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 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

Champs-Elysées

Spécial cinéma

Vivement dimanche

Sacrée soirée

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Midi Première

Numéro un

Le Grand Échiquier

All Movies (234)

• Les Rois de la comédie2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Open at Night2017 · as Michel Galabru
• The World Petanque Tour2013 · as Louis Cabanel
• Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son2013 · as Self (archive footage)
• La Page blanche2012 · as Philippe
• The Robbed Robber2011 · as André Gourgousse
• Belmondo, itinéraire...2011 · as Self
• The Great Restaurant II2011 · as The Unworthy Grandfather
• Jules et Marcel2011 · as Jules Raimu
• The Baker's Wife2010 · as Aimable Castanier
• Love Like Poison2010 · as Jean Falguères
• Mumu2010 · as Gâtineau
• À deux c'est plus facile2009 · as Joseph Coudré
• Cineman2009 · as Le Docteur
• Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Little Nicholas2009 · as Minister
• Neuilly Yo Mama!2009 · as Sénateur
• Final Arrangements2008 · as Monsieur Froissard
• Welcome to the Sticks2008 · as Julie's Great Uncle
• The Maiden and the Wolves2008 · as Albert Garcin
• Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice2007 · as Le Pape Benoît XIII
• Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross2007 · as Hubert Dunant
• Coup de vache2004 · as Raymond Malassis
• Michel Galabru au Marigny - On nous a menti !2004 · as Self
• Silence of the Sea2004 · as André Larosière
• San Antonio2004 · as Achille
• The Car Keys2003 · as Teacher
• Raining Cats and Frogs2003 · as L'éléphant (voice)
• Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire2003 · as Self
• Léopold2000 · as Léopold Salvat
• Actors2000 · as Executed actor
• Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar1999 · as Abraracourcix
• Foul Play1998 · as Michel Galabru
• Let There Be Light!1998 · as Dieu le méridional
• Marceeel!!!1998 · as Marcel
• Christmas at Bunny's1997 · as Le Père Noël
• Rainbow pour Rimbaud1996 · as Robert's father
• Chaudemanche, père et fils1996 · as Eugène Chaudemanche
• My Man1996 · as 3rd client
• L'École des femmes1995 · as Arnolphe
• Le Mas Théotime1995 · as Clodieus
• La Poule aux œufs d'or1995 · as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse
• Honorin et l'enfant prodigue1994 · as Honorin, le maire
• Polly West est de retour1993 · as Honorin, mayor
• Belle Époque1992 · as Danglard
• Sleeping Waters1992 · as Fouchard
• Room Service1992 · as Fernand Castanier
• Honorin et la Loreleï1992 · as Honorin, le maire
• Les Disparus de Saint-Agil1991 · as Mr Lemmel
• Epiphany Sunday1991 · as Georges
• The Cocottes1991 · as Honorin, le maire
• Deux flics à Belleville1990 · as Commissioner Santucci
• Uranus1990 · as Monglat
• Feu sur le candidat1990 · as Robert Cavaillon
• Le Provincial1990 · as Ernest Cazavant
• No Time for Justice1990 · as The investigating judge
• The Silence Of Elsewhere1990 · as Henri
• La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro1989 · as Bartholo
• L'Invité surprise1989 · as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
• Sans défense1989 · as Jules Rampin
• The French Revolution1989 · as Abbé Maury
• Una casa a Roma1989 · as Cardinale
• Le commissaire épate le FBI1989 · as Commissaire Tarquinini
• Envoyez les violons1988 · as Dino Pizzoli
• Keep Your Right Up1987 · as Admiral
• Grand Guignol1987 · as Charlie
• The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque1987 · as Jean-Etienne Nasal
• Poule et frites1987 · as Martinez
• Kamikaze1986 · as Albert
• The Joint Brothers1986 · as Le père de Momo
• I Hate Actors1986 · as Bison
• Follow My Gaze1986 · as L'instituteur
• La Cage aux Folles 31985 · as Charrier
• Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons1985 · as Commissaire Dufresne
• Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez1985 · as Charles de Lespinasse
• Subway1985 · as Le Commissaire Gesberg
• Monsieur de Pourceaugnac1985 · as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
• Slices of Life1985 · as Le paysan
• The Telephone Always Rings Twice1985 · as Marraine
• Partenaires1984 · as Charlie
• New Year's Eve At Bob's1984 · as Douglas
• Les Fausses Confidences1984 · as M. Rémy
• The Cheat1984 · as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
