Michel Galabru
227 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 27, 1922
- Died
- Jan 4, 2016 (age 93)
- Place of birth
- Safi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
- Also known as
- Michel Louis Edmond 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.
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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.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 6.7 Welcome to the Sticks
2008 · Film
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★ 6.0 Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1999 · Film
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★ 6.1 Little Nicholas
2009 · Film
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★ 7.0 Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964 · Film
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★ 6.0 Neuilly Yo Mama!
2009 · Film
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★ 6.1 The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979 · Film
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★ 6.5 The Gendarme Gets Married
1968 · Film
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★ 6.0 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982 · Film
Michel Galabru: movies and TV shows
Acting (232)
- 2017 Open at Night
as Michel Galabru
- 2013 The World Petanque Tour
as Louis Cabanel
- 2012 La Page blanche
as Philippe
- 2011 The Robbed Robber
as André Gourgousse
- 2011
- 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
- 2010 Mumu
as Gâtineau
- 2009 À deux c'est plus facile
as Joseph Coudré
- 2009 Cineman
as Le Docteur
- 2009 Little Nicholas
as Minister
- 2009 Neuilly Yo Mama!
as Sénateur
- 2008 Final Arrangements
as Monsieur Froissard
- 2008 Welcome to the Sticks
as Julie's Great Uncle
- 2008 The Maiden and the Wolves
as Albert Garcin
- 2007 Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
as Le Pape Benoît XIII
- 2007 Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
as Hubert Dunant
- 2004 Coup de vache
as Raymond Malassis
- 2004 Silence of the Sea
as André Larosière
- 2004 San Antonio
as Achille
- 2003 The Car Keys
as Teacher
- 2003 Raining Cats and Frogs
as L'éléphant (voice)
- 2000 Léopold
as Léopold Salvat
- 2000 Actors
as Executed actor
- 1999 Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
as Abraracourcix
- 1998 Foul Play
as Michel Galabru
- 1998 Let There Be Light!
as Dieu le méridional
- 1998 Marceeel!!!
as Marcel
- 1997 Christmas at Bunny's
as Le Père Noël
- 1996 Rainbow pour Rimbaud
as Robert's father
- 1996 Chaudemanche, père et fils
as Eugène Chaudemanche
- 1996 My Man
as 3rd client
- 1995 L'École des femmes
as Arnolphe
- 1995 Le Mas Théotime
as Clodieus
- 1995 La Poule aux œufs d'or
as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
- 1994 Honorin et l'enfant prodigue
as Honorin, le maire
- 1993 Polly West est de retour
as Honorin, mayor
- 1992 Belle Époque
as Danglard
- 1992 Sleeping Waters
as Fouchard
- 1992 Room Service
as Fernand Castanier
- 1992 Honorin et la Loreleï
as Honorin, le maire
- 1991 Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
as Mr Lemmel
- 1991 Epiphany Sunday
as Georges
- 1991 The Cocottes
as Honorin, le maire
- 1990 Deux flics à Belleville
as Commissioner Santucci
- 1990 Uranus
as Monglat
- 1990 Feu sur le candidat
as Robert Cavaillon
- 1990 Le Provincial
as Ernest Cazavant
- 1990 No Time for Justice
as The investigating judge
- 1990 The Silence Of Elsewhere
as Henri
- 1989
- 1989 La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro
as Bartholo
- 1989 L'Invité surprise
as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
- 1989 Sans défense
as Jules Rampin
- 1989 The French Revolution
as Abbé Maury
- 1989
- 1989 Le commissaire épate le FBI
as Commissaire Tarquinini
- 1988
- 1988 Envoyez les violons
as Dino Pizzoli
- 1988
- 1987 Keep Your Right Up
as Admiral
- 1987 Grand Guignol
as Charlie
- 1987 The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
as Jean-Etienne Nasal
- 1987 Poule et frites
as Martinez
- 1986 Kamikaze
as Albert
