Bernard Farcy

Bernard Farcy

Bernard Farcy (born March 17, 1949 in Lyon ) is a French actor .

Life

Farcy began his acting career in the late 1970s with a role in the French miniseries Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions . In 1983 he had a small role in the film The Moon in the Gutter by Jean-Jacques Brilleix . Until the mid-1990s he played supporting roles in various French film productions, among others on the side of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon . In 1998 he was cast for the role of the incompetent Commissioner Gilbert in the Luc Besson production Taxi , through which he gained greater fame and which he also played in the following four sequels . As a result, he had larger roles in the comic book adaptations of Asterix and Isnogoud .

In 2006 he played the former President Charles de Gaulle in the France-2 two-part film Le Grand Charles . In 2008 he played the title role in the theater comedy Oscar, based on the film of the same name by and with Louis de Funès at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris .

Filmography (selection)

• 1987: The Profi 2 (Le solitaire)
• 1988: Panther II - Ice cold as fire (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort)
• 1998: taxi
• 2000: Taxi Taxi (Taxi 2)
• 2001: Pact of the Wolves (Le Pacte des loups)
• 2002: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre)
• 2003: Taxi 3
• 2004: The Party King of Ibiza (People)
• 2005: Isnogud - The Evil Grand Vizier (Iznogoud)
• 2006: Charles de Gaulle - I am France! (Le grand Charles)
• 2007: Taxi 4
• 2010: In search of lost time (à la recherche du temps perdu)
• 2016: The crazy journey of Max & Leon (La folle histoire de Max et Léon)
• 2018: Taxi 5

Awards

• 2006: Emmy nomination for Le Grand Charles

Web links

• Bernard Farcy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Article on the play "Oscar" at tdg.ch (French)
• Biography on zoom-cinema.fr (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IMDb - Nominations for Bernard Farcy (English)