Bernard Ménez
Acting
Biography
Bernard Ménez (born 8 August 1944, in Mailly-le-Chateau) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1969. Source: Article "Bernard Ménez" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: August 8, 1944
Place of Birth: Mailly-le-Château, Yonne, France
Known For
Day for Night
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Les Rois de la comédie
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
Fort Boyard
A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
La Grande Bouffe
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Les p’tites têtes
Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.
Bisous Bisous
Nice and Easy
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.
The Law
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
The Miser
The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.
Near Orouët
A patient observation on the adventures of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards, and going out with guys, enjoying life's simple pleasures.
Filmography
as Charles III
as Self
as Le président français
as The Secretary
as Ludovic Méricourt, the son-in-law
as Serge Masson
as Charlot
as Anatole Longvy
as Bertrand
as Eugène Claudius-Petit
as Monsieur Lochu
as André
as Le Père
as Père de Marc
as Le patron du salon de coiffure
as Robert
as Self - Guest
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
as Marcus
as Le concierge
as Bernard
as l'inspecteur Franck Moreau
as Mr. Suarez
as Bernard
as Edouard Bonnaire
as Fantasio
as Self
as Simon
as Marcel
as Contrôleur titualire Le Gallec
as Self
as François Léaud
as Daniel
as Self
as Bernard Lecourt, vicar
as Robert
as La Flèche
as Jean-Luc Maginot
as Robert Burton
as Ernest
as Pierre Ganet
as Etienne
as Claude Martin
as Félix Pigouilloux
as Nénesse
as Ferdinant
as Valentin
as Self
as Michel
as The mysterious diver
as Self
as Jean-Pierre Michalon
as Curé
as Self
as Self
as Philippe
as Clovis
as Alfred
as William
as Le gouverneur de La Bastille
as Alexandre
as Gilbert
as Bernard, the Property Master
as Pierre