Alain Chabat

Alain Chabat

Known for
Acting
Born
November 24, 1958 (age 67)
Birthplace
Oran, Oranie, Algérie

Biography

Alain Chabat (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʃaba]; born 24 November 1958) is a French actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter. Originally known for his work in the comedy group Les Nuls, including as the co-writer and lead actor of La Cité de la peur (1994), he later co-created and hosted the Burger Quiz game show, which became the most watched entertainment show in the history of French television. Chabat has also become a notable filmmaker of his own, typically both writing and starring in the movies he directed, which include cult comedy films such as Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), RRRrrrr!!! (2004) and Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami (2012). He appeared in French Twist (1995), The Taste of Others (2000), Happily Ever After (2004), The Science of Sleep (2006), as well as briefly in the television series Kaamelott (2005). Additionally, he voiced the title character in the French dubbing of the Shrek franchise. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Chabat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

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Filmography

2027
High in the Clouds poster

High in the Clouds

Movie · as Bigsby (voice)

2026
Vertiginous poster

Vertiginous

Movie · as Jacky (voice)

2026
Evil Dead Burn poster

Evil Dead Burn

Movie · as Alice's Father (voice)

2025
God Save the Tuches poster

God Save the Tuches

Movie · as (voice)

2025
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) poster

Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)

Movie · as Le Duc d'Aquitaine

2025
Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight poster

Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight

TV · as Astérix (voice) · 5 eps

2024
Beating Hearts poster

Beating Hearts

Movie · as Le père de Jackie

2024
Lumière, Le Cinéma! poster

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Movie

2024
Loris Giuliano en balade poster

Loris Giuliano en balade

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2023
Ce soir, c'est Palmashow poster

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Movie · as Self - Guest

2023
Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix poster

Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix

Movie · as Self : Director

2023
L'Âge d'or de la pub poster

L'Âge d'or de la pub

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2023
Beau geste poster

Beau geste

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2022
Smoking Causes Coughing poster

Smoking Causes Coughing

Movie · as Chef Didier (voice)

2022
Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be poster

Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be

Movie · as Goscinny (voice)

2022
Drôles de familles poster

Drôles de familles

Movie · as Self

2022
Bacri, comme un air de famille poster

Bacri, comme un air de famille

Movie · as Self

2022
Incredible But True poster

Incredible But True

Movie · as Alain

2022
Le Late avec Alain Chabat poster

Le Late avec Alain Chabat

TV · as Self - Host · 10 eps

2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées poster

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2022
Hot Ones poster

Hot Ones

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2021
Kaamelott: The First Chapter poster

Kaamelott: The First Chapter

Movie · as Le Duc d'Aquitaine

2021
Samedi Sébastien poster

Samedi Sébastien

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2020
#Iamhere poster

#Iamhere

Movie · as Stéphane

2019
Play poster

Play

Movie · as Le père de Max

2019
Ce soir, c'est Palmashow poster

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow

Movie · as Self - Guest

2019
La télé des Nuls poster

La télé des Nuls

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2018
Keep an Eye Out poster

Keep an Eye Out

Movie · as The victim's cry (voice)

2017
Alain Chabat : Leçon de cinéma poster

Alain Chabat : Leçon de cinéma

Movie · as Self - Guest

2017
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets poster

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Movie · as Bob the Pirate

2017
Christmas & Co. poster

Christmas & Co.

Movie · as Santa

2015
Reality poster

Reality

Movie · as Jason Tantra

2014
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui poster

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

Movie

2014
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods poster

Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods

Movie · as Senator Prospectus (voice)

2013
Mood Indigo poster

Mood Indigo

Movie · as Jules Gouffé

2013
The Brats poster

The Brats

Movie · as Gilbert

2013
Turf poster

Turf

Movie · as Le Grec

2012
HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami poster

HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami

Movie · as Dan Geraldo

2012
Ice Age: Continental Drift poster

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Movie · as Silas (voice)

2012
A Thousand Words poster

A Thousand Words

Movie · as Christian Leger de la Touffe

2011
War of the Buttons poster

War of the Buttons

Movie · as Maître Labru

2011
The Great Restaurant II poster

The Great Restaurant II

Movie · as The Libertine Granting Monogamy

2010
The Whistler poster

The Whistler

Movie · as Le contrôleur des impôts

2009
Tresor poster

Tresor

Movie · as Jean-Pierre

2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian poster

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Movie · as Napoleon Bonaparte

2009
C à vous poster

C à vous

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2008
Me Two poster

Me Two

Movie · as Gilles Gabriel

2008
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) poster

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)

Movie · as Self

2008
A World of Ours poster

A World of Ours

Movie · as Le professeur d'anglais

2008
Daddy Cool poster

Daddy Cool

Movie · as Norbert, le SDF

2008
Rien dans les poches poster

Rien dans les poches

Movie · as Rita

2007
Garage Babes poster

Garage Babes

Movie · as La voix off

2006
The Science of Sleep poster

The Science of Sleep

Movie · as Guy

2006
I Do poster

I Do

Movie · as Luis Costa

2006
Salut les Terriens ! poster

Salut les Terriens !

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2006
Have you ever seen..? poster

Have you ever seen..?

