The actress Geneviève Grad, interpreter of Douliou douliou Saint-Tropezmovie song The gendarme of Saint-Tropez, with Louis de Funès, died at the age of 80, on the night of Thursday, November 7 to Friday, November 8, her husband, Jean Guillaume, announced to Agence France-Presse. The actress died at the Blois Polyclinic (Loir-et-Cher) “at the end of a brave fight against cancer”, her husband said.
The general public knew her face when she played the role of the daughter of Chief Marshal Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès, in the successful film series of the Gendarmes : The gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964), The policeman in New York (1965), The policeman gets married. (1968). In the first part, Geneviève Grad sings herself. Douliou douliou Saint-Tropeza pop song passed down to posterity and often poorly written in Do you do Saint-Tropez?.
Her career in front of the camera is broader than this period, as her first major role was in Captain crushes (1961) with Jean Marais. She also acted in Italian adventure films of the 1960s. The one who trained as a dancer at the Paris Opera until her adolescence experienced a slow career in the 1970s and turned her back on cinema in the early 1980s.
We find her as a production assistant on the preview television show. Time of the Bogdanoff brothers, the most famous twins of the French small screen of the 1980s. She will also have a son with Igor Bogdanoff. She had been married for thirty years to Jean Guillaume and had recently received, according to the latter, two or three requests for dedications by mail from “from Germany, Russia or Ukraine”.
