Michel Galabru
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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
Credits
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar (1999)
as Abraracourcix
Belle Époque (1992)
as Danglard
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
as Jérôme Gerber
Subway (1985)
as Le Commissaire Gesberg
The Little Bather (1968)
as Scipio
The French Revolution (1989)
as Abbé Maury
One Deadly Summer (1983)
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
as Julie's Great Uncle
Actors (2000)
as Executed actor
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
as Jérôme Gerber
The Miser (1980)
as Maître Jacques
The Under-Gifted (1980)
as le commissaire
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
as Simon Charrier
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
as Jérôme Gerber
The Gendarme in New York (1965)
as Jérôme Gerber
Our Story (1984)
as Emile Pecqueur
Jo (1971)
as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
Little Nicholas (2009)
as Minister
Lafayette (1962)
as Innkeeper
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
as Jérôme Gerber
Le Guignolo (1980)
as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
Angelique and the King (1966)
as Bontemps
Uranus (1990)
as Monglat
Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)
as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
The Big Store (1973)
as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
Adieu Philippine (1962)
as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974)
as Commissaire Lalatte
Silence of the Sea (2004)
as André Larosière
War of the Buttons (1962)
as Bacaillé's father
Cop or Hood (1979)
as Commissioner Grimaud
Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011)
as Self
My Man (1996)
as 3rd client
Signé Furax (1981)
as Black
I'm Photogenic (1980)
as Commendator Del Giudice
La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
as Simon Charrier
Raining Cats and Frogs (2003)
as L'éléphant (voice)
Mumu (2010)
as Gâtineau
Le Chandelier (1977)
as Maître André
Choice of Arms (1981)
as Commissioner Bonnardot
The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
as Joseph Bouvier
Kamikaze (1986)
as Albert
The Cat (1977)
as Francisci
La Cage aux Folles 3 (1985)
as Charrier
Les vacanciers (1974)
as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
San Antonio (2004)
as Achille
The Annuity (1972)
as Léon Galipeau
Le Concierge (1973)
as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
Clémentine chérie (1964)
as FBI engineer
Le Pion (1978)
as Schulinspektor
Salt on the Skin (1984)
as Bideau
A Week's Vacation (1980)
as Mancheron
The Car Keys (2003)
as Teacher
Special Section (1975)
as Le président Cournet
Heart to Heart (1979)
as le cousin Gabriel
The Cheat (1984)
as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
Neuilly Yo Mama! (2009)
as Sénateur
The Fuhrer Runs Amok (1974)
as Monsieur Achtung
The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
as Marraine
Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez (1985)
as Charles de Lespinasse
No Time for Justice (1990)
as The investigating judge
Open at Night (2017)
as Michel Galabru
Famous Love Affairs (1961)
as Champagne, le domestique du roi
Foul Play (1998)
as Michel Galabru
Cineman (2009)
as Le Docteur
Les Gorilles (1964)
as The newbie traffic warden
La salamandre d'or (1962)
as Alchemist
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross (2007)
as Hubert Dunant
My Wife's Husband (1963)
as Maximin
Is This Reasonable? (1981)
as Émile Dugoineau, usher
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold (1980)
as Thibaut
Polly West est de retour (1993)
as Honorin, mayor
Man in the Trunk (1973)
as Baby
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1982)
as M. Jourdain
Mad Race to Cote d'Azur (1975)
as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
The World Petanque Tour (2013)
as Louis Cabanel
The Winner (1979)
as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots (1972)
as Cardinal
Keep Your Right Up (1987)
as Admiral
Final Arrangements (2008)
as Monsieur Froissard
Partenaires (1984)
as Charlie
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969)
as Maître Le Gouen
Adam et Ève (1984)
as Léon Blachurpe
The Ones That Got Away (1981)
as Emile Loubignac
Follow My Gaze (1986)
as L'instituteur
Sans défense (1989)
as Jules Rampin
Le bahut va craquer (1981)
as le proviseur
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1976)
as Julien Mercier
The Bit Between the Teeth (1979)
as Charles Dréant
We Will Go to Deauville (1962)
as Mr. Mercier
The Impostures of Scapin (1981)
as Géronte
The Fighting Cock (1969)
as Albert
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1977)
as Nestor Burma
Question of Love (1978)
as Le procureur
Ma femme, ma vache et moi (1952)
Actor
The Three Musketeers (1959)
as M. Bonacieux
Let There Be Light! (1998)
as Dieu le méridional
The Red Ibis (1975)
as Raymond
Big Deal (1973)
as The commissioner
The Indestructible (1959)
as Augustin Robustal
A Game for Six Lovers (1960)
as César
L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) (1973)
as Maître Lamothe
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque (1987)
as Jean-Etienne Nasal
Duets on Sofa (1979)
as Bernard, the lawyer
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris (1973)
as Jules Payrac
Le Provincial (1990)
as Ernest Cazavant
The Cocottes (1991)
as Honorin, le maire
The Trip to Biarritz (1963)
as Touffanel
Brigade Anti Gangs (1966)
as Larmeno
Letters from My Windmill (1954)
as Anselme
The Graduates of the Last Row (1982)
as Marcel, le directeur
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (1973)
as Peloux
Tartarin de Tarascon (1962)
as Barbassou
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers (1981)
as le colonel Desjument
The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)
as Albert Garcin
The Men in the Family (1968)
