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Raymond Devos
Mouscron, Belgium
Raymond Devos (9 November 1922 – 15 June 2006) was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour. Devos w…
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Raymond Devos (9 November 1922 – 15 June 2006) was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour. Devos was born in Mouscron, Belgium, close to the French border. Both his parents were French and he moved to Tourcoing, France, at the age of two. Seven years later, his family moved to Paris. During the Second World War he was sent, like many young men of his generation, to Germany to work. On his return to France, he took acting and mime lessons at the Étienne Ducroux school, where he met Marcel Marceau. In 1948, he was part of a burlesque trio (in the older sense of the word burlesque). Devos's career took off in the 1950s when he began writing his own one man shows and was the opening act for Maurice Chevalier. Although his act still involved elements of his early years as a clown (such as juggling) he was mostly recognized because of his mastery of the French language. His unique brand of surreal humour and sophisticated puns garnered him much respect throughout the Francophone world. Devos is a leading character in Alejandro Jodorowsky's surrealist 1957 debut short film Les têtes interverties (a mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 play The Transposed Heads). Perhaps his best-known international appearance is a cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou 1965 as a man sitting on a harbourside who is obsessed with the memory of a mysterious love song. He performed for the last time in 1999 in Paris's Olympia Theater. He died in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, Yvelines, France. Because he was born in Belgium, the nationality of Devos was often, and still is, a source of confusion. Some media reported his death by referring to "Belgian comic Devos" or "French and Belgian comic Devos". He also has a Dutch/Flemish family name. Devos was born of French parents and raised in France, but was always respectful of his country of birth and once quipped that he was still, after all, a "fake Belgian". Source: Article "Raymond Devos" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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2026
Raymond Devos : il était une foi... la mienne
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Bonsoir Monsieur Devos
Movie Author
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2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Les 60 ans du one-man-show
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2018
J'ai des doutes : Devos/Morel
Movie Archives
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2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie Self – Humorist (archive footage)
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2016
Raymond Devos, un hommaginaire
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
Raymond Devos : Les 100 plus grands sketches
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Raymond Devos - 80 ans, 80 sketches
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2002
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1999
Raymond Devos à l'Olympia
Movie Self
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1998
Vivement dimanche
TV show Self
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1994
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
Movie Self
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1994
Raymond Devos - À l'Olympia
Movie Self
- 1992
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1989
Raymond Devos - Au Palais Royal
Movie Self
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1987
Téléthon
TV show Self
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1987
Sacrée soirée
TV show Self
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1985
Victoires de la musique
TV show Self
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1982
Champs-Elysées
TV show Self
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1982
Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre Montparnasse
Movie Self
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1978
Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre Antoine
Movie Self
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1976
30 millions d'amis
TV show Self
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1975
Numéro un
TV show Self - Host
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1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV show Self
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1975
Apostrophes
TV show Self
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1973
The Right of the Maddest
Movie Le surveillant de la Maison de Repos
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1972
Le Grand Échiquier
TV show Self
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1971
Samedi soir
TV show Self
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1968
À bout portant
TV show Self
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1965
Pierrot le Fou
Movie The Man from the Port (uncredited)
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1964
Pour le plaisir
TV show Self
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1963
Teuf-teuf
Movie
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1962
Tartarin de Tarascon
Movie Motorist
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1959
Work and Freedom
Movie Émile Dumoulin
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1959
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Movie Painter, winner of the Prix de Rome
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1959
Discorama
TV show Self
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1958
The Sicilian
Movie Henri
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1957
This Pretty World
Movie The abbot
