Michel Galabru
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 27, 1922
- Died
- January 4, 2016
- Birthplace
- Safi, French Protectorate of Morocco [now Morocco]
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.
Filmography
Les Rois de la comédie 2023
as Self (archive footage)
Open at Night 2017
as Michel Galabru
The World Petanque Tour 2013
as Louis Cabanel
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son 2013
as Self (archive footage)
- La Page blanche
La Page blanche 2012
as Philippe
The Robbed Robber 2011
as André Gourgousse
Belmondo, itinéraire... 2011
as Self
The Great Restaurant II 2011
as The Unworthy Grandfather
Jules et Marcel 2011
as Jules Raimu
The Baker's Wife 2010
as Aimable Castanier
Love Like Poison 2010
as Jean Falguères
Mumu 2010
as Gâtineau
À deux c'est plus facile 2009
as Joseph Coudré
Cineman 2009
as Le Docteur
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) 2009
as Self (archive footage)
Little Nicholas 2009
as Minister
Neuilly Yo Mama! 2009
as Sénateur
Final Arrangements 2008
as Monsieur Froissard
Welcome to the Sticks 2008
as Julie's Great Uncle
The Maiden and the Wolves 2008
as Albert Garcin
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice 2007
as Le Pape Benoît XIII
Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross 2007
as Hubert Dunant
Coup de vache 2004
as Raymond Malassis
Michel Galabru au Marigny - On nous a menti ! 2004
as Self
Silence of the Sea 2004
as André Larosière
San Antonio 2004
as Achille
The Car Keys 2003
as Teacher
Raining Cats and Frogs 2003
as L'éléphant (voice)
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire 2003
as Self
Léopold 2000
as Léopold Salvat
Actors 2000
as Executed actor
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar 1999
as Abraracourcix
Foul Play 1998
as Michel Galabru
Let There Be Light! 1998
as Dieu le méridional
Marceeel!!! 1998
as Marcel
Christmas at Bunny's 1997
as Le Père Noël
Rainbow pour Rimbaud 1996
as Robert's father
- Chaudemanche, père et fils
Chaudemanche, père et fils 1996
as Eugène Chaudemanche
My Man 1996
as 3rd client
L'École des femmes 1995
as Arnolphe
Le Mas Théotime 1995
as Clodieus
La Poule aux œufs d'or 1995
as Alexanche Fauchard de Poisseuse, Director
Honorin et l'enfant prodigue 1994
as Honorin, le maire
Polly West est de retour 1993
as Honorin, mayor
Belle Époque 1992
as Danglard
Sleeping Waters 1992
as Fouchard
Room Service 1992
as Fernand Castanier
Honorin et la Loreleï 1992
as Honorin, le maire
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil 1991
as Mr Lemmel
Epiphany Sunday 1991
as Georges
The Cocottes 1991
as Honorin, le maire
Deux flics à Belleville 1990
as Commissioner Santucci
Uranus 1990
as Monglat
Feu sur le candidat 1990
as Robert Cavaillon
Le Provincial 1990
as Ernest Cazavant
No Time for Justice 1990
as The investigating judge
The Silence Of Elsewhere 1990
as Henri
La Folle Journée ou Le Mariage de Figaro 1989
as Bartholo
L'Invité surprise 1989
as Le commissaire Le Bourreux
Sans défense 1989
as Jules Rampin
The French Revolution 1989
as Abbé Maury
- Le commissaire épate le FBI
Le commissaire épate le FBI 1989
as Commissaire Tarquinini
Envoyez les violons 1988
as Dino Pizzoli
Keep Your Right Up 1987
as Admiral
Grand Guignol 1987
as Charlie
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque 1987
as Jean-Etienne Nasal
Poule et frites 1987
as Martinez
Kamikaze 1986
as Albert
The Joint Brothers 1986
as Le père de Momo
I Hate Actors 1986
as Bison
Follow My Gaze 1986
as L'instituteur
La Cage aux Folles 3 1985
as Charrier
Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons 1985
as Commissaire Dufresne
Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez 1985
as Charles de Lespinasse
Subway 1985
as Le Commissaire Gesberg
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac 1985
