Albert Garcin
2007Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
As: Le Pape Benoît XIII
2007Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
As: Hubert Dunant
2004Coup de vache
As: Raymond Malassis
2004Silence of the Sea
As: André Larosière
2004San Antonio
As: Achille
2003The Car Keys
As: Teacher
2003Raining Cats and Frogs
As: L'éléphant (voice)
2000Léopold
As: Léopold Salvat
2000Actors
As: Executed actor
- 1999
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
As: Abraracourcix
1998Foul Play
As: Michel Galabru
1998Let There Be Light!
As: Dieu le méridional
1998Marceeel!!!
As: Marcel
1997Christmas at Bunny's
As: Le Père Noël
1996Rainbow pour Rimbaud
As: Robert's father
1996My Man
As: 3rd client
1995L'École des femmes
As: Arnolphe
1995Le mas Théotime
As: Clodieus
1995La poule aux oeufs d'or
As: Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
1994Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
As: Honorin, le maire
1993Polly West est de retour
As: Honorin, mayor
1992Belle Époque
As: Danglard
1992Sleeping Waters
As: Fouchard
1992Room Service
As: Fernand Castanier
1992Honorin et la Loreleï
As: Honorin, le maire
1991Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
As: Mr Lemmel
1991Epiphany Sunday
As: Georges
1991The Cocottes
As: Honorin, le maire
1990Deux flics à Belleville
As: Commissioner Santucci
1990Uranus
As: Monglat
1990Feu sur le candidat
As: Robert Cavaillon
1990Le Provincial
As: Ernest Cazavant
1990No Time for Justice
As: The investigating judge
1990The Silence Of Elsewhere
As: Henri
1989The French Revolution
As: Abbé Maury (segment "Années Lumière, Les")
1989La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
As: Bartholo
1989L'Invité surprise
As: Le commissaire Le Bourreux
1989Sans défense
As: Jules Rampin
1989The French Revolution
As: Abbé Maury
1988L'Argent
As: Daigremont
1988Envoyez les violons
As: Dino Pizzoli
1988Sueurs froides
As: Jacques Chalmont
1987Keep Your Right Up
As: Admiral
1987Grand Guignol
As: Charlie
1987The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
As: Jean-Etienne Nasal
1987Poule et frites
As: Martinez
1986Kamikaze
As: Albert
1986The Joint Brothers
As: Le père de Momo
1986I Hate Actors
As: Bison
1986Follow My Gaze
As: L'instituteur
1985La Cage aux Folles 3
As: Charrier
1985Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons
As: Commissaire Dufresne
1985Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez
As: Charles de Lespinasse
1985Subway
As: Le Commissaire Gesberg
1985Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
As: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
1985Slices of Life
As: Le paysan
1985The Telephone Always Rings Twice
As: Marraine
1984Partenaires
As: Charlie
1984New Year's Eve At Bob's
As: Douglas
1984Les Fausses Confidences
As: M. Rémy
1984The Cheat
As: Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
1984Adam et Ève
As: Léon Blachurpe
1984Our Story
As: Emile Pecqueur
1984Salt on the Skin
As: Bideau
1983Gramps Is in the Resistance
As: Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
1983Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
As: André Martell
1983It's Called Catastrophe
As: Fernand Dubuisson
1983C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
As: J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
1983En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
As: Ponsard, publisher
1983One Deadly Summer
As: Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
1983Le Braconnier de Dieu
As: Hilaire
1982The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
As: Warrant Officer Jérôme Gerber
1982The Graduates of the Last Row
As: Marcel, le directeur
1982On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
As: 'Tonton' Aristote
1982Is There a Frenchman in the House?
As: Victor Réglisson
1982Salut, j'arrive
As: Gaston, Minou's father
1982Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
As: Michel Frémont, union representative
1982Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
As: M. Jourdain
1981Si ma gueule vous plaît...
As: Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
1981Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
As: le colonel Desjument
1981Choice of Arms
As: Commissioner Bonnardot
1981Le bahut va craquer
As: le proviseur
1981Signé Furax
As: Black
1981Is This Reasonable?
