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Michel Piccoli

Acting

Born December 27, 1925 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Died May 12, 2020

Also known as Мишель Пикколи · ميشيل بيكولي

Biography

Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors, being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Awards & recognition

  • European Film Academy Honorary Award · 2011
  • Europe Theatre Prize · 2001
  • German Film Award — Best Actor · 1988
  • Silver Bear — Best Actor · 1982
  • Cannes Film Festival Award — Best Actor · 1980
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  • David di Donatello — Best Actor
  • Prize — the best actor of the Union of criticism
  • European Film Award — Best Actor · 2011 · nominated
  • European Film Award — Best Actor · 2007 · nominated
  • European Film Award — Best Actor · 2001 · nominated

Filmography50+ titles

The Beaches of Agnès

2008as Self (archive footage)

The Young Girls of Rochefort

1967as Simon Dame

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

1972as Interior Minister

That Obscure Object of Desire

1977as Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)

The Phantom of Liberty

1974as Police Prefect #2

Hello Cubans

1963as Narrator (voice)

Le Doulos

1962as Nuttheccio

Marx Can Wait

2021as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)

La belle noiseuse

1991as Edouard Frenhofer

Belle de Jour

1967as Henri Husson

Is Paris Burning?

1966as Edgar Pisani

French Cancan

1955as Le Capitaine Valorgueil

It's Not Me

2024as (archive footage)

The Young Girls Turn 25

1993as Self (archive footage)

Bad Blood

1986as Marc

The Big Feast

1973as Michel

Max and the Junkmen

1971as Max, inspector

Dillinger Is Dead

1969as Glauco

The Milky Way

1969as Marquis de Sade

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964as Monsieur Monteil

Holy Motors

2012as Man with the Wine Stain

Vincent, François, Paul and the Others

1974as François, médecin

Contempt

1963as Paul Javal

The World of Jacques Demy

1995as Self

May Fools

1990as Milou

That Night in Varennes

1982as King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Adieu Philippine

1962as Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)

We Have a Pope

2011as Melville

I'm Going Home

2001as Gilbert Valence

Atlantic City

1980as Joseph

Romy: Anatomy of a Face

1967as Self

The Day and the Hour

1963as Antoine

The Supper

1992as Chateaubriand (voice)

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

2012as Le père

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

2011as Self

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984as French Official

Themroc

1973as Themroc

The War Is Over

1966as Inspector #1

A Room in Town

1982as Edmond Leroyer

Danger: Diabolik

1968as Inspector Ginko

The Creatures

1966as Edgar Piccoli

Death in the Garden

1956as Father Lizzardi

Spoiled Children

1977as Bernard Rougerie

Ten Days Wonder

1971as Paul Regis

One Hundred and One Nights

1995as Simon Cinéma

Elsa the Rose

1966as Narrator (voice)

The Grand Manoeuvre

1955as Officer (uncredited)

Topaz

1969as Jacques Granville

The Emigrant

1994as Adam - Ram's father

Adieu Bonaparte

1985as Caffarelli - كافاريللي