Michel Piccoli
Acting
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was 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.
The Life of Mirrors
It's Not Me
(archive footage)
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Marx Can Wait
Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
Self (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dios de monoambiente
Self (archive footage)
Coming Apart
(archive footage)
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Self (archive footage)
Our Lady of Hormones
Narrator
The Taste of Blueberries
Michel
Lines of Wellington
Leópold Scheitzer
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Le père
Holy Motors
Man with the Wine Stain
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Self
We Have a Pope
Melville
Portrait Of My Father
Self
Le Bel Âge
Maurice Reverdy
Brigitte Bardot: The Icon of France
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Self
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
The Dust of Time
Spyros
On War
Le grand Hou
To Each His Own Cinema
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
Le Roi Lear
Le roi Lear
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
Marcel
Boxes
Daddy
The Duchess of Langeais
Vidame de Pamiers
Belle Toujours
Henri Husson
Gardens in Autumn
Marie, la mère de Vincent
Magic Mirror
Prof. Heschel
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
Himself
Everything's Connected
Narrator
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Self
Raining Cats and Frogs
Ferdinand (voice)
Little Lili
acteur qui joue Simon
That Day
Harald
A Man, a Real One
Michel Piccoli
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Self
Il bambino di Betlemme
I’m Going Home
Gilbert Valence
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
Louis
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
Actors
Michel Piccoli
Kiarostami in Close up
as Self
Libero Burro
Zio Tony
París-Tombuctú
Michel des Assantes
The Happiest Place on Earth
Récitant (voice)
Nothing About Robert
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self
Passion in the Desert
Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
Genealogies of a Crime
Georges Didier
Tykho Moon
Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
Ousmane Sow
Narrateur
Party
Michel
Traveling Companion
Cosimo
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Prince de Conti
The World of Jacques Demy
Self
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Self
One Hundred and One Nights
Simon Cinéma
Tödliches Geld
Paul Belmont
The Black Angel
Georges Feuvrier
The Emigrant
Adam - Ram's father
Train de nuit
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
Presenter
Bête de scène
Rupture(s)
Paul
Loonies at Large
Henri Toussaint
The Young Girls Turn 25
Self (archive footage)
Archipel
Leonard Wilde
The Supper
Chateaubriand (voice)
From Time to Time
Jules Verne
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Désiré, l'homosexuel
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
Edouard Frenhofer
Against Oblivion
Self
The Children Thief
Mr. Armand
La Belle Noiseuse
Edouard Frenhofer
Walking a Tightrope
Marcel Spadice
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
Le baron de Leisenbohg
Martha and I
Ernst
May Fools
Milou
The Monkey Folk
Un coupable
L'avocat
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Pierre Willer
Blanc de Chine
Batz
How Good the Whites Are
Père Jean-Marie
Malady of Love
Raoul Bergeron
The Veiled Man
Kassar
La Rumba
Damien Malleville
The Distant Land
Friedrich Hofreiter
The Prude
Pierre
Mauvais Sang
Marc
The Nonentity
der Tölpel
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
Étienne Sembadel
Adieu Bonaparte
Caffarelli
Going and Coming Back
Simon Lerner
Death in a French Garden
Graham Tombsthay
La Lune
Le Matelot 512
Narrator (voice)
Success Is the Best Revenge
French Official
Long Live Life
Michel Perrin
Dangerous Moves
Akiva Liebskind
The General of the Dead Army
Benetandi
The Prize of Peril
Frédéric Mallaire
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
José Viss
A Room in Town
Edmond Leroyer
The Eyes, the Mouth
Tío Agostino
Beyond the Door
Mr. Mutti
Godard's Passion
Michel Boulard
That Night of Varennes
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
The Passerby
Max Baumstein
La Cerisaie
Léonid
Scénario du film Passion
Self
Spy, Stand Up
Jean-Paul Chance
Strange Affair
Bertrand Malair
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
Morrand
Confused Feelings
Professor
The Prodigal Daughter
Le père
Atlantic City
Joseph
The Price of Survival
