Michel Bouquet
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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Raoul
La Légende du siècle
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Villa Caprice
Marcel Germon
Défense de savoir
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Les Jeunes Filles
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No Escape
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A Wall in Jerusalem
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La Case du siècle
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Self - Actor (archive footage)
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Night and Fog
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Second
White Paws
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Borsalino
Maître Rinaldi
The Breach
Ludovic Regnier
The Unfaithful Wife
Charles Desvallées
The Cop
L'inspecteur Favenin
Malpertuis
Charles Dideloo
Last In, First Out
Banquier Muller
Criminal Brigade
Le tueur
The Road to Corinth
Sharps
Vagabond Humor
Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
The Double Contempt
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The Angels
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Toto the Hero
Old Thomas
Bloody Murder
Georges Noblet
Cop au Vin
Hubert Lavoisier
Il segno del comando
Marquis of Santerre
Three Women
Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Bloody Sun
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Monsieur Vincent
Le tuberculeux
Le secret de monsieur L
Victor Lumen
Mississippi Mermaid
Comolli
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
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Just Before Nightfall
Charles Masson
This Special Friendship
Father Trennes
Two Men in Town
Commissioner Goitreau
The Prince's Manuscript
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Where There's Smoke
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State Reasons
Francis Jobin
Countdown to Vengeance
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Velvet Paws
Quid
The Assassination
Lempereur
Visages de Paris
Voix
Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Marc the Boss
Lamiel
Le docteur Sansfin
How I Killed My Father
Maurice
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Pierre Vergne
Katia
Bibesco
God Chose Paris
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The Conspiracy
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Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
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Le Regard dans le miroir
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All the Mornings of the World
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The Lives of Albert Camus
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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
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Le Sourire
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Our Agent Tiger
Jacques Vermorel
Thomas
André, the father
Beyond Fear
Claude Balard
Last Leap
Jauran
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Maugras
The Chops
le Vieux
Paulina 1880
Monsieur Pandolfini
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
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The Last Mitterrand
Le Président
The Holy Family
Storm
Le malade imaginaire
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La danse de mort
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Secret Ceremony
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Discorama
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A Look at Madness
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Champs-Elysées
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Spécial cinéma
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