Editing Louis de Funès (section)

== Style ==
[[File:Louis de Funès — Tournage Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres — Saint-Tropez, 1978.jpg|thumb|300px|left|De Funès during the shooting of ''[[Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres]]'']]
Unlike the characters he played, De Funès was said to be a very shy person in real life. Capable of an extremely rich and rapidly changing range of [[Facial expression|facial expressions]], he was nicknamed "the man with forty faces per minute." In many of his films, he played the role of a humorously excitable, cranky, middle-aged or mature man with a propensity for hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger. Along with his short height – {{height|m=1.64}} – and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a highly comic effect. This was particularly visible when he was paired with [[Bourvil]], who was always given roles of calm, slightly naive, good-humoured men. In De Funès's successful lead role in a cinematic version of Molière's ''The Miser'', these characteristics are greatly muted, percolating just beneath the surface.