Rufus
Acting
Biography
Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom, Puy-de-Dôme) is the stage name of French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001). He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: December 19, 1942
Place of Birth: Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Known For
Apostrophes
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
Folon
One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet the artist himself, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005), whose work became controversial because deemed insipid, with its mannerisms, pastel tones and colors, remains little-known. Through previously unseen archive footage, Gaëtan de Saint-Rémy offers him a voice.
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
À bout portant
Amélie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
HIP - High Intellectual Potential
Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant.
My Name Is Bernadette
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
Train of Life
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
A Very Long Engagement
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Filmography
as Rolland
as L'Evêque
as (archive footage)
as Jean
as Michel
as Self
as Le gendarme Féru
as Self
as Roger Morels
as Jacques Jarjeau
as Le voisin
as Père Christophe
as Roger Baudouin
as Le vieux Jules
as Joseph (voice)
as (voice)
as Emile
as Lucien
as Le chauffeur de taxi
as Jean
as Keller
as Concierge
as Voltaire
as Le Ruf
as Le Dantec
as Doctor Andreausse
as François, le pasteur
as 'Piquoiseau'
as Levantour
as Gorbatchev
as Père Clément Rozière
as Forcade
as Émile
as Le commissaire
as Pistille
as La Surette
as Fernand
as M. Paroquet
as Roi Cyril John Delagny
as Victor
as le père de Thomas
as Rectus
as The Bishop
as Fouchs
as Jean-Pierre
as Edmond
as Marullaz
as Cremer
as M. Lesage
as le conseiller du calife
as Breton
as Monsieur Silberman
as Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
as O pai de Mathilde
as Oscar
as M. de Biron
as Edouard
as Prof. Bergot
as Hubus
as Joseph
as Raphaël Poulain
as Grinval
as Mordechai
as Harmonica
as Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
as Dieu l'infirmière
as Henri
as Un spectateur au cinéma
as Octave
as Peeler
as Thénardier 1830 / 1990
as Simon
as Dorta
as Commander Perleau
as Robert Kube
as Fernand Graucourt
as Canler
as Inspecteur de justice
as L'abbé Girard
as Sigisbert
as Vladimir
as Policeman
as Le Bossu
as Le moine
as Cyprien
as Guillaume Apollinaire
as Self
as Le Garrec, chicken farmer
as Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
as Antoine
as Patrick Delbaut
as Michel
as Sgt. Triand
as Mathieu
as Georges Badar
as Self
as Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
as Gendarme
as Claude
as Jérémie
as Self
as Self
as Henri
as Mr. Pemberton
as Man with the dog (uncredited)
as 'Gagnepain'
as Un méchant
as Vicar (uncredited)
as Jacques Combassous
as Le barman
as Tom Coupar
as Tom Mills
as Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
as Charles
as L'éleveur de pigeons
as Wesson
as Hacker
as Russian Violin Teacher (uncredited)
as Raymond Aulnay
as Photographer's assistant
as Larobesse
as Corbeau
as le comptable de Philippe
as Freddie Fric
as Self
as Didier
as Dog (uncredited)