Michel Piccoli
230 movies · 3 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 27, 1925
- Died
- May 12, 2020 (age 94)
- Place of birth
- Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Also known as
- Мишель Пикколи · ميشيل بيكولي
Biography
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.
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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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.0 Holy Motors
2012 · Film
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★ 7.3 Belle de Jour
1967 · Film
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★ 7.0 Contempt
1963 · Film
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★ 7.4 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · Film
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★ 7.7 The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967 · Film
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★ 6.8 We Have a Pope
2011 · Film
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★ 7.1 La Grande Bouffe
1973 · Film
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★ 7.4 That Obscure Object of Desire
1977 · Film
Michel Piccoli: movies and TV shows
Acting (230)
- 2025
- 2024 It's Not Me
as (archive footage)
- 2022 Romy, A Free Woman
as archive footage
- 2021 Marx Can Wait
as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 Coming Apart
as (archive footage)
- 2015 Our Lady of Hormones
as Narrator
- 2014 The Taste of Blueberries
as Michel
- 2012 Lines of Wellington
as Leópold Scheitzer
- 2012 You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Le père
- 2012 Holy Motors
as Man with the Wine Stain
- 2012
- 2011 We Have a Pope
as Melville
- 2009 Le Bel Âge
as Maurice Reverdy
- 2009
- 2008 The Dust of Time
as Spyros
- 2008 On War
as Le grand Hou
- 2007 To Each His Own Cinema
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
- 2007 Le Roi Lear
as Le roi Lear
- 2007 Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
as Marcel
- 2007 Boxes
as Daddy
- 2007 Rencontre Unique
as Nikita Khrouchtchev
- 2007 The Duchess of Langeais
as Vidame de Pamiers
- 2006 Belle Toujours
as Henri Husson
- 2006 Gardens in Autumn
as Marie, la mère de Vincent
- 2006 Magic Mirror
as Prof. Heschel
- 2005 Everything's Connected
as Narrator
- 2003 Raining Cats and Frogs
as Ferdinand (voice)
- 2003 Little Lili
as acteur qui joue Simon
- 2003 That Day
as Harald
- 2003 A Man, a Real One
as Michel Piccoli
- 2002
- 2001 I’m Going Home
as Gilbert Valence
- 2000 Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
as Louis
- 2000 Actors
as Michel Piccoli
- 1999 París-Tombuctú
as Michel des Assantes
- 1999 Libero Burro
as Zio Tony
- 1999 The Happiest Place on Earth
as Récitant (voice)
- 1999 Nothing About Robert
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
- 1997 Passion in the Desert
as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
- 1997 Genealogies of a Crime
as Georges Didier
- 1996 Tykho Moon
as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
- 1996 Ousmane Sow
as Narrateur
- 1996 Party
as Michel
- 1996 Traveling Companion
as Cosimo
- 1996 Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Prince de Conti
- 1995 One Hundred and One Nights
as Simon Cinéma
- 1995 Tödliches Geld
as Paul Belmont
- 1994 The Black Angel
as Georges Feuvrier
- 1994 The Emigrant
as Adam - Ram's father
- 1994
- 1994 Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
as Presenter
- 1994
- 1993 Rupture(s)
as Paul
- 1993 Loonies at Large
as Henri Toussaint
- 1993 Archipel
as Leonard Wilde
- 1992 The Supper
as Chateaubriand (voice)
- 1992 From Time to Time
as Jules Verne
- 1992 Le Bal des casse-pieds
as Désiré, l'homosexuel
- 1992 La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
as Edouard Frenhofer
- 1991 The Children Thief
as Mr. Armand
- 1991 La Belle Noiseuse
as Edouard Frenhofer
- 1991 Walking a Tightrope
as Marcel Spadice
- 1991 The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
as Le baron de Leisenbohg
- 1990 Martha and I
as Ernst
- 1990 May Fools
as Milou
- 1989
- 1989
- 1988 Un coupable
as L'avocat
- 1988 La Ruelle au clair de lune
