Michel Bouquet
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 6, 1925
- Died
- April 13, 2022 (aged 96)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
Movie · as Self (archive) - actor
Secret Ceremony
Movie
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Movie · as Self
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
Movie · as self
Villa Caprice
Movie · as Marcel Germon
The Lives of Albert Camus
Movie · as Self
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Movie · as Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Origin of Violence
Movie · as Marcel Fabre (2014)
The Art Dealer
Movie · as Raoul
Rebecca
Movie
Renoir
Movie · as Auguste Renoir
28 minutes
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Little Bedroom
Movie · as Edmond
La Case du Siècle
TV · as Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice) · 1 ep
Le malade imaginaire
Movie · as Argan
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Movie · as Self
The Last Mitterrand
Movie · as Le Président
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
Movie · as Monsieur Andesmas
The Chops
Movie · as le Vieux
How I Killed My Father
Movie · as Maurice
Trees
Movie · as Narrator
The Prince's Manuscript
Movie · as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Movie · as Narration (Voice)
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Milice, film noir
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Élisa
Movie · as Samuel
La Joie de vivre
Movie · as Monsieur Charme
The Eye of Vichy
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Il segno del comando
Movie · as Marquis of Santerre
Toto the Hero
Movie · as Old Thomas
All the Mornings of the World
Movie · as Baugin
Maigret
TV · as Le juge Forlacroix · 1 ep
Velvet Paws
Movie · as Quid
Cop au Vin
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Le Regard dans le miroir
TV · as Mathias · 4 eps
A Christmas Carol
Movie · as Ebenezer Scrooge
Péchés originaux
TV · 2 eps
The Secret of Mister L
Movie · as Victor Lumen
Les Misérables
Movie · as Inspector Javert
The Sorceress
Movie · as Jules Michelet
La Danse de mort
Movie · as Edgar
Mozart
TV · as Leopold Mozart · 6 eps
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
Movie
Le Curé de Tours
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Les Jeunes Filles
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Last In, First Out
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State Reasons
Movie · as Francis Jobin
Les Jeunes Filles
TV · 2 eps
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
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The Toy
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Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
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Thomas
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Beyond Fear
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The Suspects
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France, Incorporated
Movie · as The Frenchman
Kisses Till Monday
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Bloody Sun
Movie · as Doctor
Bloody Murder
Movie · as Georges Noblet
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Two Men in Town
Movie · as Commissioner Goitreau
The Serpent
Movie · as Tavel
Where There's Smoke
Movie · as Morlaix
The Conspiracy
Movie · as Lelong
Défense de savoir
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Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
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The Angels
Movie · as Maurice
The Holy Family
Movie · as Storm
Malpertuis
Movie · as Charles Dideloo
Vagabond Humor
Movie · as Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
The Assassination
Movie · as Lempereur
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Movie · as Albert
Le volet
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Paulina 1880
Movie · as Monsieur Pandolfini
La Légende du siècle
Movie · as Self
Just Before Nightfall
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Tartuffe
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Papa, the Lil' Boats
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Samedi soir
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Breach
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Borsalino
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The Cop
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Last Leap
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Countdown to Vengeance
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Mississippi Mermaid
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The Unfaithful Wife
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God Chose Paris
Movie · as Narrator
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Movie · as Self
The Bride Wore Black
Movie · as Coral
A Wall in Jerusalem
Movie · as Narrator (citations) (voice)
The Road to Corinth
Movie · as Sharps
The Double Contempt
Movie · as Reciter (voice)
Lamiel
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La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
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Our Agent Tiger
Movie · as Jacques Vermorel
Marco the Magnificent
Movie · as Narrator (uncredited)
This Special Friendship
Movie · as Father Trennes
A Look at Madness
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Rodolphe Bresdin
Movie · as Narrator
Le Sourire
Movie · as Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
Katia
Movie · as Bibesco
Discorama
TV · as Self · 2 eps
No Escape
Movie · as Commissioner
Night and Fog
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tower of Lust
Movie · as Louis X
Visages de Paris
Movie · as Voix
Mina de Vanghel
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Three Women
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
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White Paws
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Manon
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Monsieur Vincent
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Criminal Brigade
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