Pierre Mondy | |
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![]() Mondy in 2007 | |
Born | Pierre Cuq 10 February 1925 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Died | 15 September 2012 Paris, France | (aged 87)
Occupation | Actor |
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
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Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director.[1]
Personal life
[edit]He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses.[2] He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma.[3]
Career
[edit]Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career.[1] In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance.[3] In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?.[1] From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic.[3]
As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).[4]
Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.[1] In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault.[3]
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2009 | Kaamelott | Emperor Caesar | Alexandre Astier |
Theater
[edit]Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
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1987 | Two into One | Ray Cooney | Pierre Mondy | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director |
1989 | La Présidente | Maurice Hennequin & Pierre Veber | Pierre Mondy | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director |
Filmography
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1949 | Rendezvous in July | The student's friend | Jacques Becker | Uncredited |
1950 | Les anciens de Saint-Loup | Le marquis Patrice de Puy-Tirejol | Georges Lampin | |
Souvenirs perdus | The Agent | Christian-Jaque | (segment "Le violon"), Uncredited | |
1951 | Without Leaving an Address | Forestier's Friend | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | |
Victor | An inmate | Claude Heymann | ||
1952 | Le costaud des Batignolles | Bébert | Guy Lacourt | |
Souvenirs perdus | Georges | Un jour avec vous | ||
Matrimonial Agency | Le client de l'agence 'Nuptia' #2 | Jean-Paul Le Chanois (2) | ||
The Happiest of Men | Inspector Gaston | Yves Ciampi | ||
1953 | Les Compagnes de la nuit | Sylvestre | Ralph Habib | |
Capitaine Pantoufle | Henri | Guy Lefranc | ||
Le Guérisseur | Robert | Yves Ciampi (2) | ||
1954 | Crainquebille | La Trogne | Ralph Habib | |
Tout chante autour de moi | Paul Nollier | Pierre Gout | ||
1955 | Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs | Thomas | Robert Darène | |
Casse-cou, mademoiselle! | Marchand | Christian Stengel | ||
Cherchez la femme | Georges Tessard | Raoul André | ||
The Affair of the Poisons | Le capitaine François Desgrez | Henri Decoin | ||
1956 | People of No Importance | Pierrot Berty | Henri Verneuil | |
Folies-Bergère | Roger | Henri Decoin | ||
1957 | Que les hommes sont bêtes | Josélito | Roger Richebé | |
The She-Wolves | André Vilsan | Luis Saslavsky | ||
La roue | Jean Marcereau | André Haguet and Maurice Delbez | ||
Méfiez-vous fillettes | Tonio | Yves Allégret | ||
Send a Woman When the Devil Fails | Commissaire Verdier | Yves Allégret | ||
The Tricyclist | Un gendarme | Jack Pinoteau | ||
Anyone Can Kill Me | Émile Chanu | Henri Decoin | ||
The Lady Doctor | Romeo, cammeriere di De Vitti | Camillo Mastrocinque | ||
1958 | Le temps des oeufs durs | Le maître nageur | Norbert Carbonnaux | |
Neither Seen Nor Recognized | M. Bluette | Yves Robert | ||
Chéri, fais-moi peur | Le commissaire Morel | Jack Pinoteau | ||
En légitime défense | Petit Bob | André Berthomieu | ||
Life Together | Monsieur Lebeaut | Clément Duhour | ||
Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women | Max | Maurice Régamey | ||
1959 | Women Are Weak | André, Agathe's Husband | Michel Boisrond | |
Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? | Alfred Dupont | Clément Duhour | ||
Way of Youth | Lulu | Michel Boisrond | ||
1960 | Les Loups dans la bergerie | Charlot | Hervé Bromberger | |
Austerlitz | Napoléon Bonaparte | Abel Gance | ||
It Happened All Night | Antoine Fiesco | Henri Verneuil | ||
Love and the Frenchwoman | Edouard, Bichette's father | various directors | (segment "Adolescence, L'") | |
Boulevard | Dicky | Julien Duvivier | ||
