Thierry Lhermitte

Acting

Thierry Lhermitte

Born 1952-11-24 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

​Thierry Lhermitte (born 24 November 1952) is a French actor, director, writer and producer, best known for his comedic roles. He was a founder of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc. The group adapted a number of its stage hits for the cinema, and scored major successes with films such as Les Bronzés (1978), Les Bronzés font du ski (1979), Le Père Noël est une ordure (1982) and Un indien dans la ville (1994). In 1981, he received the Prix Jean Gabin. He was made Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 2001. He was made Officier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 2005. Source: Article "Thierry Lhermitte" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Acting credits

Going Places poster
6.7

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.

Going Places

1974

Nuit d'ivresse poster
6.0

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.

Nuit d'ivresse

1986

De Gaulle: Liberté poster
7.8

Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.

De Gaulle: Liberté

2026

The Lady Banker poster
5.3

Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.

The Lady Banker

1980

Tough Luck poster
5.9

​Arrested by mistake and mistaken for France’s most wanted man, Serge Martin, a peaceful retiree, becomes the target of the media. Caught up in a never-ending whirlwind, he’ll do everything he can to prove his innocence and get his life back… if that’s even possible!

Tough Luck

2026

An American Werewolf in Paris poster
5.9

An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

An American Werewolf in Paris

1997

The Closet poster
6.4

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

The Closet

2001

Le Divorce poster
5.0

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Le Divorce

2003

Les collègues poster
5.9

This is the story of a small Marseilles football club on the verge of extinction that ends up in an amateur tournament organised during the World Cup (inevitably referred to as "La Mondialette"). It's their opportunity to save the club. The team, made up of temperamental hotheads, will have to dodge all kinds of low blows.

Les collègues

1999

L'Américain poster
3.0

Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.

L'Américain

2004

Le Prof poster
4.8

A teacher uses new methods to captivate his audience. Some kids take it too far, some colleagues are worried traditional ways are going to be lost... but eventually, everything turns out OK.

Le Prof

2000

The Dinner Game poster
7.8

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...

The Dinner Game

1998

French Fried Vacation poster
6.6

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

French Fried Vacation

1978

Gramps Is in the Resistance poster
6.9

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983

1001 Nights poster
5.2

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

1001 Nights

1990

Little Indian, Big City poster
6.0

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?

Little Indian, Big City

1994

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés poster
7.0

As Les Restos du Cœur have just celebrated their 40th anniversary, you voted for your favorite tracks from among 40 legendary Enfoirés songs…

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

2025

Should Not!... poster
5.4

Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect member who then follows him like a puppy, and is chased by the sect leaders, two over-the-top crooks with bloated egos and a craving for money.

Should Not!...

1996

Santa Claus Is a Stinker poster
7.3

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit their office.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982

Spoiled Children poster
6.2

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

Spoiled Children

1977

Just Retired poster
5.5

Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.

Just Retired

2019

Dead Tired poster
6.0

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.

Dead Tired

1994

Mean Spirit poster
4.1

Vincent Poirel, a multinational executive, has won the contract to build an Olympic stadium. The original design, however, was by young architect Simon Variot. When he discovers it, he goes to the construction site and is run over by Poirel. Simon dies, but is resurrected in the body of Poirel's son, who doesn't understand why the little boy hates him so much.

Mean Spirit

2003

Our Women poster
5.4

Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.

Our Women

2015

Behind the camera

Nuit d'ivresse poster
6.0

Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.

Nuit d'ivresse

1986

French Fried Vacation poster
6.6

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.

French Fried Vacation

1978

Little Indian, Big City poster
6.0

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?

Little Indian, Big City

1994

Santa Claus Is a Stinker poster
7.3

Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a cross-dresser visit their office.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker

1982

French Fried Vacation 2 poster
7.3

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.

French Fried Vacation 2

1979

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever poster
4.1

After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

2006

Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir poster
6.3

The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.

Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir

1997

Charité biz'ness poster
5.8

Two friends organize a fake solidarity concert in order to seize the recipe. But their amateurism leads to many misunderstandings.

Charité biz'ness

1998

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck poster
5.3

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

1991

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck poster
5.3

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

1991

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck poster
5.3

This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

1991

The Prince of the Pacific poster
4.6

French war ship is arriving to Polynesian shore during at 1918 - and adventures begin...

The Prince of the Pacific

2000

The Prince of the Pacific poster
4.6

French war ship is arriving to Polynesian shore during at 1918 - and adventures begin...

The Prince of the Pacific

2000

I Didn't Do It! poster
5.4

Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand things end in disaster. This summer, he has been invited to spend a vacation at the Hotel Nautilus by his friend Vincent's parents. This is a great place for kids with its cabin hidden among the branches of a tree they call the "baobab". But this year a holiday camp is being built nearby...

I Didn't Do It!

1999

Un bol d'air poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Un bol d'air

1975

Bonne présentation exigée poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bonne présentation exigée

1974