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Michel Piccoli
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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 ĂlĂ©onore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-CordĂ©lia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette GrĂ©co, 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 paâŠ
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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 ĂlĂ©onore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-CordĂ©lia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette GrĂ©co, 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 AndrĂ©e Bauer-ThĂ©raud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "SortilĂšges" 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 ThĂ©Ăątre 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 ChĂ©reau and AndrĂ© 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 NoĂ«l", a short film by AndrĂ© Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le NoĂ«l Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le MĂ©pris" 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 Ătrange 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 GoĂ»t 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 Ăvreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
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BODY OF WORK
Michel Piccoli's Filmography
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The Life of Mirrors
It's Not Me
as (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)
Romy, A Free Woman
as archive footage
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
Marx Can Wait
as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
No Poster
Dios de monoambiente
as Self (archive footage)
Coming Apart
as (archive footage)
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
as Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
as Self (archive footage)
Our Lady of Hormones
as Narrator
The Taste of Blueberries
as Michel
Lines of Wellington
as LeĂłpold Scheitzer
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Le pĂšre
Holy Motors
as Man with the Wine Stain
The Bardot mystery
AgnĂšs Varda: From Here to There
as Self
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
as Self
We Have a Pope
as Melville
Portrait Of My Father
as Self
Le Bel Ăge
as Maurice Reverdy
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
Once Upon a Time⊠Contempt
as Self
The Beaches of AgnĂšs
as Self (archive footage)
The Dust of Time
as Spyros
On War
as Le grand Hou
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as Self
To Each His Own Cinema
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
No Poster
Le Roi Lear
as Le roi Lear
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
as Marcel
Boxes
as Daddy
Rencontre Unique
as Nikita Khrouchtchev
The Duchess of Langeais
as Vidame de Pamiers
Belle Toujours
as Henri Husson
Gardens in Autumn
as Marie, la mĂšre de Vincent
Magic Mirror
as Prof. Heschel
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
as Self
Everything's Connected
as Narrator
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
as Self
Raining Cats and Frogs
as Ferdinand (voice)
Little Lili
as acteur qui joue Simon
That Day
as Harald
A Man, a Real One
as Michel Piccoli
Romy Schneider, Ă©trange Ă©trangĂšre
as Self
Brook by Brook
as Self
No Poster
Il bambino di Betlemme
Iâm Going Home
as Gilbert Valence
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
as Louis
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
Actors
as Michel Piccoli
Kiarostami in Close up
as as Self
Libero Burro
as Zio Tony
ParĂs-TombuctĂș
as Michel des Assantes
The Happiest Place on Earth
as RĂ©citant (voice)
Nothing About Robert
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self
Passion in the Desert
as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Genealogies of a Crime
as Georges Didier
Tykho Moon
as Mac Bee / frĂšre Mac Bee
Ousmane Sow
as Narrateur
Party
as Michel
Traveling Companion
as Cosimo
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Prince de Conti
The World of Jacques Demy
as Self
One Hundred and One Nights
as Simon Cinéma
No Poster
Tödliches Geld
as Paul Belmont
The Black Angel
as Georges Feuvrier
The Emigrant
as Adam - Ram's father
Train de nuit
No Poster
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
as Presenter
No Poster
BĂȘte de scĂšne
No Poster
Rupture(s)
as Paul
Loonies at Large
as Henri Toussaint
The Young Girls Turn 25
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Archipel
as Leonard Wilde
The Supper
as Chateaubriand (voice)
From Time to Time
as Jules Verne
Le Bal des casse-pieds
as Désiré, l'homosexuel
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
as Edouard Frenhofer
Lest We Forget
as Self (segment "Pour Nasrin Rasooli, Iran")
The Children Thief
as Mr. Armand
La Belle Noiseuse
as Edouard Frenhofer
Walking a Tightrope
as Marcel Spadice
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
as Le baron de Leisenbohg
Martha and I
as Ernst
May Fools
as Milou
The Monkey Folk
Un coupable
as L'avocat
No Poster
La Ruelle au clair de lune
as Pierre Willer
Blanc de Chine
as Batz
How Good the Whites Are
as PĂšre Jean-Marie
Malady of Love
as Raoul Bergeron
The Veiled Man
as Kassar
La Rumba
as Damien Malleville
The Distant Land
as Friedrich Hofreiter
The Prude
as Pierre
Mauvais Sang
as Marc
The Nonentity
as der Tölpel
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
as Ătienne Sembadel
Adieu Bonaparte
as Caffarelli - ÙۧÙۧ۱ÙÙÙÙ
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner
Death in a French Garden
as Graham Tombsthay
La Lune
Le Matelot 512
as Narrator (voice)
Success Is the Best Revenge
as French Official
Long Live Life
as Michel Perrin
Dangerous Moves
as Akiva Liebskind
The General of the Dead Army
as Benetandi
The Prize of Peril
as Frédéric Mallaire
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
as José Viss
A Room in Town
as Edmond Leroyer
The Eyes, the Mouth
as TĂo Agostino
Beyond the Door
as Mr. Mutti
Godard's Passion
as Michel Boulard
That Night of Varennes
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)
The Passerby
as Max Baumstein
La Cerisaie
as LĂ©onid
Scénario du film Passion
as Self
Spy, Stand Up
as Jean-Paul Chance
Strange Affair
as Bertrand Malair
No Poster
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
as Morrand
Confused Feelings
as Professor
The Prodigal Daughter
as Le pĂšre
Atlantic City
as Joseph
The Price of Survival
as René Winterhalter
A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli
The Bit Between the Teeth
as Pierre Chazerand
Le Divorcement
as Philippe
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
as Victor Navarro
Sugar
as Grezillo
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Conrad Brukner
The Savage State
as Orlaville
No Poster
Strauberg ist da
as Strauberg
Fire's Share
as Robert Hansen
Spoiled Children
as Bernard Rougerie
The Accuser
as Saint-Ramé
That Obscure Object of Desire
as Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
Rene the Cane
as Ispettore Marchand
Mado
as Simon LĂ©otard
F as in Fairbanks
as Etienne
One Way or Another
as Him
The Last Woman
as Michel
Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Dr Losseray
Leonor
as Richard
Weak Spot
as L'enquĂȘteur
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
as François, médecin
The Phantom of Liberty
as Police Prefect #2
Life Size
as Michel
The Infernal Trio
as Georges Sarret
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Buffalo Bill
Loving in the Rain
as Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Far West
as Indian chief
La Grande Bouffe
as Michel
Wedding in Blood
as Pierre Maury
Themroc
as Themroc
The Woman in Blue
as Pierre
Cesar and Rosalie
as Narrator (voice)
The Assassination
as Colonel Kassar
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Interior Minister
Liza
as Giorgio's friend
The Audience
as Padre Amerin
Ten Days' Wonder
as Paul Regis
Touch and Go
as Valentin
Max and the Junkmen
as Max, inspector
Invasion
as Marcello
The Things of Life
as Pierre BĂ©rard
Topaz
as Jacques Granville
The Uninvited
as François Desailly
The Milky Way
as Marquis de Sade
Dillinger Is Dead
as Glauco
DĂ©lire Ă deux
as Him
Woman in Chains
as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
Heartbeat
as Charles
Danger: Diabolik
as Inspector Ginko
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Count Philippe
My Love, My Love
as Marrades
Belle de Jour
as Henri Husson
Shock Troops
as L'homme de trop
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Paul Javal (archive footage)
The Young Girls of Rochefort
as Simon Dame
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
as Self
Is Paris Burning?
as Edgar Pisani
Elsa the Rose
as Narrator (voice)
The Creatures
as Edgar Piccoli
La Voleuse
as Werner Kreuz
The Game Is Over
as Alexandre Saccard
The Devil's Tricks
as L'antiquaire
The War Is Over
as Inspector #1
Le Coup de grĂące
as Capri / Bruno
Lady L
as Lecoeur
The Sleeping Car Murders
as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
Dom Juan
as Dom Juan
Masquerade
as Georges Sarrassin
No Poster
Café tabac
as RĂ©citant (voice)
All About Loving
as Raoul
Marie Soleil
as Kafka
Chance at Love
as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
Paparazzi
as Texte dit par (voice)
Bardot et Godard
as Self
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
as Narrator (voice)
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Monsieur Monteil
L'ĂtĂ© en hiver
as Jean, the Reporter
Hello Cubans
as Narrator (voice)
Contempt
as Paul Javal
The Day and the Hour
as Antoine
Le Doulos
as Nuttheccio
Adieu Philippine
as Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Climates of Love
as François
Parisienne... Parisiennes
as RĂ©citant (voice)
No Poster
Le Temps des assassins
as RĂ©citant (voice)
Rendezvous
as Paul
No Poster
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
Hauteclaire
as Serlon de Savigny
Amazons of Rome
as Console Publicola
La Chevelure
as L'homme
No Poster
Quarante fontaines
as RĂ©citant (voice)
No Poster
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
Danger in the Middle East
as Brian Cannon
La dragée haute
as Hugo Barsac
Les Joueurs
as Chvokhniev
No Poster
Le Chalet sous la neige
as Robert
Beast at Bay
as Commissioner Jacques Guimard
La Nuit de Tom Brown
as Tom Brown, jeune
Tabarin
as Jacques Forestier
Sinners of Paris
as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
Nathalie
as Franck Marchal
Le Quadrille des diamants
as Richard Burke
No Poster
Le Plus Heureux des trois
as Pianist
Sunday Buddies
as Le directeur de l'aéro-club
The Witches of Salem
as James Putnam
No Poster
La France romane
as RĂ©citant (voice)
Death in the Garden
as Father Lizzardi
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Officer (uncredited)
Bad Liaisons
as un inspecteur
Ernst ThĂ€lmann â Leader of the Working Class
as Maurice Rouger
Croissance de Paris
as RĂ©citant (voice)
French Cancan
as Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Price of Love
as Georges
Tout chante autour de moi
as Reverdier
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
as GĂ©rard
Daughters of Destiny
as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Horizons...
as un ouvrier
No Poster
Torticola versus Frankensberg
as Torticola
Chicago Digest
as Slim Spring
No Poster
Terreur en Oklahoma
as Tommy Goudchote
No Poster
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archives
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Lebel
The Mark of the Day
as Georges Gohelle
The Bellman
as Un villageois