• Adam et Ève1984 · as Léon Blachurpe
• Our Story1984 · as Emile Pecqueur
• Salt on the Skin1984 · as Bideau
• Gramps Is in the Resistance1983 · as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
• Vous habitez chez vos parents ?1983 · as André Martell
• It's Called Catastrophe1983 · as Fernand Dubuisson
• C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans1983 · as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
• En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger1983 · as Ponsard, publisher
• One Deadly Summer1983 · as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
• Le Braconnier de Dieu1983 · as Hilaire
• The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes1982 · as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
• The Graduates of the Last Row1982 · as Marcel, le directeur
• On s'en fout… nous on s'aime1982 · as 'Tonton' Aristote
• Is There a Frenchman in the House?1982 · as Victor Réglisson
• Salut, j'arrive1982 · as Gaston, Minou's father
• Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !1982 · as Michel Frémont, union representative
• Le Bourgeois gentilhomme1982 · as M. Jourdain
• Si ma gueule vous plaît...1981 · as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
• Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers1981 · as le colonel Desjument
• Choice of Arms1981 · as Commissioner Bonnardot
• Le bahut va craquer1981 · as le proviseur
• Signé Furax1981 · as Black
• Is This Reasonable?1981 · as Émile Dugoineau, usher
• The Ones That Got Away1981 · as Emile Loubignac
• The Impostures of Scapin1981 · as Géronte
• La Cage aux Folles II1980 · as Simon Charrier
• Le Vol d'Icare1980 · as Morcol
• Une merveilleuse journée1980 · as Pinède
• Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur1980 · as Tartuffe
• A Week's Vacation1980 · as Mancheron
• The Under-Gifted1980 · as le commissaire
• Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold1980 · as Thibaut
• Le Guignolo1980 · as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
• I'm Photogenic1980 · as Commendator Del Giudice
• The Miser1980 · as Maître Jacques
• It All Depends on Girls1980 · as Lucien
• Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !1979 · as Don Fernand
• The Winner1979 · as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
• The City of Silences1979 · as Nathan Farijacque
• Duets on Sofa1979 · as Bernard, the lawyer
• The Bit Between the Teeth1979 · as Charles Dréant
• Ciao, You Guys1979 · as Ecological Farmer
• Cop or Hood1979 · as Commissioner Grimaud
• The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space1979 · as Jérôme Gerber
• Heart to Heart1979 · as le cousin Gabriel
• Le Pion1978 · as Schulinspektor
• La Cage aux Folles1978 · as Simon Charrier
• Question of Love1978 · as Le procureur
• Horoscope1978 · as Plancheteau
• Surprise Sock1978 · as L'obsédé de la télévision
• Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived1978 · as Le Capitaine
• Le Chandelier1977 · as Maître André
• The Cat1977 · as Francisci
• The Centipede Is Tap Dancing1977 · as M. de Beaugenay
• Genre masculin1977 · as Pierre
• The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés1977 · as Nestor Burma
• Group Portrait with a Lady1977 · as Walter Pelzer
• La Grande Récré1976 · as Le Commissaire
• The Groper1976 · as Eugène Lajoux
• The Braggart1976 · as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
• Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's1976 · as Julien Mercier
• The Judge and the Assassin1976 · as Joseph Bouvier
• Cigalon1975 · as Cigalon
• Monsieur Balboss1975 · as Commissioner Balboss
• Mad Race to Cote d'Azur1975 · as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
• The Red Ibis1975 · as Raymond
• Special Section1975 · as Le président Cournet
• The Dangerous Mission1975 · as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
• No Pockets in a Shroud1974 · as Thomas
• C'est jeune et ça sait tout !1974 · as M. Lambris
• There's a Bone in the Mill1974 · as Emile
• Two Big Girls in Pyjamas1974 · as Canavese
• The Fuhrer Runs Amok1974 · as Monsieur Achtung
• Par ici la monnaie1974 · as Bishop
• Bedmania1974 · as Charles
• Les vacanciers1974 · as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
• The Down-in-the-Hole Gang1974 · as Commissaire Lalatte
• La Dernière Bourrée à Paris1973 · as Jules Payrac
