Gérard Rinaldi

Acting

Gérard Rinaldi

Born — Died

1943-02-17 — 2012-03-02

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

76 titles

Gérard Rinaldi (February 17, 1943 – March 2, 2012) was a French actor, musician, lyricist, artistic director and singer with Les Charlots.

Known for

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

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

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Fan School poster
7.2

Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.

Fan School

1977

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

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

Film credits

2000s · 7 titles

Slice of Life poster
4.9

Pierre has four months left to live if he does not find a new liver. His only hope is a transplant from his brother, Paul. But Pierre hates Paul and has refused to see him for the past ten years. They are different in every aspect : their way of life, their tastes. Nevertheless, Marie, Pierre's fiancee, is determined to reconcile the two men. A love-hate relationship develops, disrupting the trio, recomposing the couples and even going so far as to change their personalities. After a few too many drinks and a bit of fooling around, the settling of scores between the two brothers will come to a surprising end.

Slice of Life

2002

Le pays des enfants perdus poster
10.0

In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.

Le pays des enfants perdus

2004

20 years of Simpsons poster
NR

A short French documentary to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the show.

20 years of Simpsons

2009

No artwork available
7.0

Delphine, a saleswoman in a French fry stand, and Roland, a campsite warden, fall in love at first sight. They are in perfect love, but their big dream is to buy a house. Thanks to a friend, who puts together a fake file to obtain a loan, they acquire a piece of land and order a house in kit. From then on, Delphine and Roland will have to foil the traps that will accumulate before The construction of their kit house has become their obsession and a metaphor for the difficulties of their own couple.

Un amour en kit

2003

Après la pluie, le beau temps poster
9.0

Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he is a manager. Between shabby hotels and cheap restaurants, she meets the handsome Dubel, an impresario on the sidelines. He hires Rose at the drop of a hat because he has to replace Hermine Zibeline for a tour in the Paris region with the famous Billie Boys from Broadway.

Après la pluie, le beau temps

2003

Remue-ménage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Remue-ménage

2003

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Concours de danse à Piriac

2006

1990s · 6 titles

1980s · 8 titles

Descent Into Hell poster
4.9

The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...

Descent Into Hell

1986

Charlots' Connection poster
3.6

Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes...

Charlots' Connection

1984

Les Charlots contre Dracula poster
4.8

To Take Possession of Maleficient Powers, Dracula must take control of a lady in a Flee Market, Paris , France. But without wasting any time, her friends take on Dracula to save her from this terrible curse of Vampirism.

Les Charlots contre Dracula

1980

The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque poster
4.4

On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.

The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque

1987

Rookies Run Amok 2 poster
5.6

The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group.

Rookies Run Amok 2

1983

Funny Boy poster
3.8

Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.

Funny Boy

1987

Double mixte poster
2.5

No synopsis available yet.

Double mixte

1989

Zoom the White Dolphin poster
NR

Ian and his sister Marina live on a beautiful tropical island with their Uncle Patrick, an old sailor who tells them wonderful stories and makes magical pictures with his pipe smoke. Among their friends are Jean-Sebastian, a great joke teller who can talk to the sea animals, Raoul the Koala Bear and Flem the living clock. When the merry band meet Zoom the White Dolphin and his family, they get caught up in a series of exciting adventures as they explore caves, shipwrecks and the mysterious world beneath the waves.

Zoom the White Dolphin

1985

1970s · 14 titles

Stadium Nuts poster
6.1

Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through the village. A grocer, charged to prepare a celebration, calls upon the four to help. One of the four falls for the grocer's daughter. However, she runs away after the sportsman carrying the flame. The foursome set of to find her and win her back.

Stadium Nuts

1972

Daisy Town poster
6.9

When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!

Daisy Town

1971

The Big Store poster
6.3

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

The Big Store

1973

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2 poster
4.9

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

The Four Charlots Musketeers 2

1974

Rookies Go to War poster
6.1

A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.

Rookies Go to War

1974

Rookies Run Amok poster
5.6

Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.

Rookies Run Amok

1971

Trop c'est trop poster
6.2

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.

Trop c'est trop

1975

From Hong Kong with Love poster
5.1

Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.

From Hong Kong with Love

1975

The Four Charlots Musketeers poster
5.2

This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.

The Four Charlots Musketeers

1974

Les Charlots en délire poster
5.5

Gérard, CEO of the factory "La voix du peuple", decides to close his factory by dismissing all his staff, starting with Jean Barbier, the chief of staff, and Phil Dechambre.

Les Charlots en délire

1979

Et vive la liberté ! poster
5.0

Their feats of arms in Africa are worth to Phil, Jeannot and Gerard to be sent on a special mission in Algeria. Held captive by the Fellaghas, they manage to escape and are congratulated.

Et vive la liberté !

1978

Charlots Go to Spain poster
5.1

Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.

