Death of Geneviève Grad: the interpreter of the famous “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez” died at 80

The actress Geneviève Grad died at the Polyclinique de Blois, in Loir-et-Cher, “at the end of a courageous fight against cancer” said her husband, Jean Guillaume.

The general public becomes familiar with her face through the role of the daughter of the chief quartermaster Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the series of successful films of the “Gendarmes”: “The policeman of Saint-Tropez” (1964), “The Constable in New York” (1965), “The gendarme is getting married” (1968).

Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez

In the first part, Geneviève Grad sings herself “Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez”a pop song passed down to posterity and often misspelled in “Do you do you Saint-Tropez”.

With Jean Marais

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

Dancer at the Paris Opera

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.

A son with Igor Bogdanoff

We find her as a production assistant in the anticipation TV show “Time X” of the Bogdanoff brothers, the most famous twins on the French small screen in the 1980s. She will also have a son with Igor, one of them.

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”.