as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Slices of Life 1985
as Le paysan
The Telephone Always Rings Twice 1985
as Marraine
Partenaires 1984
as Charlie
New Year's Eve At Bob's 1984
as Douglas
Les Fausses Confidences 1984
as M. Rémy
The Cheat 1984
as Jean Morane / Sylvain Morane
Adam et Ève 1984
as Léon Blachurpe
Our Story 1984
as Emile Pecqueur
Salt on the Skin 1984
as Bideau
Gramps Is in the Resistance 1983
as Jean-Robert Bourdelle dit « Papy »
Vous habitez chez vos parents ? 1983
as André Martell
It's Called Catastrophe 1983
as Fernand Dubuisson
C'est facile et ça peut rapporter... 20 ans 1983
as J.B.M., Marquis of Malaveilla
En cas de guerre mondiale, je file à l'étranger 1983
as Ponsard, publisher
One Deadly Summer 1983
as Gabriel Devigne, Eliane's father
Le Braconnier de Dieu 1983
as Hilaire
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes 1982
as Adjudant Jérôme Gerber
The Graduates of the Last Row 1982
as Marcel, le directeur
On s'en fout… nous on s'aime 1982
as 'Tonton' Aristote
Is There a Frenchman in the House? 1982
as Victor Réglisson
Salut, j'arrive 1982
as Gaston, Minou's father
Te marre pas... c'est pour rire ! 1982
as Michel Frémont, union representative
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 1982
as M. Jourdain
Si ma gueule vous plaît... 1981
as Fabien de Lingeau, CEO
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers 1981
as le colonel Desjument
Choice of Arms 1981
as Commissioner Bonnardot
Le bahut va craquer 1981
as le proviseur
Signé Furax 1981
as Black
Is This Reasonable? 1981
as Émile Dugoineau, usher
The Ones That Got Away 1981
as Emile Loubignac
The Impostures of Scapin 1981
as Géronte
La Cage aux Folles II 1980
as Simon Charrier
Le Vol d'Icare 1980
as Morcol
Une merveilleuse journée 1980
as Pinède
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur 1980
as Tartuffe
A Week's Vacation 1980
as Mancheron
The Under-Gifted 1980
as M. Grasset, commissaire de police
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold 1980
as Thibaut
Le Guignolo 1980
as Achille Sureau, un ancien complice d'Alexandre
I'm Photogenic 1980
as Commendator Del Giudice
The Miser 1980
as Maître Jacques
It All Depends on Girls 1980
as Lucien
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! 1979
as Don Fernand
The Winner 1979
as M. Dupré-Granval, banquier
The City of Silences 1979
as Nathan Farijacque
Duets on Sofa 1979
as Bernard, the lawyer
The Bit Between the Teeth 1979
as Charles Dréant
Ciao, You Guys 1979
as Ecological Farmer
Cop or Hood 1979
as Commissioner Grimaud
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space 1979
as Jérôme Gerber
Heart to Heart 1979
as le cousin Gabriel
Le Pion 1978
as Schulinspektor
La Cage aux Folles 1978
as Simon Charrier
Question of Love 1978
as Le procureur
Horoscope 1978
as Plancheteau
Surprise Sock 1978
as L'obsédé de la télévision
Beaujolais Nouveau Is Arrived 1978
as Le Capitaine
Le Chandelier 1977
as Maître André
The Cat 1977
as Francisci
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing 1977
as M. de Beaugenay
Genre masculin 1977
as Pierre
The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 1977
as Nestor Burma
Group Portrait with a Lady 1977
as Walter Pelzer
La Grande Récré 1976
as Le Commissaire
The Groper 1976
as Eugène Lajoux
The Braggart 1976
as Lieutenant Gilles Castelet
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's 1976
as Julien Mercier
The Judge and the Assassin 1976
as Joseph Bouvier
Cigalon 1975
as Cigalon
Monsieur Balboss 1975
as Commissioner Balboss
Mad Race to Cote d'Azur 1975
as Leonardos, Greek Billionaire
The Red Ibis 1975
as Raymond
Special Section 1975
as Le président Cournet
The Dangerous Mission 1975
as Le boulanger, maire de Senlis
C'est jeune et ça sait tout ! 1974
