Louis de Funés He was born on in Courbevoie. And he died on in Nantes at the age of 68 years.

Frantisek Filipovsky He was born on in Prelouc. And he died on in Prag at the age of 86 age years.

Louis de Funes  His parents came from Seville, Spain. His father, Carlos Luis de Funès de Galarza had been a lawyer in Spain, but became a diamond cutter upon arriving in France.  As a youth, Lois was fond of drawing and piano playing. Later he became a pianist, working mostly as a jazz pianist at Pigalle. He studied acting for one year at the Simon acting school.

 After the Second World War De Funès began his show business career in the theatre, where he enjoyed moderate success.  In 1945 he made his film debut at the age of 31 with a bit part in Jean Stelli's La Tentation de Barbizon ("The Temptation of Barbizon"). And he went on to perform in 130 film roles over the next 20 years.  Unlike the characters he played, de Funès was said to be a very shy person in real life.

 Thanks of rapidly changing range of facial expressiveness, de Funès was nicknamed "the man with forty faces per minute„.  In many of his films, he played the role of a humorously excitable, middle-aged or mature man with a propensity to hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger.  Along with his short height, (he measured 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)) and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a comic effect.

Frantisek Filipovsky  He was born in a musician family, his father was a composer. Since his childhood Frantisek was very interested in music and theatre. He was a good singer and could play a few musical instruments.  He started his career as an actor in the "The Free Theatre" leaded by populat actor´s duo Jan Werich-Jiri Voskovec.

 He was acting in a various movies during 30´s of XX century.During War II he was just a movie actor. Just after the War II he became a member of National Theatre. He was extremely popular both in movie and at radio in 50´s.  His legendary radio reading is a novel of Frantisek Polacek "We were The Five". He acts unmemorable part in a movie "Emperor´s Baker and Baker´s Emperor" - the legend about Old Prague Jewish "robot" Golem.  The number of Filipovsky parts is really incredible - his career counts over 100! movies and tv series.

Frantisek Filipovsky and his role in dubbing  In the Czech Republic and France, all foreign films and television programmes shown on television are dubbed, often by very well known actors.In the Czech Republic, it is also common that some actors are always dubbed by one Czech actor. And this was the case of Louis de Funes, he was almost always dubbed by František Filipovský. He became his unique dabber and was honored by Mr. Funes as the best dubber of him.  He dubbed Louis de Funes in a unforgettable way and won in his career a few annual Prizes for Dubbing.

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