Michel Piccoli

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1925-12-27

Deathday 2020-05-12 (94 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Also Known As Мишель Пикколи, ميشيل بيكولي

Michel Piccoli

Biography

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
It’s Not Me

as (archive footage)

2023
Godard by Godard

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

as Self (archive footage)

2021
Marx Can Wait

as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017
Coming Apart

as (archive footage)

2017
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

as Self (archive footage)

2015
2012
Lines of Wellington

as Leópold Scheitzer

2012
Holy Motors

as Man with the Wine Stain

2011
We Have a Pope

as Melville

2009
Le Bel Âge

as Maurice Reverdy

2008
The Beaches of Agnès

as Self (archive footage)

2008
2008
On War

as Le grand Hou

2007
To Each His Own Cinema

as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

2007
Le Roi Lear

as Le roi Lear

2007
Boxes

as Papa

2007
The Duchess of Langeais

as Vidame de Pamiers

2006
Belle Toujours

as Henri Husson

2006
Gardens in Autumn

as Marie, la mère de Vincent

2006
Magic Mirror

as Prof. Heschel

2005
2003
Raining Cats and Frogs

as Ferdinand (voice)

2003
Little Lili

as acteur qui joue Simon

2003
That Day

as Harald

2003
A Man, a Real One

as Michel Piccoli

2001
I’m Going Home

as Gilbert Valence

2000
Actors

as Self

2000
1999
París-Tombuctú

as Michel des Assantes

1999
Libero Burro

as Uncle Tony

1999
The Happiest Place on Earth

as Récitant (voice)

1999
Nothing About Robert

as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West

1998
1997
Passion in the Desert

as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

1997
Genealogies of a Crime

as Georges Didier

1996
Tykho Moon

as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee

1996
Party

as Michel

1996
1996
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

as Prince de Conti

1995
1995
Tödliches Geld

as Paul Belmont

1994
The Black Angel

as Georges Feuvrier

1994
The Emigrant

as Adam - Ram's father

1993
Rupture(s)

as Paul

1993
Loonies at Large

as Henri Toussaint

1993
The Young Girls Turn 25

as Self (archive footage)

1993
Archipel

as Leonard Wilde

1992
The Supper

as Chateaubriand (voice)

1992
Le bal des Casse-pieds

as Désiré, l'homosexuel

1992
1991
1991
The Children Thief

as Mr. Armand

1991
La Belle Noiseuse

as Edouard Frenhofer

1991
Walking a Tightrope

as Marcel Spadice

1991
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

as Le baron de Leisenbohg

1990
Martha and I

as Ernst

1990
May Fools

as Milou

1990
Star Life

as Self (archive footage)

1988
Un coupable

as L'avocat

1988
1988
1988
How Good the Whites Are

as Père Jean-Marie

1987
Malady of Love

as Raoul Bergeron

1987
The Veiled Man

as Kassar

1987
La Rumba

as Damien Malleville

1987
The Distant Land

as Friedrich Hofreiter

1986
The Prude

as Pierre

1986
Mauvais Sang

as Marc

1986
The Nonentity

as der Tölpel

1986
1985
Adieu Bonaparte

as Caffarelli

1985
Going and Coming Back

as Simon Lerner

1985
Death in a French Garden

as Graham Tombsthay

1984
Le Matelot 512

as Récitant (voice)

1984
Success Is the Best Revenge

as French Official

1984
Long Live Life

as Michel Perrin

1984
Dangerous Moves

as Akiva Liebskind

1983
The Prize of Peril

as Frédéric Mallaire

1982
A Room in Town

as Edmond Leroyer

1982
The Eyes, the Mouth

as Tío Agostino

1982
Beyond the Door

as Mr. Mutti

1982
Godard's Passion

as Michel Boulard

1982
The Night of Varennes

as King Louis XVI (uncredited)

1982
The Passerby

as Max Baumstein

1982
La Cerisaie

as Léonid

1982
Espion, lève-toi

as Jean-Paul Chance

1982
1981
Strange Affair

as Bertrand Malair

1981
Confused Feelings

as Professor

1981
1981
1980
Atlantic City

as Joseph

1980
The Price of Survival

as René Winterhalter

1980
Leap Into the Void

as Mauro Ponticelli

1980
Docteur Teyran

as Jean Teyran

1979
The Bit Between the Teeth

as Pierre Chazerand

1979
Le divorcement

as Philippe

1979
1978
Sugar

as Grezillo

1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as Conrad Brukner

1978
The Savage State

as Orlaville

1978
Fire's Share

as Robert Hansen

1977
The Accuser

as Saint-Rame

1977
Spoiled Children

as Bernard Rougerie

1977
Rene the Cane

as Ispettore Marchand

1976
Mado

as Simon Léotard

1976
1976
The Last Woman

as Michel

1976
Nouvelles d'Henry James

as Capitaine Roger

1975
1975
Leonor

as Richard

1975
Weak Spot

as L'enquêteur

1975
Apostrophes

as Self

1975
1974
1974
The Phantom of Liberty

as Le deuxième préfet de police

1974
Life Size

as Michel

1974
The Infernal Trio

as Georges Sarret

1974
1974
Un amour de pluie

as Mr. Dellerue (voice)

