Michel Serrault
from Brunoy, Essonne, France
from Brunoy, Essonne, France
Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin.
In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. In 1977-1978 he played the composer Jacques Offenbach in a six-part series of one-hour episodes about the musician's life, each one focusing on a specific aspect or work.
Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault.
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Dialogue
Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Harpagon
Hervé Decambrais
Max Birgos
L'archevêque de Venise
Gustave
Commissaire Lancret
The Castle Keeper
Docteur Léon Chapuis
Albert Moulinot
Gaston Dominici
Anzio
Self (archive footage)
Louis
Julien
Monsieur de Fontenelle
Verlac
Adrien Rochas
L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
Antoine Berrant
Le Cardinal
Michel Serrault
Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
Mr. Wagner
Orazio Gentileschi
Victor
The Comedian
Le comédien
Louis XV
Tel est Serrault
Self
Mr. Pierre Arnaud
Francis Bergeade
Alex Ponttin
Rousselot, le maire
M. Luc
Darius Caunes
Maître Malicorne
Maurice Martin, Héloïse
Pompilius
Docteur Petiot
Paul Léautaud
Gino
Paul Duchêne
Michaud
Roger Scatti
Ronald Fox-Terrier
Baudin
Octave Clapoteau
Gaëtan / Robert Wellson
Louis XVI
Robert Staniland
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
Le ministre de l'Intérieur
Rico, aggressive supporter
Otarius
Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '
Nestor Burma
Léon Labbé
Sébastien Barral
Jules César
Emmanuel Comte
Jérôme Martinaud
Léon
Édouard Morlaix
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
le docteur Charles Moreau
Henri Dupérier
Julien Pardot
Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
Le comptable
le voisin
Miremant
Zaza
Bordin
Dutilleul
Jean-Pierre Mazard
Max
Jérémie
Jean-Paul Rondin
Grégoire Montclair
Edouard Henricot
L'inspecteur de police
Paulo
Justin Blesh
Le curé Léon
Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'
Paul
Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché
Louis Martinet
Marcel Jolin
Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
Aujourd'hui à Paris
Writer
Alfred Mullanet
Achille
Gabriel Pelletier
Paul Cérès
Commissaire Le Gac
François
Gabriel Pelletier
Aldo Moreni
M. Jourdain
L'inspecteur Papin
Thomeret
Pounet
The armorer
Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory
(Unknown)
La père de Lucile
Hector
Martin - instituteur
Monsieur Marcel
Henri
Hutin
Bénéchol
Méloune
Valet
Albert
Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
Rimero
Varangeot
Jérôme Martinet
Rossignol, private detective
Mr. Lurot
Maître Brunet
Gaston Lartois
Le commissaire Baudu
Barthoin
Pétrarque
Varange
Commissioner
Charpentier, le conférencier
Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Lucien Moreau
Guillaume Chouilloux
Butcher
Tramp
L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
Le second policier / Policeman
L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle
Eugène, l'interprète
Adolphe Tessier
L'inspecteur Vidalie
le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
Dr. Emile Couzan
La Malle volante
M. Loiseau
The visitor
'La Parole'
Count Hubert de Latour-Latour
Adorables démons
Jacques Willis Senior
Jean-François Robignac
Inspector Leduc
Jimmy Scott
le démarcheur
Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
Gendarme
Mr. Raymond
Zamore
Serrault, le trompettiste
On ne réveille pas un flic qui dort
Commissaire Roger Scatti