Of course we will never forget Paulette, the Dredge and all the funny jokes that Guy Bedos told with hilarious cynicism. But this gifted acrobat also marked some of the bittersweet comedies of the sixties and seventies with the finesse of his acting.
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His character as a seductive and tearful doctor in An Elephant that is very deceiving and his sequel, We will all go to Paradise was cult, - it was deserved -, during his lifetime. And the dialogues of the films of Yves Robert were signed, and it is not a coincidence, by his accomplice Jean-Loup Dabadie, who will become the godfather of his son, Nicolas, whom he will have time to see becoming a director accomplished.
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His young years and his friendship with Jean-Paul Belmondo already belong to the legend of the cinema. We know that the two rascals returned from a tour throughout France by hitchhiking. In 1963, Jacques Baratier had the rich idea of bringing together the two old rascals on the screen. The pitch of the film with the passage of time does not lack flavor. Guy Bedos embodied a young man from a good family who dreamed of becoming an actor ... When fiction joined reality.
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The gifted friend of French cinema
In 1965, the title of the film Les Copains gave him the opportunity to measure himself against the work of Jules Romains. Under the direction of Yves Robert, again he, already we would be tempted to write, with a plethora of talented actors (Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Michael Lonsdale) they will invent hoaxes to laugh. It is in Auvergne, in Ambert, that a sermon ... not very Catholic will be proclaimed in the little church of the village.
In 1970, in Le Pistonné Claude Berri entrusted him with the tailor-made role of a member of the contingent with very little militarism, named Claude Langmann, the real name of the director's city. This barely veiled criticism of our army will stick like a glove to Guy Bedos who did not hide his disgust and his contempt for the warrior spirit.
Finally, obviously, how not to mention his role as a good friend black foot Jew who loves his mother too much (Marthe Villalonga) in An elephant that greatly misleads and its sequel , also funny, it's quite rare to report it, We will all in Paradise . Again, he played an inseparable boyfriend, tender facetious. And it must be said, this Simon Messina was enormously talented.
In tribute to Guy Bedos, Le Figaro presents, in videos, an anthology of his career from Dragees with pepper to On ira tous au paradis via Le Pistonné and Les Copains .
Dragees with pepper by Jacques Baratier in 1963, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Guy Bedos ...
Les Copains d'Yves Robert in 1965, with Philippe Noiret, Michael Lonsdale, Guy Bedos, Christian Marin ...
Le Pistonné by Claude Berri in 1970, with Guy Bedos, Rosy Varte, Coluche, Claude Piéplu, Jean-Pierre Marielle ...
An elephant that deceives Yves Robert enormously in 1976, with Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanoux, Guy Bedos, Claude Brasseur ...
We will all go to the paradise of Yves Robert in 1977, with Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanoux, Guy Bedos, Claude Brasseur ...
