Portrait of Bourvil

Acting

Bourvil

Career

Active from 1945 to 1970, with up to 4 main titles a year.

Leading roles
45
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score65/100
Highest rated
Poster for Le Cercle Rouge
Le Cercle Rouge
GoodWatch score88/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 26 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.0 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.4 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 3.9 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.5 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.2 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Bourvil Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    3.1, average 5.4
  • Coming of Age
    1.4, average 3.0
  • Psychological
    4.0, average 5.5
  • Scare
    1.3, average 2.6

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • French Cinema 6
  • Classic French Comedy 3
  • French Comedy 3
  • Satirical 3
  • Lighthearted 3
  • Swashbuckler 3
  • Class Conflict 3
  • Moral Ambiguity 3
  • Historical Drama 3
  • Melancholy 3
  • Musical 2
  • Romantic Comedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

59
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

1 title
Les Magnifiques sauvages
Les Magnifiques sauvages (2023)

Music

1970s

4 titles · average score 67
Clodo
Clodo (1971)

as Gaston (uncredited)

Le Cercle Rouge
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
GoodWatch score 88

as Commissioner François Mattei

The Stud
The Stud (1970)
GoodWatch score 54

as William Chaminade

Atlantic Wall
Atlantic Wall (1970)
GoodWatch score 60

as Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur

1960s

25 titles · average score 67
The Brain
The Brain (1969)
GoodWatch score 71

as Anatole

Monte Carlo or Bust!
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
GoodWatch score 61

as Monsieur Dupont

The Christmas Tree
The Christmas Tree (1969)
GoodWatch score 67

as Verdun

The Hotshots
The Hotshots (1968)
GoodWatch score 59

as Jules Auguste Duroc

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
GoodWatch score 82

as Augustin Bouvet

The Sucker
The Sucker (1965)
GoodWatch score 77

as Antoine Maréchal

The Wise Guys
The Wise Guys (1965)
GoodWatch score 74

as Hector Valentin

My Wife's Husband
My Wife's Husband (1963)
GoodWatch score 64

as André Colombey

Light-Fingered George
Light-Fingered George (1963)
GoodWatch score 68

as Georges Lachaunaye

All the Gold in the World
All the Gold in the World (1961)
GoodWatch score 63

as Mathieu Dumont / Antoine Dumont / Martial Dumont

Fortunate
Fortunate (1960)
GoodWatch score 72

as Noël Fortunat

Captain Blood
Captain Blood (1960)
GoodWatch score 63

as Baladin Cogolin

1950s

22 titles · average score 62
Way of Youth
Way of Youth (1959)
GoodWatch score 63

as Charles Michaud, père

The Hunchback of Paris
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
GoodWatch score 71

as Passepoil

The Green Mare
The Green Mare (1959)
GoodWatch score 58

as Honoré Haudouin

The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
GoodWatch score 64

as Pierre Tardivet

Sunday Encounter
Sunday Encounter (1958)
GoodWatch score 61

as Jean Brévent

Les Misérables
Les Misérables (1958)
GoodWatch score 73

as Thénardier

La Traversée de Paris
La Traversée de Paris (1956)
GoodWatch score 78

as Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver

April Fools' Day
April Fools' Day (1954)
GoodWatch score 52

as Émile Dupuy

Royal Affairs in Versailles
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953)
GoodWatch score 67

as Museum guard

Crazy for Love
Crazy for Love (1952)
GoodWatch score 61

as Hippolyte Lemoine, neveu d'Augustine

Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
GoodWatch score 61

as Léon Dutilleul

Miquette
Miquette (1950)
GoodWatch score 58

as Urbain de la Tour-Mirande

1940s

7 titles
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve (1949)

as Leon Ménard

White as Snow
White as Snow (1948)

as Léon Ménard

By the Window
By the Window (1948)

as Gaston 'Pilou'

Not So Stupid
Not So Stupid (1947)

as Léon Ménard

Hanged Man's Farm
Hanged Man's Farm (1945)

as Le bourrelier, le chanteur à la noce

A Star to the Sun
A Star to the Sun (1943)

as (uncredited)

Sideral Cruises
Sideral Cruises (1942)

as Scientist