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François Damiens

Birthday: Born in 1973-01-17 in Uccle, Belgium

Deathday: Alive

François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in Belgium. He gained great popularity in Belgium and had to stop filming in 2004 because he could no longer play without being recognized; he then came to France to continue his activity. There, as in Switzerland, he acquired a certain celebrity thanks to the dissemination of his hoaxes on Canal+ and internet. He made his directorial feature debut in 2018 with the drama film Mon Ket. He has two sons: Jack & Jimmy. He is trilingual, in addition to French, he speaks Dutch and English. Source: Article "François Damiens" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Les Amateurs

Character: Alban

Vincent Piquet and Alban Burne, two losers, see their dull lives shattered when, following a misunderstanding, they uncover a conspiracy and find themselves caught up in the world of organized crime. It’s the start of a crazy and chaotic journey filled with peril and intrigue. However, even as they try desperately to save their lives, they never stop bickering....

François Damiens : 20 ans de caméras cachées cultes

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Burger Quiz

Character: Self

A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host....

Beau geste

Character: Self

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LOL : Qui rit, sort !

Character: Self

Philippe Lacheau has invited 10 actors and comedians to live a unique experience in a grandiose setting. There is only one rule to follow for the next 6 hours: if you laugh, you are eliminated. The 10 comedians will have to keep cool despite having to try and make each other laugh. The winner will get 50 000 euros for the charity he/she represents. Nothing is off limits!...

Des gens bien

Character: Michel Chamfort

Tom and Linda are thirtysomethings living in Belgium, along the French border. He is a policeman, she is a beautician, and they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Caught between a rock and a hard place, they embark on a get-rich-quick life insurance scam in an attempt to give themselves a fresh start someplace sunny. Their plan is going pretty well … until everything goes wrong, when Philippe, a French gendarme with whom Linda has an affair starts to investigate… Good People also tells the story o...

Quotidien

Character: Self - Guest

Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC....

Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma

Character: Self - Guest

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Si c'était vous !

Character: François l'embrouille

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Le Monde magique de Jérôme Commandeur

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Taxi 4

Character: Serge

Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal....

Daddy Cool

Character: Jean-Maxence

The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine....

Cowboy

Character: Franz

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Trouble at Timpetill

Character: Le livreur

The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer....

Adieu Paris

Character: Loucky

An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ......

Little Nicholas

Character: Blédurt

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst....

Dikkenek

Character: Claudy

Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice....

Jack Mimoun & the Secrets of Val Verde

Character: Jean-Marc Bastos

Two years after surviving alone on the hostile island of Val Verde, Jack Mimoun has become an adventure star. The book recounting his experience is a bestseller and his television show breaks audience records. He is then approached by the mysterious Aurélie Diaz who will bring Jack Mimoun back to Val Verde to train him in search of the legendary sword of the pirate La Buse. Accompanied by Bruno Quézac, the ambitious but reckless manager of Jack, and Jean-Marc Bastos, a mercenary as disturbed as ...

JCVD

Character: Bruges

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages....

Heartbreaker

Character: Marc

Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so....

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

Character: Raymond Pelletier

Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East....

The Wolberg Family

Character: Simon

He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, mayor of a small provincial city, madly in love with his wife, an interfering father and provocative son. This man is driven by an obsession with his family. Which leads him to test the force and fragility of these bonds....

Protect and Serve

Character: Roméro

A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld....

Incognito

Character: Chauffeur accident

Lucas is an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene....

Behind the Walls

Character: The Chief Supervisor

A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York....

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.2

Character: Self

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Delicacy

Character: Markus Lundell

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker....

Nothing to Declare

Character: Jacques Janus

During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts....

Trader Games

Character: un trader

A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?...

En même temps

Character: Le patron du diner

On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all....

Borderline

Character: David Pelame

An attorney stumbles upon a suitcase filled with cocaine....

Holidays by the Sea

Character: Monsieur Fraises

A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation....

Torpédo

Character: Michel Ressac

Michel Ressac wins a dinner with cyclist legend Eddy Merckx in an advertising campaign to promote the sales of sofas and hopes that he can do his own father, who is a huge cycling fan, a favour. But unfortunately he arrives too late at the dinner. Ressac then tries to reclaim his prize and win his family's sympathy back......

Tango Libre

Character: Jean-Christophe

A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango....

La Fille d'un grand amour

Character: Yves

Ana and Yves loved each other passionately, then parted ways. Years later, their daughter Cécile made a documentary about their meeting. They meet again. Still scarred by their past love, they set out to find a way back to each other....

François Damiens - Tour de France, Vol.1

Character: Self

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The Lulus

Character: Abbé Turpin

August 1914. While the German army is gaining ground in the North of France, four boys aged 10 to 15, LUcien, LUcas, LUigi and LUdwig are left behind during the evacuation of their orphanage. Without the protection of Abbé Turpin and the schoolteacher Leutellier, the Lulus are now stranded on their own behind the enemy front line. Soon joined by LUce, a pretty young girl separated from her parents, they decide to reach the neutral country of Switzerland by all means possible... they embark on an...

Suzanne

Character: Nicolas Merevsky

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne....

Tip Top

Character: Robert Mendès

Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top....

Gare du Nord

Character: Sacha

Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet here......

