Henri Guybet
Birthday: Born in 1936-12-21 in Paris, France
Deathday: Alive
Henri Guybet (born 21 December 1936) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1964. Guybet started his career in dinner theater in the Café de la Gare, alongside Coluche and Miou-Miou in late 1960s. Gérard Oury gave him his first major film role in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, where he plays Solomon, the Jewish driver of Louis de Funès. His comic talent explodes shortly after with Georges Lautner in Pas de Problème. In 1978 he got the leading role in the film The Pawn, where he played Bertrand Barabi a "pawn" who falls in love for the mother of one of his students, played by Claude Jade. This was his only romantic role and his only lead. In the late 1970s, he made several "nanars" and became a second recurring role. In theater, he became a big name in boulevard theater. His son is also an actor. Source: Article "Henri Guybet" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Face au Diable
Character: Philippe Legrand
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Scènes de ménages
Character: Robert, un des amis de bridge de Raymond
Scènes de ménages depicts the daily lives of several couples from different generations, illustrating with humor their arguments, tender moments and little idiosyncrasies. Each episode is made up of short sketches, in which the characters exchange scathing retorts and funny situations....
Les Jeux de 20 heures
Character: Self
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Jeu, set et match
Character: Jacques Leroy
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Iznogoud
Character: Dilat Laraht (French version, voice)
Iznogoud is the Grand Vizier a.k.a. second in command Sultan of Baghdad Haroun El Plassid (a pun on the historical Caliph, Harun al-Rashid) and his sole aim in life is to overthrow the Sultan and take his place. Iznogoud is always assisted in his plans by his faithful henchman, Wa'at Alahf. But he's ultimately unsuccessful, and his plans always fall apart in a hilarious way, usually backfireing at him, while the Sultan goes unharmed....
Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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Joséphine en tournée
Character: Charles Rollin
Lily Strasberg, the boulevard actress, who triumphed in L’Œuf de Pâques as Joséphine, closes the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people....
Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
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Visitors
Character: Robert
After a mysterious explosion rocks the town of Pointe-Claire, rookie cop Richard Garcia and his ragtag group of friends find themselves entangled in an all-out war between rival alien factions....
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer
Character: Mauvillain
Molière pour rire et pour pleurer recounts the life of Jean‑Baptiste Poquelin, from his childhood in an artisan family to his rise as Molière, a central figure of French theatre. The series shows his difficult decision to abandon the family trade and join Madeleine Béjart to found L’Illustre Théâtre, marked by debts and repeated setbacks. While touring the provinces, he shapes his style and discovers the power of comedy. Back in Paris, he makes a name for himself with Les Précieuses ridicules, ...
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Par ici la monnaie
Character: Farfalla
All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate....
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Salomon
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's den...
Le Pion
Character: Bertrand Barabi
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a book....
Le bahut va craquer
Character: le pion
The students of a local school unite in mutiny against their headmaster and two teachers....
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Character: l'ami de Simon
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled....
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Charmant
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan....
Les Rois de la comédie
Character: Self
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the...
Flic Story
Character: Hidoine
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital....
The Graduates of the Last Row
Character: L'avocat
The students of a prestigious law school try their best to mess things up....
If I Were a Rich Man
Character: M. Brun
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ......
Bankers Also Have Souls
Character: André
A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility....
One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Character: Marcel Jamet
Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence. Patronized by the wealthy and powerful, this elegant house of prostitution featured a top-ranked restaurant and specialized rooms for men with unusual tastes: a railroad carriage room, a stable room, etc. In the story, two young people "on the make" bump into each other as they are arriving in the same rail station. Though attracted to one another, t...
Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: Mr. Bertier, bank employee
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention......
There Once Was a Cop
Character: PJ inspector
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA....
The Bottom Line
Character: Henri Mercier
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie....
These Sorcerers Are Mad
Character: Henri Berger
Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels....
Le Pélican
Character: Henri
Three friends finish a meal washed down with plenty of wine. The host proposes a riddle: It's the story of a guy who goes to a restaurant. He reads the menu and orders pelican. The waiter serves him, the guy tastes the pelican, and he commits suicide. Why?...
