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Bourvil
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27 July 1917 - 23 September 1970
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His real name is Andre Rembur. Burville is the name of the village in which the actor was born on July 27, 1917, and in which he spent his childhood. The actor chose such an extraordinary pseudonym that even at the peak of fame never forget about his roots. However, the roles of a simple French peasant, which Bourville usually performed in films and on stage, could not be better suited to his pseudonym.
Before the German occupation of France during the Second World War, Bourville managed to change
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His real name is Andre Rembur. Burville is the name of the village in which the actor was born on July 27, 1917, and in which he spent his childhood. The actor chose such an extraordinary pseudonym that even at the peak of fame never forget about his roots. However, the roles of a simple French peasant, which Bourville usually performed in films and on stage, could not be better suited to his pseudonym.
Before the German occupation of France during the Second World War, Bourville managed to change many jobs: he worked part-time in the bakery, cleaned shoes on the streets, tried to learn music and even began to rapidly gain popularity in one of the varietas of Paris. Even at the front, Bourville did not give up his passion for music, playing the accordion in a military band, and on weekends for the general public. The future actor became an illegal and worked in the occupied territory. At this time, his reflections on the image suitable for him fell asleep and at the same time he stopped at his role as a simple peasant who constantly gets into ridiculous stories, but with dignity comes out of them.
In 1941, Burville received his first role in the film Star Cruises, continuing his acting career after the war. His early paintings were not widely known. In 1954, Burville played in the film “Secrets of Versailles”. Then there was the film “Across Paris”, for the role in which he received the Volpi Cup of the Venice Festival in 1956. In this film, Burville moved away from the usual image and played a serious character. Serious roles went to him also in Les Chanois' Les Miserables (1958), Melville's The Red Circle (1970). Bourville achieved maximum success thanks to the paintings of Gerard Uri “Razin” (1965) and “The Great Walk” (1966), in which he played in a duet with another outstanding French actor-comedian Louis de Funes. In addition, Bourville starred in more than fifty films, among them such wonderful French films as “The Road of the Schoolmen” (1959), “The Groboon” (1959), “Captain” (1960) and “Superbrain” (1969).
On September 23, 1970, Andre Rembur died of myeloma. The actor has two sons: Dominique Rembur (1950) and Philip Rembur (1953). /