Michel Piccoli
from Paris, Ile-de-France, France
from Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia.
Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning.
Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira...
He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013.
Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International.
Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
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Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dios de monoambiente
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Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Narrator
Michel
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Man with the Wine Stain
Le père
Leópold Scheitzer
Melville
Self
Self
Self
Self
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Maurice Reverdy
Self
Le grand Hou
Spyros
Self (archive footage)
Vidame de Pamiers
Nikita Khrouchtchev
Daddy
Marcel
Le Roi Lear
Le roi Lear
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Self
Prof. Heschel
Marie, la mère de Vincent
Henri Husson
Writer
Narrator
Self
Michel Piccoli
Harald
acteur qui joue Simon
Ferdinand (voice)
Il bambino di Betlemme
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Self
Self
Gilbert Valence
Writer
as Self
Michel Piccoli
Self
Louis
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Récitant (voice)
Michel des Assantes
Zio Tony
Self
Georges Didier
Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Writer
Prince de Conti
Cosimo
Michel
Narrateur
Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
Tödliches Geld
Paul Belmont
Simon Cinéma
Self
Bête de scène
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Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
Presenter
Writer
Adam - Ram's father
Georges Feuvrier
Archipel
Leonard Wilde
Self (archive footage)
Henri Toussaint
Rupture(s)
Paul
Edouard Frenhofer
Désiré, l'homosexuel
Jules Verne
Chateaubriand (voice)
Le baron de Leisenbohg
Marcel Spadice
Edouard Frenhofer
Mr. Armand
Self (segment "Pour Nasrin Rasooli, Iran")
Milou
Ernst
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Père Jean-Marie
Batz
Pierre Willer
L'avocat
Friedrich Hofreiter
Damien Malleville
Kassar
Raoul Bergeron
Étienne Sembadel
der Tölpel
Marc
Pierre
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Graham Tombsthay
Simon Lerner
Caffarelli
Akiva Liebskind
Michel Perrin
French Official
Narrator (voice)
Frédéric Mallaire
Benetandi
Jean-Paul Chance
Self
Léonid
Max Baumstein
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Michel Boulard
Mr. Mutti
Tío Agostino
Edmond Leroyer
José Viss
Le père
Professor
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
Morrand
Bertrand Malair
Mauro Ponticelli
René Winterhalter
Joseph
Victor Navarro
Philippe
Pierre Chazerand
Robert Hansen
Strauberg ist da
Strauberg
Orlaville
Conrad Brukner
Grezillo
Ispettore Marchand
Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
Bernard Rougerie
Saint-Ramé
Michel
Him
Etienne
Simon Léotard
L'enquêteur
Richard
Dr Losseray
Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Buffalo Bill
Georges Sarret
Michel
Police Prefect #2
François, médecin
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Pierre
Themroc
Pierre Maury
Michel
Indian chief
Padre Amerin
Giorgio's friend
Interior Minister
Colonel Kassar
Narrator (voice)
Max, inspector
Valentin
Paul Regis
Pierre Bérard
Marcello
Glauco
Marquis de Sade
François Desailly
Jacques Granville
Count Philippe
Inspector Ginko
Charles
L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
Him
Self
Simon Dame
Paul Javal (archive footage)
L'homme de trop
Henri Husson
Marrades
Capri / Bruno
Inspector #1
L'antiquaire
Alexandre Saccard
Werner Kreuz
Edgar Piccoli
Narrator (voice)
Edgar Pisani
Georges Sarrassin
Dom Juan
René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
Lecoeur
Jean, the Reporter
Monsieur Monteil
Narrator (voice)
Self
Texte dit par (voice)
Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
Kafka
Raoul
Café tabac
Récitant (voice)
Antoine
Paul Javal
Narrator (voice)
Récitant (voice)
Le Temps des assassins
Récitant (voice)
François
Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Nuttheccio
L'homme
Quarante fontaines
Récitant (voice)
Console Publicola
Serlon de Savigny
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
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Paul
Chvokhniev
Hugo Barsac
Brian Cannon
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
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Tom Brown, jeune
Commissioner Jacques Guimard
Le Chalet sous la neige
Robert
L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
Jacques Forestier
James Putnam
Le directeur de l'aéro-club
Le Plus Heureux des trois
Pianist
Richard Burke
Franck Marchal
Father Lizzardi
La France romane
Récitant (voice)
Georges
Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Récitant (voice)
Maurice Rouger
un inspecteur
Officer (uncredited)
Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Gérard
Reverdier
un ouvrier
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Torticola
Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
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Terreur en Oklahoma
Tommy Goudchote
Slim Spring
Georges Gohelle
Lebel
Un villageois