# Pierre Mondy

Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director.

## Personal life

Born on 10 February 1925, he was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma.

## Career

Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career. In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic  [fr].
As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).
Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault.

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2009 | Kaamelott | Emperor Caesar | Alexandre Astier | |

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1987 | Two into One | Ray Cooney | Pierre Mondy | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director |
| 1989 | La Présidente | Maurice Hennequin & Pierre Veber | Pierre Mondy | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Director |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1949 | Rendezvous in July | The student's friend | Jacques Becker | Uncredited |
| 1950 | Les anciens de Saint-Loup | Le marquis Patrice de Puy-Tirejol | Georges Lampin | |
| 1950 | Souvenirs perdus | The Agent | Christian-Jaque | (segment "Le violon"), Uncredited |
| 1951 | Without Leaving an Address | Forestier's Friend | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | |
| 1951 | Victor | An inmate | Claude Heymann | |
| 1952 | Le costaud des Batignolles | Bébert | Guy Lacourt | |
| 1952 | Souvenirs perdus | Georges | Un jour avec vous | |
| 1952 | Matrimonial Agency | Le client de l'agence 'Nuptia' #2 | Jean-Paul Le Chanois (2) | |
| 1952 | The Happiest of Men | Inspector Gaston | Yves Ciampi | |
| 1953 | Les Compagnes de la nuit | Sylvestre | Ralph Habib | |
| 1953 | Capitaine Pantoufle | Henri | Guy Lefranc | |
| 1953 | Le Guérisseur | Robert | Yves Ciampi (2) | |
| 1954 | Crainquebille | La Trogne | Ralph Habib | |
| 1954 | Tout chante autour de moi | Paul Nollier | Pierre Gout | |
| 1955 | Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs | Thomas | Robert Darène | |
| 1955 | Casse-cou, mademoiselle! | Marchand | Christian Stengel | |
| 1955 | Cherchez la femme | Georges Tessard | Raoul André | |
| 1955 | The Affair of the Poisons | Le capitaine François Desgrez | Henri Decoin | |
| 1956 | People of No Importance | Pierrot Berty | Henri Verneuil | |
| 1956 | Folies-Bergère | Roger | Henri Decoin | |
| 1957 | Que les hommes sont bêtes | Josélito | Roger Richebé | |
| 1957 | The She-Wolves | André Vilsan | Luis Saslavsky | |
| 1957 | La roue | Jean Marcereau | André Haguet and Maurice Delbez | |
| 1957 | Méfiez-vous fillettes | Tonio | Yves Allégret | |
| 1957 | Send a Woman When the Devil Fails | Commissaire Verdier | Yves Allégret | |
| 1957 | The Tricyclist | Un gendarme | Jack Pinoteau | |
| 1957 | Anyone Can Kill Me | Émile Chanu | Henri Decoin | |
| 1957 | The Lady Doctor | Romeo, cammeriere di De Vitti | Camillo Mastrocinque | |
| 1958 | Le temps des oeufs durs | Le maître nageur | Norbert Carbonnaux | |
| 1958 | Neither Seen Nor Recognized | M. Bluette | Yves Robert | |
| 1958 | Chéri, fais-moi peur | Le commissaire Morel | Jack Pinoteau | |
| 1958 | En légitime défense | Petit Bob | André Berthomieu | |
| 1958 | Life Together | Monsieur Lebeaut | Clément Duhour | |
| 1958 | Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Women | Max | Maurice Régamey | |
| 1959 | Women Are Weak | André, Agathe's Husband | Michel Boisrond | |
| 1959 | Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? | Alfred Dupont | Clément Duhour | |
| 1959 | Way of Youth | Lulu | Michel Boisrond | |
| 1960 | Les Loups dans la bergerie | Charlot | Hervé Bromberger | |
| 1960 | Austerlitz | Napoléon Bonaparte | Abel Gance | |
| 1960 | It Happened All Night | Antoine Fiesco | Henri Verneuil | |
| 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman | Edouard, Bichette's father | various directors | (segment "Adolescence, L'") |
