Michel Piccoli
Born December 27, 1925 (Age: 100)
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Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Biography
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia. Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning. Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira... He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013. Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International. Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia.
Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning.
Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira...
He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013.
Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International.
Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
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Filmography
It's Not Me
2024
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as (archive footage)
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Age: 98
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
2021
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 95
No Image
Dios de monoambiente
2018
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 92
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
2017
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 91
Holy Motors
2012
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as Man with the Wine Stain
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Age: 86
Le Mystère Bardot
2012
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as
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Age: 86
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
2011
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as Self
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Age: 85
We Have a Pope
2011
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as Melville
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Age: 85
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
2009
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as
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Age: 83
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
2009
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as Self
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Age: 83
Everything's Connected
2005
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as Narrator
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Age: 79
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
2004
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as Self
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Age: 78
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
2002
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as Self
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Age: 76
No Image
Il bambino di Betlemme
2002
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as
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Age: 76
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
2000
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as Louis
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Age: 74
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
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as Self
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Age: 74
Actors
2000
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as Michel Piccoli
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Age: 74
Kiarostami in Close up
2000
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as as Self
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Age: 74
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998
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as Self
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Age: 72
Passion in the Desert
1997
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as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
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Age: 71
Genealogies of a Crime
1997
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as Georges Didier
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Age: 71
Tykho Moon
1996
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as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
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Age: 70
Ousmane Sow
1996
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as Narrateur
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Age: 70
Party
1996
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as Michel
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Age: 70
Traveling Companion
1996
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as Cosimo
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Age: 70
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
1996
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as Prince de Conti
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Age: 70
Train de nuit
1994
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as
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Age: 68
No Image
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
1994
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as Presenter
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Age: 68
No Image
Bête de scène
1994
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as
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Age: 68
No Image
Rupture(s)
1993
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as Paul
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Age: 67
Loonies at Large
1993
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as Henri Toussaint
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Age: 67
The Young Girls Turn 25
1993
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
No Image
Archipel
1993
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as Leonard Wilde
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Age: 67
The Supper
1992
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as Chateaubriand (voice)
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Age: 66
From Time to Time
1992
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as Jules Verne
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Age: 66
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992
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as Désiré, l'homosexuel
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Age: 66
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
1992
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as Edouard Frenhofer
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Age: 66
Against Oblivion
1991
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as Self
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Age: 65
The Children Thief
1991
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as Mr. Armand
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Age: 65
La Belle Noiseuse
1991
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as Edouard Frenhofer
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Age: 65
Walking a Tightrope
1991
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as Marcel Spadice
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Age: 65
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
1991
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as Le baron de Leisenbohg
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Age: 65
No Image
Martha and I
1990
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as Ernst
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Age: 64
May Fools
1990
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as Milou
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Age: 64
The Monkey Folk
1989
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as
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Age: 63
Un coupable
1988
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as L'avocat
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Age: 62
No Image
La Ruelle au clair de lune
1988
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as Pierre Willer
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Age: 62
Blanc de Chine
1988
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as Batz
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Age: 62
How Good the Whites Are
1988
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as Père Jean-Marie
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Age: 62
Malady of Love
1987
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as Raoul Bergeron
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Age: 61
The Veiled Man
1987
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as Kassar
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Age: 61
La Rumba
1987
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as Damien Malleville
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Age: 61
The Distant Land
1987
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as Friedrich Hofreiter
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Age: 61
Adieu Bonaparte
1985
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as Caffarelli
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Age: 59
Going and Coming Back
1985
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as Simon Lerner
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Age: 59
Death in a French Garden
1985
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as Graham Tombsthay
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Age: 59
La Lune
1985
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as
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Age: 59
La Cerisaie
1982
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as Léonid
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Age: 56
Strange Affair
1981
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as Bertrand Malair
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Age: 55
No Image
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
1981
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as Morrand
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Age: 55
Confused Feelings
1981
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as Professor
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Age: 55
The Prodigal Daughter
1981
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as Le père
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Age: 55
Atlantic City
1980
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as Joseph
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Age: 54
The Price of Survival
1980
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as René Winterhalter
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Age: 54
A Leap in the Dark
1980
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as Mauro Ponticelli
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Age: 54
Sugar
1978
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as Grezillo
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Age: 52
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978
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as Conrad Brukner
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Age: 52
