
Michel Bouquet
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-11-06
Day of Death
2022-04-13 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Michel 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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Acting
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2021)
Villa Caprice
as Marcel Germon
(2020)
The Lives of Albert Camus
as Self
(2018)
(2017)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
(2016)
The Origin of Violence
as Marcel Fabre (2014)
(2015)
The Art Dealer
as Raoul
(2014)
(2012)
Renoir
as Auguste Renoir
(2011)
The Little Bedroom
as Edmond
(2008)
Le malade imaginaire
as Argan
(2006)
(2005)
The Last Mitterrand
as Le Président
(2004)
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
as Monsieur Andesmas
(2003)
The Chops
as le Vieux
(2001)
How I Killed My Father
as Maurice
(2001)
Trees
as Narrator
(2000)
The Prince's Manuscript
as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
(1999)
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
as Narration (Voice)
(1997)
Milice, film noir
as Narrator (voice)
(1995)
Elisa
as Samuel
(1992)
Il segno del comando
as Marquis of Santerre
(1991)
Toto the Hero
as Old Thomas
(1991)
All the Mornings of the World
as Baugin
(1987)
Velvet Paws
as Quid
(1985)
Cop au Vin
as Hubert Lavoisier
(1984)
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
(1983)
Le secret de monsieur L
as Victor Lumen
(1982)
Les Misérables
as Inspector Javert
(1982)
The Sorceress
as Jules Michelet
(1982)
La danse de mort
as Edgar
(1981)
(1980)
Le Curé de Tours
as L'abbé Troubet
(1979)
Les Jeunes Filles
as Récitant / Narrator
(1978)
State Reasons
as Francis Jobin
(1978)
Last In, First Out
as Banquier Muller
(1977)
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
as Maugras
(1976)
The Toy
as Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
(1976)
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
as Pierre Vergne
(1975)
Thomas
as André, the father
(1975)
Beyond Fear
as Claude Balard
(1974)
The Suspects
as Prosecutor Delarue
(1974)
Bloody Murder
as Georges Noblet
(1974)
Kisses Till Monday
as Nez-D'Boeuf
(1974)
France, Incorporated
as The Frenchman
(1974)
Bloody Sun
as Doctor
(1973)
Two Men in Town
as Commissioner Goitreau
(1973)
The Serpent
as Tavel
(1973)
The Conspiracy
as Lelong
(1973)
Défense de savoir
as Paul Cristiani
(1973)
Where There's Smoke
as Morlaix
(1973)
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Claude Reverson
(1973)
The Angels
as Maurice
(1973)
La Sainte Famille
as Storm
(1972)
The Assassination
as Lempereur
(1972)
3000 Million Without an Elevator
as Albert
(1972)
Vagabond Humor
as Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
(1972)
Paulina 1880
as Monsieur Pandolfini
(1972)
La Légende du siècle
as Self
(1972)
Le volet
as Narrator (voice)
(1971)
Malpertuis
as Charles Dideloo
(1971)
Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Marc the Boss
(1971)
Just Before Nightfall
as Charles Masson
(1971)
Tartuffe
as Tartuffe
(1970)
Borsalino
as Maître Rinaldi
(1970)
The Cop
as L'inspecteur Favenin
(1970)
The Breach
as Ludovic Regnier
(1970)
Countdown to Vengeance
as Valberg
(1970)
Last Leap
as Jauran
(1969)
The Unfaithful Wife
as Charles Desvallées
(1969)
Mississippi Mermaid
as Comolli
(1969)
God Chose Paris
as Narrator
(1969)
(1968)
The Bride Wore Black
as Coral
(1968)
A Wall in Jerusalem
as Narrator (citations) (voice)
(1967)
The Road to Corinth
as Sharps
(1967)
Lamiel
as Le docteur Sansfin
(1967)
The Double Contempt
as Reciter (voice)
(1965)
Our Agent Tiger
as Jacques Vermorel
(1964)
This Special Friendship
as Father Trennes
(1962)
A Look at Madness
as Narrator (voice)
(1962)
Rodolphe Bresdin
as Narrator
(1960)
Le Sourire
as Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
(1959)
Night and Fog
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1959)
Katia
as Bibesco
(1958)
No Escape
as Commissioner
(1955)
Tower of Lust
as Louis X
(1953)
Mina de Vanghel
as Narrator (voice)
(1952)
Three Women
as Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
(1951)
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
(1949)
Manon
as Second
(1949)
White Paws
as Maurice
(1947)
Monsieur Vincent
as Le tuberculeux
(1947)
Criminal Brigade
as Le tueur