This is very sad news. The actress and singer Geneviève Gradinterpreter of the famous Douliou douliou Saint-Tropezstar song of the film The policeman of Saint-Tropez with Louis de Funès, is died at 80.
As indicated by AFP through her husband, Jean Guillaume, her last breath took place on the night of Thursday to Friday, at the Blois Polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer“.
Younger people may not know it, but all other generations do. The general public became familiar with her face thanks to the role of the daughter of the chief quartermaster Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the series of successful films of the Constable : The policeman of Saint-Tropez (1964), The Constable in New York (1965), The policeman gets married (1968). It was she who sang the hit, seen in the first part of the series, Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez. But Geneviève Grad had filmed well before in Captain Fracasse (1961) with Jean Marais. She also made appearances in Italian adventure films in the 1960s.
Geneviève Grad: former dancer, actress and singer
In her early days, Geneviève Grad was a dancer at the Paris Opera until her adolescence and after her experience in cinema she turned her back on the seventh art in the early 1980s. It was on television that she continued her career. career in the anticipation TV show Time of the Bogdanoff brothers, the most famous twins on the French small screen in the 1980s. She will also have a son with Igor, Dimitri, born in 1976.
She had been married for around thirty years to Jean Guillaume and still recently received, according to the latter, two to three requests for dedications by mail from “from Germany, Russia or Ukraine“.
We send all our condolences to his family.