as Pierre Willer
- 1988 Blanc de Chine
as Batz
- 1988 How Good the Whites Are
as Père Jean-Marie
- 1987 Malady of Love
as Raoul Bergeron
- 1987 The Veiled Man
as Kassar
- 1987 La Rumba
as Damien Malleville
- 1987 The Distant Land
as Friedrich Hofreiter
- 1986 The Prude
as Pierre
- 1986 Mauvais Sang
as Marc
- 1986 The Nonentity
as der Tölpel
- 1986 My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
as Étienne Sembadel
- 1985 Adieu Bonaparte
as Caffarelli - كافاريللي
- 1985 Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner
- 1985 Death in a French Garden
as Graham Tombsthay
- 1985
- 1984 Le Matelot 512
as Narrator (voice)
- 1984 Success Is the Best Revenge
as French Official
- 1984 Long Live Life
as Michel Perrin
- 1984 Dangerous Moves
as Akiva Liebskind
- 1983 The General of the Dead Army
as Benetandi
- 1983 The Prize of Peril
as Frédéric Mallaire
- 1982 Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
as José Viss
- 1982 A Room in Town
as Edmond Leroyer
- 1982 The Eyes, the Mouth
as Tío Agostino
- 1982 Beyond the Door
as Mr. Mutti
- 1982 Godard's Passion
as Michel Boulard
- 1982 That Night of Varennes
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)
- 1982 The Passerby
as Max Baumstein
- 1982 La Cerisaie
as Léonid
- 1982 Spy, Stand Up
as Jean-Paul Chance
- 1981 Strange Affair
as Bertrand Malair
- 1981 Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
as Morrand
- 1981 Confused Feelings
as Professor
- 1981 The Prodigal Daughter
as Le père
- 1980
- 1980 Atlantic City
as Joseph
- 1980 The Price of Survival
as René Winterhalter
- 1980 A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli
- 1979 The Bit Between the Teeth
as Pierre Chazerand
- 1979 Le Divorcement
as Philippe
- 1979 Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
as Victor Navarro
- 1978 Sugar
as Grezillo
- 1978 Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Conrad Brukner
- 1978 The Savage State
as Orlaville
- 1978 Strauberg ist da
as Strauberg
- 1978 Fire's Share
as Robert Hansen
- 1977 Spoiled Children
as Bernard Rougerie
- 1977 The Accuser
as Saint-Ramé
- 1977 That Obscure Object of Desire
as Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977 Rene the Cane
as Ispettore Marchand
- 1976 Mado
as Simon Léotard
- 1976 F as in Fairbanks
as Etienne
- 1976 One Way or Another
as Him
- 1976 The Last Woman
as Michel
- 1976
- 1975 Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Dr Losseray
- 1975 Leonor
as Richard
- 1975 Weak Spot
as L'enquêteur
- 1974
- 1974 Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
as François, médecin
- 1974 The Phantom of Liberty
as Police Prefect #2
- 1974 Life Size
as Michel
- 1974 The Infernal Trio
as Georges Sarret
- 1974 Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Buffalo Bill
- 1974 Loving in the Rain
as Mr. Dellerue (voice)
- 1973 Far West
as Indian chief
- 1973 La Grande Bouffe
as Michel
- 1973 Wedding in Blood
as Pierre Maury
- 1973 Themroc
as Themroc
- 1973 The Woman in Blue
as Pierre
- 1972 Cesar and Rosalie
as Narrator (voice)
- 1972 The Assassination
as Colonel Kassar
- 1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Interior Minister
- 1972 Liza
as Giorgio's friend
- 1972 The Audience
as Padre Amerin
- 1971 Ten Days' Wonder
as Paul Regis
- 1971 Touch and Go
as Valentin
- 1971 Max and the Junkmen
as Max, inspector
- 1970 Invasion
as Marcello
- 1970 The Things of Life
as Pierre Bérard
- 1969 Topaz
as Jacques Granville
- 1969 The Uninvited
as François Desailly
- 1969 The Milky Way
as Marquis de Sade
- 1969 Dillinger Is Dead
as Glauco
- 1968 Délire à deux
as Him
- 1968 Woman in Chains
as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
- 1968 Heartbeat
as Charles
- 1968 Danger: Diabolik
as Inspector Ginko
- 1968 The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Count Philippe
- 1967 My Love, My Love
as Marrades
- 1967 Belle de Jour
as Henri Husson
- 1967 Shock Troops
as L'homme de trop
- 1967 The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Paul Javal (archive footage)
- 1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort
as Simon Dame
- 1966 Is Paris Burning?
