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Rufus
Born: 19th Dec 1942 Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Dept: Acting
Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom, Puy-de-Dôme) is the stage name of French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001). He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 140
Film: 128 (91%)
Television: 12 (9%)
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Filmography
Original title: T'as pas changé
2025
Feeling nostalgic about their high school days, Hervé, Maxime, and Jordy decide to host a grand reunion party to reconnect and celebrate their 30-yea ... view
Character:
Rolland
Original title: Un père idéal
2024
Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down when his teenage daughter is murdered. The commu ... view
Character:
L'Evêque
Original title: La véritable histoire d'Amélie Poulain
2023
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed. ... view
Character:
(archive footage)
2022
Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children co ... view
Character:
Jean
Original title: Reprise en main
2022
Cédric is a worker in a precision mechanics factory in the French Alps. When he finds out that the factory is about to be sold to an investment fund ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Tourner pour vivre
2022
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years. ... view
Character:
Self
Sep 2021 (first aired)
When four-year-old Gregory is murdered, his devastated parents, the police and the judiciary are tested to their limits. ... view
Character:
Le gendarme Féru (6 ep.)
Apr 2021 (first aired)
Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner is turned upside-down when her extraordinary abilitie ... view
Character:
Henri (40 ep.)
2021
One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet the artist himself, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) ... view
Character:
Self
2020
In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come up with the idea of building an "artisanal" amusement ... view
Character:
Roger Morels
Original title: Au nom de la terre
2019
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. ... view
Character:
Jacques Jarjeau
Original title: La Vertu des impondérables
2019
That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. ... view
Character:
Le voisin
Nov 2017 (first aired)
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Of ... view
Character:
Père Christophe (2 ep.)
2017
In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It's an inexplicable murder. ... view
Character:
Roger Baudouin
2017
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular ... view
Character:
Le vieux Jules
Original title: Va, Toto!
2017
A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to Ind ... view
Character:
Joseph (voice)
Original title: Deux escargots s’en vont
2017
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t ... view
Character:
(voice)
Original title: Broers
2017
When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been trailing his charismatic brother for his entire life ... view
Character:
Emile
2017
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless. ... view
Character:
Lucien
Original title: Chacun sa vie
2017
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secre ... view
Character:
Le chauffeur de taxi
Original title: Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont
2016
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in n ... view
Character:
Jean
Original title: Chant d'hiver
2015
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat. ... view
Character:
Concierge
2014
An old man is entrusted in curing a young girl struck by amnesia. He takes her on a healing trip, eccentric and joyous, to Ouagadougou by way of the C ... view
Character:
Voltaire
Original title: Salaud, on t'aime
2014
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his ... view
Character:
Le Ruf
2014
Vanina leads a very ordered life and and desperately wants to appear perfect to everyone, whatever the situation. Unfortunately for her, everything fa ... view
Character:
Le Dantec
2013
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures ... view
Character:
Doctor Andreausse
Original title: La Marche
2013
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e ... view
Character:
François, le pasteur
2013
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of t ... view
Character:
'Piquoiseau'
Original title: Pas Très Normales Activités
2013
An isolated house, a young couple, a perverted videographer, a mute. All of which leads to normal activities... but not quite! A parody of Paranormal ... view
Character:
Levantour
Original title: Je retourne chez ma mère
2012
Unemployed and separated from his wife, François has no choice but to return to live with his mother. To explain his return to the family home at the ... view
Character:
Gorbatchev
2012
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives. ... view
Character:
Père Clément Rozière
Original title: Je m'appelle Bernadette
2011
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lour ... view
Character:
Forcade
2011
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes ... view
Character:
Le commissaire
2011
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize res ... view
Character:
Pistille
2010
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the ... view
Character:
Germain Bougron, l'expert
Original title: Korkoro
2009
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "le ... view
Character:
Fernand
Original title: Tricheuse
2009
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love. ... view
Character:
M. Paroquet
2009
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to co ... view
Character:
Roi Cyril John Delagny
Original title: Mes stars et moi
2008
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for th ... view
Character:
Victor
Original title: Ma vie n'est pas une comédie romantique
2007
In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. He runs into Florence, an old school friend, who in ... view
Character:
le père de Thomas
Original title: Sa Majesté Minor
2007
In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans. ... view
Character:
Rectus
2006
In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while their impoverished mothers had to go to work in fa ... view
Character:
The Bishop
Original title: Qui m'aime me suive
2006
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He dec ... view
Character:
Jean-Pierre
2006
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job ... view
Character:
Edmond
Original title: Les Aiguilles rouges
2006
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so maj ... view
Character:
Marullaz
Original title: Du jour au lendemain
2006
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed ... view
Character:
Cremer
2005
In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vi ... view
Character:
le conseiller du calife
Original title: Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2004
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ... view
Character:
Breton
Original title: Le grand rôle
2004
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his ... view
Character:
Monsieur Silberman
Original title: Madame Édouard
2004
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn n ... view
Character:
Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
Original title: À ton image
2004
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical ... view
Character:
O pai de Mathilde
2004
11-year-old Valentin and his father live alone on their farm. with the boy spending time with Oscar, who meets this lady on the internet, but Valentin ... view
Character:
Oscar
2003
This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in Fran ... view
Character:
M. de Biron
Original title: Les Contes de l'horloge magique
2003
In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester, drive ... view
Character:
2003
Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's total, absolute. But Alix's life catches up with them ... view
Character:
Edouard
2003
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-o ... view