as Brigadier
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! (1979)
as Don Fernand
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Thomas
La bande à Bobo (1963)
as Bourrache
Cyrano de Bergerac (1960)
as Ragueneau
Love Like Poison (2010)
as Jean Falguères
A Strange Kind of Colonel (1968)
as Colonel
La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro (1989)
as Bartholo
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans (1983)
as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
The Most Beautiful Month (1968)
as Besson
Bedmania (1974)
as Charles
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus (1969)
as Eugène, policeman
Is There a Frenchman in the House? (1982)
as Victor Réglisson
Le Vol d'Icare (1980)
as Morcol
Le Braconnier de Dieu (1983)
as Hilaire
Group Portrait with a Lady (1977)
as Walter Pelzer
Your Money or Your Life (1966)
as Maître Laprise, Notary
One Night at the Beach (1961)
as le commissaire
Me and the Forty Year Old Man (1965)
as Bricaud
Una casa a Roma (1989)
as Cardinale
Parades (1962)
as Giles
The Braggart (1976)
as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
Genre masculin (1977)
as Pierre
The Robbed Robber (2011)
as André Gourgousse
Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981)
as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)
as Self
Christmas at Bunny's (1997)
as Le Père Noël
Par ici la monnaie (1974)
as Bishop
Good King Dagobert (1963)
as Pépin
Chaudemanche, père et fils (1996)
as Eugène Chaudemanche
Honorin et la Loreleï (1992)
as Honorin, le maire
La Honte de la famille (1969)
as Maspie le Grand
Salut, j'arrive (1982)
as Gaston, Minou's father
The Egg (1972)
as Gaston Berthoullet
It All Depends on Girls (1980)
as Lucien
L'Invité surprise (1989)
as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
Grand Guignol (1987)
as Charlie
The Postman Goes to War (1966)
as Claparède
Et qu'ça saute ! (1970)
as Gutiérrez
The Real Bargain (1965)
as Colmar
C'est jeune et ça sait tout ! (1974)
as M. Lambris
Les Fausses Confidences (1984)
as M. Rémy
The Joint Brothers (1986)
as Le père de Momo
Sleeping Waters (1992)
as Fouchard
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing (1977)
as M. de Beaugenay
The Dreadful (1959)
as Pelou
I Hate Actors (1986)
as Bison
The City of Silences (1979)
as Nathan Farijacque
Slices of Life (1985)
as Le paysan
Horoscope (1978)
as Plancheteau
Une merveilleuse journée (1980)
as Pinède
The Dangerous Mission (1975)
as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
The Great Restaurant II (2011)
as The Unworthy Grandfather
La Grande Maffia (1971)
as Father #1
Ciao, You Guys (1979)
as Ecological Farmer
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1985)
as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Les joyeux lurons (1972)
as Le chanoine Bossuet
The Delinquents (1960)
as Fred
The Groper (1976)
as Eugène Lajoux
Three of the Canebière (1955)
as Pénible
Rainbow pour Rimbaud (1996)
as Robert's father
Cigalon (1975)
as Cigalon
The Silence Of Elsewhere (1990)
as Henri
Riff Raff Girls (1959)
as Bit part
It's Called Catastrophe (1983)
as Fernand Dubuisson
Deux flics à Belleville (1990)
as Commissioner Santucci
There's a Bone in the Mill (1974)
as Emile
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur (1980)
as Tartuffe
Le Mas Théotime (1995)
as Clodieus
The Marriage of Figaro (1961)
as Bartholo
Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived (1978)
as Le Capitaine
Léopold (2000)
as Léopold Salvat
Aux frais de la princesse (1969)
as Dagobert
The Sleeping Sentinel (1966)
as Florin
Les Rois de la comédie (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Follow Me Young Man (1958)
as Aristide Oranos
Poule et frites (1987)
as Martinez
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! (1982)
as Michel Frémont, union representative
À deux c'est plus facile (2009)
as Joseph Coudré
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
L'Auberge de l'ange gardien (1962)
as Le général Dourakine
Les Pieds nickelés (1964)
as Ribouldingue
La Poule aux œufs d'or (1995)
as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général (1966)
as Abel T. Léonard
L'École des femmes (1995)
as Arnolphe
New Year's Eve At Bob's (1984)
as Douglas
Feu sur le candidat (1990)
as Robert Cavaillon
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice (2007)
as Le Pape Benoît XIII
Surprise Sock (1978)
as L'obsédé de la télévision
Monsieur Balboss (1975)
as Commissioner Balboss
The Cross and the Banner (1962)
as Bob
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie (1961)
Actor
Two Big Girls in Pyjamas (1974)
as Canavese
Epiphany Sunday (1991)
as Georges
Last Hour, Special Edition (1949)
as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited)
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus (1969)
as The Inspector
Les baratineurs (1965)
as Entrepreneur
Room Service (1992)
as Fernand Castanier
La Grande Récré (1976)
as Le Commissaire
La Bataille du feu (1949)
as Firefighter
Honorin et l'enfant prodigue (1994)
as Honorin, le maire
On s'en fout… nous on s'aime (1982)
as 'Tonton' Aristote
Le commissaire épate le FBI (1989)
as Commissaire Tarquinini
Les gros malins (1969)
as Vicar
The New Aristrocrats (1961)
as Father Menuzzi
Envoyez les violons (1988)
as Dino Pizzoli
Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons (1985)
as Commissaire Dufresne
The Baker's Wife (2010)
as Aimable Castanier
Vous habitez chez vos parents ? (1983)
as André Martell
Les enquiquineurs (1966)
as Le garde-champêtre
Coup de vache (2004)
as Raymond Malassis
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger (1983)
as Ponsard, publisher
Jules et Marcel (2011)
as Jules Raimu
Vacances pour Jessica (1967)
as Bill
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil (1991)
as Mr Lemmel
Marceeel!!! (1998)
as Marcel
Michel Galabru au Marigny - On nous a menti ! (2004)
as Self
La Page blanche (2012)
as Philippe