The Savage State
1978
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as Orlaville
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Age: 52
No Image
Strauberg ist da
1978
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as Strauberg
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Age: 52
Fire's Share
1978
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as Robert Hansen
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Age: 52
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977
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as Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 51
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
1974
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as François, médecin
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Age: 48
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
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as The Second Police Prefect
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Age: 48
Life Size
1974
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as Michel
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Age: 48
The Infernal Trio
1974
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as Georges Sarret
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Age: 48
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
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as Buffalo Bill
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Age: 48
Un amour de pluie
1974
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as Mr. Dellerue (voice)
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Age: 48
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974
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as
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Age: 48
Far West
1973
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as Indian chief
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Age: 47
La Grande Bouffe
1973
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as Michel
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Age: 47
Wedding in Blood
1973
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as Pierre Maury
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Age: 47
Themroc
1973
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as Themroc
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Age: 47
The Woman in Blue
1973
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as Pierre
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Age: 47
The Assassination
1972
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as Colonel Kassar
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Age: 46
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
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as Interior Minister
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Age: 46
Liza
1972
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as Giorgio's friend
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Age: 46
The Audience
1972
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as Padre Amerin
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Age: 46
Invasion
1970
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as Marcello
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Age: 44
Topaz
1969
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as Jacques Granville
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Age: 43
The Uninvited
1969
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as François Desailly
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Age: 43
The Milky Way
1969
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as Marquis de Sade
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Age: 43
Dillinger Is Dead
1969
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as Glauco
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Age: 43
Délire à deux
1968
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as Him
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Age: 42
Lady L
1965
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as Lecoeur
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Age: 39
The Sleeping Car Murders
1965
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as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
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Age: 39
Dom Juan
1965
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as Dom Juan
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Age: 39
Masquerade
1965
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as Georges Sarrassin
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Age: 39
No Image
Café tabac
1964
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 39
All About Loving
1964
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as Raoul
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Age: 39
Marie Soleil
1964
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as Kafka
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Age: 38
Chance at Love
1964
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as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
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Age: 38
Paparazzi
1964
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as Texte dit par (voice)
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Age: 38
Bardot et Godard
1964
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as Self
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Age: 38
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
1964
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 38
Diary of a Chambermaid
1964
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as Monsieur Monteil
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Age: 38
L'Été en hiver
1964
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as Jean, the Reporter
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Age: 38
Hello Cubans
1963
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 37
Contempt
1963
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as Paul Javal
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Age: 37
The Day and the Hour
1963
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as Antoine
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Age: 37
Le Doulos
1962
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as Nuttheccio
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Age: 36
Adieu Philippine
1962
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as Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Climates of Love
1962
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as François
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Age: 36
No Image
Le Temps des assassins
1962
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 36
Parisienne... Parisiennes
1962
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 36
Rendezvous
1961
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as Paul
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Age: 35
No Image
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
1961
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as
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Age: 35
Hauteclaire
1961
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as Serlon de Savigny
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Age: 35
Amazons of Rome
1961
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as Console Publicola
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Age: 35
La Chevelure
1961
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as L'homme
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Age: 35
No Image
Quarante fontaines
1961
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 35
No Image
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
1960
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as
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Age: 35
Danger in the Middle East
1960
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as Brian Cannon
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Age: 34
La dragée haute
1960
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as Hugo Barsac
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Age: 34
Les Joueurs
1960
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as Chvokhniev
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Age: 34
No Image
Le Chalet sous la neige
1959
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as Robert
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Age: 33
Beast at Bay
1959
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as Commissioner Jacques Guimard
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Age: 33
La Nuit de Tom Brown
1959
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as Tom Brown, jeune
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Age: 33
Tabarin
1958
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as Jacques Forestier
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Age: 32
Sinners of Paris
1958
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as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
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Age: 32
No Image
La France romane
1956
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 31
Death in the Garden
1956
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as Father Lizzardi
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Age: 30
The Grand Manoeuvre
1955
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as Officer (uncredited)
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Age: 29
Bad Liaisons
1955
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as un inspecteur
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Age: 29
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955
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as Maurice Rouger
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Age: 29
Croissance de Paris
1955
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as Récitant (voice)
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Age: 29
French Cancan
1955
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as Le Capitaine Valorgueil
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Age: 29
Price of Love
1955
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as Georges
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Age: 29
Tout chante autour de moi
1954
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as Reverdier
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Age: 28
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1954
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as Gérard
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Age: 28
Daughters of Destiny
1954
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as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
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Age: 28
Horizons...
1953
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as un ouvrier
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Age: 27
The Bellman
1945
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as Un villageois
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Age: 19