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Gérard Calvi

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1922

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The filmcomposer Gérard Calvi has mainly devoted his career to the theater where he composed many pieces of music. His work comprises more than 300 songs and 50 filmcompositions.

From 1948 he worked together with Robert Dhéry and Colette Brosset who were very successful in London and New York with musical comedies like "Les Branquignols", "Vos gueules les mouettes" and "La Plume de ma Tante".

Other works of him comprise chamber music and chansons for soloists like "Le Prisonnier de la Tour" by Edith Piaf or "One of Those Song" by Frank Sinatra and Liza Minelli, 

He made his debut as a film composer in 1949 with "La patronne" (49) and "Branquignol" (49). In the next years followed only few more compositions for movies like "Barbe-Bleue" (51), "Coup dur chez les mous" (56) and "Nous autres à Champignol" (57).

In the 60's he set some successful to music, at the head of all the animated films of Astérix und Obélix. To these movies belong "Hola, Robinson" (60), "La belle Américaine" (61), "La tulipe noire" (64), "Les compagnongs de la marguerite" (67), "Astérix le Gaulois" (67) and "Astérix et Cléopâtre" (68).
Gérard Calvi continued his activity as a film composer in the next decades but he only composed occasionally for the cinema and TV.
To his works from the 70's belong "Trois hommes sur un cheval" (70), "L'oeuf" (72), "Les gaspards" (74), "Les doze travaux d'Astérix" (76), the serial "La nouvelle malle des Indes - Wettlauf nach Bombay" (85), "Bonjour l'angoisse" (88) and "Héloïse" (91).
 

Other movies from Gérard Calvi: 
Bertrand coeur de lion (50) Le dindon (51) Mourez, nous ferons le reste (54) Ah! Les belles bacchantes (54) Ah, quelle équipe! (57) Le grand chef (59) En compagnie de Max Linder (63) Carambolages (63) Le repas des fauves (64) Allez France! (64) Comment épouser un premier ministre (64) Serie "Polizeifunk ruft" (65) Le saint prend l'affût (66) Geheimnisse in goldenen Nylons (67) Le petit baigneur (67) Jerk à Istambul (67) Le viager (72) A la guerre comme à la guerre (72) Poof (73) Bons baisers...à lundi (74) C'est pas parce qu'on a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule (75) Jean-Sans-Terre (80) Le voyageur imprudent (82) Lucienne et le boucher (84) Serie "Lili, petit à petit (86) 

 
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