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Michel Piccoli Biography (1925-)

Full name, Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli; born December 27, 1925, in Paris, France; son of Henri Piccoli; married Eleno Eleonore Hirt (divorced); marriedJuliette Greco (an actress and singer), 1966 (divorced, 1977); married Ludivine Clerc, 1978; children: (first marriage) Anne-Cordelia.

Nationality

French

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actor, director, writer, producer

Birth Details

December 27, 1925

Paris, France

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• Sortileges (also known as The Bellman), Mage Films, 1944
• Georges Gohelle, Le point du jour, 1949
• Lebel, Le parfum de la dame en noir, Les Films Corona, 1949
• Journalist, Sans laisser d'adresse, Corona, 1951
• Terreur en Oklahoma (short film), 1951
• Torticola contre Frankensberg (short film), 1952
• Saint-Tropez, devoir et vacances (short documentary; also known asSaint-Tropez), 1952
• Chicago Digest (short film), 1952
• Interdit de sejour, 1953
• Pasquerel, "Joan of Arc," Destinees (also known as Daughters ofDestiny, Love, Soldiers, and Women, and Destini di donne),Arlan, 1953
• Captain Valorgueil, French Cancan (also known as Only the French Can), United Motion Picture Organization, 1955
• Reverdier, Tout chante autour de moi, Les Films Marceau, 1955
• Ernst Thaelmann--Fuehrer seiner Klasse (also known as Ernst Thaelmann), 1955
• Les mauvaises rencontres, 1955
• Priest, Marie-Antoinette reine de France (also known as Marie-Antoinette, Marie Antoinette Queen of France, Maria Antonietta, and Maria Antonietta regina di Francia), Rizzoli Film, 1955
• Father Lizardi, La mort en ce jardin (also known as Death in the Garden, Death in This Garden, The Diamond Hunters, Evil Eden, Gina, and La muerte en el jardin), Bauer International, 1956
• James Putnam, Les sorcieres de Salem (also known as The Crucible, The Witches of Salem, Die Hexen von Salem, and Hexenjagd), Kingsley International, 1957
• Inspector Franck Marchal, Nathalie (also known as The Foxiest Girl in Paris and Nathalie Agent Secret), Times, 1957
• Jacques Forestier, Tabarin, Mayfair, 1957
• Rafles sur la ville (also known as Sinners of Paris), EllisFilms, 1958
• Les copains du Dimanche, 1958
• La bete a l'affut, 1959
• Hugo Barsac, La dragee haute, 1959
• Le bal des espions (also known as Danger in the Middle Eastand Le schiave bianche), 1960
• Le rendez-vous (also known as Le rendez-vous de Noel), 1961
• Le vergini di Roma (also known as Amazons of Rome and Les vierges de Rome), United Artists, 1961
• Nuttbeccio, Le doulos (also known as The Finger Man and Lo spione), Pathe Contemporary Films, 1961
• Le chevelure (short film), 1961
• Antoine, Le jour et l'heure (also known as The Day and theHour, Today We Live, and Il giorno e l'ora), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1962
• Fumee, histoire et fantaisie (short film), 1962
• Climats, 1962
• Paul Javal, Le mepris (also known as Contempt and Il disprezzo), Embassy, 1963
• Monsieur Monteil, Le journal d'une femme de chambre (also known as Diary of a Chambermaid and Il diario di una cameriera), Rialto, 1964
• La chance et l'amour (also known as Chance at Love andL'amore e la chance), 1964
• Himself, Paparazzi (short film), 1964
• Himself, Bardot et Godard (also known as Le parti des choses), 1964
• Sarrassin, Masquerade (also known as Operation Masquerade and A Shabby Tiger), United Artists, 1965
• Lecoeur, Lady L, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965
• Himself, Tentazioni proibite (documentary), Indipenti Regionali, 1965
• Les ruses du diable (also known as The Devil's Tricks),1965
• Marie Soleil, 1965
• Raoul, De l'amour (also known as About Love, All about Loving, and La calda pelle), Goldstone Film Enterprises, 1965
• Bruno, Le coup de grace, 1965
• Cabourg, Compartiment tueurs (also known as The Sleeping Car Murder and The Sleeping Car Murders), Seven Arts, 1965
• Cafe Tabac (short film), 1965
• First customs inspector, La guerre est finie (also known as TheWar Is Over and Kriget aer slut), Brandon Films, 1966
• Edgar Piccoli, Les creatures (also known as Varelserna), New Yorker, 1966
• Edgar Pisani, Paris brule-t-il? (also known as Is Paris Burning?), Paramount, 1966
• La voleuse (also known as Schornstein Nr. 4), 1966
• Alexandre Saccard, La curee (also known as The Game Is Overand Tears of Rapture), Royal Films International, 1966
• Simon Dame, Les demoiselles de Rochefort (musical; also known as The Young Girls of Rochefort), Miramax, 1967
• Henri Husson, Belle de jour (also known as Bella di giorno), Allied Artists, 1967
• The extra man, Un homme de trop (also known as Shock Troops), United Artists, 1967
• Marrades, Mon amour, mon amour (also known as My Love, My Love), Les Films Marceau, 1967
• Title role, Dom Juan, 1967
• Charles, Heartbeat, 1968
• Count Philippe DeSaint-Germain, Benjamin (also known as Benjamin, or the Diary of an Innocent Young Man and Benjamin ou les memoiresd'un puceau), 1968
• "Invite au vernissage," La prisonniere (also known as Female Prisoner, Woman in Chains, and La prigioniera), Avco Embassy,1968
• Glauco, Dillinger e morto (also known as Dillinger Is Dead), 1968
• Inspector Ginko, Diabolik (also known as Danger: Diabolik),Paramount Home Video, 1968
• Charles, La chamade, Lopert, 1968
• The marquis, La voie lactee (also known as The Milky Way, Die Milchstrasse, and La via lattea), UMC Pictures, 1969
• Jacques Granville, Topaz, Universal, 1969
• Francois, L'invitata (also known as The Uninvited and L'invitee), 1969
• Pierre, Les choses de la vie (also known as The Little Things in Life, These Things Happen, The Things of Life, and L'amante), Columbia, 1969
• Marcello, L'invasion (also known as L'invasione), 1970
• Priest, L'udienza (also known as The Audience and Papal Audience), 1971
• Valentin, La poudre d'escampette (also known as French Leave, Touch and Go, and Darsela a gambe), Libra Films International, 1971
• Max/Felix, Max et les ferrailleurs (also known as Max, Max and the Scrap-Mongers, and Il Commissario Pelissier), 1971
• Giorgio's friend, Liza (also known as Love to Eternity, La cagna, and Melampo), Horizon, 1972
• Paul Regis, La decade prodigieuse (also known as Ten Days Wonder), Levitt/Pickman, 1972
• Title role, Themroc, Libra, 1972
• Pierre, La femme en bleu, 1972
• Narrator, Cesar et Rosalie (also known as Cesar and Rosalie, Cesar und Rosalie, and E simpatico, ma gli romperei il muso),Orion, 1972
• Minister, Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (also known as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, El discreto encanto de la burguesia, and Il fascino discreto della borghesia), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972
• Colonel Kassar, L'attentat (also known as The French Conspiracy, Plot, Das Attentat, and L'attentato), 1972
• Michel, La grande bouffe (also known as Blow-Out, The Grande Bouffe, and La grande abbuffata), Abkco Films, 1973
• Far West (also known as Le far-west), Les Films 13, 1973
• Pierre Maury, Les noces rouges (also known as Red Wedding, Wedding in Blood, and L'amico di famiglia), New Line Cinema, 1973
• Michel, Grandeur nature \[also known as Life Size, LifeSize (Grandezza naturale), Love Doll, and Tamano natural\],Dimension, 1973
• Buffalo Bill, Touche pas a la femme blanche (also known as Don't Touch the White Woman! and Non toccare la donna bianca), Video Search of Miami, 1974
• Second prefect, Le fantome de la liberte (also known as The Phantom of Liberty and The Specter of Freedom), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974
• Francois, Vincent, Francois, Paul ... et les autres (also known asVincent, Francois, Paul, and the Others and Tre amici le mogli e affettuosamente le altre), Joseph Green, 1974
• Georges Sarret, Le trio infernal (also known as The Infernal Trio and Trio infernale), New Line Cinema, 1974
• Richard, Leonor, New Line Cinema, 1975
• Doctor Pierre Losseray, Sept morts sur ordonnance (also known as Bestial Quartet, Seven Deaths by Prescription, Quartett Bestial, and Siete muertes por prescripcion facultativa), Hispano Foxfilm, 1975
