Guy Montagné

Guy Montagné

Born: March 6, 1948
in Paris, France
Guy Montagné (born 6 March 1948) is a French actor, comedian and radio personality.

He was the "grandson of a lyrical singer, in a family that had produced generations of musicians", and the son of Jean-Claude Beïret Montagné, a radio and electronics engineer who during the Vichy years went underground rather than submit to forced labor conscription; was imprisoned in Pamplona under the Franco regime; but eventually joined the Free French in Casablanca.

In 1972, he graduated from René Simon's acting school and quickly found employment in the films of Robert Manuel as well as Luis Buñuel, who cast him as the Young Monk in The Phantom of Liberty (1974).

From 1976 to 1978, Guy Montagné portrayed in several episodes the role of Guyomard in the television series Commissaire Moulin. In 1978, Stéphane Collaro engaged him to perform imitations and write comic texts of his radio program on Europe 1. Having found the sitcom Tous les chemins mènent au rhum, the first political radiophonic sitcom, propelled Collaro and Montagné at the top of the radio audience. These audience successes then became televisual from 1979 to 1981 with Le Collaro show. The Collaro troop pass from Antenne 2 to TF1 and the show was retitled Co-Co Boy where Guy Montagné met American coco-girl Terry Shane. She then became his wife and his screenwriter for his one-man shows.

In 1985, he is the French voice of Donald Duck in the television program Le Disney Channel on FR3. For a decade from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, he knew his period of success, where he was very popular, with his neurotic, hot-tempered and talkative character. After that period, due to the departure of Stéphane Collaro for the channel La Cinq in 1987, the following period was darker and more difficult. In the 1990s, he began a career in cabaret where he played numerous shows, but the successful period of the 1980s was far. He asked from time to time his friend Patrick Sébastien to participate at his television shows, which gave him the opportunity to begin in the television field. But in the meantime, the audience began more attracted to other comics like Alex Métayer and Élie Kakou. His repertoire had no evolution and since the 1990s, his situation was similar to Jean Roucas.

Willing to start again his career in cinema, he made the mistake in 1992 participating at the film of the return of Les Charlots without Gérard Rinaldi entitled Le Retour des Charlots. The film was a commercial failure and considered as a flop, which compromised his film career with a lot of refuses to castings. Guy Montagné was in the 1990s one of the most important personalities of the radio program Les Grosses Têtes hosted by Philippe Bouvard and also participated at the occasional television programs of the same name.

In February 2014, he was victim of a facial nerve paralysis on the left side called Bell's palsy, due to the stress of the ticket theft of the show he had to play in the town of Muzillac in the department of Morbihan, and the way he was treated by the municipality after the theft, who refused to reimburse him. He then made a sketch of it. Treated at La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, he was cured two months after the incident.

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

Movies for Guy Montagné...

Le temps d'un regard
Title: Le temps d'un regard
Character: Gaston
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
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Les Cerfs-volants
Title: Les Cerfs-volants
Character: Marcellin
Released: September 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Normandy, 1934. Ludo, raised by his uncle Ambroise, a kite maker, befriends little Lila. For five years he loses sight of her, but when they meet again, a love affair begins. War breaks out and separates the young couple again. Lila is forced to go to Poland, while Ludo stays with his uncle. Is Ludo ready to do anything to find his beloved?
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Best Of Collaro - Coffret 3 DVD
Title: Best Of Collaro - Coffret 3 DVD
Released: February 19, 2004
Type: Movie
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Changement de trottoir
Title: Changement de trottoir
Released: January 31, 2004
Type: Movie
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Un homme parfait
Title: Un homme parfait
Character: Victor Méchain
Released: January 15, 2003
Type: Movie
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Guy Montagné : Une p'tite dernière pour la route
Title: Guy Montagné : Une p'tite dernière pour la route
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2003
Type: Movie
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Guy Montagné : Histoires de vacances
Title: Guy Montagné : Histoires de vacances
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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Villa mon rêve
Title: Villa mon rêve
Character: Roger
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Because they could no longer stand the xenophobic comments and behavior of their neighbors, Véronique and Sylvain Marchand, parents of a little girl and members of the Stop Racism organization, went into exile in a quiet suburban town, where they bought a house, the villa "Mon rêve". Soon after, the Dialo family, friendly Africans, moved into the adjoining house. At first, the two families get along perfectly. The only problem was that the Dialos organized many parties, which often ended late at night. The patience and understanding of the Marchands only delay the inevitable conflict.
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Guy Montagné - L'adieu aux blagues
Title: Guy Montagné - L'adieu aux blagues
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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Sous les pavés, la plage
Title: Sous les pavés, la plage
Character: Pierre Maillard
Released: September 23, 2000
Type: Movie
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Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes
Title: Les Interdits des Grosses Têtes
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 1997
Type: Movie
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Les Meilleures de Guy Montagné
Title: Les Meilleures de Guy Montagné
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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The Charlots Return
Title: The Charlots Return
Character: L'adjudant Caussade
Released: June 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Antonio returned to Portugal ten years ago with his lovely (and quite thin) French wife. She has since become quite a hefty specimen of womanhood, and his eye has lately been wandering to others. When his strong-tempered wife catches him with another woman (their neighbor), she bonks him on the head. In order to avoid further embarrassment, he pretends this has induced amnesia. He does so well in his pretense that his worried wife calls his old Parisian buddies (the rest of the Charlots) and asks them to come and help revive his memory.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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P.R.O.F.S.
Title: P.R.O.F.S.
Character: René Nogret
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
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Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Character: Cervoise, le propriétaire de l'hôtel
Released: June 23, 1982
Type: Movie
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.
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Elle voit des nains partout !
Title: Elle voit des nains partout !
Character: le Temps
Released: April 7, 1982
Type: Movie
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Collaro Show
Character: Self - Several characters
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: TV
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That Obscure Object of Desire
Title: That Obscure Object of Desire
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1977
Type: Movie
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Pierre Guyomard
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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The Phantom of Liberty
Title: The Phantom of Liberty
Character: Un moine
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.