Geneviève Grad became known in the 1960s playing Nicole Cruchotin the film series “The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez“, with Louis de Funès.
Legendary performer of the song “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez“, this November 8, 2024, we learn that she died last night, at the age of 80. A disappearance that is coming “at the end ofa courageous fight against cancer”, her husband Jean Guillaume told AFP.
The “daughter of” Louis de Funès on screen
During his career, started with dance, at the OperaGeneviève Grad reprized her role as “daughter of” several times. In the following parts of the saga, The Constable in New York (1965), The policeman gets married (1968), she will always appear alongside Louis de Funès.
His first major role will then arrive in Captain Smashes (1961) with Jean Marais. She will also be an icon in Italy, appearing in several adventure films (including The Battle of Corinthin 1962). She then ended her career in the 1980s. Geneviève Grad will then move towards television.
She will be a production assistant on the anticipation television show Time of the Bogdanoff brothers. The actress will have an extra-professional relationship with the most famous twins of the French small screen, in the 1980s. And for good reason, she was in a relationship with Igor Bogdanoff with whom she had a son Dimitri born in 1976.
Geneviève Grad left her mark on her era
After this story, Geneviève Grad married the man with whom she would spend her life. For thirty years, in fact, she was with the architect Jean Guillaumewhom she married in 1993 after already 10 years of living together.
According to the latter, the star still received until the end of his life, “two to three requests for dedications by mail“ of fans, coming from “from Germany, Russia or Ukraine”he said.