The Seventh Company Outdoors
Character: Tassin, ouvrier aux abattoirs de Nice
The third part of Seventh Company adventures....
Pétrole ! Pétrole !
Character: Bernard Bérian
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de son fournisseur arabe....
No Problem!
Character: Daniel
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl, horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse......
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
Character: L'adjoint au maire
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in ...
Is This Reasonable?
Character: Daniel, Julie's companion
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road....
Les Charlots en délire
Character: L'avocat / Le curé / Le préposé agence recyclage
Gérard, CEO of the factory "La voix du peuple", decides to close his factory by dismissing all his staff, starting with Jean Barbier, the chief of staff, and Phil Dechambre....
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many...
I'm Losing My Temper
Character: Patrick
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around....
À nous les garçons
Character: Georges
Two best friends fall in love with the same boy....
Why Not Us?
Character: Raymond, le beau-frère de Jacqueline
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other....
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
Character: Félix
The three ex-wives of a real estate developer join forces to get revenge on him....
Le Chêne d'Allouville
Character: François Lecourt, brother of Bernard
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree....
La Braconne
Character: André
A young boy commits a simple act of theft that sends his quiet town into a frenzy over the course of one unforgettable summer. Eleven year old Petit Jean has two uncles: His kindly Uncle Arthur is a good neighbor and law-abiding citizen, but Arthur's brother Andre is a notorious thief. When Andre is arrested for stealing chickens, he denies any wrongdoing yet winds up in jail regardless - the unfortunate victim of his own his bad reputation. Meanwhile, on the outside, the townspeople remain spli...
Les matous sont romantiques
Character: Roger 1
Three couples—each made up of a man named Roger and a woman named Jeanne—are close friends who plan a convivial dinner gathering. In a humorous twist, the wives unexpectedly fail to appear, leaving the three Rogers to navigate the evening on their own. As they share a meal, the absence of their partners sparks a series of reflective and witty conversations where memories, philosophies on love, life, and death, and existential musings take center stage, transforming an ordinary night into an inti...
Club de rencontres
Character: L'inspecteur Etienne Gandin
Bernard is in the middle of a divorce. In the courthouse where he is awaiting the separation settlement, he runs across a childhood friend, Nicolas, who runs a dating service and is passing out flyers to soon-to-be divorcés. Bernard goes with his friend to his club, and gets roped into helping him find his soulmate....
Protect and Serve
Character: L'abbé Mignard
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld....
Microbidon
Character: Edouard
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Surprise Sock
Character: L'assistant
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom....
La Trouvaille de Juliette
Character: Thorez, quitté depuis 20 ans par sa femme
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Général... nous voilà...!
Character: Italo Talbo
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard....
Les Hommes
Character: Artilleryman
At the start of the First World War, two next-door neighbors find themselves companions in misfortune. Faced with the horror of the trenches and the fear of death, they grow closer and become friends. But will these strong feelings that the war engendered survive a return to daily monotony?...
Fusil chargé
Character:
Having completed his studies in England, Don César returned to his family's farm in Sardinia. He finds that the local peasants are living in terror of a cattle rustler, Marras, and his accomplices. Don César begins by lodging a complaint against Marras. But this was only the beginning of his plan: to catch the thieves in the act, he installed an alarm system around his property. One night, the beam of a searchlight sweeps across the property and the bandits must flee as quickly as possible. In r...
Themroc
Character: Un ouvrier
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal....
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Character: Tassin
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures....
Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob »
Character: Self
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En famille : Un si joyeux Noël
Character: Bernard Escourrou
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En Famille : Le Mariage de Marjorie
Character: Bernard Escourrou
D-3 before the big day when Jean-Pierre and Marjorie will (finally) say "I do" in the Basque Country at the parents of the future groom. But the organization of Roxane, which seemed to be regulated like music paper, is going to be largely disturbed by a crescendo of unforeseen events in any kind....
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Character: Self
A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists....
