He is quite simply the French’s favorite comic actor, according to an Ifop study published this Thursday, January 2, 2025 in the magazine Paris-Match. Gérard Jugnot, moreover eminent member of the “Grosses Têtes” by Laurent Ruquier on RTL, tops this ranking.
This is worth all the Césars in the world, he who has been nominated 4 times without ever winning an award. At 73 years old and in a 45-year career, this author-actor-director remains one of the pillars of French cinema : his last film We should have gone to Greece was released in November, the next There is no network, expected in 2025, will be presented in 10 days at the Alpe d’Huez Festival.
Gérard Jugnot knows how to write and perform stories that speak to everyone by embodying average French characters with their modest qualities and their immense faults. This is obviously the case of Bernard Morin in the saga of Tanned.
The Splendid troupe acclaimed
Tanned people go skiing, always according to this classification of Paris-Matchis the second favorite comedy film of the French behind The Big Mop. Santa Claus is trash et Grandpa joins the Resistance are also in the top 20
In this survey, it is in fact the entire Splendid team which is acclaimed. Gérard Jugnot is therefore number one, Thierry Lhermitte is second, Josiane Balasko fourth and Christian Clavier sixth. As for the late Michel Blanc, he appears in fourth position on the list of missing comic actors…
We know that the frequent rebroadcasts of Splendid films on television are always a hit: 5.8 million viewers in November for The Bronzed broadcast in tribute to Michel Blanc. As for the book The Splendid on the Splendid Published at the end of November, it’s a holiday hit in bookstores: more than 150,000 copies sold to date.
The other classics of Gérard Jugnot
Beyond Splendid, there are other classics by Gérard Jugnot, which are part of the popular heritage of French film buffs. We can cite Pinot simple cop, Scout always, A wonderful time, Babysitting, (because this actor loves to rub shoulders with the new generation like that of Philippe Lacheau) or in a register that balances between comedy and tenderness Mr Batignole, Tandem and the biggest success of his career: The Choirs by Christophe Barratier in 2004.
An adventure that will bring the film team to the Oscars in 2005: Gérard Jugnot says that during an advertising break he went to the toilet and that when he looked up he realized that Clint Eastwood was his neighbor at the urinal !
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