Geneviève Grad, the interpreter of the memorable “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”, died at 80

The actress died at the Blois polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer”, said her husband, Jean Guillaume.

Geneviève Grad, who played the daughter of Louis de Funès in The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez and two other films in the franchise (The Constable in New York et The Gendarme gets married), died at 80 years on Thursday night 7 to Friday 8 Novemberannounced her husband.

The general public had become familiar with her youthful face thanks to her role as the daughter of the chief marshal Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the series of successful films of the Gendarmes : The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964), The Constable in New York (1965), The policeman gets married (1968), all signed by director Jean Girault. In the first part, Geneviève Grad sings herself Douliou douliou Saint-Tropezyéyé song passed down to posterity and often misspelled as “Do you do you Saint-Tropez“.

His career in front of the camera is, however, broader than this period, since his first major role was in Captain Smashes (1961) with Jean Marais. She also made appearances in Italian adventure films in the 1990s. 1960.

The one who trained as a dancer at the Paris Opera until her adolescence will experience a slow journey in the years 1970 and will turn his back on cinema in the early years 1980. We find her as a production assistant in the science fiction television show “Temps X” by the Bogdanoff brothers, the most famous twins on the French small screen in the years 1980. She will also have a son with Igor, one of the two brothers.

She had been married for around thirty years to the architect Jean Guillaume and until recently, according to the latter, received two to three requests for dedications by mail from “from Germany, Russia or Ukraine“.