Biography: life and films
Gad Elmaleh is a French-Moroccan actor and film director. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco on 19th April 1971.His best films as an actor include Philippe Bérenger's comedy On fait comme on a dit (2000), Marco Carmel's Comme ton père (2007), Rose Bosch's La Rafle (2010), Costa-Gavras's thriller Le Capital (2012) and Michel Gondry's L'Écume des jours (2013).
Gad Elmaleh has so far appeared in 36 films, scripted 2 films and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Merzak Allouache (3 films) and François Desagnat (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (22 films), comedy-romance (7), drama (5), comedy-drama (5), Fantasy (4), romance (2), War (2) and Animation (2).
Our average rating for Gad Elmaleh over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer; d = director
XXL (1997) [a]
L'Homme est une femme comme les autres (1998) [a]
On fait comme on a dit (2000) [a]
La Vérité si je mens! 2 (2001) [a]
Les Gens en maillot de bain ne sont pas (forcément) superficiels (2001) [a]
A+ Pollux (2002) [a]
Chouchou (2003) [a,w]
La Beuze (2003) [a]
Les Clefs de bagnole (2003) [a]
Les 11 commandements (2004) [a]
Bab el web (2005) [a]
Olé! (2005) [a]
Coco (2009) [a,d,w]
La Rafle (2010) [a]
Jack and Jill (2011) [a]
Midnight in Paris (2011) [a]
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011) [a]
Un monstre à Paris (2011) [a]
Un bonheur n'arrive jamais seul (2012) [a]
L'Orchestre de minuit (2015) [a]
Pattaya (2016) [a]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The best French war films ever made
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