• Investigator, Der Dritte Grad (also known as La faille andLa smagliatura), 1975
• Excellency, One Way or Another, 1976
• Michel, L'ultima donna (also known as The Last Woman and La derniere femme), Columbia, 1976
• Simon Leotard, Mado, Joseph Green, 1976
• Todo modo, Rumson, 1976
• Marchand, Rene la canne, 1976
• Etienne, F comme Fairbanks, 1976
• L'imprecateur (also known as The Accuser), 1977
• Bernard Rougerie, Des enfants gates (also known as Spoiled Children), Corinth Films, 1977
• Robert Hansen, La part du feu, 1977
• Fernand Orlaville, L'etat sauvage (also known as The SavageState), Interama Video, 1978
• Grezillo, Le sucre, 1978
• Strauberg, Strauberg ist da (also known as Stranberg est la), 1978
• Bruckner, La petite fille en velours bleu (also known as LittleGirl in Blue Velvet), 1978
• Conductor Navarro, Giallo napoletano (also known as Atrocious Tales of Love and Revenge and Neapolitan Thriller), 1978
• Le saut dans le vide, 1979
• Judge Mauro Ponticelli, Salto nel vuoto (also known as Leap into the Void and A Leap in the Dark), Summit, 1979
• Rene Winterhalter, Der Preis fuers Ueberleben (also known as The Price of Survival and Le prix de la survie), 1979
• Pierre Chazerand, Le mors aux dents, 1979
• Philippe, Le divorcement, 1979
• La citta delle donne, 1980
• Joseph, Atlantic City (also known as Atlantic City, U.S.A.), Paramount, 1980
• The father, La fille prodigue, Gaumont, 1981
• Bertrand Malair, Une etrange affaire (also known as Strange Affair), 1981
• Jean-Paul Chance, Espion, leve-toi, 1981
• Mr. Mutti, Oltre la porta (also known as Behind the Door, Beyond Obsession, Beyond the Door, Jail Bird, and TheSecret beyond the Door), Orion, 1982
• Edmond Leroyer, Une chambre en ville (also known as A Room in Town), 1982
• Jose Viss, Que les gros salaires levent le doigt!!!, 1982
• Michel Gulla, Passion (also known as Godard's Passion),United Artists, 1982
• Max Baumstein, La passante du Sans-Souci (also known as The Passerby, La passante, and Die Spaziergaengerin von Sans-Souci), Libra Cinema 5, 1982
• Uncle Agostino Nigi, Gli occhi, la bocca (also known as The Eyes, the Mouth and Those Eyes, That Mouth), Triumph Releasing, 1982
• Voice of King Louis XVI, La nuit de Varennes (also known as That Night in Varennes, The New World, and Il mondo nuovo), Triumph Releasing, 1982
• Benetandi, Il generale dell'armata morte (also known as TheGeneral of the Dead Army, L'armata ritorna, and Le generalde l'armee morte), 1982
• Frederic Mallaire (some sources cite Lemaire), Le prix du danger (also known as The Prize of Peril), Astral Video, 1983
• Le matelot 512, 1984
• Michel Perrin, Viva le vie! (also known as Long Live Life!), Union Generale Cinematographique, 1984
• Akiva Liebskird, La diagonale du fou (also known as Dangerous Moves), International Spectrafilm, 1984
• French official, Success Is the Best Revenge (also known as Lesucces a tout prix), 1984
• Etienne Sembadet, Mon beau-frere a tue ma soeur, 1985
• Graham Tombsthay, Peril en la demeure (also known as Death in aFrench Garden and Peril), Triumph, 1985
• Simon Lerner, Partir, revenir (also known as Going and Coming Back), 1985
• General Cafarelli du Flaga, Weda'an Bonapart (also known as Adieu Bonaparte and Al-Wedaa Ya Bonaparte), 1985
• Pierre, La puritaine (also known as The Prude), 1986
• Title role, Le Paltoquet, 1986
• Marc, Mauvais sang (also known as Bad Blood and The Night Is Young), WinStar Cinema, 1986
• Father Jean-Marie, Y'a bon les blancs, 1987
• Damien Malleville, La rumba, 1987
• Kassar, L'homme voile (also known as The Veiled Man), 1987
• Raoul Bergeron, Maladie d'amour (also known as Malady of Love), 1987
• Frederic Hofreiter, Das Weite Land (also known as The Distant Land, Unknown Country, and La terre etrangere), BetaFilm, 1987
• Batz, Blanc de Chine, 1987
• Los negros tambien comen, 1988
• La Revolution Francaise, 1989
• French narrator, The Monkey People, 1989
• Milou, Milou en Mai (also known as May Fools and Milou aMaggio), 1989
• Dr. Ernst Fuchs, Martha et Moi (also known as Martha and Iand Martha und Ich), 1990
• Edouard Frenhofer, La belle noiseuse (also known as The Beautiful Troublemaker and Divertimento), MK2 Diffusion, 1991
• Monsieur Armand, Le voleur d'enfants (also known as The Children Thief, Il ladro di ragazzi, and El ladron de ninos),1991
• Marcel Spadice, Les Equilibristes (also known as Walking a Tightrope), 1991
• Das Schicksal des Freiherrn von Leisenbohg, 1991
• Contre l'oubli (also known as Against Oblivion, LestWe Forget, and Ecrire contre l'oubli), 1991
• A client, Le bateau de Lu, 1991
• Desire, Le bal des casse-pieds, 1992
• Jules Verne, From Time to Time (also known as Timekeeper and Le visionarium), 1992
• Voice of Chateaubriand, Le souper (also known as The Supper), Mainstream, 1992
• Raymond, La vie crevee (also known as Punctured Life), 1992
• Leonard Wilde, Archipel (also known as Archipelago), 1992
• Henri Toussaint, La cavale des fous (also known as Loonies at Large), 1993
• Paul, Rupture(s), 1993
• Georges Feuvrier, L'ange noir (also known as The Black Angel), 1994
• Train de nuit, 1994
• Adam, al'Mohager (also known as The Emigrant), 1994
• Bete de scene, 1994
• Simon Cinema, Les cent et une nuits (documentary; also known as A Hundred and One Nights, A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema, and Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinema), Cinema Village, 1995
• Himself, The Universe of Jacques Demy, 1995
• Himself, Deux fois cinquante ans de cinema francais (documentary;also known as 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema), 1995
• Prince de Conti, Beaumarchais, l'insolent (also known as Beaumarchais the Scoundrel), New Yorker, 1996
• Michel, Party, JMM Invest, 1996
• Mac Bee, Tykho Moon, 1996
• Cosimo, Compagna di viaggio (also known as Travelling Companion), Atisbador, 1996
• Himself, The Bunuel Paradox, 1997
• Georges Didier, Genealogies d'un crime (also known as Genealogies of a Crime), Strand Releasing, 1997
• Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis, Simoom: A Passion in the Desert (also known as A Passion in the Desert), Fine Line Features, 1998
• Lord Ariel Chatwick-West, Rien sur Robert, Rezo Films, 1999
• Uncle Tony, Libero burro, Twentieth Century-Fox Italia, 1999
• Michel des Assantes, Paris Tombuctu (also known as Paris-Timbuktu), Anola Films, 1999
• Himself, Les acteurs (also known as The Actors), Bac Films,2000
• A proposito de Bunuel (documentary; also known as Speaking of Bunuel), 2000
• Louis, Tout va bien, on s'en va (also known as Everything's Fine, We're Leaving), Rezo Films, 2000
• Film Work
• Coproducer, Themroc, Libra, 1972
• Coproducer, Der Dritte Grad (also known as La faille and La smagliatura), 1975
• Producer, L'etat sauvage (also known as The Savage State), Interama Video, 1978
• Producer, Il generale dell'armata morte (also known as TheGeneral of the Dead Army, L'armata ritorna, and Le generalde l'armee morte), 1982
• Director, Contre l'oubli (also known as Against Oblivion, Lest We Forget, and Ecrire contre l'oubli), 1991
• Director, Train de nuit, 1994
• Director, Alors voila, Rezo Films, 1997
• Director, La plage noire, 2001
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• Appeared in "Louis-Charles, mon amour," an episode of Sueurs froides.
• Other Television Appearances
• Michel Piccoli lit Andre de Richaud, 1977
• Lecture (series), 1978
• The professor, La confusion des sentiments (also known as Confused Feelings and Verwirrung der Gefuehle), 1979
• Trivelin, La fausse suivante, 1985
• Pierre Willer, La ruelle au clair de lune, 1987
• Leontes, Le conte d'hiver, 1988
• Noel Schoudler, Les grandes familles (series), 1989
• Paul Belmont, Toedliches Geld (also known as Family of Lies), 1995
• Stage Appearances
• Appeared in Phedre, Theatre Nationale Populaire.
• WRITINGS
• Films
• Il generale dell'armata morte (also known as The General ofthe Dead Army, L'armata ritorna, and Le general de l'armee morte), 1982
• Train de nuit, 1994
• Alors voila, Rezo Films, 1997
• Other Writings
• (With Alain Lacombe) Dialogues egoistes (autobiography), \[Paris\], 1976

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.