Michel Bouquet
Known for: Acting
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. ... Source: Article "Michel Bouquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Series
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
Maigret
Le juge Forlacroix
1991
Series
28 minutes
Self
2012
Series
Discorama
Self
1959
Samedi soir
Self
1971
Series
La Case du Siècle
Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice)
2010
Film
Night and Fog
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Film
The Toy
Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
1976
Film
The Unfaithful Wife
Charles Desvallées
1969
Film
Secret Ceremony
2022
Film
Borsalino
Maître Rinaldi
1970
Film
The Bride Wore Black
Coral
1968
Film
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Maugras
1977
Film
Manon
Second
1949
Film
This Special Friendship
Father Trennes
1964
Series
Mozart
Leopold Mozart
1982
Film
The Conspiracy
Lelong
1973
Film
Katia
Bibesco
1959
Film
Two Men in Town
Commissioner Goitreau
1973
Film
Renoir
Auguste Renoir
2012
Film
Marco the Magnificent
Narrator (uncredited)
1965
Film
Élisa
Samuel
1995
Film
Thomas
André, the father
1975
Film
Les Misérables
Inspector Javert
1982
Film
Toto the Hero
Old Thomas
1991
Film
The Serpent
Tavel
1973
Film
The Assassination
Lempereur
1972
Film
Mississippi Mermaid
Comolli
1969
Film
God Chose Paris
Narrator
1969
Film
Monsieur Vincent
Le tuberculeux
1947
Film
All the Mornings of the World
Baugin
1991
Film
Lamiel
Le docteur Sansfin
1967
Film
Malpertuis
Charles Dideloo
1972
Film
The Cop
L'inspecteur Favenin
1970
Film
Just Before Nightfall
Charles Masson
1971
Film
Kisses Till Monday
Nez-D'Boeuf
1974
Film
Villa Caprice
Marcel Germon
2021
Film
La Joie de vivre
Monsieur Charme
1993
Film
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
1971
Film
The Breach
Ludovic Regnier
1970
Film
Cop au Vin
Hubert Lavoisier
1985
Film
Where There's Smoke
Morlaix
1973
Film
The Suspects
Prosecutor Delarue
1974
Series
Le Regard dans le miroir
Mathias
1985
Film
Défense de savoir
Paul Cristiani
1973
Film
White Paws
Maurice
1949
Film
Trees
Narrator
2001
Rebecca
2014
Film
State Reasons
Francis Jobin
1978
Film
Countdown to Vengeance
Valberg
1970
Film
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Eye of Vichy
Narrator (voice)
1993
Film
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Albert
1972
Film
Last In, First Out
Banquier Muller
1978
Film
Tower of Lust
Louis X
1955
Film
Bloody Murder
Georges Noblet
1974
Film
Milice, film noir
Narrator (voice)
1997
Film
A Wall in Jerusalem
Narrator (citations) (voice)
1968
Film
Three Women
Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
1952
Film
Last Leap
Jauran
1970
Film
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
Monsieur Andesmas
2004
Film
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Marc the Boss
1971
Film
Paulina 1880
Monsieur Pandolfini
1972
Film
Le Curé de Tours
L'abbé Troubet
1980
Film
No Escape
Commissioner
1958
Film
Our Agent Tiger
Jacques Vermorel
1965
Film
Velvet Paws
Quid
1987
Film
The Lives of Albert Camus
Self
2020
Film
The Road to Corinth
Sharps
1967
Film
The Chops
le Vieux
2003
Film
Les Jeunes Filles
Récitant / Narrator
1979
Les Jeunes Filles
1978
Film
La danse de mort
Edgar
1982
Film
France, Incorporated
The Frenchman
1974
Film
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un causeur dans le boudoir
1967
Film
Le Sourire
Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
1960
Film
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Self
2018
Film
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
1951
Film
The Prince's Manuscript
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
2000
Film
The Sorceress
Jules Michelet
1982
Il segno del comando
Marquis of Santerre
1992
Film
The Double Contempt
Reciter (voice)
1967
Film
The Angels
Maurice
1973
Film
The Last Mitterrand
Le Président
2005
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge
1984
Film
How I Killed My Father
Maurice
2001
Film
Vagabond Humor
Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
1972
Film
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
Self (archive) - actor
2024
Film
Criminal Brigade
Le tueur
1947
Film
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Pierre Vergne
1976
Film
The Little Bedroom
Edmond
2011
Film
A Look at Madness
Narrator (voice)
1962
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
1981
Film
Le malade imaginaire
Argan
2008
Film
The Art Dealer
Raoul
2015
Film
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Claude Reverson
1973
Film
Visages de Paris
Voix
1955
Film
Beyond Fear
Claude Balard
1975
Rodolphe Bresdin
Narrator
1962
Film
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Self
2006
Film
Bloody Sun
Doctor
1974
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Self
1969
Le volet
Narrator (voice)
1972
Film
The Origin of Violence
Marcel Fabre (2014)
2016
The Secret of Mister L
Victor Lumen
1983
Film
La Légende du siècle
Self
1972
Film
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Narration (Voice)
1999
The Holy Family
Storm
1973
Péchés originaux
1984
Film
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Self
2022
Film
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
self
2022
Film
Mina de Vanghel
Narrator (voice)
1953