With 94 films and series, Christian Clavier is one of the most popular actors of French cinema. He is also the king of the box office, having racked up more than 50 million releases since the start of his career with hit comedies such as The Visitors, What Have We Done to the Good Lord? or Les Bronzés 3: Friends for Life.
If he has some directors like Philippe de Cheuvron (The Good Lord, Arms Outstretched) or Jean-Marie Poiret (The Visitors, Santa Claus is Trash, Operation Cornmeal) and he filmed a lot with his friends from Splendid. One of them is a record holder with 25 films together in their respective filmographies.
It’s Popeye and Pierre Mortes!
“Bronze”
Thierry Lhermitt is a high school friend of Christian Clavier, with whom he founded the famous café-theater Splendid in 1974 (also with Gérard Juniot, Michel Blanc and Marie-Anne Chazelle). Back in 1973, the two actors appeared together in the movie L’An 01 during a brief scene where they watch a televised debate.
Five years followed and 10 small roles or even extras in feature films like It’s Not Because You Have Nothing To Say To Shut Up! (Which Clavier co-wrote with Junot and Jean Halen) or Let the Party Begin…
Triumph with the brilliant
“Tanned people go skiing”
Even if they conquered the scene, with Les Bronzés they really became recognized by the general public, and in the process, Santa Claus is rubbish Then Grandfather joins the resistance. The films were also cultivated through their multiple television broadcasts over the decades.
After 20 years of small roles in each other’s films, the last of which was in 1997, the two actors rarely worked together, but we still find them on the score of L’Antidote (2004, starring Lermitte). Doctor), obviously Les Bronzés 3 (2006), but also the comedy Mystère à Saint-Tropez (2019), which marks their latest collaboration to date. We do not hope for the latter!
Source: Allocine
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