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Boby Lapointe is a Actor French born on 16 april 1922 at Pézenas (France)

Boby Lapointe

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Nationality France
Birth 16 april 1922 at Pézenas (France)
Death 29 june 1972 (at 50 years) at Pézenas (France)

Robert (Boby) Lapointe (16 April 1922 – 29 June 1972) was a French singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words.

Biography

Lapointe was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of southern France. A brilliant pupil, he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale (engineering school) and Sup-Aero at Montpellier, but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Linz, Austria, in 1943 for compulsory work service. He escaped the same year, and found work as a diver in La Ciotat, a suburb of Marseille, in 1944.

In 1946, he married Colette Maclaud. They had two children, Ticha (born 1948) and Jacky (1950).

His first published work, Les douze chants d'un imbecile, appeared in 1951. He moved to Paris and opened a fashion and baby clothes shop, still writing and producing plays. Later, he switched to being a fitter of TV aerials and began singing.

His fame grew when the actor Bourvil sang Lapointe's song Aragon et Castille in the 1954 film Poisson d'avril. In 1960, film director François Truffaut offered him a part in Tirez sur le Pianiste in which he sang Framboise, accompanied by Charles Aznavour on piano. This marked the start of a career that saw Lapointe perform at major venues throughout France. His joyful character led him to build friendships with the likes of Anne Sylvestre, Raymond Devos, Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens.

Lapointe was also a mathematician, and developed the bi-bi-binary system (also known as the bibi system) in 1971.

Usually with

Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet
(2 films)
Raymond Danon
Raymond Danon
(3 films)
Ralph Baum
Ralph Baum
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Boby Lapointe (9 films)