1974
1973
1973
Wedding in Blood

as Pierre Maury

1973
Themroc

as Themroc

1973
1972
Cesar and Rosalie

as Narrator (voice)

1972
The Assassination

as Colonel Kassar

1972
Liza

as Giorgio's friend

1972
The Audience

as Padre Amerin

1972
Midi trente

as Self

1971
Ten Days' Wonder

as Paul Regis

1971
Touch and Go

as Valentin

1971
1971
Samedi soir

as Self

1970
Invasion

as Marcello

1970
The Things of Life

as Pierre Bérard

1970
Treffpunkte

as Self

1969
Topaz

as Jacques Granville

1969
The Uninvited

as François Desailly

1969
The Milky Way

as Marquis de Sade

1969
1968
Woman in Chains

as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)

1968
Heartbeat

as Charles

1968
Danger: Diabolik

as Inspector Ginko

1968
1967
My Love, My Love

as Marrades

1967
Belle de Jour

as Henri Husson

1967
Shock Troops

as L'homme de trop

1967
The Dinosaur and the Baby

as Paul Javal (archive footage)

1966
Is Paris Burning?

as Edgar Pisani

1966
Elsa the Rose

as Narrator (voice)

1966
The Creatures

as Edgar Piccoli

1966
La Voleuse

as Werner Kreuz

1966
The Game Is Over

as Alexandre Saccard

1966
The Devil's Tricks

as L'antiquaire

1966
The War Is Over

as Inspector #1

1966
Le coup de grâce

as Capri / Bruno

1965
Lady L

as Lecoeur

1965
The Sleeping Car Murder

as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)

1965
Dom Juan

as Dom Juan

1965
Masquerade

as Georges Sarrassin

1964
Café tabac

as Récitant (voice)

1964
Chance at Love

as Philippe Decharme

1964
1964
Marie Soleil

as Kafka

1964
Paparazzi

as Texte dit par (voice)

1964
Bardot et Godard

as Himself

1964
Diary of a Chambermaid

as Monsieur Monteil

1964
L'Été en hiver

as Jean, the reporter

1963
Hello Cubans

as Narrator (voice)

1963
Contempt

as Paul Javal

1963
1962
Le Doulos

as Nuttheccio

1962
Climates of Love

as François

1962
Parisienne... Parisiennes

as Récitant (voice)

1962
Le Temps des assassins

as Récitant (voice)

1961
Rendezvous

as Paul

1961
Hauteclaire

as Serlon de Savigny

1961
Amazons of Rome

as Console Publicola

1961
La Chevelure

as L'homme

1961
Quarante fontaines

as Récitant (voice)

1960
1960
Les joueurs

as Chvokhniev

1959
Beast at Bay

as Commissaire Jacques Guimard

1959
La Nuit de Tom Brown

as Tom Brown, jeune

1958
Tabarin

as Jacques Forestier

1958
Sinners of Paris

as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.

1957
Nathalie

as Franck Marchal

1957
Le quadrille des diamants

as Richard Burke

1957
Sunday Buddies

as Le directeur de l'aéro-club

1957
The Witches of Salem

as James Putnam

1956
La France romane

as Récitant (voice)

1956
Death in the Garden

as Father Lizzardi

1955
The Grand Manoeuvre

as Un officier (uncredited)

1955
Bad Liaisons

as un inspecteur

1955
Croissance de Paris

as Récitant (voice)

1955
French Cancan

as Le Capitaine Valorgueil

1955
Price of Love

as Georges

1954
1954
Daughters of Destiny

as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")

1951
Chicago Digest

as Slim Spring

1951
Terreur en Oklahoma

as Tommy Goudchote

1951
Without Leaving an Address

as Un journaliste aux archives (non crédité)

1951
Without Leaving an Address

as Un journaliste aux archives

1949
The Mark Of The Day

as Georges Gohelle

1945
The Bellman

as Un villageois

Producer

1980
1978
The Savage State

as Producer

1975
Weak Spot

as Co-Producer

1975
Leonor

as Producer

1975
Seven Deaths by Prescription

as Associate Producer

1974
Life Size

as Producer

Director

2001
The Black Beach

as Director

1997
Alors voilà,

as Director

1994
Train de nuit

as Director

1991
Against Oblivion

as Director

Writer

2001
The Black Beach

as Writer

1997
Alors voilà,

as Writer

1994
Train de nuit

as Writer

1964
Paparazzi

as Writer