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Charles Trenet (1913–2001)

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Was nicknamed "The Last Troubador" by Jean Cocteau. See more trivia »

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2012 Skyfall (writer: "Boum!" / performer: "Boum!")
 
2012 Banda sonora (TV series)
Episode #8.8 (2012) (writer: "La mer" / performer: "La mer")
 
2011 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (writer: "La Mer")
 
2010 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)
Episode #9.25 (2010) (music: "Beyond the Sea")
 
2010 Gent de paraula (TV series)
Episode #1.3 (2010) (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" / performer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?")
 
2010 The Simpsons (TV series)
The Squirt and the Whale (2010) (writer: "La Mer" - uncredited)
 
2010 La Rafle (music: "Tombé du ciel" / lyrics: "Tombé du ciel" / performer: "Tombé du ciel")
 
2010 Une famille formidable (TV series)
Retour aux sources (2010) (writer: "Douce France" / performer: "Douce France")
 
2009 Army of Crime (music: "Je chante" / lyrics: "Je chante" / performer: "Je chante")
 
2009 The Queen of Hearts (performer: "Fais ta vie")
 
2008 Seitenblicke (TV series documentary)
Episode dated 22 May 2008 (2008) (writer: "La Mer")
 
2007 Vivement dimanche (TV series)
Episode dated 28 October 2007 (2007) (performer: "Un jardin extraordinaire")
 
2007 Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
2007 A Secret ("Tout ça c'est pour nous")
 
2007 BioShock (Video Game) (writer: "La Mer")
 
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (performer: "La Mer" / "La Mer")
 
2007 Sicko (documentary) (performer: "Le temps des cerises")
 
2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
2006 Clatterford (TV series)
Christmas Panto (2006) (music: "Beyond the Sea")
 
2006 A Family Murder Party (TV mini-series)
 
2006 Man of the Year (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
2006 A Good Year (music: "Je Chante", "Boum" / lyrics: "Vous, qui passez sans me voir", "Je Chante", "Boum" / performer: "Je Chante")
 
2006 The Poisoner (TV movie) (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?")
 
2006 Charles at the Threshold (short) (performer: "Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir", "Menilmontant", "L'Ame du Poets", "Boum!")
 
2006 The Lake House (lyrics: "I Wish You Love" 1957)
 
2006 Nouvelle chance (writer: "Folle Complainte")
 
2006 Les enfants du pays (performer: "Douce France" / as Charles Trénet)
 
2006/I Sleeping Dogs Lie (performer: "Boum")
 
2005 Vi ska till havet (short) (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
2005 Prime (writer: "I WISH YOU LOVE")
 
2005 A Love to Hide (TV movie) (writer: "Boum" / performer: "Boum")
 
2004 Head in the Clouds (writer: "Vous qui passez sans me voir")
 
2004 Beyond the Sea (writer: "La Mer" 1943 / music: "Beyond the Sea" 1960 / lyrics: "Beyond the Sea" 1960 / performer: "La Mer" 1943)
 
2003 Something's Gotta Give (writer: "Que Reste-t-il de Nos Amours", "Boum!" / performer: "Que Reste-t-il de Nos Amours", "Boum!")
 
2003 Matchstick Men (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
2003 The Dreamers (writer: "La mer" 1945 / performer: "La mer" 1945)
 
2003 Finding Nemo (music: "Beyond the Sea" 1945 / as Charles Louis Trenet / lyrics: "Beyond the Sea" 1945 / as Charles Louis Trenet)
 
2003 Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure (writer: "Tombé du Ciel" / performer: "Tombé du Ciel")
 
2003 The Pharmacist (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
2002 American Dreams (TV series)
 
2002 Mondays in the Sun (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember (writer: "Beyond The Sea")
 
2002 L'odyssée d'Alice Tremblay (writer: "Mes jeunes années" / music: "Mes jeunes années")
 
2001/I Iris (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" / performer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?")
 