Pacte Sacré
Character: René
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The Winner
Character: Thierry Denoël, fondé de pouvoir
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge....
Vive la crise !
Character: Le cardinal
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless....
It Will Hurt!
Character: Vladimir
A film producer on the verge of ruin decides to make an erotic film....
La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: Le Général
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Une cloche en or
Character: Lucien Chambier
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Darling Chérie
Character: Raymond
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Pyjama pour six
Character: Bernard
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Je vais mieux
Character: Laurent's father
A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in order to get better ?...
La Bonne Anna
Character: Bernard
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Grossesses Nerveuses
Character: Laurent
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Sacré Noël
Character:
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Character: Roscoff
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives....
Le Guignolo
Character: Machavoine, l'espion plombier
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase......
Tricky Old Dogs
Character: Garan-Servier
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago....
On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
Character: Monsieur Courdu, le mari jaloux
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it....
The Secret of the Abby
Character: Alphonse Monnet
Who would kill a Carthusian monk and why? As the investigators will find out, the key to the mystery lies in the ultra-secret formula of the Chartreuse plant liqueur....
OK Patron
Character: Frédéric
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worth...
The Year 01
Character: The man who wakes up at 6 o'clock
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The...
Bisous Bisous
Character: Georges
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Deux hommes dans une valise
Character: Max
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Character: Leon's friend
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie....
The Fool
Character: Jérôme
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange trysts, attempt to expose each other’s deceits, and are ultimately forced to come clean....
Le Prête-nom
Character: Cheik Marami
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Ça va passer... mais quand ?
Character: Michel
Sophie and Patrick are a well-off couple who are offered the prospect of changing their city by Patrick's rise to work. The problems of the transfer are joined by a larger one, their daughter is in the midst of a teenage crisis and turns family life into hell...
Le Cabanon rose
Character: Le Boucher
A cottage inhabited by a peasant, crazy painter in his spare time, who only paints naked women. After his death, another farmer decides to transform the place into a brothel which quickly attracts the notables of the area. But all those who come disappear one by one....
Dog Day
Character: Marceau
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession....
The Jewish Cardinal
Character: Charles Lustiger
The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church, Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II―and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew, earning him both friends and enemies from either group. When Carmelite ...
100% Organic
Character: André
The daughter of a Basque butcher brings her new boyfriend — a Parisian vegan — home to meet her family....
A Change of Heart
Character: Gaston
Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient....
Themroc
Character: A worker
Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal....
Comment devenir cinéaste sans se prendre la tête
Character: Le père
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Pieds nus dans le parc
Character: Pepper
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Les Aventures de Guidon Fûté
Character: Choukroune
A young provincial has come to Paris to study Chinese. From a modest background, he has to do odd jobs to survive, finding accommodation as best he can in a furnished room where he is hardly free. Not being wealthy, he has solved his travel problems by getting a tandem, which, in the streets of Paris, is rather rare. Eccentric, unpredictable but tender, Georges, known as "Guidon Futé", falls in love with one of his classmates from Langues Orientales....
Macadam: En suivant son rêve
Character:
Dorothée is the new schoolteacher in a small village....
The Cowboy
Character: Brigadier Lavalle
Cesar Cappucino is a French inspector of Italian origin specialized in the fight against drugs in Nice. His best friend have been assassinated by drug injection....
La naissance du Grand Blond
Character: Self
A highly rated 43-minute "making-of" documentary often included as a special feature on releases of the classic 1972 French spy comedy The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe...
The Con Artist
Character: Maître Doguet
Fanny, 30 years old and pregnant, is exhausted from living with her father alongside Virgil, her partner who’s a master of procrastination. When she stumbles upon a rent-to-own listing for a charming Parisian apartment with vintage appeal, she begins to believe she’s found her chance to finally turn her life around. But the saleswoman, Masséna, is far from fitting the image of a fragile, dying property owner. Determined to seize what she sees as her chance at independence, Fanny launches into a ...
Les Gendarmes
Character: Robert Leteix
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