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
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as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Archive footage
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Narrator
as Michel
as Leópold Scheitzer
as Le père
as Man with the Wine Stain
as Self
as Melville
as Himself
as Self
as Self
as Maurice Reverdy
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Spyros
as Le grand Hou
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
as Le roi Lear
as Marcel
as Papa
as Vidame de Pamiers
as Henri Husson
as Marie, la mère de Vincent
as Prof. Heschel
as Himself
as Narrator
as Ferdinand (voice)
as acteur qui joue Simon
as Harald
as Michel Piccoli
as Gilbert Valence
as Louis
as Self
as Self
as as Self
as Michel des Assantes
as Uncle Tony
as Récitant (voice)
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
as Self
as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
as Georges Didier
as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
as Michel
as Cosimo
as Prince de Conti
as Self
as Himself
as Simon Cinéma
as Paul Belmont
as Georges Feuvrier
as Adam - Ram's father
as Presenter
as Paul
as Henri Toussaint
as Self (archive footage)
as Leonard Wilde
as Chateaubriand (voice)
as Désiré, l'homosexuel
as Edouard Frenhofer
as Self
as Mr. Armand
as Edouard Frenhofer
as Marcel Spadice
as Le baron de Leisenbohg
as Ernst
as Milou
as Self (archive footage)
as L'avocat
as Pierre Willer
as Batz
as Père Jean-Marie
as Raoul Bergeron
as Kassar
as Damien Malleville
as Friedrich Hofreiter
as Self
as Pierre
as Marc
as der Tölpel
as Étienne Sembadel
as Caffarelli
as Simon Lerner
as Graham Tombsthay
as Récitant (voice)
as French Official
as Michel Perrin
as Akiva Liebskind
as Benetandi
as Frédéric Mallaire
as José Viss
as Edmond Leroyer
as Tío Agostino
as Mr. Mutti
as Michel Boulard
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)
as Max Baumstein
as Léonid
as Self
as Jean-Paul Chance
as Self
as Bertrand Malair
as Morrand
as Professor
as Le père
as Self
as Joseph
as René Winterhalter
as Mauro Ponticelli
as Jean Teyran
as Pierre Chazerand
as Philippe
as Victor Navarro
as Grezillo
as Conrad Brukner
as Orlaville
as Robert Hansen
as Saint-Rame
as Bernard Rougerie
as Ispettore Marchand
as Simon Léotard
as Etienne
as Lui
as Michel
as Capitaine Roger
as Dr Losseray
as Richard
as L'enquêteur
as Self
as Self
as Self
as François, médecin
as Le deuxième préfet de police
as Michel
as Georges Sarret
as Buffalo Bill
as Mr. Dellerue (voice)
as Self
as Michel
as Pierre Maury
as Themroc
as Pierre
as Narrator (voice)
as Colonel Kassar
as Le Ministre
as Giorgio's friend
as Padre Amerin
as Self
as Paul Regis
as Valentin
as Max
as Self
as Self
as Marcello
as Pierre Bérard
as Self
as Jacques Granville
as François Desailly
as Marquis de Sade
as Glauco
as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
as Charles
as Inspector Ginko
as Count Philippe
as Marrades
as Henri Husson
as L'homme de trop
as Paul Javal (archive footage)
as Simon Dame
as Self
as Edgar Pisani
as Narrator (voice)
as Edgar Piccoli
as Werner Kreuz
as Alexandre Saccard
as L'antiquaire
as Inspector #1
as Capri / Bruno
as Lecoeur
as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
as Dom Juan
as Georges Sarrassin
as Récitant (voice)
as Raoul
as Kafka
as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
as Texte dit par (voice)
as Himself
as Narrator (voice)
as Monsieur Monteil
as Jean, the reporter
as Narrator (voice)
as Paul Javal
as Antoine
as Nuttheccio
as François
as Récitant (voice)
as Récitant (voice)
as Paul
as Serlon de Savigny
as Console Publicola
as L'homme
as Récitant (voice)
as Brian Cannon
as Chvokhniev
as Robert
as Commissaire Jacques Guimard
as Tom Brown, jeune
as Jacques Forestier
as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
as Franck Marchal
as Richard Burke
as Pianist
as Le directeur de l'aéro-club
as James Putnam
as Récitant (voice)
as Father Lizzardi
as Un officier (uncredited)
as un inspecteur
as Maurice Rouger
as Récitant (voice)
as Le Capitaine Valorgueil
as Georges
as Reverdier
as Gérard
as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
as Torticola
as Slim Spring
as Tommy Goudchote
as Un journaliste aux archives (non crédité)
as Un journaliste aux archives
as Self
as Lebel
as Georges Gohelle
as Un villageois
Producer
as Producer
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as Co-Producer
as Producer
as Associate Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
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as Director
Writer
as Writer
as Writer
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as Writer