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Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli (1925-2020) was a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doi

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Filmography

La nuit de Tom Brown

1959
as Tom, jeune

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

Themroc

1973
as Themroc

Gli occhi, la bocca

1982
as Uncle Agostino

Topaz

1969
as Jacques Granville

La Voleuse

1966
as Werner Kreuz

Vincent, François, Paul... et les autres

1974
as François

Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts

1980
as Le commissaire

Péril en la Demeure

1985
as Graham Tombsthay

Mauvais Sang

1986
as Marc

The Milky Way

1969
as Marquis de Sade

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

2012
as Le père

The Creatures

1966
as Edgar Piccoli

Don't Touch the White Woman!

1974
as Buffalo Bill

Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma

1995
as Simon Cinéma

La ruelle au clair de lune

1988
as Pierre Willer

Strauberg ist da

1978
as Strauberg

Amazons of Rome

1961
as Console Publicola

La Diagonale du fou

1984
as Akiva Liebskind

Linhas de Wellington

2012
as Leópold Scheitzer

Sept morts sur ordonnance

1975
as Dr Losseray

Un coupable

1988
as L'avocat

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

1978
as Conrad Brukner

The Prodigal Daughter

1981
as Le père

La première séance

1995
as Narrator

F comme Fairbanks

1976
as Etienne

La puritaine

1986
as Pierre

César et Rosalie

1972
as Erzähler (Stimme)

Libero Burro

1999
as Uncle Tony

César et Rosalie

1972
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)

La Dernière Femme

1976
as Michel

Paris brûle-t-il?

1966
as Edgar Pisani

Milou en Mai

1990
as Milou

Danger: Diabolik

1968
as Inspector Ginko

L'imprécateur

1977
as Saint-Ramé

Martha et moi

1990
as Ernst Fuchs

Tödliches Geld

1995
as Paul Belmont

Elsa la rose

1966
as Narrator

Tout communique

2005
as Narrator

René la canne

1977
as Inspecteur Marchand

Far West

1973

La chevelure

1961
as L'homme

Gardens in Autumn

2006
as Marie, la mère de Vincent

La passante du Sans-Souci

1982
as Max Baumstein

La Chamade

1968
as Charles

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

1972
as Le Ministre

Habemus papam

2011
as Melville

La Belle Noiseuse

1991
as Edouard Frenhofer

Ten Days Wonder

1971
as Paul Regis

Le peuple singe

1989
as Récitant

The Sleeping Car Murder

1965
as René Cabourg

Boxes

2007
as Papa

La Grande Bouffe

1973
as Michel

All About Loving

1964

Sinners of Paris

1958
as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.

Adieu Bonaparte

1985

The Black Angel

1994
as Georges Feuvrier

Le Mépris

1963
as Paul Javal

Viva la vie

1984
as Michel Perrin

Notre-Dame des Hormones

2015
as Le narrateur

Le roi Lear

2007
as Le roi Lear

One Way or Another

1976
as Lui

Los negros tambien comen

1988
as Père Jean-Marie

Marie Soleil

1964
as Raoul

La prisonnière

1968
as l'invité pressé au vernissage

Le Prix du danger

1983
as Frédéric Mallaire

Party

1996
as Michel

Tykho Moon

1996
as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee

Atlantic City

1980
as Joseph

L'amour maudit de Leisenbohg

1991
as Le baron de Leisenbohg

L'Attentat

1972
as Le colonel kassar - le ministre de l'intérieur d'un pays du maghreb

L'État sauvage

1978
as Orlaville

Le Doulos

1963

Genealogies of a Crime

1997
as Georges Didier

French Cancan

1955
as Le Capitaine Valorgueil

The Game Is Over

1966
as Alexandre Saccard

Les équilibristes

1991
as Marcel Spadice

Dillinger Is Dead

1969
as Glauco

Salut les Cubains

1963
as Narrator

Partir, revenir

1985
as Simon Lerner

L'extravagant monsieur Piccoli

2017
as Michel Piccoli

I'm Going Home

2001
as Gilbert Valence

L'Univers de Jacques Demy

1995
as Himself

Blanc de Chine

1988
as Batz

The Duchess of Langeais

2007
as Vidame de Pamiers

The Children Thief

1991
as M. Armand

La dragée haute

1960
as Hugo Barsac

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984

Maladie d'amour

1987
as Raoul Bergeron

Archipel

1992
as Leonard Wilde

The Woman in Blue

1973
as Pierre

Belle de Jour

1967
as Henri Husson

Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts

1967
as Michel Piccoli

La Caméra explore le temps

1957

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

1986
as Étienne Sembadel

Magic Mirror

2006
as Prof. Heschel

That Day

2003
as Harald

Once Upon a Time... Contempt

2009
as Michel Piccoli

Le journal d'une femme de chambre

1964
as Monsieur Monteil

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

1967
as Simon Dame

Passion in the Desert

1997
as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

The Audience

1972
as Padre Amerin

Destinées

1954
as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")

Espion, lève-toi

1982
as Jean-Paul Chance

Death in the Garden

1956
as Father Lizardi

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

1997
as Michel Piccoli

Begegnung mit Fritz Lang

1964
as Michel Piccoli

Tout chante autour de moi

1954
as Reverdier

La petite Lili

2003
as acteur qui joue Simon

Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans

1993
as Himself (archive footage)

Le bal des espions

1960
as Brian Cannon

Climats

1962
as François Crozant

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

1995
as Himself

Les ruses du diable (Neuf portraits d'une jeune fille)

1966
as L'antiquaire

On War

2008
as Le grand Hou

Rupture(s)

1993
as Paul

Cinéastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel

1964
as Récitant

Everything's Fine, We're Leaving

2000
as Louis

Restless

2009
as Maurice Reverdy

Der Preis fürs Überleben

1980
as René Winterhalter

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

1968
as Count Philippe

Liza

1972
as Giorgio's friend

Les Acteurs

2000
as Michel Piccoli

Max et les ferrailleurs

1971
as Max

Les Joueurs

1960
as Chvokhniev

The Bench of Desolation

1974
as Capitaine Roger

Wedding in Blood

1973
as Pierre Maury

Le divorcement

1979
as Philippe

La Rumba

1987
as Damien Malleville

Ritratto di mio padre

2010
as Michel Piccoli

The Witches of Salem

1957
as James Putnam

Salto nel vuoto

1980
as Mauro Ponticelli

Passion

1982
as Michel Boulard

Leonor

1975
as Richard

París-Tombuctú

1999
as Michel des Assantes

The War Is Over

1966
as l'inspecteur des douanes

Compagna di viaggio

1996
as Cosimo

Une chambre en ville

1982
as Edmond Leroyer

Le bal des casse-pieds

1992
as Désiré, l'homosexuel

Beaumarchais, l'insolent

1996
as Prince de Conti

L'homme voilé

1987
as Kassar

La Poudre d'escampette

1971
as Valentin

Belle Toujours

2006
as Husson

Holy Motors

2012
as L'homme à la tache de vin

Une étrange affaire

1981
as Bertrand Malair

Le Sucre

1978
as Grezillo

Torticola contre Frankensberg

1952
as Torticola

Mado

1976
as Simon Léotard

Le Paltoquet

1986
as der Tölpel

Le coup de grâce

1966
as Capri / Bruno

Les choses de la vie

1970
as Pierre Bérard

Le Souper

1992
as Chateaubriand (voice)

La Bête à l'affût

1959
as Commissaire Jacques Guimard

The Dinosaur and the Baby

1967
as Paul Javal (archive footage)

La cavale des fous

1993
as Henri Toussaint

Beyond the Door

1982
as Mr. Mutti

Le goût des myrtilles

2014
as Michel

My Love, My Love

1967
as Marrades

Dom Juan

1965
as Dom Juan

Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt

1982

Le Mors aux dents

1979
as Pierre Chazerand

Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad

1994
as Récitant

Les toits de Paris

2007
as Marcel

The General of the Dead Army

1983

Grandeur nature

1974
as Michel

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death

1979
as Victor Navarro

Chacun son cinéma

2007
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

Shock Troops

1967
as o homem extra

Les mauvaises rencontres

1955
as Un inspecteur

Le matelot 512

1984
as Récitant

Le jour et l'heure

1963
as Antoine

Le trio infernal

1974
as Georges Sarret

La Prophétie des grenouilles

2003
as Ferdinand (voice)

Des enfants gâtés

1977
as Bernard Rougerie

Masquerade

1965
as Georges Sarrassin

Rien sur Robert

1999
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West

Director

Movie C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé 2005
Movie The Black Beach 2001
Movie Contre l'oubli 1991
Movie Alors voilà, 1997

Writer

Movie C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé 2005
Movie Alors voilà, 1997

Producer

Movie Don't Touch the White Woman! 1974
Movie Der Preis fürs Überleben 1980
Movie Leonor 1975
Movie The General of the Dead Army 1983

Guest Star

Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
Diabolik 		1999
Episode Century of Cinema
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema 		1995
Episode Myster Mocky présente
Le Jour de l'exécution 		2008