Known For
Acting
Born
May 06, 1952
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
131 titles
Christian Clavier
Biography
Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film. Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
Known For
Filmography
Serial Teachers 3
Cutiro / Tirocu
Avis de tempête
André Malraux
Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia
Astérix (voice)
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Le Jurisconsulte
Cocorico 2
Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage / Mehmet Suleymanoglu
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
Le Jurisconsulte
Million Dollar Madness
Hippolyte
Christian Clavier: La Vis Comica
The Rookie Guide
Karol Kowalski
Not Without My Shrink
Olivier Béranger
Loris Giuliano en balade
Self - Guest
Cocorico
Frédéric Bouvier-Sauvage
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Self - Guest
Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Robert Poutifard
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
Employee of the Month
Michel Gougnat, syndicaliste
Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Claude Verneuil
Christmas with the Tuches
Le Père Noël
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Le Jurisconsulte
Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
Jean Boulin
Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ?
Self
Papy fait de la résistance
Author
Samedi Sébastien
Self - Guest
Meet the Malawas
Julien Gosset-Grainville
Ibiza
Philippe
Wide Load
Foster
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
Claude Verneuil
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Astérix (voice)
Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures
Comte de Champignac
Finding Momo
Alain Prioux
With Open Arms
Jean-Etienne Fougerole
If I Were a Boy
Docteur PACE
A Bag of Marbles
Docteur Rosen
The Visitors: Bastille Day
Jacquouille la Fripouille/Antoine-Claude Jacquouillet/Edmond Jacquart
Babysitting 2
Alain
Do Not Disturb
Michel Leproux
The Secret of Arkandias
Agenor Arkandias
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Claude Verneuil
Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
Self / Various characters
Le Bœuf clandestin
monsieur Berthaud
Les affaires sont les affaires
Le marquis de Porcellet
Serial Teachers
Cutiro / Tirocu
You Don't Choose Your Family
César
Il était une fois... « Le père Noël est une ordure »
Self
La Cage aux folles
Georges
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Monsieur Jourdain
Bitter Victory
Vincent Cluzel
C à vous
Self - Guest
The Imaginary Invalid
Argan