as Edgar Pisani
- 1966 Elsa the Rose
as Narrator (voice)
- 1966 The Creatures
as Edgar Piccoli
- 1966 La Voleuse
as Werner Kreuz
- 1966 The Game Is Over
as Alexandre Saccard
- 1966 The Devil's Tricks
as L'antiquaire
- 1966 The War Is Over
as Inspector #1
- 1966 Le Coup de grâce
as Capri / Bruno
- 1965 Lady L
as Lecoeur
- 1965 The Sleeping Car Murders
as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
- 1965 Dom Juan
as Dom Juan
- 1965 Masquerade
as Georges Sarrassin
- 1964 Café tabac
as Récitant (voice)
- 1964 All About Loving
as Raoul
- 1964 Marie Soleil
as Kafka
- 1964 Chance at Love
as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
- 1964 Paparazzi
as Texte dit par (voice)
- 1964 Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
as Narrator (voice)
- 1964 Diary of a Chambermaid
as Monsieur Monteil
- 1964 L'Été en hiver
as Jean, the Reporter
- 1963 Hello Cubans
as Narrator (voice)
- 1963 Contempt
as Paul Javal
- 1963 The Day and the Hour
as Antoine
- 1962 Le Doulos
as Nuttheccio
- 1962 Adieu Philippine
as Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
- 1962 Climates of Love
as François
- 1962 Parisienne... Parisiennes
as Récitant (voice)
- 1962 Le Temps des assassins
as Récitant (voice)
- 1961 Rendezvous
as Paul
- 1961
- 1961 Hauteclaire
as Serlon de Savigny
- 1961 Amazons of Rome
as Console Publicola
- 1961 La Chevelure
as L'homme
- 1961 Quarante fontaines
as Récitant (voice)
- 1960
- 1960 Danger in the Middle East
as Brian Cannon
- 1960 La dragée haute
as Hugo Barsac
- 1960 Les Joueurs
as Chvokhniev
+ 30 more credits
Behind the camera (15)
- 2006 C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
Director, Writer
- 2001 The Black Beach
Director, Writer
- 1997 Alors voilà,
Director, Writer
- 1994 Train de nuit
Writer, Director
- 1991 Lest We Forget
Director
- 1983 The General of the Dead Army
Producer
- 1980 The Price of Survival
Producer
- 1978 The Savage State
Producer
- 1977 Spoiled Children
Producer
- 1975 Seven Deaths by Prescription
Associate Producer
- 1975 Leonor
Producer
- 1975 Weak Spot
Co-Producer
- 1974 Life Size
Producer
- 1974 Don't Touch the White Woman!
Producer
- 1964 Paparazzi
Writer
Talk shows and appearances (43)
- 2023
- 2022 Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
1 episode
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2011 Agnès Varda: From Here to There
5 episodes
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2006
- 2004
- 2002
- 2002
- 2000
- 2000
- 1998 Vivement dimanche
1 episode
- 1998
- 1995
- 1993
- 1987 Nulle part ailleurs
1 episode
- 1982
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
5 episodes
- 1981 Wetten, dass..?
1 episode
- 1978 Chili Impressions
4 episodes
- 1978 Ciné regards
6 episodes
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
3 episodes
- 1975 Apostrophes
1 episode
- 1975 Midi Première
1 episode
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
2 episodes
- 1972 Midi trente
5 episodes
- 1971 V.I.P. Schaukel
1 episode
- 1971 Samedi soir
1 episode
- 1970 Treffpunkte
1 episode
- 1967
- 1964
- 1951 German Film Award
1 episode