Michel Such
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-08-15 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Algiers, Algeria
Michel Such
Biography
Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. »
Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau...
Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996.
Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.
Known For
Acting
(2004)
Mon fils d'ailleurs
as The controller
(2001)
Felix and Lola
as Frantz
(2001)
Les p'tits gars Ladouceur
as Le chef de gare
(1993)
The Thirst for Gold
as Le gendarme
(1989)
(1987)
L'été en pente douce
as Paul le vigile
(1987)
Levy & Goliath
as Cafe owner
(1986)
Ménage
as The Nightclub Flirt
(1986)
(1986)
(1986)
Trop tard Balthazar
as Lino
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
Manipulations
as Michel
(1983)
Deadly Circuit
as l'homme à l'attaché-case
(1982)
Lucie sur Seine
as L'inspecteur au bonnet
(1981)
The Inquisitor
as Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner
(1981)
Heat of Desire
as L'employé des wagons-lits
(1981)
Why Not Us?
as Un client de la librairie
(1979)
French Fried Vacation 2
as Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late
(1979)
These Kids Are Grown-Ups
as Le caissier
(1979)
(1978)
French Fried Vacation
as Fat guy who wants to go water skiing
(1977)
Violette & Francois
as Le copain musicien
(1977)
Spoiled Children
as Un locataire
(1976)
The Best Way to Walk
as Léni
(1975)
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Electrician
(1975)
Thomas
as Antoine
(1973)
The Inheritor
as (uncredited)
(1971)
The Laboratory of Fear
as Antoine
Crew
(1997)
Oranges Amères
Writer, Director
(1989)
Elli Fat Mat
Director, Scenario Writer, Writer