Biography
Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Many of his comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin. Veber was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine to a Jewish father and an Armenian mother. His grand uncle was writer Tristan Bernard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francis Veber, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

El sopar dels idiotes
2023
Writer

The New Toy
2022
Idea
Samy lives happily with his wife, Alice, in a poor urban housing project amongst friends and neighbours. For his son’s birthday, the richest man in Fr...

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022
as Self
Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, k...

The Valet
2022
Original Film Writer
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Anton...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Screenwriter, director, producer (archive footage)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

Le Placard
2015
Stage Director, Theatre Play, Original Story
François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw...

Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
2015
as Self

Cher Trésor
2014
Director, Author

Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Original Film Writer, Executive Producer
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim pla...

A Pain in the Ass
2008
as L'homme bousculé par Milan (uncredited)
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.

A Pain in the Ass
2008
Director, Writer, Theatre Play
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.

Bheja Fry
2007
Original Story
Ranjeet Thadani is a bored and arrogant music producer who along with his friends hosts a party every Friday where they invite an 'idiot' to ridicule ...

Terminus
2006
Director, Screenplay

The Valet
2006
Director, Writer
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by in...

Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
2005
as Self
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant ...

Ruby & Quentin
2003
Director, Screenplay
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a so...

The Closet
2001
Director, Writer
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.

The Dinner Game
1998
Director, Screenplay
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the m...

Fathers' Day
1997
Executive Producer
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.

Jaguar
1996
Director, Writer
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-...

Ghost with Driver
1996
Writer
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth,...

The Birdcage
1996
Original Film Writer
Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic commu...

My Father the Hero
1994
Screenplay
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lo...

Out on a Limb
1992
Director
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including hi...

Three Fugitives
1989
Writer, Director, Executive Producer
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decide...

The Fugitives
1986
Director, Writer
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained ro...

Hold-up
1985
Dialogue, Writer
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police...

The Man with One Red Shoe
1985
Original Film Writer
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.

The ComDads
1983
Screenplay, Director, Producer
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...

Partners
1982
Writer, Executive Producer
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as hi...

La Chèvre
1981
Writer, Director
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detecti...

Buddy Buddy
1981
Theatre Play
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants ...

La Cage aux Folles II
1980
Screenplay, Dialogue
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin ge...

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
Writer
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun...

Hothead
1979
Writer
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the ...

La Cage aux Folles
1978
Screenplay
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conce...

The Toy
1976
Director, Writer
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needin...

The Bottom Line
1976
Writer
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine...

The French Detective
1975
Writer
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty a...

The Pink Telephone
1975
Dialogue, Screenplay
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the repre...

The Night Caller
1975
Dialogue
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent...

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
Dialogue, Screenplay
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Fra...

The Magnificent One
1973
Writer
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time a...

Man in the Trunk
1973
Writer
Bloch, an Israeli secret agent, seeks refuge in the French embassy in Libya to escape being killed. Augier, his French opposite number, has to get him...

A Pain in the Ass
1973
Theatre Play, Screenplay
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic...

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
Writer
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identif...

There Once Was a Cop
1972
Screenplay
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the id...

Call Me Mathilde
1969
as TV presenter (uncredited)
Mathilde de Blanzac is abducted on her way home from an evening at the opera with her wealthy industrialist husband. Her pathetic pieds-nickelés kidna...

Call Me Mathilde
1969
Writer
Mathilde de Blanzac is abducted on her way home from an evening at the opera with her wealthy industrialist husband. Her pathetic pieds-nickelés kidna...