Francis Perrin

Acting

Francis Perrin

Born

1947-10-10 (79)

Place of birth

Versailles, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France

Known for

Acting

Credits

96 titles

Francis Pierre Horton Perrin (born 10 October 1947) is a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He enter the Comédie-Française in 1972, but left the following year. He headed the Théâtre Montansier in his birthplace from 1992 to 2000. In 2001, he was made Officier de l'ordre national du Mérite, in 2007 Officier de la Légion d'honneur and in 2016, Officier des Arts et Lettres. Source: Article "Francis Perrin (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known for

Spécial cinéma poster
9.5

Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

Spécial cinéma

1974

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Midi Première poster
9.0

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.

Midi Première

1975

L'Invité poster
4.5

The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.

L'Invité

2002

Film credits

2020s · 6 titles

Les mille et une vies de Philippe Bouvard poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les mille et une vies de Philippe Bouvard

2025

À côté de ses pompes poster
6.4

A gay ex-cop who's been able to talk to the dead since he was a child investigates the suspicious death of his father, the owner of a undertaker.

À côté de ses pompes

2023

Mimie Mathy : Grandeur Nature poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mimie Mathy : Grandeur Nature

2023

Lily & Lily poster
6.0

Lily DaCosta is a Hollywood movie star of the 1930s. Capricious and unbearable, she leads a scandalous life and makes life hell for everyone around her. Then along comes Deborah, her twin sister, a puritanical and shy farmer. The two sisters look so alike that when they swap lives, they lead a crooked journalist, a husband in need of money, greedy servants, and an ex-husband who has escaped from Alcatraz into a whirlwind of hilarious misunderstandings. Created for the stage in 1985 by Jacqueline Maillan, Lily & Lily has become a legend of boulevard theater.

Lily & Lily

2025

Anniversaire surprise chez les Bodin's poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Anniversaire surprise chez les Bodin's

2023

Le Duplex poster
6.5

The Berger family lives on the sixth and top floor of a Parisian building. They feel so good there that they would like to expand their space and dream of taking over the very nice apartment of the Tissandier family, their friendly neighbors on the fifth floor, in order to create a lovely duplex that matches their ambitions. However, the Tissandier family is happy in their apartment and has no intention of moving at all. What can the Berger family do then? They are left with only one solution: to use all possible means to achieve their goals, even the most questionable and especially the most unlikely...

Le Duplex

2024

2010s · 12 titles

Nicholas on Holiday poster
5.4

It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.

Nicholas on Holiday

2014

Second Chance poster
5.7

Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ever since his childhood, Julien jinxes every woman who falls in love with him. But it's not just any small jinx. It's the kind that sends you to the hospital several times a week, that destroys your professional life or that turns your friends into enemies. Julien is strictly speaking a true black cat for women. Joanna Sorini will soon learn this at her expense the day she meets him. A career that's just taking off, a love life that finally seems to be taking a good turn, all that may just change.

Second Chance

2011

Thérèse poster
5.8

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.

Thérèse

2012

My Name Is Bernadette poster
7.3

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.

My Name Is Bernadette

2011

Chambre noire poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Chambre noire

2013

Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse poster
5.5

A commissioner and a former examining magistrate are asked to find a woman, whom they both loved, just disappeared.

Mongeville et Magellan : Un amour de jeunesse

2016

Closed Circuit poster
6.0

Hired to oversee the security of a superstore, Pierre soon discovers a dark secret and becomes a threat to the system he helped create.

Closed Circuit

2013

Beyond Suspicion poster
3.9

Henri est convaincu que Lise, sa nouvelle et jeune femme, l’aime sincèrement. Henri est aussi convaincu que Sam, le témoin de leur mariage, est le frère de Lise. La machination est parfaite. Enfin presque...

Beyond Suspicion

2010

Speak Softly, If This Is Love poster
6.0

Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, in love and would like nothing more than to be left alone. Unfortunately, be it parents, grandparents or even teachers, everyone seems to want to meddle and interfere in their affairs.

