Gérard Jugnot (born May 4, 1951 in Paris) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
He is one of the founders of the Parisian comedy stage troupe Le Splendid' in The '70s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte and Michel Blanc. Bruno Moynot, Josiane Balasko and Marie-Anne Chazel later joined them.
The Splendid' troupe adapted a number of its stage hits for the big screen and was very successful at that endeavour, with films such as the first two Les Bronzés (French Fried Vacation) and Le père Noël est une ordure (Santa Claus Is a Stinker), and had a few more successes based off original stories such as Papy fait de la Résistance (Gramps Is in the Resistance). 2004's The Chorus was Jugnot's first international hit.
He is generally typecast as average Frenchmen, from the more friendly, naive and clumsy types to the more despicable ones (though always Played for Laughs for the latter). As he's aging he's slowly taking on Cool Old Guy / "worried old guy" roles.
Works on TV Tropes:
- Les Valseuses (1974) as a vacationer
- Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) as a waiter
- The 7th Company Outdoors (1977) as Gaston Gorgeton
- French Fried Vacation film series as Bernard Morin
- French Fried Vacation (1978)
- French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
- French Fried Vacation 3 (2006)
- Santa Claus Is a Stinker (1982) as Félix (the Mall Santa)
- Pour cent briques, t'as plus rien... (1982) as Paul
- Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983) as Adolfo Ramirez
- The Chorus (2004) as Clément Mathieu
- Treasure Island (2007) as Long John Silver
- Paris 36 (2008) as Germain Pigoil
- Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012) as Redbeard the pirate
- Benoit Brisefer (2014) as Jules Dussiflard
- City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume (2018) as the psychologist
Tropes & Trivia about his works:
- Les Collaborateurs:
- The concierge-turned-French Gestapo agent Adolfo Ramirez in Gramps Is in the Resistance is perhaps the most famous Played for Laughs example in French cinema.
- His role in Monsieur Batignole subverts the trope with his average Frenchman character abandoning his comfortable passivity in the face of the German Occupation to save a young Jewish boy from The Holocaust.
- Directed by Cast Member: He's directed 14 films since 1984, all of which he's played in.
- Written by Cast Member: He's written the aforementioned 14 films since 1984 in addition to directing them and playing in them.
