Name
Popeck
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1935-05-18 (91 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
Popeck (born Judka Herpstu; 18 May 1936) is a French actor and stand-up comedian.
The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania, Judka Herpstu was born in Paris. He was among the children saved from the Holocaust by the OSE, but his mother was murdered in Auschwitz. He studied acting at the Cours Simon and started his career on stage under the name Jean Herbert.
In 1968, Herpstu created the character of Popeck, a grumpy Eastern-European immigrant dressed in a 3-piece suit, wearing a bowler hat and speaking French with a strong Yiddish accent. Sketches featuring Popeck made Herpstu known to the larger public, and the actor identified with his character so far as to finally adopt the name Popeck for himself in 1978.
In addition to his work on stage, Popeck has acted in movies. He had a small role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.
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- 1975 Cousin, Cousine as Sacy
- 1990 The Station as (as Jean Hebert)
- 2022 L'humour c'est mieux à deux as Self
- 2009 Simon Konianski as Ernest
- 1994 La Rêverie ou Le Mariage de Sylvia as Léonide
- 1990 Popeck à l'Olympia as him self
- 2019 Sixty as Self - Comedian
- 2011 Popeck - C'est la dernière fois... ! as Him Self
- 1975 The Restroom Robbery as Un policier à la gare
- 1984 Adam et Ève as monsieur Ben-Hoït.
- 1982 T'es folle ou quoi ? as Le plombier
- 1976 The Hornet's Nest as Hans
- 1966 The Mad Dog
- 2009 L'Amour foot
- 1973 Themroc as Le tailleur de crayons
- 2002 The Pianist as Rubenstein
- 2009 Il était une fois... « Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob » as Self
- 2017 Les Chevaliers du fiel : Les fous rires de 2017 as Self
- 2001 Face à face as Paul Laffargue
- 2015 Ruben fête ses 25 ans as Self
- 1985 Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons as Paul le pirate
- 1983 Père Noël et fils
- 2016 The Jews as Lucien
- 1986 Banana's Boulevard as Le père Goldenberg
- 2011 A Child's Battle as Toussaint
- 1992 Shabbot Shalom! as Grand-père Rabbin
- 2024 Popeck : fini de rire, on ferme !
- 1990 Cellini: A Violent Life as Gattinara
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Numéro un ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Il était une fois Champs-Élysées ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Le monde est à vous ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1968 Baal's Companions ( 7 episodes ) as Joseph Durban/Frère Cheval