1961 | Dans la gueule du loup | Commissaire Rémy | Jean-Charles Dudrumet | |
Les moutons de Panurge | Un voisin de table au restaurant | Jean Girault | Uncredited | |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Caderousse | Claude Autant-Lara | ||
1962 | Girl on the Road | Le manager | Jacqueline Audry | |
Le Crime ne paie pas | Clerget, le détective | Gérard Oury | (segment "L'affaire Hugues"), Uncredited | |
The Law of Men | Le juge Béguin | Charles Gérard | ||
The Mysteries of Paris | Le Chourineur | André Hunebelle | ||
1963 | Jusqu'au bout du monde | Pierre | François Villiers | |
People in Luck | Henri Duchemin | Philippe de Broca and Jean Girault | (segment "Le yacht") | |
Bebert and the Train | Parmelin | Yves Robert | ||
Son of the Circus | Philip Nardelli | Sergio Grieco | ||
1964 | Mission to Venice | Paul Trégard | André Versini | |
À couteaux tirés | Robert Antonini | Charles Gérard | ||
Requiem pour un caïd | Antoine Delille | Maurice Cloche | ||
Weekend at Dunkirk | Dhéry | Henri Verneuil | ||
1965 | Les copains | Broudier | Yves Robert | |
The Sleeping Car Murders | Le commissaire Tarquin | Costa-Gavras | ||
1966 | Le facteur s'en va-t-en guerre | Massenet | Claude Bernard-Aubert | |
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général (Appelez-moi Maître) | Denis Bonneval | Jean Girault | ||
1967 | The Night of the Generals | Kopatski | Anatole Litvak | |
1969 | Pierre et Paul | Pierre | René Allio | |
Appelez-moi Mathilde | Le commissaire | Pierre Mondy | Uncredited | |
1971 | Papa les petits bateaux... | Jeannot le Corse | Nelly Kaplan | |
1972 | Les malheurs d'Alfred | François Morel | Pierre Richard | |
1973 | Forbidden Priests | Paul Lacoussade | Denys de La Patellière | |
Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Sergent Louis Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | ||
1974 | Vos gueules les mouettes! | Bibi Kenavec | Robert Dhéry | |
Impossible Is Not French | Antoine Brisset | Robert Lamoureux | ||
1975 | L'agression | Sauguet | Gérard Pirès | Voice, Uncredited |
Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis | Olivier Galmisch | François Dupont-Midi | ||
Le téléphone rose | Benoît Castejac | Édouard Molinaro | ||
On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie ! | Sergent Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | ||
1977 | Dernière sortie avant Roissy | Marlys | Bernard Paul | |
The Seventh Company Outdoors | Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | ||
1978 | Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé | Georges | Jean-Luc Voulfow | |
Vas-y maman | Jean-Pierre Larcher | Nicole de Buron | ||
La Cage aux Folles | Renato Baldi | Édouard Molinaro | (French version), Voice | |
1979 | Démons de midi | François | Christian Paureilhe | |
1980 | Retour en force | Roger | Jean-Marie Poiré | |
1981 | Signé Furax | Amédée Gonflard | Marc Simenon | |
1982 | Bankers Also Have Souls | Grégoire Dufour | Michel Lang | |
1983 | Le braconnier de Dieu | Brother Grégoire | Jean-Pierre Darras | |
Le Battant | Rouxel | Alain Delon | ||
Si elle dit oui... je ne dis pas non | Marcel Thiebault | Claude Vital | ||
1984 | Pinot simple flic | Rochu | Gérard Jugnot | |
1985 | Slices of Life | Le Président | François Leterrier | |
Asterix Versus Caesar | Caius Obtus | Gaëtan Brizzi and Paul Brizzi | Voice | |
1986 | Asterix in Britain | Cetinlapsus | Pino Van Lamsweerde | Voice |
1992 | Cerveny cigán | |||
1994 | The Favourite Son | Le dentiste usurier | Nicole Garcia | |
2003 | Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés | Marcel | Stéphane Clavier | |
2008 | A Man and His Dog | Baptistin | Francis Huster |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Agence France Presse. "L'acteur Pierre Mondy, 87 ans, est mort" (in French). Le Monde. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^ Vely, Yannick. "Pierre Mondy. La disparition du commissaire Cordier" (in French). Paris Match. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^ a b c d Simon, Nathalie. "Décès de Pierre Mondy, grand comédien populaire" (in French). Le Figaro. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^ Minovitz, Ethan. "Director, "Asterix" actor Pierre Mondy dead at 87". Big Cartoon News. Retrieved 27 January 2018.[dead link]
External links
[edit]- Pierre Mondy at IMDb