Michel Bouquet
Known for Acting · 111 credits
- Born
- 1925-11-06
- Died
- 2022-04-13
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Мишель Буке · Michel Bouquet · Michel François Pierre Bouquet
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. ...
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Known For
TV Shows (10)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Discorama
1959
as Self
Samedi soir
1971
as Self
Maigret
1991
as Le juge Forlacroix
28 minutes
2012
as Self
La Case du siècle
2010
as Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice)
Mozart
1982
as Leopold Mozart
Le Regard dans le miroir
1985
as Mathias
Movies (101)
Night and Fog
1956
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Unfaithful Wife
1969
as Charles Desvallées
This Special Friendship
1964
as Father Trennes
Borsalino
1970
as Maître Rinaldi
Katia
1959
as Bibesco
Two Men in Town
1973
as Commissioner Goitreau
Lamiel
1967
as Le docteur Sansfin
The Assassination
1972
as Lempereur
The Conspiracy
1973
as Lelong
The Serpent
1973
as Tavel
All the Mornings of the World
1991
as Baugin
The Toy
1976
as Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
The Breach
1970
as Ludovic Regnier
Marco the Magnificent
1965
as Narrator (uncredited)
Manon
1949
as Second
Paulina 1880
1972
as Monsieur Pandolfini
Toto the Hero
1991
as Old Thomas
Les Misérables
1982
as Inspector Javert
The Bride Wore Black
1968
as Coral
Monsieur Vincent
1947
as Le tuberculeux
The Chops
2003
as le Vieux
The Angels
1973
as Maurice
Villa Caprice
2021
as Marcel Germon
Mississippi Mermaid
1969
as Comolli
Renoir
2012
as Auguste Renoir
Défense de savoir
1973
as Paul Cristiani
Cop au Vin
1985
as Hubert Lavoisier
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972
as Albert
Just Before Nightfall
1971
as Charles Masson
Élisa
1995
as Samuel
The Suspects
1974
as Prosecutor Delarue
Countdown to Vengeance
1970
as Valberg
Last In, First Out
1978
as Banquier Muller
The Road to Corinth
1967
as Sharps
Malpertuis
1972
as Charles Dideloo
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977
as Maugras
The Cop
1970
as L'inspecteur Favenin
The Prince's Manuscript
2000
as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Tartuffe
1971
as Tartuffe
State Reasons
1978
as Francis Jobin
Le Curé de Tours
1980
as L'abbé Troubet
Three Women
1952
as Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
How I Killed My Father
2001
as Maurice
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006
as Self
A Christmas Carol
1984
as Ebenezer Scrooge
The Little Bedroom
2011
as Edmond
Our Agent Tiger
1965
as Jacques Vermorel
Kisses Till Monday
1974
as Nez-D'Boeuf
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
1976
as Pierre Vergne
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968
as Narrator (citations) (voice)
White Paws
1949
as Maurice
Last Leap
1970
as Jauran
Tower of Lust
1955
as Louis X
The Double Contempt
1967
as Reciter (voice)
Beyond Fear
1975
as Claude Balard
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
2004
as Monsieur Andesmas
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969
as Self
France, Incorporated
1974
as The Frenchman
Criminal Brigade
1947
as Le tueur
The Origin of Violence
2016
as Marcel Fabre (2014)
The Last Mitterrand
2005
as Le Président
No Escape
1958
as Commissioner
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971
as Marc the Boss
Bloody Murder
1974
as Georges Noblet
God Chose Paris
1969
as Narrator
The Lives of Albert Camus
2020
as Self
Velvet Paws
1987
as Quid
Vagabond Humor
1972
as Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
Where There's Smoke
1973
as Morlaix
Les Jeunes Filles
1979
as Récitant / Narrator
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022
as Self
Thomas
1975
as André, the father
La danse de mort
1982
as Edgar
The Art Dealer
2015
as Raoul
The Sorceress
1982
as Jules Michelet
Le Sourire
1960
as Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
The Eye of Vichy
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Il segno del comando
1992
as Marquis of Santerre
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973
as Claude Reverson
The Secret of Mister L
1983
as Victor Lumen
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951
as Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
2018
as Self
Secret Ceremony
2022
Mina de Vanghel
1953
as Narrator (voice)
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999
as Narration (Voice)
The Holy Family
1973
as Storm
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
2022
as self
La Joie de vivre
1993
as Monsieur Charme
Bloody Sun
1974
as Doctor
A Look at Madness
1962
as Narrator (voice)
La Légende du siècle
1972
as Self
Rebecca
2014
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
1981
Trees
2001
as Narrator
Le malade imaginaire
2008
as Argan
Rodolphe Bresdin
1962
as Narrator
Le volet
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
2026
as Self (archive) - actor
Milice, film noir
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Visages de Paris
1955
as Voix
About Michel Bouquet
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. Mic… With 111 credits spanning from 1947 to 2026, Michel Bouquet has appeared in 101 films and 10 TV shows.
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- Night and Fog (1956) — as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Unfaithful Wife (1969) — as Charles Desvallées
- This Special Friendship (1964) — as Father Trennes
- Borsalino (1970) — as Maître Rinaldi
- Katia (1959) — as Bibesco
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