Raymond Devos

Known for ActingBorn 1922-11-09Died 2006-06-15Mouscron, 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 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Raymond Devos - 80 ans, 80 sketches

Teuf-teuf

Raymond Devos à l'Olympia

Apostrophes

Cinépanorama

Raymond Devos, un hommaginaire

Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre Montparnasse

Le Grand Échiquier

À bout portant

Work and Freedom

Discorama

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Numéro un

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Pierrot le Fou

Champs-Elysées

The Right of the Maddest

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

30 millions d'amis

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Samedi soir

The Severed Heads

You Have Nothing to Declare?

Sacrée Soirée

Les 60 ans du one-man-show

This Pretty World

Tartarin de Tarascon

Téléthon

The Sicilian

Vivement dimanche

Victoires de la musique

Bonsoir Monsieur Devos

J'ai des doutes : Devos-Morel

Raymond Devos : Les 100 plus grands sketches

Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre De La Porte Saint Martin

Michel Sardou - Show Sardou

Raymond Devos - À l'Olympia

Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre Romain Rolland De Villejuif

Raymond Devos - Au Palais Royal

Raymond Devos - Au Théâtre Antoine