Ludovic Cruchot

Ludovic Cruchot is a fictional film character, a sergeant of the French gendarmerie, portrayed by Louis de Funès, who starred as a main protagonist in a series of six comic movies, often called The Gendarme Series, created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci. When first appeared, he is in his fifties, a widower with beautiful daughter in her late teenage.

An energetic, conservative man, Cruchot tirelessly tries to work his way in the low levels of the police career. When been promoted from his countryside appointment to serve as a sergeant for the Saint-Tropez gendarmerie on the fashionable French Riviera, he sees the opportunity but also faces numerous challenges to fight with in the changing world of the 60's.