as M. Lambris
No Pockets in a Shroud 1974
as Thomas
There's a Bone in the Mill 1974
as Emile
Two Big Girls in Pyjamas 1974
as Canavese
The Fuhrer Runs Amok 1974
as Monsieur Achtung
Par ici la monnaie 1974
as Bishop
Bedmania 1974
as Charles
Les vacanciers 1974
as Aloyse Frankensteinmuhl
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang 1974
as Commissaire Lalatte
La Dernière Bourrée à Paris 1973
as Jules Payrac
Man in the Trunk 1973
as Baby
The Big Store 1973
as Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie
Le Concierge 1973
as Robert Forazn homme d'affaires
L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) 1973
as Maître Lamothe
Big Deal 1973
as The commissioner
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen 1973
as Peloux
Les joyeux lurons 1972
as Le chanoine Bossuet
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots 1972
as Cardinal
The Egg 1972
as Gaston Berthoullet
The Annuity 1972
as Léon Galipeau
La Grande Maffia 1971
as Father #1
Jo 1971
as Tonelotti l'entrepreneur
The Gendarme Takes Off 1970
as Jérôme Gerber
Et qu'ça saute ! 1970
as Gutiérrez
La Honte de la famille 1969
as Maspie le Grand
Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus 1969
as The Inspector
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille 1969
as Maître Le Gouen
Aux frais de la princesse 1969
as Dagobert
The Fighting Cock 1969
as Albert
Les gros malins 1969
as Vicar
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus 1969
as Eugène, policeman
The Gendarme Gets Married 1968
as Jérôme Gerber
The Most Beautiful Month 1968
as Besson
The Men in the Family 1968
as Brigadier
A Strange Kind of Colonel 1968
as Colonel
The Little Bather 1968
as Scipio
Vacances pour Jessica 1967
as Bill
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général 1966
as Abel T. Léonard
Les enquiquineurs 1966
as Le garde-champêtre
Brigade Anti Gangs 1966
as Larmeno
The Postman Goes to War 1966
as Claparède
Your Money or Your Life 1966
as Maître Laprise, Notary
Angelique and the King 1966
as Bontemps
The Sleeping Sentinel 1966
as Florin
The Gendarme in New York 1965
as Jérôme Gerber
Me and the Forty Year Old Man 1965
as Bricaud
The Real Bargain 1965
as Colmar
Les baratineurs 1965
as Entrepreneur
Les Gorilles 1964
as The newbie traffic warden
Les Pieds nickelés 1964
as Ribouldingue
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez 1964
as Jérôme Gerber
Clémentine chérie 1964
as FBI engineer
My Wife's Husband 1963
as Maximin
- La bande à Bobo
La bande à Bobo 1963
as Bourrache
Good King Dagobert 1963
as Pépin
The Trip to Biarritz 1963
as Touffanel
La salamandre d'or 1962
as Alchemist
L'Auberge de l'ange gardien 1962
as Le général Dourakine
We Will Go to Deauville 1962
as Mr. Mercier
Tartarin de Tarascon 1962
as Barbassou
Adieu Philippine 1962
as Salas Ina dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Parades 1962
as Giles
War of the Buttons 1962
as Bacaillé's father
The Cross and the Banner 1962
as Bob
Lafayette 1962
as Innkeeper
The Marriage of Figaro 1961
as Bartholo
The New Aristrocrats 1961
as Father Menuzzi
Famous Love Affairs 1961
as Champagne, le domestique du roi
- Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie 1961
Actor
One Night at the Beach 1961
as le commissaire
Cyrano de Bergerac 1960
as Ragueneau
The Delinquents 1960
as Fred
A Game for Six Lovers 1960
as César
The Three Musketeers 1959
as M. Bonacieux
The Dreadful 1959
as Pelou
Riff Raff Girls 1959
as Bit part
The Indestructible 1959
as Augustin Robustal
Follow Me Young Man 1958
as Aristide Oranos
Three of the Canebière 1955
as Pénible
Letters from My Windmill 1954
as Anselme
Ma femme, ma vache et moi 1952
Actor
Last Hour, Special Edition 1949
as Mr. Mercier, hotel receptionist (uncredited)
La Bataille du feu 1949
as Firefighter
Credits from TMDB.