Bernard Farcy

Acting

Bernard Farcy

Born

1949-02-02 (77)

Place of birth

Lyon, Rhône, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Bernard Farcy (born 17 March 1949) is a French actor who has starred in over 70 plays, television series and films. He is best known for his role as Gérard Gibert in Luc Besson's action-comedy franchise Taxi, as well as his appearances in national box-office successes such as Marche à l'ombre (1984), The Three Brothers (1995), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), the latter of which has attained cult status in France. Farcy's performances in more somber movies—to the likes of Our Story (1984), Le Solitaire (1987) and Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988)—have also been noted. His interpretation of statesman Charles de Gaulle in the TV mini-series Le Grand Cha…

Known for

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

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

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra poster
7.4

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

2002

Brotherhood of the Wolf poster
6.7

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2001

Taxi 2 poster
6.3

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Taxi 2

2000

Taxi 5 poster
5.4

A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi.

Taxi 5

2018

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille poster
6.7

The Toussaint family are expert hustlers on the run who adopt the unassuming identities of the “Perfects” and settle in Scotland. As they juggle new jobs, nosy colleagues and a mysterious neighbor, their elaborate disguises, gadgets and insane schemes threaten to expose their double life.

Les Parfait(s) : Arnaques en Famille

2026

La Maison de nos rêves poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Maison de nos rêves

2026

Sous écrous poster
5.4

The daily lives of Sami and Nada. While Nada is the self-proclaimed "biggest hoodlum on the boardwalk", Sami is discovering the prison world for the first time. But in prison, no one is who they say they are, and it's not long before the masks fall off

Sous écrous

2024

No Signal! poster
4.4

It is about two young step-siblings spending the weekend with their parents in a lodge in a remote forest who accidentally film two bumbling criminals in the middle of a robbery.

No Signal!

2025

The Hypermnestic poster
NR

Gaby and Jo are an elderly couple without children. Throughout their lifetime, they each had life plans and yet never managed to live out their dreams. Gaby felt a deep sense of guilt and trauma due to her inability to conceive children. As Jo approaches the end of his life, his memory slowly fades away. Gaby sees a chance to give her husband a taste of the life he had never lived.

The Hypermnestic

2024

14 Days to Feel Better poster
5.4

Maxime, an ambitious and Cartesian executive, thinks only of his career and his future marriage to Nafège, the daughter of his boss. On the verge of burnout, alone in not realizing it, he finds himself embarked by his future stepfather Romain in the middle of his worst nightmare... A well-being course supervised by Clara and Luc, a couple of "clairvoyants", with trainees more lunar than each other. 14 days to get better, during which his principles and prejudices will be subjected to the zenitude and benevolence regime!

14 Days to Feel Better

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Y a pas de réseau 2

2027

De Gaulle, histoire d'un géant poster
7.5

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

De Gaulle, histoire d'un géant

2020

2010s · 7 titles

Taxi 5 poster
5.4

A police officer who's transfered in the police of Marseille gets assigned to take down a group of Italian robbers who drive the powerfull Ferrari's with the older niece of Daniel, a terrible driver who gets the legendary white taxi.

Taxi 5

2018

Max & Leon poster
6.3

In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible means to avoid going in the battle zone… This will lead the duo to demented and wild adventures.

Max & Leon

2016

Monstrus Circus poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Monstrus Circus

2019

La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 3 poster
7.1

For the third time, Palmashow is taking over prime time, led by the irresistible Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais. The program features sketches, parodies, and 100% original "very bad jokes," as well as a fictional segment where the duo is at the top of their game. Throughout the evening, stars from the comedy scene and actors will make surprise appearances. Florence Foresti, Christophe Lambert, Alex Lutz, and Kyan Khojandi have all joined in on the fun with good humor.

La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 3

2016

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

2016

La Main de Fadma poster
7.0

Fadma is an active Moroccan woman, a mother who, after the death of her husband, raised her two children alone: Ahmed is her pride and joy, having succeeded in France, and Karim is the eccentric artist who still lives with her. Sensing danger around her son Ahmed, she decides to visit him in France. And it's here that she discovers the problem of her granddaughter Julie-Aïcha, a teenager in search of her identity. Fadma and Julie-Aïcha discover a new shared passion.

La Main de Fadma

2016

Al Farrouj poster
2.0

Michel, a French national, lives in the Riad adjoining the house of Boujemâa and turns it into a guest house. The noise resulting from the tourist activities and songs of the rooster poisons the relations between the two neighbors.

Al Farrouj

2015

2000s · 13 titles

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra poster
7.4

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

2002

Brotherhood of the Wolf poster
6.7

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2001

Taxi 2 poster
6.3

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Taxi 2

2000

Taxi 3 poster
5.8

A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.

Taxi 3

2003

Taxi 4 poster
5.6

Before being extradited to Africa to stand trial, a notorious Belgian criminal is entrusted to the Marseilles police department for less than 24 hours. But the wily crook convinces bumbling policeman Emilien he's a lowly Belgian embassy employee who got railroaded by the brilliant master criminal.

Taxi 4

2007

Iznogoud poster
4.0

In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place—melting Djinn, invisibility spell, cursed diamond, voodoo doll… But no amount of cunning or obstinacy can make up for sheer, hilariously bad luck.

