Trivia

Was known to be a gifted singer.

Lived in Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher.

The general public became familiar with the face of Geneviève Grad through the role of the daughter of Chief Warrant Officer Cruchot, played by Louis de Funès in the successful series of "Gendarmes" films. In the first part, Geneviève Grad herself sings "Douliou douliou Saint-Tropez", a pop song that has gone down in history and is often misspelled as "Do you do you Saint-Tropez".

From 1964 to 1968, she made her name in France playing Nicole Cruchot, the daughter of Chief Warrant Officer Ludovic Cruchot (Louis de Funès ), in the first three films of the Gendarmes series : The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez , The Gendarme in New York and The Gendarme Gets Married . She lent her voice to some songs such as Douliou-douliou Saint-Tropez or Les garçons sont gentils. After this last filming, she decided to take a step back from this profession, nervously tired.

She did not play in the last three Gendarme films between 1970 and 1982, the character of Nicole Cruchot even being deleted.

In the 1970s , she worked in a variety of jobs: production assistant for TF1 for nine years, then antique dealer.

She worked for the city of Vendôme and organized cultural events there alongside Annie Chaplin, one of Charlie Chaplin 's daughters, who lived nearby in Villechauve .

Geneviève Grad did not intend to become an actress and wanted to become a dancer.

At the age of 15, Geneviève Grad was spotted by producers. She then left for Rome to shoot screen tests for the film "Les Adolescentes" ( I dolci inganni , 1960) by Alberto Lattuada and was not selected.

She continued to act in film and television in the 1970s until the early 1980s , then gradually moved away from acting.

Being spotted by Michel Boisrond she obtained the role of Martine Carol 's daughter in "Un soir sur la plage" by Michel Boisrond.

She appeared in several made for television films and television series in the 1960s and 1970s.

Geneviève Grad was a French actress and singer, whose career began in 1959 until the early 1980s.

According to Patrice Laffont, Geneviève Grad had an affair with the director Marc Simenon, whom she met on the set of Gendarme de Saint-Tropez in 1964.

In the 1970s, she visited friends in the Gers ( a French department of Gascony in the Occitanie region). She met Igor Bogdanoff, who was then living in the family castle in Saint-Lary. They had a romantic relationship and from this romance a child, Dimitri, was born.