Charlots Go to Spain

1972

No artwork available
NR

This variety show, with its new concept, is presented as a musical comedy. Having formed an orchestra, a group of young people perform in the courtyards of an old Parisian neighborhood, hoping to earn some money. But no one listens to them. All the tenants of the building are glued to their television sets. Only one mysterious man takes an interest in the group and offers them a box of magic matches.

La Lucarne magique

1971

The Great Java poster
6.0

Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.

The Great Java

1971

Series credits

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

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

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Fan School poster
7.2

Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.

Fan School

1977

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

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

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

Coucou c'est nous ! poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Coucou c'est nous !

1992

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

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Système 2

1975

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

Les Cordier, juge et flic poster
5.3

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

Les Cordier, juge et flic

1994

Marc et Sophie poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Marc et Sophie

1987

Cadet Rousselle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cadet Rousselle

1971

Ratz poster
6.4

The show stars two rats, Rapido and Razmo, aboard the S.S. Wanderer, a cheese ship with no actual destination. The focus of the series is on the adventures of the two rats, including guarding the cheese, interacting with other stowaways and various ill-fated encounters with the crew. The rats themselves live in the hull of the ship in a lavish two-bedroom apartment.

Ratz

2003

Nouvelle Maud poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nouvelle Maud

2010

MOT poster
7.5

If fun, adventure, action and surprise aren’t your cup of tea, you better watch out: Mot is on his way over and he is not the kind of guy who knocks before he enters. But if you like mischievous monsters, and if you too once had a dragon under your bed, then ... you better stick around.

MOT

1995

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

C.L.Y.D.E. poster
NR

CLYDE (Computer Linked Yield Driven Entity) was an alien computer banished from another planet when he developed a virus called a sense of humour. Finding his way to earth, he was discovered by siblings Matt (age 12) and Samantha (age 10) who hooked him up to an old juke box. The juke box came to life...a joking, fun loving, extrovert in a world not quite ready for him. Clyde and the kids work out of Alberto's Diner, in the heartland of North America. Clyde would always send the kids into computer systems...who often faced off against the bugs...and helped solve everything from nuclear disasters to why the competing diners were selling more hamburgers. With Clyde's Brains and some the ingenuity on the part of Matt and Sam, they always averted the danger in the nick of time.....even when it was Clyde who caused it!

C.L.Y.D.E.

1990

Ivanhoe: The King's Knight poster
NR

Set in medieval England during the reign of King Richard the Lionheart, this animated series follows Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a noble Saxon knight who fights for justice, honor, and the rightful king. With King Richard away on the Crusades, the scheming Prince John seeks to usurp the throne. Ivanhoe, loyal to Richard, becomes a symbol of resistance against tyranny. Each episode features Ivanhoe and his companions — including the clever jester Wamba, the brave Rebecca, and the loyal Harold — as they thwart Prince John's plots, battle corrupt nobles like Front-de-Boeuf and Malvoisin, and protect the innocent across the kingdom. The show blends action, chivalry, and moral lessons, offering a kid-friendly take on classic medieval adventure with a touch of political intrigue and fantasy.

Ivanhoe: The King's Knight

1997

No artwork available
NR

5, Rue Sésame is a French language children's television series based on the popular U.S. children's show Sesame Street, aired by France 5. This series is the second Sesame Workshop co-production for France, the first being 1, rue Sesame. Seventy-five 26-minute-long episodes were created for the first season, directed by François Basset and Jul Mallard. The series is produced for France 5 by Expand-Drama with Sesame Workshop. Executive producer of the series is Georges Campana. The show debuted airing daily, Sunday to Friday at 6:30 am, and Saturdays at 7:00 am and 12:30 pm. Terry Fitzpatrick, Sesame Workshop's executive VP for distribution:

5, Rue Sésame

2005

Une femme en blanc poster
9.0

A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.

Une femme en blanc

1997

Esprit Fantômes poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Esprit Fantômes

2002

Regards d'enfance poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Regards d'enfance

1993

Robinson Sucroë poster
8.0

Newspaper reporter Robinson Sucroe is sent to live on a tropical island to write about deserted life for The New York Herald. Only problem is, the island is home to groups of pirates and castaways, both of which want their existence kept a secret from the outside world. So now Robinson must write untrue stories about the island, keep their secret, and keep famous reporter Grumbleston from spilling the beans to the head editor.

Robinson Sucroë

1995

À cran, deux ans après poster
NR

Once he emerges from his depressive lethargy, with the help of his former teammate Edith Lesage, Bob sets out to find those responsible for his downfall. He then takes it upon himself to investigate the death of Julien—an investigation he had been unable to conduct earlier—which may be connected to the plot against him...

À cran, deux ans après

2004

Ah, c'était ça la vie! poster
NR

A vision of youth in Western Europe in the 50s, literature, jazz, politics and wars intermingle in their dreams, ideals and their first loves.

Ah, c'était ça la vie!

2010

La maison des enfants poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

La maison des enfants

2003

L'Enfant du bout du monde poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Enfant du bout du monde

1997

Eve Castelas poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eve Castelas

1999

Ambre a disparu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ambre a disparu

2004

Behind the camera