| 1960 | Boulevard | Dicky | Julien Duvivier | |
| 1961 | Dans la gueule du loup | Commissaire Rémy | Jean-Charles Dudrumet | |
| 1961 | Les moutons de Panurge | Un voisin de table au restaurant | Jean Girault | Uncredited |
| 1961 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Caderousse | Claude Autant-Lara | |
| 1962 | Girl on the Road | Le manager | Jacqueline Audry | |
| 1962 | Le Crime ne paie pas | Clerget, le détective | Gérard Oury | (segment "L'affaire Hugues"), Uncredited |
| 1962 | The Law of Men | Le juge Béguin | Charles Gérard | |
| 1962 | The Mysteries of Paris | Le Chourineur | André Hunebelle | |
| 1963 | Jusqu'au bout du monde | Pierre | François Villiers | |
| 1963 | People in Luck | Henri Duchemin | Philippe de Broca and Jean Girault | (segment "Le yacht") |
| 1963 | Bebert and the Train | Parmelin | Yves Robert | |
| 1963 | Son of the Circus | Philip Nardelli | Sergio Grieco | |
| 1964 | Mission to Venice | Paul Trégard | André Versini | |
| 1964 | À couteaux tirés | Robert Antonini | Charles Gérard | |
| 1964 | Requiem pour un caïd | Antoine Delille | Maurice Cloche | |
| 1964 | Weekend at Dunkirk | Dhéry | Henri Verneuil | |
| 1965 | Les copains | Broudier | Yves Robert | |
| 1965 | The Sleeping Car Murders | Le commissaire Tarquin | Costa-Gavras | |
| 1966 | Le facteur s'en va-t-en guerre | Massenet | Claude Bernard-Aubert | |
| 1966 | Monsieur le Président Directeur Général (Appelez-moi Maître) | Denis Bonneval | Jean Girault | |
| 1967 | The Night of the Generals | Kopatski | Anatole Litvak | |
| 1969 | Pierre et Paul | Pierre | René Allio | |
| 1969 | Appelez-moi Mathilde | Le commissaire | Pierre Mondy | Uncredited |
| 1971 | Papa les petits bateaux... | Jeannot le Corse | Nelly Kaplan | |
| 1972 | Les malheurs d'Alfred | François Morel | Pierre Richard | |
| 1973 | Forbidden Priests | Paul Lacoussade | Denys de La Patellière | |
| 1973 | Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Sergent Louis Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | |
| 1974 | Vos gueules les mouettes! | Bibi Kenavec | Robert Dhéry | |
| 1974 | Impossible Is Not French | Antoine Brisset | Robert Lamoureux | |
| 1975 | L'agression | Sauguet | Gérard Pirès | Voice, Uncredited |
| 1975 | Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis | Olivier Galmisch | François Dupont-Midi | |
| 1975 | Le téléphone rose | Benoît Castejac | Édouard Molinaro | |
| 1975 | The Seventh Company Has Been Found | Sergent Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | |
| 1977 | Dernière sortie avant Roissy | Marlys | Bernard Paul | |
| 1977 | The Seventh Company Outdoors | Chaudard | Robert Lamoureux | |
| 1978 | Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé | Georges | Jean-Luc Voulfow | |
| 1978 | Vas-y maman | Jean-Pierre Larcher | Nicole de Buron | |
| 1978 | La Cage aux Folles | Renato Baldi | Édouard Molinaro | (French version), Voice |
| 1979 | Démons de midi | François | Christian Paureilhe | |
| 1980 | Retour en force | Roger | Jean-Marie Poiré | |
| 1981 | Signé Furax | Amédée Gonflard | Marc Simenon | |
| 1982 | Bankers Also Have Souls | Grégoire Dufour | Michel Lang | |
| 1983 | Le Braconnier de Dieu | Brother Grégoire | Jean-Pierre Darras | |
| 1983 | Le Battant | Rouxel | Alain Delon | |
| 1983 | Si elle dit oui... je ne dis pas non | Marcel Thiebault | Claude Vital | |
| 1984 | Pinot simple flic | Rochu | Gérard Jugnot | |
| 1985 | Slices of Life | Le Président | François Leterrier | |
| 1985 | Asterix Versus Caesar | Caius Obtus | Gaëtan Brizzi and Paul Brizzi | Voice |
| 1986 | Asterix in Britain | Cetinlapsus | Pino Van Lamsweerde | Voice |
| 1992 | Cerveny cigán | | | |
| 1994 | The Favourite Son | Le dentiste usurier | Nicole Garcia | |
| 2003 | Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés | Marcel | Stéphane Clavier | |
| 2008 | A Man and His Dog | Baptistin | Francis Huster | |