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Guy Bedos

Guy Bedos
Guy Bedos 19-01-09 Presentation Fnac St Lazare 01.jpg
Born (1934-06-15) 15 June 1934 (age 82)
Algiers, French Algeria
Nationality French
Occupation Comedian, Artist of the music hall, Actor, Scriptwriter

Guy Bedos (born 15 June 1934, in Algiers, French Algeria) is an actor (mostly known for his part in the film Nous irons tous au paradis) and a famous stand-up comedian. He identifies with the ethnic group Pied-Noir, descending from Spain. At Music-Hall, he interpreted various sketches of authors alike him. He developed a regularly updated political satire. This satire affected mostly right-wing politicians, his "friends" of the left also suffer from his cutting reflections.

He is also famous for his left-wing political affiliation and he had supported politicians such as François Mitterrand.

Guy Bedos is the son of Alfred Bedos, health visitor, Hildeberte Verdier daughter of the headmaster of the high school Bugeaud, where he was raised. His parents separated. He is tossed around, home to hotel, in Kouba, where there is a pension at age seven in Finouche, who serves as a teacher, Souk Ahras and Constantine.He enrolled at the age of thirteen for a Catholic high school in Bone. According to his autobiography ‘Memories d’outre-mere’, his bad relationship with his mother and father-in-law made his life very difficult. His father-in-law beat his mother, who beat her son back. He also tells us that his father-in-law, racist and antisemitic, and his mother, who gave him his human political consciousness. He also revealed that during that period of time, he had obsessive compulsive disorders.

There is his uncle Jacques Bedos, who worked at Radio Algiers before entering the ORTF in Paris, which is the origin of where he vacations as an artist.

Arriving in Paris in June 1949 with his parents and his two twin half sisters, he left the family home of Rueil-Malmaison in February 1950, and saw the sale of books, going door to door. At the age of seventeen, he entered the Rue Blanche school; learned classical theater and signed his first production at the age of seventeen and a half: Marivaux Arlequin poli par l’amour. He plays at the theater, but also cabarets, as La Fontaine des Quarte-Saisons. He was engaged by Francois Billetdoux, when Jacques Prevert, who found him writing, encouraged him to write sketches. He performed his first sketch, signed by Jacques Chazot, La Galerie 55.


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