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 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. ...
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Filmography (Movies)
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Character:Self
Release Date:12/09/2022
Secret Ceremony
Character:
Release Date:22/06/2022
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
Character:self
Release Date:01/06/2022
Villa Caprice
Character:Marcel Germon
Release Date:02/06/2021
The Lives of Albert Camus
Character:Self
Release Date:22/01/2020
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Character:Self
Release Date:23/11/2018
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character:Self - Actor (archive footage)
Release Date:01/09/2017
The Origin of Violence
Character:Marcel Fabre (2014)
Release Date:25/05/2016
The Art Dealer
Character:Raoul
Release Date:18/03/2015
Rebecca
Character:
Release Date:05/10/2014
Renoir
Character:Auguste Renoir
Release Date:02/07/2012
The Little Bedroom
Character:Edmond
Release Date:16/02/2011
Le malade imaginaire
Character:Argan
Release Date:30/09/2008
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Character:Self
Release Date:21/02/2006
The Last Mitterrand
Character:Le Président
Release Date:16/02/2005
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
Character:Monsieur Andesmas
Release Date:14/07/2004
The Chops
Character:le Vieux
Release Date:28/05/2003
Trees
Character:Narrator
Release Date:13/11/2001
How I Killed My Father
Character:Maurice
Release Date:19/09/2001
The Prince's Manuscript
Character:Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Release Date:31/03/2000
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Character:Narration (Voice)
Release Date:09/03/1999
Milice, film noir
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/12/1997
Elisa
Character:Samuel
Release Date:01/02/1995
La Joie de vivre
Character:Monsieur Charme
Release Date:17/03/1993
Il segno del comando
Character:Marquis of Santerre
Release Date:01/03/1992
All the Mornings of the World
Character:Baugin
Release Date:18/12/1991
Toto the Hero
Character:Old Thomas
Release Date:17/05/1991
Velvet Paws
Character:Quid
Release Date:26/10/1987
Cop au Vin
Character:Hubert Lavoisier
Release Date:10/04/1985
A Christmas Carol
Character:Ebenezer Scrooge
Release Date:25/12/1984
The Secret of Mister L
Character:Victor Lumen
Release Date:22/08/1983
Les Misérables
Character:Inspector Javert
Release Date:20/10/1982
The Sorceress
Character:Jules Michelet
Release Date:25/05/1982
La danse de mort
Character:Edgar
Release Date:01/01/1982
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1981
Le Curé de Tours
Character:L'abbé Troubet
Release Date:02/12/1980
Les Jeunes Filles
Character:Récitant / Narrator
Release Date:09/11/1979
Last In, First Out
Character:Banquier Muller
Release Date:30/08/1978
State Reasons
Character:Francis Jobin
Release Date:26/04/1978
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Character:Maugras
Release Date:05/01/1977
The Toy
Character:Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
Release Date:08/12/1976
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Character:Pierre Vergne
Release Date:12/05/1976
Beyond Fear
Character:Claude Balard
Release Date:23/09/1975
Thomas
Character:André, the father
Release Date:05/03/1975
The Suspects
Character:Prosecutor Delarue
Release Date:27/11/1974
Kisses Till Monday
Character:Nez-D'Boeuf
Release Date:27/11/1974
France, Incorporated
Character:The Frenchman
Release Date:04/06/1974
Bloody Sun
Character:Doctor
Release Date:31/05/1974
Bloody Murder
Character:Georges Noblet
Release Date:06/03/1974
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Character:Claude Reverson
Release Date:12/12/1973
Two Men in Town
Character:Commissioner Goitreau
Release Date:24/10/1973
Défense de savoir
Character:Paul Cristiani
Release Date:29/08/1973
The Angels
Character:Maurice
Release Date:23/08/1973
Where There's Smoke
Character:Morlaix
Release Date:16/05/1973
The Conspiracy
Character:Lelong
Release Date:10/05/1973
The Holy Family
Character:Storm
Release Date:14/04/1973
The Serpent
Character:Tavel
Release Date:07/04/1973
The Assassination
Character:Lempereur
Release Date:04/10/1972
Le volet
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:15/09/1972
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Character:Albert
Release Date:18/08/1972
Vagabond Humor
Character:Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
Release Date:05/07/1972
Paulina 1880
Character:Monsieur Pandolfini
Release Date:09/06/1972
La Légende du siècle
Character:Self
Release Date:04/06/1972
Malpertuis
Character:Charles Dideloo
Release Date:02/06/1972
Tartuffe
Character:Tartuffe
Release Date:12/06/1971
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Character:Marc the Boss
Release Date:22/04/1971
Just Before Nightfall
Character:Charles Masson
Release Date:31/03/1971
The Cop
Character:L'inspecteur Favenin
Release Date:05/10/1970
The Breach
Character:Ludovic Regnier
Release Date:26/08/1970
Last Leap
Character:Jauran
Release Date:07/06/1970
Borsalino
Character:Maître Rinaldi
Release Date:19/05/1970
Countdown to Vengeance
Character:Valberg
Release Date:29/01/1970
God Chose Paris
Character:Narrator
Release Date:05/09/1969
Mississippi Mermaid
Character:Comolli
Release Date:18/06/1969
The Unfaithful Wife
Character:Charles Desvallées
Release Date:22/01/1969
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1969
A Wall in Jerusalem
Character:Narrator (citations) (voice)
Release Date:20/11/1968
The Bride Wore Black
Character:Coral
Release Date:22/03/1968
The Road to Corinth
Character:Sharps
Release Date:27/10/1967
Lamiel
Character:Le docteur Sansfin
Release Date:30/08/1967
The Double Contempt
Character:Reciter (voice)
Release Date:02/04/1967
Our Agent Tiger
Character:Jacques Vermorel
Release Date:05/11/1965
Marco the Magnificent
Character:Narrator (uncredited)
Release Date:06/08/1965
This Special Friendship
Character:Father Trennes
Release Date:04/09/1964
A Look at Madness
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/01/1962
Rodolphe Bresdin
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1962
Le Sourire
Character:Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
Release Date:01/05/1960
Katia
Character:Bibesco
Release Date:22/12/1959
No Escape
Character:Commissioner
Release Date:25/06/1958
Night and Fog
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:29/01/1956
Tower of Lust
Character:Louis X
Release Date:18/03/1955
Visages de Paris
Character:Voix
Release Date:01/01/1955
Mina de Vanghel
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/03/1953
Three Women
Character:Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Release Date:13/08/1952
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Character:Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
Release Date:31/10/1951
White Paws
Character:Maurice
Release Date:13/04/1949
Manon
Character:Second
Release Date:09/03/1949
Monsieur Vincent
Character:Le tuberculeux
Release Date:05/11/1947
Criminal Brigade
Character:Le tueur
Release Date:05/09/1947
Television Appearances
28 minutes
Character:Self
La Case du siècle
Character:Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice)
Vivement dimanche
Character:Self
Maigret
Character:Le juge Forlacroix
Le Regard dans le miroir
Character:Mathias
Mozart
Character:Leopold Mozart
Champs-Elysées
Character:Self
Spécial cinéma
Character:Self
Samedi soir
Character:Self
Discorama
Character:Self
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