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Max and the Junkmen, 1h50
Directed by Claude Sautet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Georges Wilson, Bernard Fresson, François Périer, Boby Lapointe
Roles Lui Serafino
Rating72% 3.64323.64323.64323.64323.6432
Born into a wealthy family of French vintners, Max (Michel Piccoli) is a loner who devoted himself entirely to his obsession: the arrest of criminals. A former judge he is a police inspector and he sees a new band of burglars escape. This failure is still fresh in his mind when he meets Abel who has become a scrap thief and plunders construction sites with a small band of hoodlums around Nanterre. Max plans to encourage them to commit something big and catch them on the spot. Posing as a client, he meets Lily (Romy Schneider), a young German-born prostitute who is the companion of Abel. He pretends to be the director of a small bank branch which receives significant amounts of money at regular intervals. He ensures the support of his police commissioner. Max fails however to reveal his role as instigator. Gradually, some feeling arises between Max and Lily. But Max keeps a reserved attitude and merely influences the scrap through her. Finally, guessing the band ready for action, he communicates an ideal date to commit robbery. On the scheduled day, the police await them and they are arrested. Later in the police station, Rosinsky (the top cop in the bank's district) reveals to Max that he wants all collaborators brought to justice, including Lily. Distraught, Max tries to save her and ends up threatening Rosinsky. In an argument, Max pulls out his gun and kills him.
Law Breakers, 1h47
Directed by Marcel Carné
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jacques Brel, Charles Denner, Catherine Rouvel, Michael Lonsdale, Paola Pitagora, François Cadet
Roles Louis Casso
Rating64% 3.2206553.2206553.2206553.2206553.220655
L'action se déroule près de Marseille, la semaine de Noël. Un ancien repris de justice repenti, devenu un honnête père de famille, travaille comme mécanicien dans un garage. Un matin, il est réveillé aux aurores par deux policiers de façon musclée. Ceux-ci le soupçonnent d'être l'auteur d'un "casse" au chalumeau, survenu la nuit même chez son employeur.
The Widow Couderc, 1h32
Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, Philippe Lefebvre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Ottavia Piccolo, Jean Tissier, Monique Chaumette, Pierre Collet
Roles Désiré
Rating68% 3.446253.446253.446253.446253.44625
Un inconnu nommé Jean Lavigne (Alain Delon) arrive dans un village et se fait engager comme ouvrier dans une ferme. La veuve Couderc (Simone Signoret) en est la propriétaire, qui d'ailleurs se bat contre sa belle-famille pour en garder la possession. Une histoire d'amour naît entre ces deux êtres dans une France rurale des années 1930. Puis Jean, l'étranger, séduit Félicie (Ottavia Piccolo), la jeune cousine de la veuve Couderc. Il semble avoir trouvé un certain équilibre entre ces deux relations, mais le destin veille.
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Directed by Jacques Poitrenaud
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Francis Blanche, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Boby Lapointe, Colette Castel, Mario David
Roles Honoré
Rating37% 1.8622751.8622751.8622751.8622751.862275
Pour remplacer Hector Grofenol, le patron tyrannique de l'usine "Tout pour le camping", mis hors d'état de nuire, des collaborateurs font appel à son cousin Achille, un berger provençal, pensant se servir de lui. Mais celui-ci va très vite prendre son rôle de PDG au sérieux et se montrer velléitaire. Heureusement, la jeune secrétaire Martine, saura user de ses charmes pour calmer cet homme ayant soif de pouvoir.
Appointment in Bray, 1h30
Directed by André Delvaux
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Musical
Actors Anna Karina, Bulle Ogier, Roger Van Hool, Mathieu Carrière, Luce Garcia-Ville, Boby Lapointe
Roles l'aubergiste
Rating72% 3.6058853.6058853.6058853.6058853.605885
Jacques, a composer serving as a fighter pilot during the First World War, asks his friend Julien, a Luxembourger working as a music journalist in Paris, to meet him at Bray behind the front lines. His family’s country house is there, looked after by a solitary housekeeper. Jacques has not arrived when Julien turns up and is let in by the beautiful but largely silent woman. While she prepares him dinner, he reflects on the ups and downs of his life in Paris before the war with the charming rich Jacques and his vivacious girl friend Odile. After showing him to a bedroom, the servant spends the night with him. In the morning, he rushes off to the railway station but does not board the Paris train. Something, we do not know what, impels him to stay.
The Things of Life, 1h29
Directed by Claude Sautet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Betty Beckers, Dominique Zardi, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise
Roles The Livestock Truck Driver
Rating74% 3.7401053.7401053.7401053.7401053.740105
In the French countryside on a summer morning, a lorry full of pigs stalls at a crossroads. An Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint swerves to avoid it and crashes into an orchard, hurling the driver onto the grass. As he loses consciousness, he revisits the essential things which made up his life.
The Comeuppance, 1h25
Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Boby Lapointe, Salvatore Adamo, Élisabeth Wiener, Michel Constantin, Jess Hahn, Simone Valère
Roles le fermier
Rating54% 2.7166552.7166552.7166552.7166552.716655
Philippe, Théo et Bob partagent la même cellule à la prison de la Santé. Philippe, jeune étudiant, dit «Sciences-Po», médite une vengeance contre ceux qui l'ont envoyé en prison. Il propose à ses deux codétenus, truands chevronnés, de l'aider à récupérer un papier important chez un diamantaire du Havre. Ce papier réhabiliterait son père, ses deux camarades pouvant garder les diamants contenus dans le coffre... Mais le coup ne se passe pas comme prévu.
Chapaqua's Gold, 1h30
Directed by Giancarlo Romitelli
Origin Italie
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors George Ardisson, Linda Veras, Boby Lapointe, Federico Boido, Rik Battaglia, Piero Lulli
Roles Chapaqua
Rating53% 2.6589952.6589952.6589952.6589952.658995
Deux aventuriers cachent des lingots d'or jusqu'à la fin de la guerre de sécession.
Shoot the Piano Player, 1h18
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Piano, Erotic thriller films
Actors Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Jean-Jacques Aslanian
Roles Le chanteur
Rating73% 3.697553.697553.697553.697553.69755
A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled.