Charles Aznavour, OC (May 22, 1924 – October 1, 2018) was an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France’s most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world. Charles Aznavour (pronounced in French as Sharl Aznavour) is known for his characteristic short figure and unique tenor voice; clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. He has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed about 1,000 songs (including 150 at least in English, 100 in Italian, 70 in Spanish, and 50 in German), and has sold well over 100 million records.
In 1998, Charles Aznavour was named Entertainer of the Century by CNN and users of Time Online from around the globe. He was recognized as the century’s outstanding performer, with nearly 18% of the total vote, edging out Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. He has sung for presidents, popes, and royalty, as well as at humanitarian events, and is the founder of the charitable organization Aznavour for Armenia along with his long-time friend and impresario Levon Sayan.
Aznavour started his global farewell tour in late 2006, which continues through this day. In 2009 he was appointed ambassador of Armenia to Switzerland, as well as Armenia’s permanent delegate to the United Nations at Geneva.
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Charles Aznavour Biography / Wiki
| Name | Charles Aznavour |
| Also Know | Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian, Шарль Ðзнавур |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Date of Birth | 1924-05-22 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 94 |
| Deathday | 2018-10-01 |
Charles Aznavour Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Shoot the Piano Player | Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan | 1960-11-25 | Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie’s brothers, Richard and Chico, su… |
| The Virgins | Berthet | 1963-05-22 | The story of five girls that lose their virginity…. |
| The Adventurers | Marcel Campion | 1970-03-25 | The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the co… |
| Charles Aznavour – Live au Palais des Congrès | Self | 2000-02-23 | … |
| Tomorrow Is My Turn | Roger | 1960-10-27 | Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two french soldiers are taken to a german farm as forced laborers…. |
| Old Goriot | Jean-Joachim Goriot | 2004-11-09 | A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victori… |
| Charles Aznavour – Aznavour Live Au Carnegie Hall | Self | 2001-02-27 | It brought back fantastic memories of having had the privilege of seeing Monsieur Aznavour at Carnegie Hall in 1980. Each song on this DVD is a jewel…. |
| Charles Aznavour – Live Palais des Sports | Self | 2015-09-01 | French singing legend Charles Aznavour performs live at the Palais des Sports in Paris…. |
| The Fabiani Affair | Horace Fabiani | 1962-01-24 | The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican … |
| Qu’est-ce qui fait courir David ? | Léon | 1982-06-05 | David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives, finds… |
| Yiddish Connection | Aaron Rapoport | 1986-08-27 | Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris…. |
| Anthologie Volume 1 /1955-1972 (Coffret 3 DVD) | Self | 2009-01-01 | … |
| My Baby Live | Charles Bernard | 1972-02-18 | An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must de… |
| Aznavour and Minnelli | Self | 1991-11-30 | Recorded November or December 1991 at the Palais des congrès de Paris…. |
| Destination Rome | Marcello | 1963-01-18 | After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discovers the city becoming a tour guide…. |
| The Postman Goes to War | Thibon | 1966-08-10 | The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, h… |
| Paris in the Month of August | Henri Plantin | 1966-01-07 | A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who ca… |
| Le Passage du bac | Popeye | 2002-06-05 | … |
| Sans cérémonie | Darius Torrès | 1997-10-29 | Two divorcing spouses go to their son’s wedding accompanied by their respective lovers…. |
| Charles Aznavour ‎– Anthologie Volume 1 (1955-1972) | Self | 2014-03-31 | … |
| Charles Aznavour ‎– Anthologie Volume 2 (1973-1999) | Self | 2014-03-31 | … |
| Rat Trap | Charles | 1963-06-08 | This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a ri… |
| Last Trading Post in India | 1997-03-26 | In October 1954, a few days before the departure of the French from Pondicherry to the new Indian Republic, Stanislas Charvin, a young European born i… | |
| 1974, une partie de campagne | Self | 2002-02-20 | Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d’Estaing… |
| Ararat | Edward | 2002-05-20 | A variety of characters, some close relatives, others distant strangers, are each affected by the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide of 1915… |
| The Comedian | M. Maillard | 1997-12-24 | Behind the scenes of the theater, while the last performance has just ended, the comedian returns to his box…. |
| Candy | Hunchback juggler | 1968-12-17 | A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life…. |
| The Chasers | Joseph Bouvier | 1959-04-29 | Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women…. |
| The Blockhouse | Visconti | 1973-01-01 | A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies … |
| The Hatter’s Ghost | Kachoudas, le tailleur | 1982-05-26 | A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect t… |
| Cloportes | Edmond | 1965-10-01 | Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding tor… |
| 3 Fables of Love | Charles (segment “Les deux pigeons”) | 1962-12-21 | “Les quatre vérités” aka “The Four Truths” is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century F… |
| Time of the Wolves | Le commissaire Kramer | 1970-01-21 | Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former … |
| The Country Years | Le Grand-Père / Grandfather | 1992-06-03 | An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and dista… |
| La part des lions | Éric Chambon | 1971-09-08 | … |
| Il maestro | Romualdi | 1989-01-01 | A renowned conductor suddenly pulls out of an evening rehearsal of Madame Butterfly. The opera director senses something is going on and forces the mu… |
| High Infidelity | Giulio | 1964-01-22 | Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love…. |
| Les Enfoirés 1994 – Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex | 1994-02-05 | … | |
| Les Enfoirés – 15 ans d’Enfoirés | 2005-11-25 | … | |
