Moustache
Biography
Moustache was the stage name of François-Alexandre Galepides, a French jazz drummer and actor born in Paris in 1929. He got his start in music in 1948 when he joined Claude Luter's orchestra, Lorient, and performed in Saint-Germain-des-Prés nightspots, while also backing Sidney Bechet in France. From 1950 he fronted his own groups, Les sept complices and Les gros minets. In 1956, leading Moustache et ses Moustachus, he drummed and sang on rock and roll novelty records, including Le Croque-Skull-Creux, with words by Boris Vian. Much later, in 1978, he assembled Les petits Français, whose players included Marcel Zanini, Michel Attenoux and François Guin, and the band recorded jazz readings of Georges Brassens songs. Outside music, he ran restaurants and clubs, worked as a comic, and took occasional film roles. He appeared with Louis de Funès in Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958) and played Sergeant García opposite Alain Delon in Zorro (1975). He died in 1987.
58years old at death
- Born 15th arrondissement of Paris
- Died Arpajon
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- François Galepidès (birth name)Also credited as François-Alexandre Galepides and François Galépidès
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 25 years1957 to 1982
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Beyond film
From 1956, with the group Moustache et ses Moustachus, Moustache recorded rock'n'roll novelty songs as a drummer and singer, including "Le Croque-Skull-Creux" on a text by Boris Vian.
Beyond film
Moustache formed the group Les petits Francais in 1978, with Marcel Zanini, Michel Attenoux and Francois Guin, and they recorded jazz pieces by Georges Brassens.
A change of course
Moustache was a restaurateur and club head as well as a performer, running the restaurant Moustache on Avenue Duquesne in Paris and heading The Bilboquet in the 1960s and The Jazz Club at the Hotel Meridien Etoile in 1976.
A change of course
Moustache belonged to the Star Racing Team, competing in motor racing with other famous people of the 1980s, among them the actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Guy Marchand.
Moustache movies on Netflix
Best known for
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Worked with
Moustache shares two films with Audrey Hepburn, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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