As: Émile Dugoineau, usher
1981The Ones That Got Away
As: Emile Loubignac
1981The Impostures of Scapin
As: Géronte
1980La Cage aux Folles II
As: Simon Charrier
1980le vol d'Icare
As: Morcol
1980Une merveilleuse journée
As: Pinède
1980Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
As: Tartuffe
1980A Week's Vacation
As: Mancheron
1980The Under-Gifted
As: le commissaire
1980Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
As: Thibaut
1980Le Guignolo
As: Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
1980I'm Photogenic
As: Commendator Del Giudice
1980The Miser
As: Maître Jacques
1980It All Depends on Girls
As: Lucien
1979Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
As: Don Fernand
1979The Winner
As: M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
1979The City of Silences
As: Nathan Farijacque
1979Duets on Sofa
As: Bernard, the lawyer
1979The Bit Between the Teeth
As: Charles Dréant
1979Ciao, You Guys
As: Ecological Farmer
1979Cop or Hood
As: Commissioner Grimaud
1979The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
As: Jérôme Gerber
1979Heart to Heart
As: le cousin Gabriel
1978Le Pion
As: Schulinspektor
1978La Cage aux Folles
As: Simon Charrier
1978Question of Love
As: Le procureur
1978Horoscope
As: Plancheteau
1978Surprise Sock
As: L'obsédé de la télévision
1978Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived
As: Le Capitaine
1977Le Chandelier
As: Maître André
1977The Cat
As: Francisci
1977The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
As: M. de Beaugenay
1977Genre masculin
As: Pierre
1977The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
As: Nestor Burma
1977Group Portrait with a Lady
As: Walter Pelzer
1976La Grande Récré
As: Le Commissaire
1976The Groper
As: Eugène Lajoux
1976The Braggart
As: Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
1976Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
As: Julien Mercier
1976The Judge and the Assassin
As: Joseph Bouvier
1975Cigalon
As: Cigalon
1975Monsieur Balboss
As: Commissioner Balboss
1975Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
As: Leonardos, Greek billionaire
1975The Red Ibis
As: Raymond
1975Special Section
As: Le président Cournet
1975The Dangerous Mission
As: Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
1974No Pockets in a Shroud
As: Thomas
1974C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
As: M. Lambris
1974There's a Bone in the Mill
As: Emile
1974Two Big Girls in Pyjamas
As: Canavese
1974The Fuhrer Runs Amok
As: Monsieur Achtung
1974Par ici la monnaie
As: Bishop
1974Bedmania
As: Charles
1974Les vacanciers
As: Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
1974The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
As: Commissaire Lalatte
1973La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
As: Jules Payrac
1973Man in the Trunk
As: Baby
1973The Big Store
As: Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
1973Le Concierge
As: Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
1973L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
As: Maître Lamothe
1973Big Deal
As: The commissioner
1973Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
As: Peloux
1972Les joyeux lurons
As: Le chanoine Bossuet
1972She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
As: Cardinal
1972The Egg
As: Gaston Berthoullet
1972The Annuity
As: Léon Galipeau
1971La Grande Maffia
As: Father #1
1971Joe: The Busybody
As: Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
1970The Gendarme Takes Off
As: Jérôme Gerber
1970Et qu'ça saute !
As: Gutiérrez
1969La Honte de la famille
As: Maspie le Grand
1969Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
As: The Inspector
1969Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
As: Maître Le Gouen
1969Aux frais de la princesse
As: Dagobert
1969The Fighting Cock
As: Albert
1969Les gros malins
As: Vicar
1969L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
As: Eugène, policeman
1968The Gendarme Gets Married
As: Jérôme Gerber
1968The Most Beautiful Month
As: Besson
1968The Men in the Family
As: Brigadier
1968A Strange Kind of Colonel
As: Colonel
1968The Little Bather
As: Scipio
1967Vacances pour Jessica
As: Bill
1966Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
As: Abel T. Léonard
1966Les enquiquineurs
As: Le garde-champêtre
1966Brigade Anti Gangs
As: Larmeno
1966The Postman Goes to War
As: Claparède
1966Your Money or Your Life
As: Maître Laprise, notary
1966Angelique and the King
As: Bontemps
1966The Sleeping Sentinel
As: Florin
1965The Gendarme in New York
As: Jérôme Gerber
1965Me and the Forty Year Old Man
As: Bricaud
1965The Real Bargain
As: Colmar
1965Les baratineurs
As: Entrepreneur
1964Les Gorilles
As: The newbie traffic warden
1964Les pieds nickelés
As: Ribouldingue
- 1964
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
As: Jérôme Gerber
1964Clémentine chérie
As: FBI engineer
1963My Wife's Husband
As: Maximin
1963Good King Dagobert
As: Pépin
1963The Trip to Biarritz
As: Touffanel
1962La salamandre d'or
As: Alchemist
1962L'Auberge de l'ange gardien
As: Le général Dourakine
1962We Will Go to Deauville
As: Mr. Mercier
1962Tartarin de Tarascon
As: Barbassou
1962Adieu Philippine
As: Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
1962Parades
As: Giles
1962War of the Buttons
As: Bacaillé's father
1962The Cross and the Banner
As: Bob
1962Lafayette
As: Innkeeper
1961The Marriage of Figaro
As: Bartholo
1961The New Aristrocrats
As: Father Menuzzi
1961Famous Love Affairs
As: Champagne, le domestique du roi
1961One Night at the Beach
As: le commissaire
1960Cyrano de Bergerac
As: Ragueneau
1960The Delinquents
As: Fred
1960A Game for Six Lovers
As: César
1959The Three Musketeers
As: M. Bonacieux
1959The Dreadful
As: Pelou
1959Riff Raff Girls
As: Bit part
1959The Indestructible
As: Augustin Robustal
1958Follow Me Young Man
As: Aristide Oranos
1955Three of the Canebière
As: Pénible
1954Letters from My Windmill
As: Anselme
1949Last Hour, Special Edition
As: Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited
1949La Bataille du feu
As: Firefighter