10.0
10.0
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977
as Maugras
Michel Bouquet
Acting
Born:November 6, 1925
Died:April 13, 2022(aged 96)
Birthplace:Paris, France
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (96 movies)
8.3
8.3
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999
as Narration (Voice)
8.2
8.2
Night and Fog
1959
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
8.2
8.2
The Prince's Manuscript
2000
as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
8.0
8.0
Paulina 1880
1972
as Monsieur Pandolfini
8.0
8.0
The Lives of Albert Camus
2020
as Self
7.8
7.8
This Special Friendship
1964
as Father Trennes
7.1
7.1
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Coral
7.1
7.1
Two Men in Town
1973
as Commissioner Goitreau
7.1
7.1
All the Mornings of the World
1991
as Baugin
7.0
7.0
Toto the Hero
1991
as Old Thomas
7.0
7.0
Trees
2001
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
2004
as Monsieur Andesmas
7.0
7.0
Le malade imaginaire
2008
as Argan
6.9
6.9
The Toy
1976
as Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
6.9
6.9
Borsalino
1970
as Maître Rinaldi
6.9
6.9
The Unfaithful Wife
1969
as Charles Desvallées
6.9
6.9
Les Misérables
1982
as Inspector Javert
6.9
6.9
Manon
1949
as Second
6.7
6.7
The Assassination
1972
as Lempereur
6.6
6.6
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
as Comolli
6.5
6.5
Monsieur Vincent
1947
as Le tuberculeux
6.5
6.5
Beyond Fear
1975
as Claude Balard
6.5
6.5
The Last Mitterrand
2005
as Le Président
6.4
6.4
Just Before Nightfall
1971
as Charles Masson
6.4
6.4
The Cop
1970
as L'inspecteur Favenin
6.4
6.4
Katia
1959
as Bibesco
6.4
6.4
Malpertuis
1972
as Charles Dideloo
6.4
6.4
The Little Bedroom
2011
as Edmond
6.4
6.4
Elisa
1995
as Samuel
6.4
6.4
Renoir
2012
as Auguste Renoir
6.1
6.1
Cop au Vin
1985
as Hubert Lavoisier
6.1
6.1
The Serpent
1973
as Tavel
6.0
6.0
The Breach
1970
as Ludovic Regnier
6.0
6.0
The Origin of Violence
2016
as Marcel Fabre (2014)
6.0
6.0
A Look at Madness
1962
as Narrator (voice)
5.9
5.9
The Chops
2003
as le Vieux
5.8
5.8
Where There's Smoke
1973
as Morlaix
5.7
5.7
How I Killed My Father
2001
as Maurice
5.7
5.7
Countdown to Vengeance
1970
as Valberg
5.6
5.6
Défense de savoir
1973
as Paul Cristiani
5.5
5.5
Le Sourire
1960
as Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
5.5
5.5
Villa Caprice
2021
as Marcel Germon
5.3
5.3
The Conspiracy
1973
as Lelong
5.3
5.3
State Reasons
1978
as Francis Jobin
5.2
5.2
The Suspects
1974
as Prosecutor Delarue
5.1
5.1
White Paws
1949
as Maurice
5.1
5.1
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Albert
5.1
5.1
Last Leap
1970
as Jauran
4.8
4.8
Lamiel
1967
as Le docteur Sansfin
4.8
4.8
Bloody Murder
1974
as Georges Noblet
4.7
4.7
Tower of Lust
1955
as Louis X
4.6
4.6
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
1976
as Pierre Vergne
4.5
4.5
Kisses Till Monday
1974
as Nez-D'Boeuf
4.1
4.1
No Escape
1958
as Commissioner
4.1
4.1
The Road to Corinth
1967
as Sharps
4.1
4.1
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Marc the Boss
4.0
4.0
The Angels
1973
as Maurice
3.9
3.9
France, Incorporated
1974
as The Frenchman
3.8
3.8
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
as Claude Reverson
3.7
3.7
Il segno del comando
1992
as Marquis of Santerre
3.6
3.6
The Art Dealer
2015
as Raoul
3.4
3.4
Last In, First Out
1978
as Banquier Muller
3.3
3.3
Our Agent Tiger
1965
as Jacques Vermorel
3.0
3.0
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951
as Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
2.5
2.5
Bloody Sun
1974
as Doctor
2.0
2.0
Vagabond Humor
1972
as Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
2.0
2.0
Rebecca
2014
2.0
2.0
The Sorceress
1982
as Jules Michelet
The Holy Family
1973
as Storm
Rodolphe Bresdin
1962
as Narrator
Criminal Brigade
1947
as Le tueur
Milice, film noir
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Double Contempt
1967
as Reciter (voice)
Velvet Paws
1987
as Quid
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969
as Self
Thomas
1975
as André, the father
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
2018
as Self
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006
as Self
Mina de Vanghel
1953
as Narrator (voice)
Le Curé de Tours
1980
as L'abbé Troubet
Le volet
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Tartuffe
1971
as Tartuffe
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
1981
Secret Ceremony
2022
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
2022
as self
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022
as Self
A Christmas Carol
1984
as Ebenezer Scrooge
La danse de mort
1982
as Edgar
La Légende du siècle
1972
as Self
God Chose Paris
1969
as Narrator
Visages de Paris
1955
as Voix
Le secret de monsieur L
1983
as Victor Lumen
Three Women
1952
as Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Les Jeunes Filles
1979
as Récitant / Narrator
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968
as Narrator (citations) (voice)
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