- 1986 The Joint Brothers
as Le père de Momo
- 1986 I Hate Actors
as Bison
- 1986 Follow My Gaze
as L'instituteur
- 1985 La Cage aux Folles 3
as Charrier
- 1985 Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons
as Commissaire Dufresne
- 1985 Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez
as Charles de Lespinasse
- 1985 Subway
as Le Commissaire Gesberg
- 1985 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
- 1985 Slices of Life
as Le paysan
- 1985 The Telephone Always Rings Twice
as Marraine
- 1984 Partenaires
as Charlie
- 1984 New Year's Eve At Bob's
as Douglas
- 1984 Les Fausses Confidences
as M. Rémy
- 1984 The Cheat
as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
- 1984 Adam et Ève
as Léon Blachurpe
- 1984 Our Story
as Emile Pecqueur
- 1984 Salt on the Skin
as Bideau
- 1983 Gramps Is in the Resistance
as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
- 1983 Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
as André Martell
- 1983 It's Called Catastrophe
as Fernand Dubuisson
- 1983 C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans
as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
- 1983 En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger
as Ponsard, publisher
- 1983 One Deadly Summer
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
- 1983 Le Braconnier de Dieu
as Hilaire
- 1982 The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
- 1982 The Graduates of the Last Row
as Marcel, le directeur
- 1982 On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
as 'Tonton' Aristote
- 1982 Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Victor Réglisson
- 1982 Salut, j'arrive
as Gaston, Minou's father
- 1982 Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
as Michel Frémont, union representative
- 1982 Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
as M. Jourdain
- 1981 Si ma gueule vous plaît...
as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
- 1981 Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
as le colonel Desjument
- 1981 Choice of Arms
as Commissioner Bonnardot
- 1981 Le bahut va craquer
as le proviseur
- 1981 Signé Furax
as Black
- 1981 Is This Reasonable?
as Émile Dugoineau, usher
- 1981 The Ones That Got Away
as Emile Loubignac
- 1981 The Impostures of Scapin
as Géronte
- 1980 La Cage aux Folles II
as Simon Charrier
- 1980 Le Vol d'Icare
as Morcol
- 1980 Une merveilleuse journée
as Pinède
- 1980 Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
as Tartuffe
- 1980 A Week's Vacation
as Mancheron
- 1980 The Under-Gifted
as M. Grasset, commissaire de police
- 1980 Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
as Thibaut
- 1980 Le Guignolo
as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
- 1980 I'm Photogenic
as Commendator Del Giudice
- 1980 The Miser
as Maître Jacques
- 1980 It All Depends on Girls
as Lucien
- 1979 Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
as Don Fernand
- 1979 The Winner
as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
- 1979 The City of Silences
as Nathan Farijacque
- 1979 Duets on Sofa
as Bernard, the lawyer
- 1979 The Bit Between the Teeth
as Charles Dréant
- 1979 Ciao, You Guys
as Ecological Farmer
- 1979 Cop or Hood
as Commissioner Grimaud
- 1979 The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Jérôme Gerber
- 1979 Heart to Heart
as le cousin Gabriel
- 1978 Le Pion
as Schulinspektor
- 1978 La Cage aux Folles
as Simon Charrier
- 1978 Question of Love
as Le procureur
- 1978 Horoscope
as Plancheteau
- 1978 Surprise Sock
as L'obsédé de la télévision
- 1978 Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived
as Le Capitaine
- 1977 Le Chandelier
as Maître André
- 1977 The Cat
as Francisci
- 1977 The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
as M. de Beaugenay
- 1977 Genre masculin
as Pierre
- 1977 The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
as Nestor Burma
- 1977 Group Portrait with a Lady
as Walter Pelzer
- 1976 La Grande Récré
as Le Commissaire
- 1976 The Groper
as Eugène Lajoux
- 1976 The Braggart