Iznogoud

2005

The Villain poster
6.3

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

The Villain

2009

People : Jet Set 2 poster
3.4

John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an alliance with John-John, and put an end to life as persona non grata in Paris, and again take his place as the party prince of Paris. Written by HardHouseClubber

People : Jet Set 2

2004

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mona lisier

2004

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra poster
7.5

Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

2002

Albert est méchant poster
4.6

Patrick Lechat learns that his father, the famous writer Jo Lechat, whom he never knew, has just died leaving a colossal fortune. "Good thing!" Patrick Lechat and his family are currently in a very bad situation.

Albert est méchant

2004

Le Bénévole poster
3.8

In a Mediterranean city, the association of volunteers The Rescue is expecting a new director. A former trade unionist, Birgos, who’s just escaped from an asylum with Cleo, another internee, is believed, by mistake, to be this new director.

Le Bénévole

2007

The Wackos poster
7.5

When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé crosses the limits of home ethics when he learns that he has just been banned from banking. Disguised as a Southerner for a costume party where he was supposed to arrest drug dealers, he lures his colleagues into robbing a bank; he causes a bloodbath but comes out victorious of this heist. For his accomplices, the informant, and pretty peacekeeper Cécile Barko, known as Cyborg, this is the start of a crazy run.

The Wackos

2002

1990s · 10 titles

Taxi poster
6.7

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

Taxi

1998

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

The Three Brothers poster
7.0

Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

The Three Brothers

1995

Les Sœurs Soleil poster
3.7

This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Brice learns that his daughter Clemence has been to selected for the music video with tacky has-been rocker Gloria, he nearly comes unglued. His prim wife, Benedicte, the organist for the local congregation, has a different perspective and understands her daughter's eagerness. She quietly agrees to secretly accompany Clemence during the shoot. Once there, the two are filmed dancing around and having fun. Neither realize that they will become special-effects victims by time production on the film ends and find themselves apparently dancing amongst men who but for the presence of small rubber sea creatures, would be buck naked.

Les Sœurs Soleil

1997

Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard poster
6.4

Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...

Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard

1993

The Gods Must Be Daring poster
4.5

A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.

The Gods Must Be Daring

1997

Walking a Tightrope poster
4.9

A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth.

Walking a Tightrope

1991

The Liars poster
5.2

Zac is a well-respected French filmmaker who creates a major uproar when for no apparent reason he suddenly vanishes from his posh Parisian apartment leaving behind his lover Helene, a popular star. Marcus, his producer searches for eight months before locating Zac who has since become a homeless street bum in an expensive neighborhood. Marcus sends Zac to a posh hotel. He then sends Daisy, an ambitious secretary and aspiring screenwriter to learn what happened to the great director. It takes a lot of mutual verbal sparring and false turns (which are presented as creatively filmed vignettes that are done using a variety of techniques) from Zac before he finally tells her the truth. The two then decide to turn the story into a film. As they write, Daisy and Zac slowly fall in love. At the same time, Marcus has his hands full trying to avoid some tough Russian Mafiosos who want the money they invested back.

The Liars

1996

No artwork available
10.0

A strange, inhuman scream echoes around the high mountains, awakening two mountain climbers who have fallen asleep on top of a ridge. At the end of the day, the climbers take refuge in a chalet, which strangely enough, doesn't exist on their map. The owner, a mountain dweller with an enigmatic attitude, welcomes them in.

L'appel de la cave

1999

Tapage nocturne poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tapage nocturne

1998

1980s · 11 titles

Ménage poster
6.6

A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.

Ménage

1986

Our Story poster
6.3

Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...

Our Story

1984

The Moon in the Gutter poster
5.7

A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.

The Moon in the Gutter

1983

The Loner poster
6.0

In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.

The Loner

1987

Marche à l'ombre poster
6.5

Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.

Marche à l'ombre

1984

La Travestie poster
5.1

Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into schizophrenia in this depressing psychological drama.

La Travestie

1988

Let Sleeping Cops Lie poster
5.4

This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

1988

A Soldier's Tale poster
4.2

In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.

A Soldier's Tale

1988

François Villon: The Maverick Poet poster
6.0

The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he supported the free expression of people in a coercive climate.

François Villon: The Maverick Poet

1987

Lien de parenté poster
8.0

In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now the guardian of his mulatto grandson Clem (Serge Ubrette). Victor is shocked to discover his grandson's mixed heritage when he travels to London to pick him up, but resigns himself to the situation. Once at home in France, the brash Clem manages to steal the heart of the most coveted young woman in town, but that only gets him into trouble with her tough-guy boyfriend and his buddies. Meanwhile, Grandpa is trying to come to grips with his own biases as best he can.

Lien de parenté

1986

Saxo poster
7.0

A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, who he will launch successfully. But Puppet is to be murdered.

Saxo

1988

Series credits

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

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

Chère Marianne poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chère Marianne

1999

Le Grand Charles poster
10.0

Le Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959, written and directed by Bernard Stora. De Gaulle was played by Bernard Farcy, Winston Churchill by David Ryall, and Franklin D. Roosevelt by Robert Hardy. Other actors in the cast included Dominic Gould, Sam Spiegel and Jay Benedict.

Le Grand Charles

2006

À la recherche du temps perdu poster
4.6

Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.

À la recherche du temps perdu

2011