Biography of Louis de
St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Its sparkling humor and inimitable images created on the screen to this day delight fans of the actor's talent. Nevertheless, he became famous at a middle -aged age and during his lifetime he did not gain serious cinematic awards, he was only awarded the Cesar Award for outstanding merits in cinema. He was the gentleman of the Order of the Legion of Honor from the year.
In the photo: Louis de Funes is now his birthday, the French consider his national holiday. In the year, the cinematic world community celebrated the years since the birth of the great comedic actor of the twentieth century. The place of Kurbevoa near Paris, the boy’s parents elected a place of residence after escaping from Spain, where both were born. Their relatives of the aristocrats believed that the lovers were not a couple to each other, and in order to officially get married, Carlos and Leonor escaped from Seville to France.
In the year, their firstborn, the daughter of Marie, or, at home, Mina, and in the year-the eldest son Charles. After the birth of Louis, the family moved and lived in the commune Beecon-le-Bruyer. Leonor, the mother of Louis de Funes here Carlos, a lawyer known in her homeland, not having the opportunity to engage in lawyer practice in France, was retrained in the manufacturer of artificial emeralds to be able to feed the family.
The temperamental Spaniard with an admixture of Portuguese blood began to lead the farm and raise three children. Little Louis de Funes and his sister the youngest son was her favorite, although he did not come out either in his growth or face, but he knew how to make his mother laugh at any moment. Despite all his children's leprosy, Louis managed to study perfectly, but selectively.
From an early age, he spoke in two languages - French and Spanish, and then English also added to them. The exact sciences were given to him with difficulty. Mina, the sister of Louis de Funes, who had developed musical hearing, the boy learned the play on the piano, he constantly accompanied the talented performance of various works. You could calmly listen to how he plays, but not to laugh out loud - it is impossible.
Louis showed the artistic abilities everywhere. He could simulate the dialect of any person, copy the gait and gestures of not only relatives, but also a neighboring thrush, a market merchant, a random passerby, his classmates and teachers. In school years, Louis de Funes has repeatedly played a cruel joke with him at the Kulomier’s boarding school, where the boy studied. He was a frequent guest in the directorship office for permanent migration of teachers and educators.
The boarding house de Funes then recalled with a shudder, calling him a real prison. He was given there when his father, hoping to succeed, went to Venezuela. He wrote home at first regularly, then less and less. Three years later, Leonor left for her husband. Having taken Louis from the college, she entrusted him to Dr. Push, who lived in the Sheverez Valley and who was in charge of a shelter for newborn refuseniks.
It was believed that the doctor was the inventor of the syrup, who influenced the rapid growth of children. Louis’s mother hoped that the mixing would be useful to the child, in her opinion, very small for eleven years. At the cannon, the boy finally felt free. He was happy to live away from Kulomier, helped to rock the babies when they cried, gave them nipples.
I often rode a bicycle, painted a lot. Louis de Funes in childhood, during the years of life, this continued until the time, until my mother brought home a father in Venezuela with father's tuberculosis. Fearing to infect the boy, he did not kiss his son, but only handed him a tiny scarecrow of hummingbirds. This bird Louis de Funes Coast all the subsequent life. Louis would not admit to anyone in the world in childhood that he mostly dreamed of becoming a great actor of cinema.
Like Charlie Chaplin, whose roles the boy knew almost by heart. He reviewed the paintings with him over and over again, copying the famous gait or Chaplin's gestures. Fear of getting a parental refusal to want to engage in an actor’s career and moved Louis to constant pranks and parodies. Peers nicknamed his Fuhfu because of the comic manner of behavior. After graduating from school, de Funes tried to earn money by all his might.
He mastered the professions of a drawing, an accountant, a scorch, worked as a courier and a shoe cleaner, a showcase artist. The future actor earned a life to Taper, a happy incident brought him to the Horizon bar on Madlen Square of the Pigal district - there was a pianist there. The Mammary public quickly came up with the like a tireless and funny taper, whose facial expressions during the game on the piano had fun visitors even more than the popular songs of that time: I sewed twelve hours there without a break, ”said Louis de Funes.
They did not even allow them to go to the toilet. And they demanded that I constantly smile. Nevertheless, the dream of acting firmly occupied the thoughts of the young man, and as soon as it was possible, he signed up for the dramatic courses of the former member of the Comedy Frances troupe Rene Simon.Soon, Louis began to take into small roles in their productions, some theater directors who appreciated the talented and capable student.
Louis de Funes in his youth in the year of de Funes was drafted into the army. In the same year, he lost his older brother Charles, who was sewn by a fascist machine gun queue. Experiencing loss of loss, Louis smoked two packs of cigarettes per day, coughing and expectorant. Army doctors decided that the thawed height of TM with a weight of 55 kg of a recruit of tuberculosis and a month later demobilized.
