Francis Blanche
1921-07-20 ( 103 years old ) in Paris, France

François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their studios in Eze. Blanche was born in an artistic family, mainly of stage actors—including his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painter—. He completed his secondary schooling at fourteen, the youngest in France to do so at the time. In the 1940s and 1950s, Blanche was part of Robert Dhéry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Blanche teamed up with Pierre Dac to form a comic duo best remembered for Le Sâr Rabindranath Duval, a sketch about a phony and nonsensical Indian clairvoyant and guru (1957). They also created a popular and equally nonsensical radiophonic series, loosely based on a highly improbable espionage and conspiration plot, Malheur aux barbus, which was broadcast on Paris Inter in 213 episodes from 1951 to 1952. The same plot and characters were revived on Europe 1 in a series called Signé Furax, enjoying no less than 1,034 daily episodes between 1956 and 1960. Both broadcasts were phenomenal audience successes in the pre-television era. Blanche was also renowned for broadcasting phone pranks, in which he entertained listeners by making the most improbable situations sound plausible. He wrote poems, and the lyrics of 673 songs. On stage, he acted in Tartuffe and Néron and, in 1955, Chevalier du Ciel, an operetta by Luis Mariano at the Gaîté-Lyrique theatre. Blanche also enjoyed a successful cinematographic career, both as an actor and scriptwriter. He appeared as a hard-headed German colonel ("Obersturmführer Schulz") opposite Brigitte Bardot in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (1959). He was one of the favourite actors of French filmmaker Georges Lautner, and played Maître Folace (a shady solicitor counselling a colourful gangster mob) in Les Tontons flingueurs (1963). Blanche also appeared in Boris Vassilief's Les Barbouzes (1964). He delighted in parodying classical music, adapting famous works such as Schubert's "Die Forelle" (The Trout) into a crazy and slightly risqué piece about a 16-year-old romantic girl obsessed with Schubert's song to the point of giving birth to a live trout while performing it on her piano. Similarly, he turned Beethoven's 5th Symphony into a lengthy and quite repetitive musical glorification of the clothes peg and its fictitious inventor, Jérémie-Victor Opdebec. Blanche died at the age of 52, from a heart attack with a background of untreated Type 1 diabetes. He is buried in Èze cemetery. Source: Article "Francis Blanche" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies

Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche 2022-03-19
Pierre Dac et Francis Blanche : Le Meilleur du Parti d'en Rire 2020-12-01
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) 2009-10-13
A Whale That Had a Toothache 1975-04-15
No Pockets in a Shroud 1974-10-25
Say it with Flowers 1974-09-04
France, Incorporated 1974-06-04
OK Patron 1974-06-01
Par le sang des autres 1974-03-07
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris 1973-10-31
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot 1973-10-24
Le Solitaire 1973-10-24
Racconti romani di una ex-novizia 1973-09-21
I. You. They. 1973-06-28
I've Had It 1973-02-23
The Terror with Cross-Eyes 1972-09-02
The Eroticist 1972-03-16
Scandal Man 1972-02-14
La Grande Maffia 1971-09-17
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... 1971-07-09
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? 1971-05-21
Les jambes en l'air 1971-05-13
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot? 1971-04-15
The Great Java 1971-01-13
Alice au pays des merveilles 1970-12-22
Ces messieurs de la gâchette 1970-04-08
Adieu Berthe 1970-03-21
The Stud 1970-02-13
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus 1969-11-05
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille 1969-08-14
Aux frais de la princesse 1969-07-04
Erotissimo 1969-06-07
Le bourgeois gentil mec 1969-05-21
Les gros malins 1969-05-13
Faites donc plaisir aux amis 1969-02-05
The Big Wash 1968-11-12
Salut Berthe ! 1968-08-20
Rita the Field Marshal 1967-12-21
Du mou dans la gâchette 1967-08-30
The Great Gadget 1967-06-21
Belle de Jour 1967-05-24
Le canard en fer blanc 1967-04-22
The Oldest Profession 1967-04-07
Deux Romains en Gaule 1967-02-25
Order of the Daisy 1967-01-20
The Big Grasshopper 1967-01-11
The Men in the Family 1967-01-01
Les enquiquineurs 1966-11-09
Les malabars sont au parfum 1966-02-02
The Sleeping Sentinel 1966-01-21
Under Your Hat 1965-09-03
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga 1965-08-13
The Real Bargain 1965-03-09
Les baratineurs 1965-02-01
Les Gorilles 1964-12-23
The Great Spy Chase 1964-12-10
Chance at Love 1964-10-30
The Big Scare 1964-10-28
Les pieds nickelés 1964-09-30
Male Hunt 1964-09-18
Champagne for Savages 1964-08-26
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers 1964-08-14
Clémentine chérie 1964-08-03
Requiem pour un caïd 1964-07-25
Jaloux comme un tigre 1964-06-16
Dandelions by the Roots 1964-05-06
Actualités télérévisées 1964-04-01
The Black Tulip 1964-02-28
Les gros bras 1963-12-31
Crooks in Clover 1963-11-27
Sweet and Sour 1963-09-04
Thank Heaven for Small Favors 1963-08-28
The Virgins 1963-05-22
People in Luck 1963-04-26
The Abominable Man of Customs 1963-03-01
Who Stole the Body? 1963-02-01
Tartarin de Tarascon 1962-11-22
The Hideout 1962-09-21
Snobs! 1962-09-05
Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! 1962-04-20
The Seventh Juror 1962-04-18
The Vendetta 1962-04-17
Hitch-Hike 1962-03-16
Operation Gold Ingot 1962-03-13
Romulus and the Sabines 1961-11-15
The Girl of a Thousand Months 1961-11-05
House of Sin 1961-10-25
Les Livreurs 1961-07-24
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! 1961-04-04
The Bear 1960-12-14
Little Girls and High Finance 1960-10-30
Le Olimpiadi dei mariti 1960-10-27
We Like It Cold 1960-09-20
Love and the Frenchwoman 1960-09-16
Le pillole di Ercole 1960-09-10
Easy Come Easy Go 1960-05-26
Long Live the Duke! 1960-03-14
Some Like It... Cold 1960-02-17
Match contre la mort 1959-12-02
The Green Mare 1959-10-29
Babette Goes to War 1959-09-18
Too Late to Love 1959-05-05
The Indestructible 1959-04-29
The Motorcycle Cops 1959-03-18
Toto in Paris 1958-10-23
The Little Professor 1958-09-26
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik 1958-09-09
Anyone Can Kill Me 1957-12-06
La Polka des menottes 1957-09-04
Honoré de Marseille 1956-12-12
Life is beautiful 1956-10-05
Peek-a-boo 1954-10-15
Trust Me! 1954-05-17
Midnight... Quai de Bercy 1953-05-21
Good Enough to Eat 1951-06-08
Ils ont vingt ans 1950-12-15
The Sad Sack 1950-11-10
The Killer is Listening 1948-01-01
Frédérica 1942-11-18

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