Sylvie Joly

Sylvie Joly

Born: October 28, 1934
Died: September 4, 2015
in Paris, France
Sylvie Joly (18 October 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a French actress and comedian. She was best known for her roles in the films Going Places (1974) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978).

Joly was born in Paris. She had a daughter, Mathilde Vitry, and a son Gregoire Vitry. In October 2010, she revealed she had Parkinson's disease.

Joly died from a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Paris, aged 80.

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

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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Title: La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Title: Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
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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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À la poursuite de l'amour
Title: À la poursuite de l'amour
Character: Mme Esteban
Released: June 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Camille returns from a business trip. Young and rich heiress of a cosmetics company, Cosmos, which she has taken over since the death of her father, she discovers that Vincent, the man who shares his life, took advantage of his absence to leave and move his business without even leaving him a word of farewell. Determined to win back her former lover, she finds an unexpected ally in the person of Zac, Lena's betrayed fiancé, whom she met fortuitously at the Bois de Boulogne, while both were in the process of to spy on their ex. Zac is a broke writer, lacking inspiration: they make common cause to recover their lost loves ...
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The Red Inn
Title: The Red Inn
Character: Comtesse de Marcillac
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
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Sylvie Joly : La si jolie vie de Sylvie Joly
Title: Sylvie Joly : La si jolie vie de Sylvie Joly
Released: November 8, 2005
Type: Movie
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La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Title: La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Title: Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Character: Ma Billy
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...
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Jusqu'au bout de la route
Title: Jusqu'au bout de la route
Character: Inès
Released: April 12, 2003
Type: Movie
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My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Title: My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Character: La femme dans Orlyval
Released: September 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell his wife everything, so Georges asks Maurice, a stranger who's passing by, to pose as his wife and scare off the mistress. In this farce, nothing goes as Georges plans.
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Sylvie Joly - Je suis votre idole
Title: Sylvie Joly - Je suis votre idole
Character: Himself
Released: February 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Best of de ses spectacles, enregistré au Casino de Paris en 2001.
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Sylvie Joly : La Vie C'est Pas De La Rigolade
Title: Sylvie Joly : La Vie C'est Pas De La Rigolade
Released: May 21, 2001
Type: Movie
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Tomorrow's Another Day
Title: Tomorrow's Another Day
Character: Patiente 2
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.
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L'Ami du jardin
Title: L'Ami du jardin
Character: Mme Levadoux
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
An ordinary night in the village of Beugneux. Mademoiselle Tronchet discovers her brother Léon - a notary and a great collector of garden gnomes - hanging from the beams of the attic. It could be the start of a police intrigue.
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Sylvie Joly : La cigale et la Joly
Title: Sylvie Joly : La cigale et la Joly
Released: March 13, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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La Mort du Chinois
Title: La Mort du Chinois
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
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Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
Title: Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
Character: actrice
Released: March 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Title: The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Character: Gisèle
Released: February 11, 1998
Type: Movie
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
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Sidecar
Title: Sidecar
Character: Irène Moreau
Released: February 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.
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Trois coups pour rire
Title: Trois coups pour rire
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: Palace
Character: La cliente de la chambre 217
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Title: The Seasons of Pleasure
Character: Dominique
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
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Septième ciel
Title: Septième ciel
Character: Régine Castel
Released: December 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Vicky goes to Paris to become an actress and ends up as a hostess in a phone sex company. Her friend Jimmy, who lives in the Camargue, discovers her on the cover of a famous magazine. Back in Paris, he meets Zoe, an eight-year-old girl who will help him find Vicky.
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Miracle Healing
Title: Miracle Healing
Character: Mme Fox-Terrier
Released: February 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Wild Animals
Title: Wild Animals
Character: Suzanne
Released: April 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
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A Friend of Vincent
Title: A Friend of Vincent
Character: Claude
Released: September 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
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Pick Up Your Belongings
Title: Pick Up Your Belongings
Character: Marjolaine
Released: January 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Title: We'll Grow Thin Together
Character: Docteur Menkevitch
Released: August 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
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Pierrot mon ami
Title: Pierrot mon ami
Character: Léonie
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: La directrice d'école
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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Your Turn, My Turn
Title: Your Turn, My Turn
Character: Stéphane
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Title: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Character: la passante
Released: January 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
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Femmes Fatales
Title: Femmes Fatales
Character: The head doctor
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self - Host
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Christine
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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Piaf
Title: Piaf
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: La bourgeoise
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
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Hail the Artist
Title: Hail the Artist
Character: La femme du photographe
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Title: L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Character: L'aubergiste
Released: August 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.
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The Egg
Title: The Egg
Released: March 8, 1972
Type: Movie
Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Ma chair et mon sang
Title: Ma chair et mon sang
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie