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Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018.
Michel François Pierre Bouquet was born on 6 November 1925 in Paris. When he was seven years old, he was sent to a boarding school where he stayed until …
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Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for Toto the Hero in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars for How I Killed My Father (2001) and The Last Mitterrand (2005). He also received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Les côtelettes in 1998, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. He received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 2018. Michel François Pierre Bouquet was born on 6 November 1925 in Paris. When he was seven years old, he was sent to a boarding school where he stayed until the age of 14. He aspired to become a doctor but had to quit school at the age of 15 after his father had been taken prisoner during World War II. Bouquet worked as a baker's apprentice, then a bank clerk, to provide for the family. After a short stay in Lyon, he returned with his mother to Paris. Marie Bouquet was passionate about theater, and that helped the young Bouquet to find his vocation. He took acting classes under the tutelage of Maurice Escande, a member of the Comédie Française, and made his stage debut in the play La première étape in 1944. Then he studied at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris where he met Gérard Philippe. In the mid-1940s Michel Bouquet began working with the playwright Jean Anouilh and director André Barsacq, who staged plays at the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Montmartre. In 1946, Anouilh gave Bouquet a part in Roméo and Jeannette, followed by The Rendez-vous of Senlis and The Invitation to the Castle in 1947. In the 1950s, the actor met another stage director, Jean Vilar, with whom he would frequently collaborate. Bouquet played many roles from the classical repertoire at the Festival d'Avignon, created by Vilar in 1947 (Henry IV in 1950, The Tragedy of King Richard II in 1953, and The Miser in 1962). Bouquet regularly worked with Anouilh until the early 1970s, then helped popularize in France the works of the British author Harold Pinter: The Collection in 1965, The Birthday Party in 1967 and No Man's Land in 1979. At the same time, at the end of the 1970s, Michel Bouquet was appointed professor at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and taught there until 1990. In the 1980s-1990s, he returned to the Théâtre de l'Atelier where he once began his career. In 1994, he played in Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, the role he would perform many times until 2014. In 1998 he received the Molière Award for Best Actor for Bertrand Blier's Les côtelettes, then again for Exit the King in 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Molière for the sum of his career. A year later, the actor received accolades for his performance in Taking Sides by the British playwright Ronald Harwood. Bouquet announced his retirement from stage in 2019. ... Source: Article "Michel Bouquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
as Self (archive) - actor
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
as Self
Secret Ceremony
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
as self
Villa Caprice
as Marcel Germon
The Lives of Albert Camus
as Self
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
as Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Origin of Violence
as Marcel Fabre (2014)
The Art Dealer
as Raoul
No Poster
Rebecca
Renoir
as Auguste Renoir
The Little Bedroom
as Edmond
Le malade imaginaire
as Argan
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
as Self
The Last Mitterrand
as Le Président
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
as Monsieur Andesmas
The Chops
as le Vieux
Trees
as Narrator
How I Killed My Father
as Maurice
The Prince's Manuscript
as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
as Narration (Voice)
Milice, film noir
as Narrator (voice)
Élisa
as Samuel
The Eye of Vichy
as Narrator (voice)
La Joie de vivre
as Monsieur Charme
No Poster
Il segno del comando
as Marquis of Santerre
All the Mornings of the World
as Baugin
Toto the Hero
as Old Thomas
Velvet Paws
as Quid
Cop au Vin
as Hubert Lavoisier
No Poster
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
No Poster
The Secret of Mister L
as Victor Lumen
Les Misérables
as Inspector Javert
The Sorceress
as Jules Michelet
La Danse de mort
as Edgar
No Poster
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
Le Curé de Tours
as L'abbé Troubet
No Poster
Les Jeunes Filles
as Récitant / Narrator
Last In, First Out
as Banquier Muller
State Reasons
as Francis Jobin
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
as Maugras
The Toy
as Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
as Pierre Vergne
Beyond Fear
as Claude Balard
Thomas
as André, the father
The Suspects
as Prosecutor Delarue
Kisses Till Monday
as Nez-D'Boeuf
France, Incorporated
as The Frenchman
Bloody Sun
as Doctor
Bloody Murder
as Georges Noblet
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Claude Reverson
Two Men in Town
as Commissioner Goitreau
Défense de savoir
as Paul Cristiani
The Angels
as Maurice
Where There's Smoke
as Morlaix
The Conspiracy
as Lelong
No Poster
The Holy Family
as Storm
The Serpent
as Tavel
The Assassination
as Lempereur
No Poster
Le volet
as Narrator (voice)
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Albert
Vagabond Humor
as Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
Paulina 1880
as Monsieur Pandolfini
La Légende du siècle
as Self
Malpertuis
as Charles Dideloo
Tartuffe
as Tartuffe
Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Marc the Boss
Just Before Nightfall
as Charles Masson
The Cop
as L'inspecteur Favenin
The Breach
as Ludovic Regnier
Last Leap
as Jauran
Borsalino
as Maître Rinaldi
Countdown to Vengeance
as Valberg
God Chose Paris
as Narrator
Mississippi Mermaid
as Comolli
The Unfaithful Wife
as Charles Desvallées
No Poster
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
as Self
A Wall in Jerusalem
as Narrator (citations) (voice)
The Bride Wore Black
as Coral
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
as Un causeur dans le boudoir
The Road to Corinth
as Sharps
Lamiel
as Le docteur Sansfin
The Double Contempt
as Reciter (voice)
Our Agent Tiger
as Jacques Vermorel
Marco the Magnificent
as Narrator (uncredited)
This Special Friendship
as Father Trennes
A Look at Madness
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Rodolphe Bresdin
as Narrator
Le Sourire
as Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
Katia
as Bibesco
No Escape
as Commissioner
Night and Fog
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tower of Lust
as Louis X
Visages de Paris
as Voix
Mina de Vanghel
as Narrator (voice)
Three Women
as Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
White Paws
as Maurice
Manon
as Second
Monsieur Vincent
as Le tuberculeux
Criminal Brigade
as Le tueur