• Man in the Trunk1973 · as Baby
• The Big Store1973 · as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
• Le Concierge1973 · as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
• L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)1973 · as Maître Lamothe
• Big Deal1973 · as The commissioner
• Some Too Quiet Gentlemen1973 · as Peloux
• Les joyeux lurons1972 · as Le chanoine Bossuet
• She No Longer Talks, She Shoots1972 · as Cardinal
• The Egg1972 · as Gaston Berthoullet
• The Annuity1972 · as Léon Galipeau
• La Grande Maffia1971 · as Father #1
• Jo1971 · as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
• The Gendarme Takes Off1970 · as Jérôme Gerber
• Et qu'ça saute !1970 · as Gutiérrez
• La Honte de la famille1969 · as Maspie le Grand
• Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus1969 · as The Inspector
• Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille1969 · as Maître Le Gouen
• Aux frais de la princesse1969 · as Dagobert
• The Fighting Cock1969 · as Albert
• Les gros malins1969 · as Vicar
• L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus1969 · as Eugène, policeman
• The Gendarme Gets Married1968 · as Jérôme Gerber
• The Most Beautiful Month1968 · as Besson
• The Men in the Family1968 · as Brigadier
• A Strange Kind of Colonel1968 · as Colonel
• The Little Bather1968 · as Scipio
• Vacances pour Jessica1967 · as Bill
• Monsieur le Président Directeur Général1966 · as Abel T. Léonard
• Les enquiquineurs1966 · as Le garde-champêtre
• Brigade Anti Gangs1966 · as Larmeno
• The Postman Goes to War1966 · as Claparède
• Your Money or Your Life1966 · as Maître Laprise, Notary
• Angelique and the King1966 · as Bontemps
• The Sleeping Sentinel1966 · as Florin
• The Gendarme in New York1965 · as Jérôme Gerber
• Me and the Forty Year Old Man1965 · as Bricaud
• The Real Bargain1965 · as Colmar
• Les baratineurs1965 · as Entrepreneur
• Les Gorilles1964 · as The newbie traffic warden
• Les Pieds nickelés1964 · as Ribouldingue
• Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez1964 · as Jérôme Gerber
• Clémentine chérie1964 · as FBI engineer
• My Wife's Husband1963 · as Maximin
• La bande à Bobo1963 · as Bourrache
• Good King Dagobert1963 · as Pépin
• The Trip to Biarritz1963 · as Touffanel
• La salamandre d'or1962 · as Alchemist
• L'Auberge de l'ange gardien1962 · as Le général Dourakine
• We Will Go to Deauville1962 · as Mr. Mercier
• Tartarin de Tarascon1962 · as Barbassou
• Adieu Philippine1962 · as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
• Parades1962 · as Giles
• War of the Buttons1962 · as Bacaillé's father
• The Cross and the Banner1962 · as Bob
• Lafayette1962 · as Innkeeper
• The Marriage of Figaro1961 · as Bartholo
• The New Aristrocrats1961 · as Father Menuzzi
• Famous Love Affairs1961 · as Champagne, le domestique du roi
• Fumée, histoire et fantaisie1961
• One Night at the Beach1961 · as le commissaire
• Cyrano de Bergerac1960 · as Ragueneau
• The Delinquents1960 · as Fred
• A Game for Six Lovers1960 · as César
• The Three Musketeers1959 · as M. Bonacieux
• The Dreadful1959 · as Pelou
• Riff Raff Girls1959 · as Bit part
• The Indestructible1959 · as Augustin Robustal
• Follow Me Young Man1958 · as Aristide Oranos
• Three of the Canebière1955 · as Pénible
• Letters from My Windmill1954 · as Anselme
• Ma femme, ma vache et moi1952
• Last Hour, Special Edition1949 · as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited)
• La Bataille du feu1949 · as Firefighter

All TV Shows (20)

• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Bref2011 · as Michel Galabru
• Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker2008 · as Self
• Le Plus Grand Cabaret du monde1998 · as Self
• Vivement dimanche1998 · as Self
• Coucou c'est nous !1992 · as Self
• Stars 901990 · as Self
• The French Revolution1989 · as Abbé Maury (« Les Années Lumière »)
• L'Argent1988 · as Daigremont
• Sueurs froides1988 · as Jacques Chalmont
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self
• Nulle part ailleurs1987 · as Self
• Matin Bonheur1987 · as Self
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Numéro un1975 · as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Midi Première1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Midi trente1972 · as Self
• Le Grand Échiquier1972 · as Self