René Winterhalter
A Leap in the Dark
Mauro Ponticelli
The Bit Between the Teeth
Pierre Chazerand
Le Divorcement
Philippe
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
Victor Navarro
Sugar
Grezillo
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Conrad Brukner
The Savage State
Orlaville
Strauberg ist da
Strauberg
Fire's Share
Robert Hansen
The Accuser
Saint-Ramé
Spoiled Children
Bernard Rougerie
That Obscure Object of Desire
Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
Rene the Cane
Ispettore Marchand
Mado
Simon Léotard
F as in Fairbanks
Etienne
One Way or Another
Lui
The Last Woman
Michel
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Dr Losseray
Leonor
Richard
Weak Spot
L'enquêteur
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
François, médecin
The Phantom of Liberty
The Second Police Prefect
Life Size
Michel
The Infernal Trio
Georges Sarret
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Buffalo Bill
Un amour de pluie
Mr. Dellerue (voice)
Far West
Indian chief
La Grande Bouffe
Michel
Wedding in Blood
Pierre Maury
Themroc
Themroc
The Woman in Blue
Pierre
Cesar and Rosalie
Narrator (voice)
The Assassination
Colonel Kassar
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Interior Minister
Liza
Giorgio's friend
The Audience
Padre Amerin
Ten Days' Wonder
Paul Regis
Touch and Go
Valentin
Max and the Junkmen
Max, inspector
Invasion
Marcello
The Things of Life
Pierre Bérard
Topaz
Jacques Granville
The Uninvited
François Desailly
The Milky Way
Marquis de Sade
Dillinger Is Dead
Glauco
Délire à deux
Him
Woman in Chains
L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
Heartbeat
Charles
Danger: Diabolik
Inspector Ginko
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Count Philippe
My Love, My Love
Marrades
Belle de Jour
Henri Husson
Shock Troops
L'homme de trop
The Dinosaur and the Baby
Paul Javal (archive footage)
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Simon Dame
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
Self
Is Paris Burning?
Edgar Pisani
Elsa the Rose
Narrator (voice)
The Creatures
Edgar Piccoli
La Voleuse
Werner Kreuz
The Game Is Over
Alexandre Saccard
The Devil's Tricks
L'antiquaire
The War Is Over
Inspector #1
Le Coup de grâce
Capri / Bruno
Lady L
Lecoeur
The Sleeping Car Murders
René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
Dom Juan
Dom Juan
Masquerade
Georges Sarrassin
Café tabac
Récitant (voice)
All About Loving
Raoul
Marie Soleil
Kafka
Chance at Love
Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
Paparazzi
Texte dit par (voice)
Bardot et Godard
Self
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
Narrator (voice)
Diary of a Chambermaid
Monsieur Monteil
L'Été en hiver
Jean, the Reporter
Hello Cubans
Narrator (voice)
Contempt
Paul Javal
The Day and the Hour
Antoine
Le Doulos
Nuttheccio
Adieu Philippine
Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
Climates of Love
François
Le Temps des assassins
Récitant (voice)
Parisienne... Parisiennes
Récitant (voice)
Rendezvous
Paul
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
Hauteclaire
Serlon de Savigny
Amazons of Rome
Console Publicola
Quarante fontaines
Récitant (voice)
La Chevelure
L'homme
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
Danger in the Middle East
Brian Cannon
La dragée haute
Hugo Barsac
Les Joueurs
Chvokhniev
Le Chalet sous la neige
Robert
Beast at Bay
Commissioner Jacques Guimard
La Nuit de Tom Brown
Tom Brown, jeune
Tabarin
Jacques Forestier
Sinners of Paris
L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
Nathalie
Franck Marchal
Le Quadrille des diamants
Richard Burke
Le Plus Heureux des trois
Pianist
Sunday Buddies
Le directeur de l'aéro-club
The Witches of Salem
James Putnam
La France romane
Récitant (voice)
Death in the Garden
Father Lizzardi
The Grand Manoeuvre
Officer (uncredited)
Bad Liaisons
un inspecteur
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Maurice Rouger
Croissance de Paris
Récitant (voice)
French Cancan
Le Capitaine Valorgueil
Price of Love
Georges
Tout chante autour de moi
Reverdier
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Gérard
Daughters of Destiny
Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
Horizons...
un ouvrier
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Torticola
Chicago Digest
Slim Spring
Terreur en Oklahoma
Tommy Goudchote
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste aux archives
Without Leaving an Address
Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Lebel
The Mark of the Day
Georges Gohelle
The Bellman
Un villageois