Geneviève Grad, the singer of the title “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, the cult song from the film “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez”, died on the night of Thursday November 7 to Friday November 8, at the age of 80 .
Suffering from cancer, Geneviève died “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer”, revealed her husband Jean Guillaume to AFP.
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In “The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez”, Geneviève Grad played Nicole Cruchot, the daughter of the head marshal Ludovic Cruchot, played in 1965 by Louis de Funès. She was also seen in the sequels “The Constable in New York” and “The Constable Gets Married”.
Her last cinematic appearance dates back to 1983, when she played a lawyer in Pierre Sisser’s “It’s not going to be sad”. Among his other participations in notable films, we will remember “Le Capitaine Fracasse”, “Do you want a Nobel baby? », or even “Sandokan, the tiger of Borneo”.
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