Claude Gensac

Claude Gensac

Born: March 1, 1927
Died: December 27, 2016
in Acy-en-Multien, Oise, France
Claude Gensac (1 March 1927 – 27 December 2016) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television productions since 1952. Gensac is the oldest nominee to date in the category César Award for Best Supporting Actress, nominated in 2015 for her role as Marthe in the film Lulu femme nue.

In 1952, Gensac portrayed the character of Evelyne in her first feature film, La Vie d'un homme honnête. She collaborated on a number of films with Louis de Funès, often playing his wife, to international acclaim. She appeared in the series of movies "Les Gendarmes" with Louis de Funès. She played De Funès' wife, Josepha Cruchot. After De Funès's death in 1983, Gensac was rarely involved in film, but was active as a theater actress. In 2001 she returned to film in the French version of Absolutely Fabulous, her first film role since 1983. Gensac appeared in over 100 cinema and television films, as well as numerous theater roles. In 2011 she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the officer grade.

Claude Gensac was married twice: from 1952 to 1954 with the actor Pierre Mondy and from 1958 to 1977 with Henri Chemin, a racer and PR Manager of Ford France with whom she had a son. She died in her sleep on 27 December 2016. She was 89 years old.

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Damocles
Title: Damocles
Character: Josette Legourinec
Released: October 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Hélène and Paul, early 30s and long-term singles, have been living in a two-person flat for years. Currently, graphic designer Paul wants to escape the digital constraints of his time and has acquired an age-old phone on which only "real" friends can reach him. One evening Paul gets from a friend at a party, his future predicted: Soon he will meet the love of his life, but also commit a murder. A short time later, when he meets the stunning Camille and falls in love with her, he begins to doubt with all luck. Could the prophecy really be true?
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Baden Baden
Title: Baden Baden
Character: Grandmother
Released: May 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
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Mon cher petit village
Title: Mon cher petit village
Character: Adèle
Released: January 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Nuclear engineer Antoine Degas must convince the small town of Saint-Lassou to host a storage site for radioactive waste. But the town's German mayor, a fierce ecologist and organic farmer, is steadfastly opposed to the idea.
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Lulu in the Nude
Title: Lulu in the Nude
Character: Marthe
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.
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On My Way
Title: On My Way
Character: Annie
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
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Title: Our dear neighbors
Character: Dr. Derek's Grandmother
Released: June 4, 2012
Type: TV
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work ...
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Wok the Kasbah
Title: Wok the Kasbah
Character: Mme Lavignasse
Released: December 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A funny comedy about the war suddenly started between two restaurant owners families.
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La Grève des femmes
Title: La Grève des femmes
Character: Mme Deschamps
Released: February 11, 2011
Type: Movie
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22 Bullets
Title: 22 Bullets
Character: Mrs. Fontarosa
Released: March 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...
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Paris Express
Title: Paris Express
Character: La Hollandaise
Released: February 24, 2010
Type: Movie
From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Yvonne
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Femme de Norbert (Michel Galabru)
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Un été de canicule
Character: Mamette
Released: August 4, 2003
Type: TV
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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Title: Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.
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Title: Docteur Claire Bellac
Character: Mme Lherminier
Released: October 8, 2001
Type: TV
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Absolutely Fabulous
Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Character: Mamie Mousson
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
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Changement de cap
Title: Changement de cap
Character: Dora
Released: February 22, 1999
Type: Movie
During a cruise, two women marked by life become friends.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Quiproquos !
Title: Quiproquos !
Character: Alice
Released: May 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A candidate for mayor of a small town decides to have the mayor's daughter kidnapped to induce him to withdraw his candidacy in the next elections.
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Cloud Waltzing
Title: Cloud Waltzing
Character: Madame Hibbert
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Journalist Meredith travels to Europe to do a story on vineyard owner Francois De Paul and won't stop until she learns his secrets.
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Poule et frites
Title: Poule et frites
Character: Françoise, the mother-in-law
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures.
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L'étiquette
Title: L'étiquette
Character: Gabrielle Caporet
Released: August 4, 1986
Type: Movie
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Le Dindon
Title: Le Dindon
Character: Clotilde Pontignac
Released: July 14, 1986
Type: Movie
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Le Gaffeur
Title: Le Gaffeur
Character: Lucienne
Released: September 4, 1985
Type: Movie
A good country priest discovers that he is a father and must assume his role, a task all the more delicate since his son is a thug.
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Trompe qui peut
Title: Trompe qui peut
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Title: The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Character: Josépha Cruchot
Released: October 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Cabbage Soup
Title: The Cabbage Soup
Character: Amelie Poulangeard
Released: December 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
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Title: Les Fiancées de l'empire
Character: Mme de Croissy
Released: January 2, 1981
Type: TV
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The Miser
Title: The Miser
Character: Frosine
Released: March 5, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
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Title: Gaston Phébus
Character: La reine Jeanne
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: TV
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Les Deux Vierges
Title: Les Deux Vierges
Character: Madeleine
Released: April 7, 1978
Type: Movie
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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Title: Stop Calling Me Baby!
Character: School headmaster
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Title: The Wing or the Thigh?
Character: Marguerite, la secrétaire de Charles Duchemin
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
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La folle de Chaillot
Title: La folle de Chaillot
Character: Constance, la Folle de Passy
Released: June 30, 1976
Type: Movie
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Title: Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Character: Germaine
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Bedmania
Title: Bedmania
Character: Adrienne
Released: April 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
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Jo
Title: Jo
Character: Sylvie Brisebard
Released: August 31, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Title: The Gendarme Takes Off
Character: Josépha Cruchot
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Title: Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Character: Mademoiselle d'Orgel
Released: June 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
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Hibernatus
Title: Hibernatus
Character: Edmée de Tartas
Released: September 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...
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The Gendarme Gets Married
Title: The Gendarme Gets Married
Character: Josépha Lefrançois
Released: October 30, 1968
Type: Movie
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Character: Isabelle Bosquier
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
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Oscar
Title: Oscar
Character: Mme Germaine Barnier, épouse de Bertrand
Released: October 11, 1967
Type: Movie
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: La Comtesse
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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The Sultans
Title: The Sultans
Character: Marcelle
Released: May 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces them to have fun. When he goes through a delicate family situation caused by his daughter's adventure with a much older man, Lisa understands how much she is in love and how little she can expect from him.
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A Woman in White
Title: A Woman in White
Character: Mlle Viralleau
Released: April 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Title: Comment épouser un premier ministre
Character: Mrs. Grandbourg
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
Title: The Virtuous Scoundrel
Character: Evelyne, la femme de chambre
Released: February 18, 1953
Type: Movie
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.