Coluche
Coluche , real name Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci , (born October 28, 1944 in Paris , † June 19, 1986 in Opio near Grasse ) was a French humorist , film actor , comedian and author .
Life
He became known through films like Breast or Keule with Louis de Funès . There he played the son Gérard . For his portrayal of Lambert in Claude Berri's film On the Edge of the Night , he received the César for best male leading actor in 1984 .
At the end of October 1980, Coluche announced that he would run for the French presidency to protest against the political conditions in the country. In surveys, he received up to 16% of the respondents' votes and was supported by numerous intellectuals, but then did not submit an official candidacy.
In September 1985 he founded the Les Restos du Cœur initiative (German: "The restaurants of the heart"), a kind of soup kitchens that are still in operation today.
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Coluche was passionate about motorsport and drove heavy motorcycles. In 1985 he took part in the Paris – Dakar rally. On September 19, 1985 he set a new world speed record on the kilometer route with a 750cc Yamaha on the Nardò test track with an average of 252.087 km / h. Nine months later, at the age of 41, he died in the south of France from a broken neck in a traffic accident. He had been driving his Honda on a country road, accompanied by two friends who were riding motorbikes behind him. A large truck came towards him on a straight stretch between two corners. The truck, a 38-tonne truck loaded with rubble, suddenly began to turn left, cutting off the motorcycle's path. Coluche's head hit the tilted truck and died instantly. As the police investigation showed, Coluche had only driven at about 60 km / h, well below the 90 km / h permitted on this route. But he hadn't worn his helmet, but hung it on the handlebars. Coluche was buried in the municipal cemetery of Montrouge in the Parisian banlieue .
Coluche was married to Véronique Kantor from 1975 to 1981. They had two sons together, Romain and Marius . The French rally driver René Metge , who was a friend of Coluche, married Coluche's sister Danièle.
Filmography (selection)
- 1970: Donkey skin (Peau d'âne)
- 1971: The Commissioner's great coup (Laisser aller… c'est une valse)
- 1973: Through Paris with noises (Elle court, elle court la banlieue)
- 1973: The year zero one (L'an 01)
- 1973: Themroc
- 1973: The great Charlots - Where the green noodles fly (Le grand bazar)
- 1976: Breast or Leg (L'aile ou la cuisse)
- 1980: Inspector Loulou - Die Knallschote on duty (Inspecteur la Bavure)
- 1981: Le maître d'école
- 1982: The craziest 90 minutes before the birth of Christ (Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ)
- 1983: Ticket to Chaos (Banzai)
- 1983: My friend's wife (La femme de mon pote)
- 1983: On the edge of the night (Tchao pantin)
- 1984: The fat king Dagobert (Le bon roi Dagobert)
Awards for music sales
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16 × gold16
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8 × platinum8th
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4,100,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
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16 × gold16
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8 × platinum8th
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Honors
Two years after Coluche's death, his friend, singer-songwriter Renaud, brought out the album Putain de camion . The title means "damn truck" and refers to Coluche's fatal traffic accident.
In France, numerous streets and squares, buildings, ten schools (as of 2015) and other facilities were named after Coluche. June 2006 marked the twentieth anniversary of Coluche's death. This took the Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and the district mayor of 13 . In the 14th and 14th arrondissements , the artist was honored with the inauguration of a square at the intersection of Rue d'Alésia and Rue de Tolbiac. The square, named after Colucci's stage name, Place Coluche , is not far from Parc Montsouris and Rue Gazan, where he lived until 1981.
A rose variety was named after Coluche and the main belt asteroid (170906) Coluche, discovered in 2004 .
Thirty years after his death, Coluche was honored with an exhibition in Paris City Hall . It opened on October 6, 2016 and attracted more than 70,000 visitors by the end of the year. After the planned end on January 7, 2017, it was extended by a week.
Sculpture made of daffodils to represent Coluche, at the Daffodil Festival 2011 in Gérardmer
Sign on the Place Coluche in Paris
Rose variety 'Coluche'
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Web links
- Coluche in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ coluche.fr - Biography ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 24, 2014
- ↑ coluche.fr - Biography ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 24, 2014.
- ↑ Notre histoire restosducoeur.org (French)
- ↑ Coluche: biography melody.tv (French)
- ↑ 19 June 1986, la mort de Coluche francesoir.fr, June 15, 2016. The integrated video (1:29 min.) Shows the announcement of the accident on the French television news with pictures from the scene of the accident.
- ↑ The grave of Coluche knerger.de
- ^ De Jules Ferry à Pierre Perret, l'étonnant palmarès des noms d'écoles, de collèges et de lycées en France lemonde.fr, April 18, 2015.
- ↑ The asteroid 170906 Coluche in the database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- ↑ Coluche, l'histoire d'un mec qui vaut bien une expo lemonde.fr, 6 October 2016.
- ↑ Culture: le succès de l'exposition Coluche à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris prolongé francebleu.fr, December 24, 2016.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coluche |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colucci, Michel Gérard Joseph (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French film actor and comedian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1986 |
| Place of death | Opio at Grasse |