TV · as Narrateur, autres voix additionnelles · 150 eps

2006
On n'est pas couché poster

On n'est pas couché

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2005
Papa poster

Papa

Movie · as Papa

2004
RRRrrrr!!! poster

RRRrrrr!!!

Movie · as Pierre (le Guérissologue)

2004
Happily Ever After poster

Happily Ever After

Movie · as Georges

2004
L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls poster

L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls

Movie · as (archive footage)

2004
Casablanca Driver poster

Casablanca Driver

Movie · as Dr. Brenson

2004
Leçon de Cinéma poster

Leçon de Cinéma

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2003
Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? poster

Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?

Movie · as Peter Mc Gray

2003
Chouchou poster

Chouchou

Movie · as Stanislas de la Tour-Maubourg

2003
Leave Your Hands on My Hips poster

Leave Your Hands on My Hips

Movie · as Bernard, le metteur en scène

2003
L'Intégrule - Les Nuls poster

L'Intégrule - Les Nuls

Movie · as (archive footage)

2003
The Car Keys poster

The Car Keys

Movie · as Dog Seller

2002
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra poster

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Movie · as Jules César

2002
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra poster

How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra

Movie · as Self - Director / Writer / Actor

2002
Restauratec poster

Restauratec

Movie · as Jean-Pierre Ranu

2002
Courts de stars, 10 comédies courtes mais bonnes ! poster

Courts de stars, 10 comédies courtes mais bonnes !

Movie · as Self

2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema poster

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Movie · as Self

2001
L'Art (délicat) de la séduction poster

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction

Movie · as Maître Zen

2001
Burger Quiz poster

Burger Quiz

TV · as Présentateur, Self - Host · 1 ep

2000
The Taste of Others poster

The Taste of Others

Movie · as Bruno Deschamps

2000
Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel poster

Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel

Movie · as Self

2000
Kitchendales poster

Kitchendales

Movie · as Enzo's mother (voice)

2000
La Cape et l'épée poster

La Cape et l'épée

TV · as Ménestrel · 2 eps

1999
Influence Peddling poster

Influence Peddling

Movie · as le curé

1999
Bricol'girls poster

Bricol'girls

Movie · as The Rasta Man

1999
Hard Off poster

Hard Off

Movie · as Le gynécologue et andologue

1999
Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie poster

Ivre-Mort pour la Patrie

Movie · as Le général allemand

1999
Jamel Show poster

Jamel Show

Movie · as Self

1999
Sitcom, A Movie poster

Sitcom, A Movie

Movie · as Étienne

1999
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 poster

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

Movie

1998
Desproges est vivant poster

Desproges est vivant

Movie

1998
Vivement dimanche poster

Vivement dimanche

TV · as Self · 2 eps

1997
Didier poster

Didier

Movie · as Didier

1997
The Cousin poster

The Cousin

Movie · as Gérard Delvaux

1996
Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0 poster

Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0

Movie · as Pierre Krief

1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel poster

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Movie · as le courtisan à Versailles

1995
French Twist poster

French Twist

Movie · as Laurent Lafaye

1995
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique poster

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

Movie

1995
L'histoire de les Nuls

L'histoire de les Nuls

Movie

1994
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy poster

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

Movie · as Serge Karamazov / Youri / Jacques, TV journalist

1994
6 Days, 6 Nights poster

6 Days, 6 Nights

Movie · as Thomas

1994
Wacko poster

Wacko

Movie · as Le pilote

1993
Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania poster

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

Movie

1993
La Classe américaine poster

La Classe américaine

Movie · as Dubbing Voice (voice)

1992
Les Nuls : La Pub poster

Les Nuls : La Pub

Movie · as Self

1992
Pizza Blob poster

Pizza Blob

Movie · as Professeur Liégeois

1992
Coucou c'est nous ! poster

Coucou c'est nous !

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1991
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck poster

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

Movie · as Gérard Martinez

1991
Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio poster

Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio

Movie · as self

1991
Les nuls, l'émission poster

Les nuls, l'émission

Movie · as self

1990
Baby Blood poster

Baby Blood

Movie · as Passant cinéma

1990
Les Nuls, l'émission poster

Les Nuls, l'émission

TV · as Self - Various characters · 56 eps

1990
Histoire(s) de la télévision poster

Histoire(s) de la télévision

TV · as Roland Gilet (le père) · 54 eps

1989
A.B.C.D. Nuls poster

A.B.C.D. Nuls

TV · as Self · 54 eps

1988
TVN 595, la télévision des nuls poster

TVN 595, la télévision des nuls

Movie · as Self

1988
Palace poster

Palace

TV · as Client fugitif, Le mari qui commande des bises pour sa femme · 1 ep

1987
Cinématon n°976 : Alain Chabat poster

Cinématon n°976 : Alain Chabat

Movie

1987
No Goal poster

No Goal

TV · as le capitaine Lamar · 43 eps

1987
Sacrée soirée poster

Sacrée soirée

TV · as Self - Les Nuls · 2 eps

1982
Champs-Elysées poster

Champs-Elysées

TV · as Self - Les Nuls · 1 ep

1976
Cérémonie des César poster

Cérémonie des César

TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep