Jean Lefebvre
French actor Jean Lefebvre was working as an opera singer in the late 1940s. He was seen performing and was invited to join a comedy group made up of actors, musicians, and comedians, called Les Branquignols and began performing with the group in taverns. At the same time, he was beginning to act in small roles in films. By the time the 1960s rolled around, he had already performed in around 30 different film roles, and he was becoming a big star. In 1963, he played a comedic gangster character, Paul Volfoni, in "Les Tontons flingueurs." That film, about a retired gangster who is visited by his childhood friend, was not very successful at first, but has gone on to be recognized as a classic. Lefebvre was well known for his comic sense of self-mockery, which could be seen, for example, in 1967's "An Idiot in Paris," where he had top billing, playing the idiot, Goubi. Some other memorable roles include the crook Arsene Baudu in 1965's "Quand passent les faisans," and Leonard Michalon, an indebted bookmaker, in "Ne nous fachons pas" in 1966. The actor was, in fact, a major gambler and by the 1980s, with his star fading and his gambling debts piling up, he began to take roles simply to make money, regardless of their quality.
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Jean Lefebvre
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under the Sign of the Fish | Michel Sénachal (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge | Félix (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | These Sorcerers Are Mad | Julien Picard (Character) | - | 1978 |
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The Seventh Company Outdoors | Unknown (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La situation est grave, mais pas désespérée | Bertrand Duvenois (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Problem! | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secret Agent | The electrician (Character) | - | 1974 |
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The Magnificent One | The electrician (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Impossible... pas français | Louis Brisset (Character) | - | 1974 |
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Crazy Bed | Adrien (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enuff Is Enuff | Unknown (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gendarme Takes Off | Maréchal des Logis Lucien Fougasse (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Troops on Vacation | Maréchal des Logis Lucien Fougasse (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Troops Get Married | Maréchal des Logis Lucien Fougasse (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen | Guard (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Let's Not Get Angry | Unknown (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Due killers in fuga | Author (Character) | - | 1966 |
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The Troops in New York | Maréchal des Logis Lucien Fougasse (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When the Peasants Pass | Arsène Baudu (Character) | - | 1965 |
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The Sleeping Car Murders | Unknown (Character) | - | 1965 |
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The Troops of St. Tropez | Maréchal des Logis Lucien Fougasse (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bebert and the Train | Glandier (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Az Epsomi Uriember | Charly (Character) | - | 1964 |
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Crooks in Clover | Paul Volfoni (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death of a Killer | Tony (Character) | - | 1963 |
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Gigot | Gaston (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back to the Wall | Mauvin (Character) | - | 1958 |
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Naughty Girl | Jérôme's Pal (Character) | - | 1956 |
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And God Created Woman | L'homme qui veut danser (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Gil Blas | Scipion (Character) | - | 1955 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | MonsterQuest |
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2008 |