Patrice Laffont
1940 (85 лет)During the 1960s Laffont had a passion for acting, where he became a star on stage and screen with his friends Michel Fugain and Michel Sardou. During the 1970s he joined Europe 1 where most of his programmes were produced by Armand Jammot. His television career includes hosting Des chiffres et des lettres (French original of the UK's Countdown) which he did between 1972 and 1989. Laffont hosted the French version of Fort Boyard until 1999 and Pyramid between 1990 and 1997. Laffont hosted the 2005 edition of Intervilles and presented poker tournaments for Direct 8.
Laffont is the father of Axelle Laffont and Mathilde Laffont.
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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Alain Berbérian
Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Jean Girault
Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Édouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
La belle histoire
Claude Lelouch
Gérard Lanvin, Béatrice Dalle
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
The Beautiful Story
Oranges sanguines
Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Christophe Paou, Guilaine Londez
Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder. When the shoe drops, the winner won’t necessarily be the one we expected.
Bloody Oranges
L'associé
René Gainville
Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
The Associate
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Raoul André
Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Un fil à la patte, côté cour, côté jardin
Francis Perrin
Patrice Laffont, Marie-Ange Nardi
Bois d'Enghien, engaged to a young girl from a good family, has to break up with Lucette Gautier, his mistress, a dilettante of salons. Not having been able to tell her of his break-up, he finds her at her fiancée's house, invited for the event. A Mexican general, jealous of his rivals, arrives and complicates the situation, as does a notary clerk, Bouzin, a singer in his spare time.
Un fil à la patte