| Head Against the Wall | Heurtevent | 1959-03-20 | An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies…. |
| Taxi for Tobruk | Samuel Goldmann | 1961-05-09 | During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert…. |
| The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Denis Mayeux | 1962-09-14 | The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Ch… |
| The Games | Pavel Vendek | 1970-08-07 | From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the wor… |
| Love Me Strangely | Inspector Leroy | 1971-02-10 | Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws … |
| Teuf-teuf | 1963-10-05 | An automobile tribute… | |
| Sky Riders | Inspector Nikolidis | 1976-03-26 | When an industrialist’s wife and kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece, the woman’s ex-husband comes to the rescue with a plan involving hang gli… |
| The Colonel | le père Rossi | 2006-11-15 | A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is a… |
| L’Habit ne fait pas le moine | Léon | 2013-11-05 | Monique, happy and about sixty, is at the head of a small meeting agency, specializing in the third age. Her friend Madeleine is a regular and does no… |
| Aznavour by Charles | Self – Singer (archive footage) | 2019-10-02 | In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filme… |
| Les Enfoirés 1999 – Dernière édition avant l’an 2000 | 1999-02-13 | … | |
| Une jeunesse | Bellune | 1983-06-15 | After the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the train leaves he starts reminiscing about his youth…. |
| The Magic Mountain | Naphta | 1982-02-25 | Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachi… |
| Nailcruncher | Jérémie | 1988-06-06 | Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen…. |
| Long Live Life | Edouard Takvorian | 1984-04-18 | The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection … |
| Hotel Laguna | Tony Castellano | 2001-04-15 | Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, w… |
| Une gosse ‘sensass’ | Charles Aznavour, the Singer | 1957-04-02 | Pierre Leroy has a garage that he manages with the help of a couple of friends, Raymond and Annette. But the bills pile up and Leroy is on the brink o… |
| Michel Sardou – Dernier show | Self | 2017-10-21 | … |
| Johnny Hallyday en direct de Bercy, La Soirée Anniversaire | Self | 2013-06-15 | … |
| Frank Sinatra: The Voice of America | Self | 2015-01-06 | The story around Frank’s voice: Francis Albert Sinatra as a person, the man behind the winning smile. Where lies the key to his success? How and why… |
| Dear Caroline | Jules | 1968-03-22 | Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politici… |
| Cherchez l’idole | Charles Aznavour | 1964-02-26 | After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious i… |
| Die Fledermaus | Prince Orlofsky’s Guest | 1984-01-01 | Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.’s most popular operetta–the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion–and … |
| Le Terminus des Prétentieux | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-14 | This year, Michel Audiard would have turned 100. To celebrate the life and work of the French screenwriter and director, Gaumont opens their vault and… |
| Testament of Orpheus | The Curious Man | 1960-02-18 | Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas… |
| Taratata fête ses 25 ans 100% live au Zénith | Self | 2017-10-28 | … |
| And Then There Were None | Michel Raven | 1974-09-24 | Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn’t in attendance. When the group gets together for th… |
| The Twist | Dr. Lartigue | 1976-06-23 | Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble…. |
| Vivement Truffaut | Self / Charlie (archive footage) | 1985-07-12 | A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, relea… |
| The Truth About Charlie | Charles Aznavour | 2002-10-25 | Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return … |
| Goodbye Darling | 1946-04-26 | Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his… | |
| The Tin Drum | Sigismund Markus | 1979-05-02 | Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday…. |
| Boys’ School | Un élève | 1938-04-05 | In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees… |
| Edith and Marcel | Self (uncredited) | 1983-01-01 | This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerd… |
| Dans la vie tout s’arrange | 1952-08-01 | A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when sh… | |
| Emmenez-moi | Charles Aznavour | 2005-07-12 | … |
| Generals Without Buttons | 1936-10-27 | Separated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engaging in war, while the teacher of the first village … | |
| Oh! Qué mambo | Un Spectateur au Cabaret (uncredited) | 1959-05-13 | Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn’t know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instru… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Qu’est-ce qui fait courir David ? | Writer | 1982-06-05 | David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives, finds… |
| My Baby Live | Writer | 1972-02-18 | An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must de… |
| Tales of Paris | Musical | 1962-01-17 | … |
| Yiddish Connection | Screenplay | 1986-08-27 | Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris…. |
| Yiddish Connection | Story | 1986-08-27 | Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris…. |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| How Not to Rob a Department Store | Music | 1965-02-25 | … |
| Une gosse ‘sensass’ | Music | 1957-04-02 | Pierre Leroy has a garage that he manages with the help of a couple of friends, Raymond and Annette. But the bills pile up and Leroy is on the brink o… |
| Pourquoi viens-tu si tard… | Music | 1959-05-05 | Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic fath… |
| These ladies prefer the mambo | Music | 1958-01-22 | … |
| Aznavour by Charles | Music | 2019-10-02 | In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filme… |
| 3 Fables of Love | Music | 1962-12-21 | “Les quatre vérités” aka “The Four Truths” is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century F… |
| Le cercle vicieux | Music | 1960-04-27 | A young artist, an occasional gigolo, marries an older woman for her dough; however, he has not broken with his younger lover…. |
| Morir de amor | Music | 2005-01-01 | While their owner is having his siesta, two old caged parrots rake up memories from the past. This leads to unexpected consequences for the three of t… |
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