2001 One Night with Robbie Williams (TV special documentary) (writer: "Beyond The Sea")
 
2001 Festival in Cannes (writer: "Je chante", "Boum!", "Vous qui passes sans me voir", "La Mer", "Vous qui passez sans me voir", "Passing By" / performer: "Je chante", "Boum!", "Vous qui passes sans me voir")
 
2001 Novocaine (writer: "Menilmontant" / performer: "Menilmontant")
 
2001 Transfixed (lyrics: "Vous qui passez sans me voir")
 
2001 Kissing Jessica Stein (writer: "I Wish You Love")
 
2001 My First Mister (writer: "Beyond the Sea" 1945)
 
2001 Bains-douches (short) (writer: "La mer" / performer: "La mer")
 
2000 Tadpole (writer: "Menilmontant" 1939 / as Charles Trénet / performer: "Menilmontant" 1939 / as Charles Trénet)
 
1999 Eye of the Beholder (writer: "I Wish You Love")
 
1998 Babe: Pig in the City (writer: "Boum!" / performer: "Boum!")
 
1998 Hasards ou coïncidences (writer: "Bonsoir jolie madame")
 
1998 From the Earth to the Moon (TV mini-series)
Apollo One (1998) (music: "Beyond The Sea" / lyrics: "Beyond The Sea")
Can We Do This? (1998) (music: "Beyond The Sea" / lyrics: "Beyond The Sea")
 
1997 A Life Less Ordinary (writer: "BEYOND THE SEA" Karaoke Version, "BEYOND THE SEA")
 
1997 U Turn (writer: "I Wish You Love" / music: "I Wish You Love" / lyrics: "I Wish You Love")
 
1997 Cop Land (lyrics: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1997 Dream with the Fishes (writer: "I Wish You Love")
 
1996 The Good Life (performer: "Où irons nous dimanche prochain?" / "Où irons nous dimanche prochain?")
 
1995 Au petit Marguery (music: "La Folle Complainte" / lyrics: "La Folle Complainte" / performer: "La Folle Complainte")
 
1995 Innocent Lies (performer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?")
 
1995 Apollo 13 (writer: "BEYOND THE SEA")
 
1995 French Kiss (writer: "La Mer" / music: "Verlaine" / performer: "Verlaine")
 
1995 Funny Bones (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
1994 The Nanny (TV series)
I Don't Remember Mama (1994) (writer: "La Mer" - uncredited)
 
1993 Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV series)
Secret Agent Super Dragon (1993) (writer: "Beyond the Sea" - uncredited)
 
1993 Amos & Andrew (writer: "Beyond The Sea")
 
1992 Bitter Moon (writer: "La Mer")
 
1991 Father of the Bride (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1991 Toto the Hero (music: "Boum" / lyrics: "Boum" / performer: "Boum")
 
1991 Jacquot de Nantes (writer: "Boum", "N'y pensez pas", "le Temps des cerises" / performer: "Boum", "N'y pensez pas")
 
1991 L.A. Story (writer: "La Mer" / performer: "La Mer")
 
1990/I Havana (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1990 The Sheltering Sky (writer: "Je Chante" / performer: "Je Chante")
 
1990 Goodfellas (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1990 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1990 Dolly and Her Lover (writer: "Si le coeur vous en dit" / performer: "Si le coeur vous en dit")
 
1989 Black Rain ("BEYOND THE SEA")
 
1989 Sea of Love (writer: "BEYOND THE SEA")
 
1989 Bille en tête (writer: "A l'île Maurice")
 
1989 'Allo 'Allo! (TV series)
Christmas Puddings (1989) (writer: "Boom")
 
1989 Souvenir (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" - uncredited)
 
1988 Trois places pour le 26 (performer: "Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours", "Douce France", "La Vie Qui Va")
 
1988 Sound and Fury (writer: "Retour a Paris" / performer: "Retour a Paris")
 
1988 Aloha Summer (writer: "Beyond the Sea")
 
1984 The Blood of Others (writer: "Menilmontant" / performer: "Menilmontant")
 
1984 La chance aux chansons (TV series)
 
1983 Saigon: Year of the Cat (TV movie) (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" - uncredited)
 
1983 Edith and Marcel (writer: "La Mer")
 
1976 Small Change (writer: "Les enfants s'ennuient le dimanche" / performer: "Les enfants s'ennuient le dimanche")
 
1975 Derrick (TV series)
Madeira (1975) (performer: "La mer")
 
1974 Vive la France (documentary) (writer: "Y'a d'la joie" / lyrics: "Y'a d'la joie")
 
1974 And Now My Love (writer: "Retour à Paris" / performer: "Retour à Paris")
 
1973 The Train (writer: "Le soleil et la lune" / performer: "Le soleil et la lune")
 
1973 An Evening with Marlene Dietrich (documentary) (writer: "I Wish You Love")
 
1971 A Safe Place (writer: "Vous Qui Passer Sans Me Voir", "Le Mer" / performer: "Vous Qui Passer Sans Me Voir", "Le Mer")
 
1971 The Lawrence Welk Show (TV series)
Everything's Coming Up Roses (1971) (lyrics: "I Wish You Love" - uncredited)
 
1968 Stolen Kisses (music: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours" / lyrics: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours" / "Que reste-t-il de nos amours")
 
