Christian Clavier
Birthday: 1952-05-06
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier. After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure. His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success. After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film. Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008. He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who...
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a...
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Tell Her That I Love Her
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's mer...
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French Fried Vacation
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday...
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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same...
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The Visitors
After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmi...
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L'Entente cordiale
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter......
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Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a...
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French Fried Vacation 2
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for...
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The Price to Pay
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interest...
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L'Opération Corned Beef
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the u...
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The Red Inn
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses th...
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catas...
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The Year 01
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high produ...
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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his lif...
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The Corsican File
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whos...
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Ger...
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The Antidote
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when ...
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Clara and the Why Not
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a roc...
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Twist Again in Moscow
Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a...
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather pe...
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Guardian Angels
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a frie...
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The Thirst for Gold
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason...
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Revenge of a Blonde
An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by ...
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Lovely Rita
Edgar Lamarck - an accountant and auditor is coming to the the shipyard on Cote d'Azur in order to c...
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Albert est méchant
Patrick Lechat learns that his father, the famous writer Jo Lechat, whom he never knew, has just die...
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Bitter Victory
Xavier Alvarez est un petit architecte d'Aix-en-Provence en recherche perpétuelle de reconnaissance ...
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My Best Pals
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, t...
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Rat Race
Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and e...
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Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a f...
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and wom...
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Elle voit des nains partout !
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le ro...
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Not Without My Shrink
A successful psychoanalyst's life is turned upside down by a very anxious and extremely clingy patie...
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Just Visiting
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the service...
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You Don't Choose Your Family
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to ge...
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Slices of Life
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's...
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La Cage aux folles
"La Cage aux Folles" is a club which has a transvestite show, starring Zaza (whose real name Albin)....
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catas...
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Mieux vaut courir
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl....
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Serial Teachers
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the wor...
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Cocorico
The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when thei...
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The Visitors: Bastille Day
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are proj...
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Serial (Bad) Weddings
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...
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The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infan...
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Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckli...
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The Secret of Arkandias
Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experienc...
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Le Bœuf clandestin
Mr. Berthaud, a wealthy bourgeois, manages a bank. To get a promotion, he wants to curry favor with ...
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Do Not Disturb
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to i...
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The Restroom Robbery
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate throu...
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Babysitting 2
Franck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his fri...
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The Rookie Guide
Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the ...
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The Devil in the Box
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but ...
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Panique au Plazza
During a long night session at the parliament a deputy sneaks to meet his mistress in a nearby hotel...
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Million Dollar Madness
Under immense pressure and amidst competition with a duplicitous colleague, Stan, the ambitious and ...
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A Bag of Marbles
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. H...
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Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
After reclaiming Kaamelott from Lancelot's tyrannical rule, Arthur spares his life, defying Celtic g...
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With Open Arms
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and cal...
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If I Were a Boy
Jeanne wakes up one morning and her life is about to take a funny turn, at first sight nothing has c...
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Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures
When Spirou, supposedly a groom in a Palace, meets Fantasio, reporter scupper, everything starts ver...
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Finding Momo
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick h...
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Dead Tired
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically...
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Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming...
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Les Sœurs Soleil
This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadoles...
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Fantôme sur l'oreiller
A man is about to buy a castle from his wife, who has secretly decided to leave him. He discovers be...
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The Bottom Line
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to...
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L'été 36
In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vac...
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Cha...
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention......
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the futur...
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Ibiza
A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays....
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Wide Load
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All...
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Cocktail Molotov
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn ...
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Meet the Malawas
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the g...
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Hidden in Rome, King Arthur is planning his return to oppose the army of his former friend Lancelot....
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Christmas with the Tuches
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to b...
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F as in Fairbanks
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, retu...
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion,...
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collect...
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Employee of the Month
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the governmen...
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppressio...
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities ...
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The Suspects
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this mo...
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...
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Spoiled Children
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself...
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Rock and Torah
This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That i...
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How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix....
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Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
Third and final film in the Kaamelott franchise....
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Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia
The irreductible Gauls are turned into harmless children after a rare youth elixir accidentally ends...
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