Pierre Dac

Pierre Dac

Born: August 15, 1893
Died: February 9, 1975
in Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne, France [now Châlons-en-Champagne]
André Isaac (15 August 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne, France – 9 February 1975 Paris, France), better known as Pierre Dac, was a French humorist. During World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of the BBC's Radio Londres service to occupied France. He produced a series of satirical songs which were broadcast on the station. After the war, he participated in a comic duet with the humorist Francis Blanche.

A very active freemason, initiated in 1926 at "Les Inséparables d'Osiris" lodge in Paris, he created a parodic and slang masonic rite "Le rite des Voyous" still practiced in some French lodges.

Dac is also the creator of the comic term "Schmilblick."

Source: Article "Pierre Dac" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Title: Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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Par ici la monnaie
Title: Par ici la monnaie
Character: Madame Irma
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
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La Scoutmoune
Title: La Scoutmoune
Released: February 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Short directed by Michel Ricaud and Jean-Claude Maillet
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Don't Play with Martians
Title: Don't Play with Martians
Character: Docteur Creac'h
Released: May 31, 1968
Type: Movie
These space people have cat eyes and a disintegrating pistol; and when they touch a woman 's lips with their magic kiss.
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The Little Bather
Title: The Little Bather
Character: Le ministre
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Title: Deux Romains en Gaule
Character: Un écrivain du "Café Flora"
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
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Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires
Title: Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires
Released: November 17, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Deadly Decoy
Title: The Deadly Decoy
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: Movie
The directors of a company threatened by a railroad construction project in Africa decide to have the General Secretary of the Franco-African consortium killed. Géo Paquet, known as "Le Gorille", a DST spy, attempts to infiltrate the gang.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Le général Costa
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: Le colonel
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
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Easy Come Easy Go
Title: Easy Come Easy Go
Character: The restaurant owner
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence, Félix's sister, a model in a fashion house who alone supports the trio.
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La Polka des menottes
Title: La Polka des menottes
Character: l'homme en caleçon au commissariat
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
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Title: La Famille Anodin
Character: Jean Lou Anodin
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
The Anodin family, is a French TV serial, in 8 episodes of 45 minutes, from 1956, on RTF.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: Gendarme Pantois
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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Last Hour, Special Edition
Title: Last Hour, Special Edition
Character: Joseph François Berty
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of ​​launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
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Radio Surprises
Title: Radio Surprises
Character: Self
Released: May 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.
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Poliche
Title: Poliche
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, and accepts a seductive airplane pilot who proposes to her. One day, she discovers that the funny man is just a front behind which there is a serious Didier. She will try to make up and live with him - but the gap between them is already too large.
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Voilà Montmartre
Title: Voilà Montmartre
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
In a school for chansonniers, each student goes to the board where he says and mimes his sketch.
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Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame
Title: Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame
Character: Adolphe Gatouillat
Released: April 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A tradesman authorizes his wife's first husband to replace him in order to hide from a brave, very rich aunt that his niece is remarried and thus saves himself from bankruptcy. He is indeed saved from it but loses his wife won back by her ex-husband.
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Fun in the Barracks
Title: Fun in the Barracks
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
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The Golden Can
Title: The Golden Can
Character: Vézinet
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A hawker, pursued by the law, finds refuge in a garage and finds there a former comrade who has become a mechanic. As he looks like a car driver, he finds himself forced to sit behind the wheel of a car to participate in a race, but not knowing how to drive, he finds himself dead last.