Michel Modo
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1937-03-30
Deathday 2008-09-24 (71 years old)
Place of Birth Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
Also Known As Modo, Michel Goi
Michel Modo
Biography
Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). He is best known in France for having formed in the late 1950s a comedy duo, Grosso et Modo, with actor Guy Grosso. The duo appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played the role of Constable Berlicot alongside Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre and Christian Marin. They were also Laflûte and Quince in The Dream of a Summer Night by Jean-Christophe Averty. Between 1993 and 1997 he is one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander as Maurice Lolande, humorous character characterizing the average French person. In December 2005, he stars in the television series Plus belle la vie alongside Colette Renard. He plays a bum philosopher disguised as Santa Claus. He also dubbed several recurring characters in the French version of the animated series The Simpsons. At his sudden death in 2008 at the age of 71, when dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.
Known For
Actor
as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
as Ambassadeur
as Hugo Murnau
as Zanzi
as M. Floyd
as Georges Despeu
as Persouard
as Maurice
as Postman
as Postman
as Commissioner
as Self
as Adjudant Badubec
as Jules Berlicot
as Self
as le sergent Merlin
as Alain Terrieur
as La merluche
as Cavallo (Voice)
as Le clerc de notaire
as Jules Berlicot
as Konrad Zillich
as Georges Despeu
as Sergent Michaud
as Le gendarme
as Pirlouit (voice)
as Inspecteur Janin
as Self
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
as Self
as Anatole Biscarlet
as Brother Robichon
as Self
as Jean-Baptise
as Policeman
as Self
as Dormouse
as Jules Berlicot
as Jules Berlicot
as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
as Le juif torturé
as Cross-eyed German machine gunner
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
as Jean-Baptiste
as Jules Berlicot
as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
as Le collègue de François-Joseph
as Customs officer
as A cycling agent
as Jules Berlicot
as Gendarme
as Le facteur
as Tony
as Slovak
Writer
as Author
as Author
as Writer
as Screenplay