as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
- 1976 Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
as Julien Mercier
- 1976 The Judge and the Assassin
as Joseph Bouvier
- 1975 Cigalon
as Cigalon
- 1975 Monsieur Balboss
as Commissioner Balboss
- 1975 Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
- 1975 The Red Ibis
as Raymond
- 1975 Special Section
as Le président Cournet
- 1975 The Dangerous Mission
as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
- 1974 No Pockets in a Shroud
as Thomas
- 1974 C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
as M. Lambris
- 1974 There's a Bone in the Mill
as Emile
- 1974 Two Big Girls in Pyjamas
as Canavese
- 1974 The Fuhrer Runs Amok
as Monsieur Achtung
- 1974 Par ici la monnaie
as Bishop
- 1974 Bedmania
as Charles
- 1974 Les vacanciers
as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
- 1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
as Commissaire Lalatte
- 1973 La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
as Jules Payrac
- 1973 Man in the Trunk
as Baby
- 1973 The Big Store
as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
- 1973 Le Concierge
as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
- 1973 L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
as Maître Lamothe
- 1973 Big Deal
as The commissioner
- 1973 Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
as Peloux
- 1972 Les joyeux lurons
as Le chanoine Bossuet
- 1972 She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
as Cardinal
- 1972 The Egg
as Gaston Berthoullet
- 1972 The Annuity
as Léon Galipeau
- 1971 La Grande Maffia
as Father #1
- 1971 Jo
as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
- 1970 The Gendarme Takes Off
as Jérôme Gerber
- 1970 Et qu'ça saute !
as Gutiérrez
- 1969 La Honte de la famille
as Maspie le Grand
- 1969 Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
as The Inspector
- 1969 Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
as Maître Le Gouen
- 1969 Aux frais de la princesse
as Dagobert
- 1969 The Fighting Cock
as Albert
- 1969 Les gros malins
as Vicar
- 1969 L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
as Eugène, policeman
- 1968 The Gendarme Gets Married
as Jérôme Gerber
- 1968 The Most Beautiful Month
as Besson
- 1968 The Men in the Family
as Brigadier
- 1968 A Strange Kind of Colonel
as Colonel
- 1968 The Little Bather
as Scipio
- 1967 Vacances pour Jessica
as Bill
- 1966 Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
as Abel T. Léonard
- 1966 Les enquiquineurs
as Le garde-champêtre
- 1966 Brigade Anti Gangs
as Larmeno
- 1966 The Postman Goes to War
as Claparède
- 1966 Your Money or Your Life
as Maître Laprise, Notary
- 1966 Angelique and the King
as Bontemps
- 1966 The Sleeping Sentinel
as Florin
- 1965 The Gendarme in New York
as Jérôme Gerber
- 1965 Me and the Forty Year Old Man
as Bricaud
- 1965 The Real Bargain
as Colmar
- 1965 Les baratineurs
as Entrepreneur
- 1964 Les Gorilles
as The newbie traffic warden
- 1964 Les Pieds nickelés
as Ribouldingue
- 1964 Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Jérôme Gerber
+ 32 more credits
Behind the camera (1)
- 1995 La Poule aux œufs d'or
Director
Talk shows and appearances (23)
- 2023
- 2022 Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
1 episode
- 2013
- 2011
- 2009
- 2008 Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker
1 episode
- 2004
- 2003
- 1998 Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde
1 episode
- 1998 Vivement dimanche
3 episodes
- 1992 Coucou c'est nous !
1 episode
- 1990 Stars 90
1 episode
- 1987 Sacrée soirée
4 episodes
- 1987 Nulle part ailleurs
1 episode
- 1987 Matin Bonheur
1 episode
- 1982 Aujourd'hui la vie
1 episode
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
12 episodes
- 1975 Numéro un
2 episodes
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
7 episodes
- 1975 Midi Première
2 episodes
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
1 episode
- 1972 Midi trente
1 episode
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier
1 episode