Michel Bouquet
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.
Mississippi Mermaid
(Comolli)
Night and Fog
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
(Maugras)
The Bride Wore Black
(Coral)
The Breach
(Ludovic Regnier)
Two Men in Town
(Commissioner Goitreau)
Les Misérables
(Inspector Javert)
Cop au Vin
(Hubert Lavoisier)
The Unfaithful Wife
(Charles Desvallées)
Borsalino
(Maître Rinaldi)
The Suspects
(Prosecutor Delarue)
How I Killed My Father
(Maurice)
Monsieur Vincent
(Le tuberculeux)
The Serpent
(Tavel)
White Paws
(Maurice)
Malpertuis
(Charles Dideloo)
Our Agent Tiger
(Jacques Vermorel)
Vagabond Humor
(Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles)
The Chops
(le Vieux)
The Last Mitterrand
(Le Président)
No Escape
(Commissioner)
Toto the Hero
(Old Thomas)
The Toy
(Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman)
God Chose Paris
(Narrator)
Just Before Nightfall
(Charles Masson)
The Little Bedroom
(Edmond)
Elisa
(Samuel)
The Cop
(L'inspecteur Favenin)
Mina de Vanghel
(Narrator (voice))
Tower of Lust
(Louis X)
Secret Ceremony
The Sorceress
(Jules Michelet)
The Road to Corinth
(Sharps)
The Assassination
(Lempereur)
Renoir
(Auguste Renoir)
Where There's Smoke
(Morlaix)
Tartuffe
(Tartuffe)
The Conspiracy
(Lelong)
Défense de savoir
(Paul Cristiani)
France, Incorporated
(The Frenchman)
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
(Self)
Katia
(Bibesco)
Last Leap
(Jauran)
Kisses Till Monday
(Nez-D'Boeuf)
Last In, First Out
(Banquier Muller)
The Prince's Manuscript
(Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
A Look at Madness
(Narrator (voice))
Le malade imaginaire
(Argan)
Milice, film noir
(Narrator (voice))
State Reasons
(Francis Jobin)
Three Women
(Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora"))
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
(self)
Il segno del comando
(Marquis of Santerre)
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
(Claude Reverson)
Bloody Sun
(Doctor)
Thomas
(André, the father)
Beyond Fear
(Claude Balard)
The Double Contempt
(Reciter (voice))
A Wall in Jerusalem
(Narrator (citations) (voice))
The Angels
(Maurice)
A Christmas Carol
(Ebenezer Scrooge)
Lamiel
(Le docteur Sansfin)
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
(Monsieur Andesmas)
The Origin of Violence
(Marcel Fabre (2014))
Papa, the Lil' Boats
(Marc the Boss)
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
(Pierre Vergne)
The Art Dealer
(Raoul)
Le Sourire
(Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice))
Bloody Murder
(Georges Noblet)
Les Jeunes Filles
(Récitant / Narrator)
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
(Narration (Voice))
3000 Million Without an Elevator
(Albert)
Countdown to Vengeance
(Valberg)
All the Mornings of the World
(Baugin)
Trees
(Narrator)
The Holy Family
(Storm)
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
(Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse)
Criminal Brigade
(Le tueur)
Velvet Paws
(Quid)
Rebecca
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
(Self)
The Lives of Albert Camus
(Self)
This Special Friendship
(Father Trennes)
Manon
(Second)
Rodolphe Bresdin
(Narrator)
Villa Caprice
(Marcel Germon)
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
(Self)
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
(Self)
Le Curé de Tours
(L'abbé Troubet)
Le volet
(Narrator (voice))
Paulina 1880
(Monsieur Pandolfini)
Le secret de monsieur L
(Victor Lumen)
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
La danse de mort
(Edgar)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
(Self - Actor (archive footage))
La Légende du siècle
(Self)
Visages de Paris
(Voix)
La joie de vivre
(Monsieur Charme)
La Case du siècle
(Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice))
28 minutes
(Self)
Mozart
(Leopold Mozart)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Le Regard dans le miroir
(Mathias)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Discorama
(Self)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
Samedi soir
(Self)
Maigret
(Le juge Forlacroix)