The actress Geneviève Grad, interpreter of the famous “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, song from the film “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez” with Louis de Funèsdied at the age of 80 on the night of Thursday to Friday, her husband told AFP.
The actress passed away at the Blois Polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer” said her husband, Jean Guillaume.
The general public became familiar with her face through the role of the daughter of the chief marshal Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the successful “Gendarmes” film series: “Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez” (1964) , “The Constable in New York” (1965), “The Constable Gets Married” (1968).
In the first part, Geneviève Grad herself sings “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, a pop song passed down to posterity and often misspelled as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.
A very rich career
His career in front of the camera is, however, broader than this period, since his first major role was in “Le Capitaine Fracasse” (1961) with Jean Marais. She also made appearances in Italian adventure films in the 1960s.
The one who trained as a dancer at the Paris Opera until her adolescence experienced a slow career in the 1970s and turned her back on cinema in the early 1980s.
We find her as a production assistant in the anticipation TV show “Temps two.
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”.
