Patrick de Funes: biography, family, photo

Everyone remembers perfectly wonderful comedy films with the legendary Louis de Funes, such as "The Little Bather" (1968) or a whole series of movies about the gendarme. However, few people know that the great actor has two sons from the second marriage: Patrick de Funes, which will be discussed in this article, and Olivier. Read more about the older one.

Patrick de Funes: biography

Louis de Funes whole conscious life dreamed of creating an entire actor's dynasty. However, his sons chose a different field of activity. His youngest son Olivier became a pilot, and the elder, Patrick, a doctor. However, at a fairly young age, both sons managed to star in several films.

Patrick de Funes was born on January 27, 1944. From a young age, despite the pressure from his father, who wanted his sons to become actors, Patrick decided to build a career in a completely different sphere of activity.

After studying at the university as a doctor, he began to practice medicine. In medicine, he reached a rather high altitude. In many respects, his positive approach to work and to life as a whole contributed to this. In addition, his profession, which he chose consciously, liked him. His favorite business brought him not only money, but also a sense of satisfaction from his own activities and achievements.

"Do not talk too much about me, my children!"

Patrick de Funes and Olivier de Funes, whose photos you can see below, together with their mother wrote a book dedicated to their legendary father. The book contains memories of the sons about their father, and they, unlike the pleasant humorous memories of the fans of the great comedian, are far from happy.

For example, Louis de Funes was almost a complete copy of the characters he played in the movies. And if in comic films an eccentric squire called a smile, then in life, Louis was so greedy that it almost reached a manic state. Of course, such behavior of the head of the family reflected extremely negatively on the relationships within the family.

However, this does not mean that the book contains only negative and negative memories of Louis de Funes, on the contrary, most of the book is nevertheless devoted to pleasant moments.

One of its most important pluses is sincerity, and also authenticity, because it is written according to the brothers' own memories. Nobody can describe Louis de Funes more accurately than his own children. After all, they knew him, even when they were children. The book is written without embellishments and reflects personal memories and feelings of the actor's sons.

Patrick de Funes: Filmography

Despite the fact that Patrick did not build an acting career, he still took part in the creation of several films, mostly a documentary genre, where he acts as himself.

Among these films are the following:

• "Louis de Funes, or the art of making laugh" (2003);
• "Two against Fantômas: De Funes and Koenigson" (2010).

In addition to the documentary films associated mainly with the personality of his famous father, Patrick de Funes also appeared on several television series, including "Long Live Sunday" (TV series, 1998 - ...), "Everybody Says" (TV series, 1998 - 2006) And "You prevent everyone from sleeping" (TV series, 2006 - ...).

Almost all of his acting is limited to the above-mentioned TV-projects and documentary films.

However, in addition to his work in film as an actor, he is a documentary film screenwriter about his father, Louis de Funes: Man-Comedy (2003). This work is considered the most significant cinematic work of Patrick de Funes.

Personal life

Everyone knows the outstanding French actor Louis de Funes, who is the father of Patrick, but few know his mother, his wife Louis.

The mother of the sons of Louis, Patrick and Olivier, is Jeanne de Barthelemy, who was the grand-niece of the world-famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.

About Patrick's personal life, practically nothing is known, since he is not a media personality and does not seek to advertise his private life.

Patrick was never married, unlike his brother. He also does not have any children. All his life he devoted to work, in which he achieved considerable success.

Medical activity

Becoming a professional doctor, Patrick de Funes did not lose his sense of humor, inherited from his father. Even serious scientific work on medicine Patrick managed to fill with unique humor and originality.

Patrick is a cardiologist, specialist in mammography.

It is the eccentricity and extravagance of his scientific medical works that Patrick became famous in the narrow circles of professional medical personnel.

At the moment he is deservedly considered one of the most outstanding doctors who practiced medicine in the second half of the 20th century.

Writing Activities

In addition to the already mentioned book "Do not talk too much about me, my children!", Written in conjunction with his brother, Patrick is the author of several other literary works.

Unfortunately, other books written by Patrick are not translated into Russian, so you can find them only in the original language, that is, in French. The names of the books in French sound like this:

• Médecin malgré moi, Le Cherche midi (2008). In this literary work Patrick tells the story of his professional medical activity, as well as about how he made a choice of his profession. In fact, this book is his memoir.
• La Folie de la grandeur, Le Cherche midi (2012). This book is also autobiographical and traditionally for Patrick is filled with sparkling humor and self-irony.

Patrick's literary talent is what made him famous. It was at the expense of Patrick's ability to express his thoughts beautifully in the text of the documentary Louis de Funes: The Comedy Man (2003), the script to which he wrote, became one of the best documentaries about the legend of the French humor and family cinema Louis de Funes .

A family

Unlike his younger brother and father, Patrick de Funes, whose family is known quite a lot, does not advertise the details of his personal life.

Therefore, one can reliably say only that he has a brother and a joint brother - on his father, on his first marriage. Almost everything is known about his parents, it's not to say anything.

The legendary father of Patrick is known all over the world, and in France he is a cult personality, which any Frenchman knows and remembers.

Above you can see Patrick de Funes in the photo with his family almost in full.

There are not many such photographs, so this photo is of special interest both from fans of creative activity of Louis de Funes, and from people who are interested in the identity of his son Patrick.

Conclusion

Let's summarize the results. The eldest son from the second marriage did not follow in the footsteps of the famous actor, although his father very much wanted to. Louis de Funes dreamed of a whole dynasty of film actors, but fate decreed somewhat differently.

Despite the fact that all three sons of Louis de Funes took part in filming a whole series of films, they can not be called professional actors, as each of them left the film industry, realizing that the cinema and the acting career do not suit them.

Patrick in his youth managed to star in several films, and then almost completely switched to medicine. However, he nevertheless continued from time to time to work in the film industry, but already as a screenwriter, not an actor.

Despite Patrick de Funes's impressive contribution to medicine and cinematography, he was best known for his writings, and first of all, written together with his younger brother Olivier, a book of memories of their father.

By the way, this book was highly appreciated not only by literary critics and readers, but also by the brothers' own mother, who was very grateful to the sons that they immortalized the memory of their father in this way.

Largely due to the fact that the sons of Louis de Funes remember and honor their legendary father, write books about him, take part in the filming of documentary films about him, the memory of the great actor not only does not fade, but with the years it grows ever stronger.