Death of Genevieve Grad, daughter of the famous gendarme of Saint-Tropez, the eternal Nicole Crusoe

Actress Genevieve Grad died at the Polyclinic de Blois in Loire-et-Cher. “At the End of a Courageous Fight Against Cancer” His wife, Jean Guillaume, told the media about it Free afternoon. To the general public, she will remain the face of the daughter of Chief Marshal Crusoe (Louis de Funes) in the saga of Gendarme de Saint-Tropez. He also performed a song Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez Both in the film and its soundtrack.

Beginning with Jean-Pierre Mocky

Originally wanting to become a dancer, Genevieve Grad was spotted by film producers when she was 15 years old. The latter offered him a casting in Rome to play in Alberto Latuada’s Les Adolescentes, but he was not selected. However, she did not give up and made her debut with an uncredited role in Jean-Pierre Mock’s “Les Dragueurs” and especially in Michel Boisrond’s “Un soir sur la plage”. She plays Martin Carroll’s daughter there.

Shooting in France and Italy

Since then, Genevieve has found solid supporting roles in France and (especially) Italy. These include the period and adventure films (his specialty) Captain Smash, Viking Attack, Sandokan, The Borneo Tiger and Hercules, Hero of Babylon, or Arsene Lupine vs. Arsene Lupine. At the same time, the young actor is also active on stage in similar performances Invitation to the castle By Jean Anouilh and We will go to Valparaiso By Marcel Ashard.

Daughter of Gendarme Cruchot

In 1964, his fame rose in France when he was selected to play for Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez. Along with being very fashionable Louis de FunesHe slips into the shoes of Nicole Crusoe, his daughter. Based on the success of the comedy (about eight million admissions on French soil!), he will portray this character again in Le Gendarme à New York and Le Gendarme se Marie. We also see it in Sunumber es Daphne by Germaine Llorente and L’Amour en papier by Francois Chatel.

3 gendarmes and then he leaves

But filming the third part of Le Gendarme will exhaust him. So Genevieve decides to slow down the shooting speed and revise. The Parisian first became a production assistant at TF1, then an antiquarian, and finally in charge of the cultural life of the city of Vendôme (which did not prevent him from appearing, more or less secretly, in the comedies OSS 117, Takes a Vacation, Palace of Angels, Maestro or You Want a Nobel Baby?).

In 1983, who was in a relationship and had a child with Igor Bogdanov in the 1970s, made her last acting performance in the comedy It Won’t Be Sad by Pierre Cissere (she plays a supporting character, the role of “the lawyer”. . Note that she also sang the titles Douliou, Douliou Saint-Tropez and The boys are goodwhich will be heard respectively in two of his greatest commercial successes: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez and Le Gendarme à New York.