The actor himself always later said that the doctors simply mixed up his medical card and someone else. Despite this, de Funes urged several times that they confirm the notes in his military ID, and only in the year they finally commissioned. Louis de Funes in the year a creative career immediately after the end of the war, Louis received his first small movie - a porter in the Kabar "Paradise" from the comedy melodrama of Jean Stelly "Barbison Temptation".
This is then, due to the fact that de Funes was shot in the picture, they began to remember her. At that time, the film did not have much success, and the public did not remember the beginning actor. The first role of Louis de Funes remained unnoticed to earn at least a random kinoonorar, Louis, together with his wife, walked under the handle along the Champs Elysees near the Fouquet restaurant, where filmmakers preferred to get a table.
Sticking surprise, de Funes greeted one or another acquaintance who invited him to a studio for one or two shifts in episodic roles. The frame from the film "Indiance" once, meeting Jean-Pierre Melville, Louis pretended to be able to play on the accordion, just to get another episode in the work. Melville saw that the actor carefully hides in the frame the left hand intended for playing buttons, protruding the right, which somehow sorted out the keys.
Having appreciated the resourcefulness of de Funes, the director paid him a double fee. The grateful Louis after that all his life was reverent to Jean-Pierre and did not miss a single new premiere. Young Louis de Funes in the film “Mr. Leginon-shooting” of more than seventy small and insignificant roles for thirteen years played de Funes before they began to invite him to bright main roles.
Internal experiences resulted in sharp skills of mood, because of which there was an opinion about him as a conflict and little-consuming actor. About this period, Louis said to Geraldina Chaplin as follows: I have been waiting for a very long time in his Majesty's reception. He waited, knocked on the door until they finally let me go. A long expectation during which the actor honed his comedic skill was eventually crowned with a well -deserved triumph.
The audience laughed to tears. The actor came real glory and recognition, he began to work as a company, acting in the main roles of more and more paintings, as if he had made up for the missed. He began to receive huge fees, but the poverty complex was unable to get rid of his life. The frame from the film “Not caught - not a thief” millions of fans around the world were looking forward to his new roles.
After the image of the commissar Juva from the Fantomas trilogy, the audience and his Stanislas Lefort, the conductor of the Grand Opera from the picture of Gerard Uri, and Louis Kryushu from the film epic about the gendarme fell even brighter. Louis de Funes, as commissar Juv, “gendarme from Saint-Trope,” directed by Jean Giro became the first film where an incredible but very ambitious commissar Juva appears, which was amused not only in France, but also in many countries of the world, including in the Soviet Union.
In the year, the public recognizes him as the best actor. Five years later, he received the highest French award - the Order of the Legion of Honor, and three years before his death - the prestigious National Prize "Cesar". The frame from the film “Little Bathers” by the last role of the great comedian out of more than a hundred twenty of him played, again was the role of the Juvar gendarme in the film “Gendarme and the Gendarme”, which was released in the year.
On the set of the film “Gendarme and Gendarmes”, Louis de Funes' personal life with the woman of his whole life Louis de Funes met during the occupation of Paris in the year. The youth of that time was a priority of jazz, who was a symbol of freedom for them. When the grandchildren of the classic of French literature Jeanne Augustine de Barteli de Maupassan saw an announcement about the opening of the jazz school on Four-Puissoner Street, she rushed there with all her legs.
The first thing she announced to the founder of the school was not money for training, but she owns a writing machine well. So she became a secretary, and in return she studied at school for free. The first meeting of Louis de Funes and Jeanne Barteli the day before, Louis, the pianist of the bar “Horizon”, who had no idea about musical notation and decided to replenish this gap, sent his feet there the day before.
Jeanne recalled the moment of their direct acquaintance as if it were yesterday: I knocked on a typewriter when the head of the school burst into the room with a cry, approx. You will see a phenomenal person!There I saw Louis for the first time. He sat behind the piano ... “You just listen, it’s just incredible,” Charles-Henri whispered to me. I'm afraid if I start teaching him, he will begin to think and ruin his talent.
That same evening, Louis invited Jeanne to the “horizon” to listen to his game and dinner. He ordered to put a small table to the piano, on which there was champagne and lobsters were served. Only then did the girl learned that the pianist-phenomenon spent all her monthly salary on this. Louis de Funes and Jeanne de Funes in her youth was fascinated by an unusual young man and began to regularly come to the “horizon”, where they sang and danced.
Drunk Germans, not really understanding the words of American verses, picked them up when Louis sang them. And when he saw that the invaders reached the condition, de Funes sang his own compositions, which were far from unsafe, but, not understanding, the Germans shouted after a broken French: “And we will have a kick in the ass! He jumped with a humble look and immediately presented the girl as his bride.
The officer congratulated him and left him. And Louis that evening for the first time kissed his future wife, saying that she would think from that moment that they were engaged. Jeanne announced her relatives that she was meeting with a pianist from the “horizon” and will soon present him as a future husband. There was only one nuance: at that time de Funes was already married.