- Georges Audoubert, L’Avare, France, 1979. Louis de Funès never said no to Oscar – in four different Paris stage productions – but forever slid out of various offers to tackle Moliere’s Miser. He nearly left it too late, finally playing Harpagon, four years before his 1983 death, in a picture which he co-directed with his favourite film-maker Jean Girault. (They made the six-film Gendarme de Saint-Tropez franchise, plus seven other movies). And cheekily “Fufu“ asked Virlojeux to be Anselme… when he had been the last screen Harpagon on TV the year before!
Birth year: 1924Death year: 1995Other name: Casting Calls: 1