Character:
Prof. Bergot
Original title: Ce jour-là
2003
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the a ... view
Character:
Hubus
Original title: Mon père, il m'a sauvé la vie
2001
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama ... view
Character:
Grinval
Original title: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
2001
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as ... view
Character:
Raphaël Poulain
Original title: Train de vie
1998
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to P ... view
Character:
Mordechai
1998
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis ... view
Character:
Harmonica
Character:
Dieu l'infirmière
Character:
Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
1997
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unex ... view
Character:
Henri
Original title: C'est la tangente que je préfère
1997
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man. ... view
Character:
Un spectateur au cinéma
1996
A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love. ... view
Character:
Octave
1996
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives. ... view
Character:
Mr. Gallibert
Original title: La Cité des enfants perdus
1995
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. ... view
Character:
Peeler
Original title: Les Misérables
1995
In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the ... view
Character:
Thénardier 1830 / 1990
1994
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train. ... view
Character:
Simon
1994
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives ... view
Character:
Dorta
Original title: Des feux mal éteints
1994
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel ... view
Character:
Commander Perleau
1991
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup ... view
Character:
Robert Kube
Original title: Lacenaire
1990
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while ... view
Character:
Canler
1990
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss. ... view
Character:
Inspecteur de justice
Original title: L'Autrichienne
1990
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinet ... view
Character:
L'abbé Girard
1990
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promise ... view
Character:
Sigisbert
Original title: Femme de papier
1989
Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in girlfriend (carrot-top cutie Helene Lapiower) pose ... view
Character:
M. Courtois
1989
Two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, meet on stage in a non-place ("Country road with tree") at dusk to wait for "Godot". This man - who will never c ... view
Character:
Vladimir
Original title: Soigne ta droite
1987
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, ... view
Character:
Policeman
1987
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest. ... view
Character:
Le Bossu
Original title: Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan
1986
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women ... view
Character:
Le moine
Original title: Un plan d'enfer
1986
A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the staff. ... view
Character:
Original title: Itinéraire bis
1983
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck ... view
Character:
Cyprien
Character:
Guillaume Apollinaire
Original title: La Guerre des polices
1979
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworl ... view
Character:
Le Garrec, chicken farmer
1979
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to re ... view
Character:
Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
Original title: Chaussette surprise
1978
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfou ... view
Character:
Antoine
Original title: La Part du feu
1978
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their mee ... view
Character:
Patrick Delbaut
Original title: Le Chant du départ
1977
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes ... view
Character:
Michel
1977
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost ... view
Character:
Sgt. Triand
Original title: Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
1976
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy edi ... view
Character:
Mathieu
Original title: Le locataire
1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. ... view
Character:
Georges Badar
1976
The dream of a man from the East confronted with the realities of the West. ... view
Character:
Self
1975
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thir ... view
Character:
Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
1975
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They ... view
Character:
Gendarme
1975
Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and ... view
Character:
Claude
1975
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and ... view
Character:
Jérémie
Jan 1975 (first aired)
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (72 ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Mariage
1974
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage. ... view
Character:
Henri
1974
The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the social non-conformity of his employers condemns hi ... view
Character:
Mr. Pemberton
Original title: Un nuage entre les dents
1974
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris. ... view
Character:
Man with the dog (uncredited)
Original title: L'Histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemise
1973
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped. ... view
Character:
'Gagnepain'
1973
In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herself. In the smaller classes, group activities were ... view
Character:
1973
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend ... view
Character:
Un méchant
1973
In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to b ... view
Character:
Vicar (uncredited)
Original title: Les camisards
1972
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed ... view
Character:
Jacques Combassous
Original title: Aussi loin que l'amour
1971
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and ... view
Character:
Le barman
Original title: Où est passé Tom ?
1971
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested ... view
Character:
Tom Coupar
Original title: Un aller simple
1971
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and pro ... view
Character:
Tom Mills
Original title: Laisse aller... c'est une valse
1971
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the ... view
Character:
Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
Original title: L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste
1971
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the ot ... view
Character:
Charles
Original title: Fantasia chez les ploucs
1971
Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc Noon ... view
Character:
Wesson
Character:
L'éleveur de pigeons
Nov 1970 (first aired)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels ... view
Character:
Hacker (1 ep.)
1970
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never ... view
Character:
Russian Violin Teacher (uncredited)
Original title: Un condé
1970
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from ... view
Character:
Raymond Aulnay
Original title: Cran d'arrêt
1970
A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woma ... view
Character:
Photographer's assistant
Original title: Les patates
1969
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cr ... view
Character:
Larobesse
Original title: L'Américain
1969
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends. ... view
Character:
Corbeau
1969
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the de ... view
Character:
le comptable de Philippe
1969
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. ... view
Character:
Freddie Fric
Original title: Les encerclés
1968
Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These yo ... view
Character:
Didier
1967
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail. ... view
Character:
Dog (uncredited)
1967
Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969. ... view
Character: