Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia articl...
Known For
Complete Filmography

An Ideal Father
2024
as L'Evêque
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 commun...

Amélie: The Real Story
2023
as (archive footage)
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

Family
2022
as Jean
Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children co...

The Takeover
2022
as Michel
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,...

Shoot to Live
2022
as Self
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

Folon
2021
as Self
One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet the artist himself, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005)...

Mine de rien
2020
as Roger Morels
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...

In the Name of the Land
2019
as Jacques Jarjeau
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. I...

Dance of Chance
2019
as Le voisin
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. No...

Noir Enigma
2017
as Roger Baudouin
In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It's an inexplicable murder.

Knock
2017
as Le vieux Jules
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 ...

Go, Toto!
2017
as Joseph (voice)
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...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
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...

Brothers
2017
as Emile
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. ...

Vive la crise !
2017
as Lucien
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

Everyone's Life
2017
as Le chauffeur de taxi
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...

The African Doctor
2016
as Jean
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...

Stornoway
2015
as Keller

Winter Song
2015
as Concierge
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Soleils
2014
as Voltaire
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...

We Love You, You Bastard
2014
as Le Ruf
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...

La Déesse aux cent bras
2014
as Le Dantec
Vanina leads a very ordered life and and desperately wants to appear perfect to everyone, whatever the situation. Unfortunately for her, everything fa...

À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013
as Doctor Andreausse
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures...

The Marchers
2013
as François, le pasteur
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for e...

Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
2013
as Himself

Marius
2013
as 'Piquoiseau'
"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 th...

Not Very Normal Activities
2013
as Levantour
A parody of Paranormal Activity.

I'm Going Home To Mum
2012
as Gorbatchev
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 ...

10 jours en or
2012
as Père Clément Rozière
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.

My Name Is Bernadette
2011
as Forcade
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lour...

La part des anges
2011
as Émile

Les Insomniaques
2011
as Le commissaire
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes ...

Crédit pour tous
2011
as Pistille
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...
Colère
2010
as Germain Bougron, l'expert
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 ...

Colombe
2010
as La Surette

Freedom
2009
as Fernand
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...

So Woman!
2009
as M. Paroquet
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.

King Guillaume
2009
as Roi Cyril John Delagny
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...

My Stars
2008
as Victor
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...

It Had to be You
2007
as le père de Thomas
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...

His Majesty Minor
2007
as Rectus
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.

La Volière aux enfants
2006
as The Bishop
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...

Rascals
2006
as Fouchs
The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It’s run by a former prison warden, based on ‘rehabi...

If You Love Me, Follow Me
2006
as Jean-Pierre
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 decides...

Les Irréductibles
2006
as Edmond
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...

Red Needles
2006
as Marullaz
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 maje...

One Fine Day
2006
as Cremer
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to ...

Iznogoud
2005
as le conseiller du calife
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...

A Very Long Engagement
2004
as Breton
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. ...

The Great Role
2004
as Monsieur Silberman
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...

Madame Edouard
2004
as Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
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 nee...

In Your Image
2004
as O pai de Mathilde
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 ...

Bonhomme de chemin
2004
as Oscar
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...

Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as M. de Biron
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...

Tales of the Magic Clock
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...

Comme si de rien n'était
2003
as Edouard
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...

Entrusted
2003
as Prof. Bergot
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...

That Day
2003
as Hubus
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...

Hôtel des deux mondes
2002

Amélie
2001
as Raphaël Poulain
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 a...

My Father Saved My Life
2001
as Grinval
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...

Train of Life
1998
as Mordechai
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...

Le radeau de la Méduse
1998
as Harmonica
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...

Let There Be Light!
1998
as Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Let There Be Light!
1998
as Dieu l'infirmière
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

Metroland
1997
as Henri
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unex...

Love, Math and Sex
1997
as Un spectateur au cinéma
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

Crime à l'altimètre
1996
as Octave
A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love.
Tendre piège
1996
as Mr. Gallibert
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.

The City of Lost Children
1995
as Peeler
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Les Miserables
1995
as Thénardier 1830 / 1990
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see ...

Le mangeur de lune
1994
as Simon
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
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 ...

Poorly Extinguished Fires
1994
as Commander Perleau
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 ...

Delicatessen
1991
as Robert Kube
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...

The Elegant Criminal
1990
as Canler
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...

Promotion canapé
1990
as Inspecteur de justice
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

The Austrian
1990
as L'abbé Girard
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...

La Goutte d'or
1990
as Sigisbert
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...
Front woman
1989
as M. Courtois
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...

En attendant Godot
1989
as Vladimir
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...

Keep Your Right Up
1987
as Policeman
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, ...

Ubac
1987
as Le Bossu
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.

Exploits of a Young Don Juan
1986
as Le moine
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...
A Plan of Hell
1986
A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the staff.

Side Roads
1983
as Cyprien
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 ...

La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982
as Guillaume Apollinaire
Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.

The Police War
1979
as Le Garrec, chicken farmer
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...

Zoo zéro
1979
as Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
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...

Surprise Sock
1978
as Antoine
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfou...

Fire's Share
1978
as Patrick Delbaut
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...

The Goodbye Singing
1977
as Michel
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes...

March or Die
1977
as Sgt. Triand
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...

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
1976
as Mathieu
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...

The Tenant
1976
as Georges Badar
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre
1976
as Self

La adúltera
1975
as Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thir...

Trop c'est trop
1975
as Gendarme
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...

Lily aime-moi
1975
as Claude
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 ...

Au long de rivière Fango
1975
as Jérémie
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 ba...

Marriage
1974
as Henri
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.

Ce que savait Morgan
1974
as Mr. Pemberton
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...

A Cloud in the Teeth
1974
as Man with the dog (uncredited)
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
as 'Gagnepain'
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.

L'école sauvage
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 ...

Valparaiso, Valparaiso
1973
as Un méchant
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend...

La vie facile
1973
as Vicar (uncredited)
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...

The French Calvinists
1972
as Jacques Combassous
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed ...

As Far as Love Can Go
1971
as Le barman
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and...

Where Did Tom Go?
1971
as Tom Coupar
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested...

One Way Ticket
1971
as Tom Mills
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...

Troubleshooters
1971
as Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
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 ...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
1971
as Charles
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...

Fantasia among the squares
1971
as Wesson
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noon...

The Wedding Ring
1971
as L'éleveur de pigeons
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden

Promise at Dawn
1970
as Russian Violin Teacher (uncredited)
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...

The Cop
1970
as Raymond Aulnay
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 ...

Safety Catch
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...

Potatoes
1969
as Larobesse
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cr...

The American
1969
as Corbeau
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.

Erotissimo
1969
as le comptable de Philippe
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...
Miss Paris et le Majordome
1969

Mr. Freedom
1969
as Freddie Fric
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. ...

The Surrounded
1968
as Didier
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...

Doctor Dolittle
1967
as Dog (uncredited)
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
Le Point Mort
1967
Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969.