Speak Softly, If This Is Love

2012

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lino, il n'était que lui-même

2012

No artwork available
1.8

No synopsis available yet.

Ni vu, ni connu

2011

Bienvenue à bouchon poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bienvenue à bouchon

2011

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 11 titles

Jupiter's Thigh poster
6.2

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?

Jupiter's Thigh

1980

Tête à claques poster
5.2

Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again.

Tête à claques

1982

Le Roi des cons poster
4.8

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.

Le Roi des cons

1981

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi poster
5.3

A particularly unlucky man meets a beautiful young woman, daughter of a rich businessman. This one, pursued by blackmailers, is going to take him along in her galleys.

Ça n'arrive qu'à moi

1985

Tout le monde peut se tromper poster
5.7

A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.

Tout le monde peut se tromper

1983

Le Joli Cœur poster
4.5

Frank and Bernard share the same apartment and both work in the same tourist agency. Bernard drives the coach through the streets of Paris and Frank is the guide. The driver longs for a family life but he is not lucky with girls. So he asks his friend, who is a womanizer, to help him find at last his better half. Frank winds up in a hospital and falls for the shrink, Nina. Faithful to his pal, Frank comes to his rescue but he falls in love with Nina too.

Le Joli Cœur

1984

Club de rencontres poster
4.1

Bernard is in the middle of a divorce. In the courthouse where he is awaiting the separation settlement, he runs across a childhood friend, Nicolas, who runs a dating service and is passing out flyers to soon-to-be divorcés. Bernard goes with his friend to his club, and gets roped into helping him find his soulmate.

Club de rencontres

1987

Le Débutant poster
4.1

The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.

Le Débutant

1986

Un amour d'emmerdeuse poster
5.5

After ten years of marriage, Philippe and Catherine finally have the joy of having a baby: Julie. For these two extended teenagers, it's the end of night outings and improvised weekends. She is quickly overwhelmed and Philippe, who runs an advertising company, is not often there. On the other hand, the family - grandmother or godfather - is too much. And then she begins to choke. As a fashion designer, she first tries to work at home but can not share herself between her professional and maternal activities. Philippe tries to help her, in vain, then abandons to flee to Deauville for an extra-marital weekend. She will not forgive him and will disappear with Julie. And years go by before the little girl who grew up finds herself again between her mother and her father, accompanying her, for the first time, to school.

Un amour d'emmerdeuse

1980

Billy Ze Kick poster
5.6

Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick."

Billy Ze Kick

1985

Le corbillard de Jules poster
5.0

Alphonse and Aldo, two soldiers during the Second World War, are responsible for transporting the body of Jules, who died in battle, to his country of origin. Nothing is going to go as planned.

Le corbillard de Jules

1982

1970s · 17 titles

The Twist poster
4.1

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...

The Twist

1976

Gros câlin poster
6.0

Monsieur Cousin, a lonely Parisian statistician, shares his small apartment with a python named Gros-Câlin, seeking warmth and companionship. Infatuated with his coworker, Mlle Dreyfus, he awkwardly tries to win her affection, misinterpreting social cues and struggling with human connection. His eccentric attachment to the snake alienates him further, as his longing for intimacy blurs the line between reality and fantasy. Despite seeking advice and making misguided attempts at love, he remains isolated. The film follows his tragicomic struggle, ending ambiguously as he grapples with his unfulfilled need for human warmth.

Gros câlin

1979

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's poster
5.5

The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's

1976

We Were Mistaken About a Love Story poster
7.3

Anne and Pierre work in the same company, they date but do not consider a long-term relationship until Anne learns that she is expecting a child. Having already had an abortion, she fears repeating the experience, so Pierre proposes to marry her.

We Were Mistaken About a Love Story

1974

The Slap poster
6.6

A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

The Slap

1974

Woman Buried Alive poster
3.5

Duke Philippe marries Cristina, the daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that they would be cut from the family inheritance set to go to Cristina, decide to get rid of her by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.

Woman Buried Alive

1973

Serious as Pleasure poster
3.9

Two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group.

Serious as Pleasure

1975

Trésor party poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trésor party

1975

The Three Musketeers poster
8.0

D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.

The Three Musketeers

1974

Tom et Julie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tom et Julie

1977

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing poster
5.5

When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks, three Frenchmen decide to take action.

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

1977

It's Tough for Everybody poster
5.7

After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.

It's Tough for Everybody

1975

Le Concierge poster
5.0

Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.

Le Concierge

1973

Robert et Robert poster
6.3

Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category.

Robert et Robert

1978

Les deux timides poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les deux timides

1978

The Blue Ferris poster
6.3

Jérôme and his wife Monika head for the mountains for a hunting weekend with their friend Stanislas, an inveterate seducer, and his latest conquest, Betty. Even before they arrive, Jérôme overhears a tender gesture between his wife and Stanislas.

The Blue Ferris

1977

Am Stram Gram poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Am Stram Gram

1976

Series credits

Spécial cinéma poster
9.5

Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

Spécial cinéma

1974

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Vivement dimanche poster
3.6

No synopsis available yet.

Vivement dimanche

1998

Midi Première poster
9.0

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.

Midi Première

1975

L'Invité poster
4.5

The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.

L'Invité

2002

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Numéro un poster
7.5

A French variety show.

Numéro un

1975

Numéro un poster
7.5

A French variety show.

Numéro un

1975

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Télématin poster
5.8

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

Télématin

1985

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

30 millions d'amis poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

30 millions d'amis

1976

Lucky Luke poster
6.6

Lucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."

Lucky Luke

1984

À bout portant poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

À bout portant

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Système 2

1975

On n'est pas couché poster
5.1

On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists.

On n'est pas couché

2006

Deadly Tropics poster
7.0

On the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the middle of the tropics, several mysterious murders occur. Now it is up to the two investigators Mélissa Sainte-Rose and Gaëlle Crivelli to solve the case - even if the two women have very different views of law.

Deadly Tropics

2019

The Unexpected Getaway poster
8.5

In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.

The Unexpected Getaway

2012

Chez Maupassant poster
7.4

"Chez Maupassant" is a French anthology television series based on short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Created by Gérard Jourd'hui and Gaëlle Girre, it ran on France 2 in three seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2011. It consists of a total of 24 episodes of which half are 60 minutes long and half are 30 minutes.

Chez Maupassant

2007

La Boîte à secrets poster
7.0

La Boîte à secrets: confidences, emotion and entertainment. Faustine Bollaert takes over the helm of this new show on France 3. She will receive 3 guests who will relive their greatest personal and professional secrets.

La Boîte à secrets

2019

Mongeville poster
7.6

Former judge, new investigator! Bordeaux, France. Antoine Mongeville, a former investigating judge, meets a Criminal Police's detective who he will have to work with. Despite their tense relationship and their opposed characters, they will realise that they are not so different...

Mongeville

2013

Le Code poster
8.6

No synopsis available yet.

Le Code

2021

Week-end chez les toquées poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Week-end chez les toquées

2011

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Loft story

1988

Louis XIV et ses espions poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Louis XIV et ses espions

2024

Mes chers disparus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mes chers disparus

2015

The Gamemaster poster
7.5

12 French celebrities compete to find the Gamemaster among them...

The Gamemaster

2024

Le Mythomane poster
6.5

Written by Alphonse Boudard, Le Mythomane had its origins in an episode of the 1979 series Histoires de voyous directed by Michel Wyn. The TV series tells the story of the daily lives of common petty thieves. This nice little gang consisted of Aunt Victoire, a “baroness” of the underhanded (Suzy Delair), Fernand, a gutsy rascal from the slums (Jacques Balutin) and Norbert Beaufumé (Francis Perrin), a petulant con artist whose pathological lying has driven him to maintaining two separate families. TV mini series

Le Mythomane

1981

Whoever sleeps loses! (FR) poster
NR

What happens when French celebrities do not sleep for a long time?

Whoever sleeps loses! (FR)

2024

Behind the camera