Emerging from the lively dinner-theatre circuit of Paris’s Café de la Gare in the late 1960s, where he performed alongside future stars such as Coluche and Miou-Miou, Henri Guybet built a foundation that propelled him into French cinema. Gérard Oury cast him in a prominent supporting role as Solomon, the Jewish driver of Louis de Funes, in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, launching a prolific sc…