Known for his supporting roles in “Rabbi Jacob” and “The seventh company”, Henri Guybet is today exiled at the gates of the capital where he lives peacefully with his wife, Vivianne.
In fifty years of career, Henri Guybet has played in cult films in French cinema, shif in supporting roles like that of soldier Tassin in The seventh company or that of the unforgettable Solomon in Rabbi Jacob alongside Louis de Funès. Now 88 years old, he spent his retirement far from Paris …
His favorite “immediate” for an apartment “In a lamentable state”
Henri Guybet, who was one of the founders of the famous Train station With Coluche, flows happy days with his wife, Vivianne, painter and sculptor, in a small village of 2000 inhabitants located in Essonne: Bouray-sur-Juine. The couple took up residence there in 1993 without thinking about it too much. “My wife and I arrived in Bouray-sur-Juine 25 years ago, completely by chance. We occupied a beautiful apartment in Paris, but the rent became too high. For me who was born in the 14th and who lived in the 11th arrondissement for a long time, it was out of the question to leave the capital”said the actor at Parisian in 2018.
And the actor to whom we also owe the French voice of Rex in Toy story to complete: “He (the apartment, editor’s note) was in a lamentable state, but love at first sight was immediate. My wife needed space to set up his sculpture workshop and, finally, we adapted very well to life here.”
“A gentleman-the-world” in his village
Parisian pure strain, Henri Guybet had no trouble acclimating to his life as a great crown. And, today, Bouray-sur-Juine is his adoption commune. So much so that the couple has never moved from this small town where they now have their habits.
Much appreciated by the inhabitants of the village who consider him one of their own, the actor even manages to blend into the mass. “The inhabitants are adorable. Where I speak the most with them, it may be at the supermarket. Between two shelves, we exchange. We discuss time and lots of other things. I am a gentleman-all-world for them, someone normal”he said, still in the columns of Parisian.
