Eddy Mitchell

Eddy Mitchell (born Claude Moine July 3, 1942, Paris) is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.

Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy and others. ^[1]

He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout.

Filmography

• Les Parisiennes, in the segment Ella (Jacques Poitrenaud,1962
• Comment réussir en amour (Michel Boisrond, 1963)
• Nanou, TV series (Georges Régnier, 1970)
• Ça va plaire, TV musical (Jean-Pierre Cassel et Bernard Lion, 1980)
• Gaston Lapouge, TV film (Frank Apprederis, 1981)
• Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier, 1981)
• Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre (Georges Lautner, 1983)
• Ronde de nuit (Jean-Claude Missiaen, 1984)
• A mort l'arbitre! (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1983)
• Frankenstein 90 (Alain Jessua, 1984)
• La Galette du roi (Jean-Michel Ribes, 1986)
• I Love You (Marco Ferreri, 1986)
• Autour de minuit (Round Midnight) (Bertrand Tavernier, 1986)
• Un père et passe (Sébastien Grall, 1989)
• Promotion canapé (Didier Kaminka, 1990)
• Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) (Wim Wenders, 1991)
• La Totale! (Claude Zidi, 1991)
• Ville à vendre (Jean-Pierre Mocky, 1992)
• La Cité de la peur (Alain Berbérian, 1994)
• Le bonheur est dans le pré (Étienne Chatiliez, 1995)
• Cuisine américaine (Jean-Yves Pitoun, 1998)
• Kitchendales (Chantal Lauby, 2000)
• Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés (Stéphane Clavier, 2003)
• Les Clefs de bagnole (Laurent Baffie, 2003)
• Frank Passingham, 2005)
• Un printemps à Paris (Springtime in Paris) (Jacques Bral, 2006)

Bibliography

by Eddy Mitchell

• Galas, galères, autobiography (Éditions Jacques Grancher, 1979)
• Cocktail Story, recipes and anecdotes (R.M.C. Éditions, 1986)
• P'tit Claude, novel (L'Arbre à cames, 1994)

References

External links

• A biography (in English) at Radio France Internationale
• Eddy Mitchell at the Internet Movie Database
• Eddy Mitchell discography at MusicBrainz