1963 The Day and the Hour (performer: "La Romance de Paris")
 
1961 Call Me Genius (writer: "At Last! At Last!" - uncredited)
 
1957 Love in the Afternoon ("L'ame Des Poètes")
 
1956 The Ambassador's Daughter (writer: "L'âme des poètes")
 
1956 The Voice of Firestone (TV series)
Episode #7.41 (1956) (writer: "Beyond the Sea" - uncredited)
 
1951 Encore (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" - uncredited)
 
1948 Every Girl Should Be Married (music: "La mer" - uncredited)
 
1945 Dead of Night (writer: "Why Do You Pass Me By?" - uncredited)
 
1943 Love Around the Clock (writer: "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?")
 
1941 Romance de Paris (writer: "Chanson pour Lormel", "Tout ça c'est pour nous" / music: "La romance de Paris" / lyrics: "La romance de Paris" / performer: "La romance de Paris", "Chanson pour Lormel", "Tout ça c'est pour nous")
 
1938 Trois chansons, trois époques (short) (writer: "La polka du roi", "Le Grand Café", "Je chante" / performer: "La polka du roi", "Le Grand Café", "Je chante")
 
Show ShowActor (12 titles)
1965 L'or du duc
 
1954 An jedem Finger zehn
Singer
 
1952 Giovinezza
Cantante
 
1943 Love Around the Clock
Charles
 
1943 Adieu Léonard
Ludovic Malvoisin - un doux poète
 
1942 Frédérica
Gilbert Legrant
 
1941 Romance de Paris
Georges Gauthier
 
1938 Je chante
Charles
 
1938 La route enchantée
Jacques Minervois
 
1938 Trois chansons, trois époques (short)
Lui-même - chantant trois de ses chansons
 
Show ShowComposer (5 titles)
2011 La Mer (short) (post-production)
 
1938 Je chante
 
1934 Bariole
 
Show ShowMusic Department (3 titles)
1966 Solo de noche vienes (composer: theme music)
 
1965 L'or du duc (lyricist)
 
1938 La route enchantée (lyricist)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1938 La route enchantée (writer)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
1969 Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (dedicatee)
 
Show ShowSelf (20 titles)
1987 Àngel Casas show (TV series)
Himself
Episode #3.31 (1987) … Himself
 
1987 Champs-Elysées (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 28 March 1987 (1987) … Himself
Episode dated 10 January 1987 (1987) … Himself
 
1977 La nuit des Césars (TV series documentary)
Himself
2ème nuit des Césars (1977) … Himself
 
1976 Les rendez-vous du dimanche (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 25 April 1976 (1976) … Himself
 
1975 Numéro 1 (TV series)
Himself
Julien Clerc (1975) … Himself
 
1972-1973 Midi-Première (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.100 (1973) … Himself
Episode dated 16 May 1972 (1972) … Himself
 
1973 La vie du bon côté (TV series documentary)
Himself
Episode dated 22 January 1973 (1973) … Himself
 
1972 Dans le jardin de Franc-Nohain (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1972 Le grand échiquier (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.8 (1972) … Himself
 
1970 Esta noche con... (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 6 July 1970 (1970) … Himself
 
1968 D'hier et d'aujourd'hui (TV series)
Himself
Trenet d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1968) … Himself
 
1967 Mélodies-souvenirs (TV movie)
Himself/Performer
 
1965 Le palmarès des chansons (TV series)
Himself - Main guest
Episode dated 28 October 1965 (1965) … Himself - Main guest
 
1965 À chacun son la (TV movie)
Himself
 
1962 De wereld van Charles Trenet (TV movie)
Himself/Singer
 
1957 It Happened on the 36 Candles
Himself (uncredited)
 
1953 Boum sur Paris
Himself / En personne
 
1951 This Is Show Business (TV series)
Himself
Episode dated 9 December 1951 (1951) … Himself
 
1951 Bouquet de joie
Himself/Lui-même
 
1950 The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue (TV series)
Himself
Episode #1.24 (1950) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (5 titles)
2012 Banda sonora (TV series)
 
2007 Vivement dimanche (TV series)
 
2000 La chance aux chansons (TV series)
 
1976 Singing During the Occupation (documentary)
Himself
 
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Personal Quote:

I make songs like an apple tree makes apples. They come from inside of me. See more »

Trivia:

Was nicknamed "The Last Troubador" by Jean Cocteau. See more »

Nickname:

Le Fou Chantant The Singing Fool or The Singing Madman See more »

Star Sign:

Taurus