The art of being happy

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Jean-Yves Machond, a globally unknown and generally unhappy painter, decides one day to change his life. He seeks inspiration in a small Norman town, in order to design a masterpiece that will finally earn him glory and eternal recognition. But his meeting with local artists, from the warm Bagnoule to the skillful Cécile, will somewhat make him deviate from his path, and bring him face to face with his deepest dream: that of simply being a happy man....

Playing Dead

Character: Jean Renault

Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders...

Killing Blues

Character: Max

Max, a ruthless fifty-year-old hitman, discovers he has a problem: he now faints at the drop of blood. With his future in the profession in jeopardy, he's going to have to retrain... But not so simple when his only professional skill is to kill people... They are helped by a couple of young neighbors, Karim and Stéphanie, who do not imagine for a moment who they are dealing with... Max becomes attached, in spite of himself, to the young couple, until his past catches up with him....

La Graine

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Lucie and Ines love each other and want to have a child, but they are missing something. After five attempts at MAP, they leave for a final test in Belgium. Then begins a crazy quest to find THE seed....

Les pièges de François l'Embrouille

Character: Self

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Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 2

Character: Self

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Les pièges de François l'Embrouille 3

Character: Self

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Headwind

Character: Alain

Alain, a famous actor, agrees to play the impossible role of Jacques Brel. Realising that it might be the last role of his life, he decides to leave the set in the middle of a scene to see Lou, his daughter, whom he has not seen grow up. Against all expectations, Lou gradually enters into his fictional universe....

Nicholas on Holiday

Character: Blédurt

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage....

The Rabbi's Cat

Character: Reporter (voice)

The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter....

Mariage Surprise

Character: Marciano

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Porn in the Hood

Character: Claude Fachoune

3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way of earning easy money....

Love is Overrated

Character: François

Diagnosed «crap with girls» by his friends, Anis’ love life has barely a pulse. Three years after the loss of Isma, his best friend and mentor, Anis takes his courage in both hands and decides finally to get out and meet people again. And the person he meets is Madeleine. Thinking she’s way out of his league, Anis gets tangled in a web of silly lies trying to impress her. But something huge is about to start. An unexpected thing. A thing called love....

Les Caméras Planquées de François Damiens en Corse, Vol. 1

Character: Self

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The Bélier Family

Character: Rodolphe Bélier

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes....

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2

Character: Self

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Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1

Character: Self

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The Brand New Testament

Character: François

God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad......

Les Cowboys

Character: Alain Balland

Drama about a father and son who set out to find their missing daughter/sister with the help of an American headhunter....

Les Caméras Planquées de François Damiens en Suisse

Character: Self

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Me Two

Character: Cogip's physician

80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when out driving one day. Both are horrified to realise that Gilles died in the crash, and that his spirit now lives in Ranu's head! The kooky accountant's life soon becomes chaos!...

Dog on Trial

Character: Dariuch Michovski

April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will be put down....

Les Caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 1

Character: Self

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News from Planet Mars

Character: Philippe Mars

Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just ...

The Jews

Character: Roger

Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust....

The Dancer

Character: Marchand

A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon....

Just Anybody

Character: L’agent immobilier

Camille, a 20-something dissatisfied with her life, craves the opportunity to give her love to the person who needs it the most. She finds this opportunity in the form of Costa, a homeless ne’er do well, deadbeat dad, and rejected son. Even as their relationship begins to take its toll on them both, Camille finds happiness in her efforts to rescue him from his own self-destruction....

Little Spirou

Character: Monsieur Mégot

Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure....

Les nouvelles caméras planquées de François Damiens, Vol. 2

Character: Self

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Just to Be Sure

Character: Erwan Gourmelon

Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph....

Dany

Character: Dany Versavel

Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son....

Les grandes vacances de François Damiens

Character: Self

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The Lost Prince

Character: Pritprout

Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordinary stories come to life somewhere in an imaginary world inhabited by knights, pirates and other dragons. In this world that belongs only to them, Sofia is always the princess to save, and the brave Prince is none other than Djibi himself. But 3 years later, the entry of Sofia to the college will mark the end of her childhood. To the despair of her...

Le grand jeu

Character: Thomas

Late-night softcore film....

Of Love and Lies

Character: Laurent

Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches his dad slowly destroying his own life. But he refuses to give up on him. When a recruiter for a prestigious British club takes notice of him, Theo sees an opportunity to rekindle his father’s hope, but despite all his efforts he is not selected. So he...

Les caméras cachées de François Damiens - Le best of (Vol. 1)

Character: Self

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Les caméras cachées de François Damiens - Le best of (Vol. 2)

Character: Self

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A Friendly Tale...

Character: Francis

Lea and her husband Marc have known Francis and his wife Karine for a very long time. Over the years, each one of them has been assigned a specific role. The balance and dynamic of the group is blown up when Lea decides to write a novel, which turns into an immediate bestseller…...

My Cousin

Character: Adrien

Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who makes one blunder after another, is so happy to see Pierre again that he wants to spend time with him and delay the moment of signing. So Pierre has no choice but to take his cousin with him on a turbulent business trip during which his patience will...

Love Song for Tough Guys

Character: Jeff

In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters to be themselves and give meaning to their lives. A tribute to poetry, theatre and art....

Stuck Together

Character: Tony

Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours....

papa zéro défaut

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2 Alone in Paris

Character: Le joueur de curling

A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth....

The World Is Yours

Character: René

To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother....

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Character: Un réparateur de fusils de la garde nationale (uncredited)

We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms....

40

Character: Self

Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+....


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