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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Movies (102)
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
2024 · Self (archive) - actor
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022 · Self
Secret Ceremony
2022
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
2022 · self
Villa Caprice
2021 · Marcel Germon
The Lives of Albert Camus
2020 · Self
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
2018 · Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Origin of Violence
2016 · Marcel Fabre (2014)
The Art Dealer
2015 · Raoul
Rebecca
2014
Renoir
2012 · Auguste Renoir
The Little Bedroom
2011 · Edmond
Le malade imaginaire
2008 · Argan
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006 · Self
The Last Mitterrand
2005 · Le Président
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
2004 · Monsieur Andesmas
The Chops
2003 · le Vieux
Trees
2001 · Narrator
How I Killed My Father
2001 · Maurice
The Prince's Manuscript
2000 · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999 · Narration (Voice)
Milice, film noir
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Élisa
1995 · Samuel
The Eye of Vichy
1993 · Narrator (voice)
La Joie de vivre
1993 · Monsieur Charme
Il segno del comando
1992 · Marquis of Santerre
All the Mornings of the World
1991 · Baugin
Toto the Hero
1991 · Old Thomas
Velvet Paws
1987 · Quid
Cop au Vin
1985 · Hubert Lavoisier
A Christmas Carol
1984 · Ebenezer Scrooge
The Secret of Mister L
1983 · Victor Lumen
Les Misérables
1982 · Inspector Javert
The Sorceress
1982 · Jules Michelet
La Danse de mort
1982 · Edgar
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
1981
Le Curé de Tours
1980 · L'abbé Troubet
Les Jeunes Filles
1979 · Récitant / Narrator
Last In, First Out
1978 · Banquier Muller
State Reasons
1978 · Francis Jobin
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977 · Maugras
The Toy
1976 · Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
1976 · Pierre Vergne
Beyond Fear
1975 · Claude Balard
Thomas
1975 · André, the father
The Suspects
1974 · Prosecutor Delarue
Kisses Till Monday
1974 · Nez-D'Boeuf
France, Incorporated
1974 · The Frenchman
Bloody Sun
1974 · Doctor
Bloody Murder
1974 · Georges Noblet
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973 · Claude Reverson
Two Men in Town
1973 · Commissioner Goitreau
Défense de savoir
1973 · Paul Cristiani
The Angels
1973 · Maurice
Where There's Smoke
1973 · Morlaix
The Conspiracy
1973 · Lelong
The Holy Family
1973 · Storm
The Serpent
1973 · Tavel
The Assassination
1972 · Lempereur
Le volet
1972 · Narrator (voice)
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972 · Albert
Vagabond Humor
1972 · Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
Paulina 1880
1972 · Monsieur Pandolfini
La Légende du siècle
1972 · Self
Malpertuis
1972 · Charles Dideloo
Tartuffe
1971 · Tartuffe
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971 · Marc the Boss
Just Before Nightfall
1971 · Charles Masson
The Cop
1970 · L'inspecteur Favenin
The Breach
1970 · Ludovic Regnier
Last Leap
1970 · Jauran
Borsalino
1970 · Maître Rinaldi
Countdown to Vengeance
1970 · Valberg
God Chose Paris
1969 · Narrator
Mississippi Mermaid
1969 · Comolli
The Unfaithful Wife
1969 · Charles Desvallées
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969 · Self
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968 · Narrator (citations) (voice)
The Bride Wore Black
1968 · Coral
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967 · Un causeur dans le boudoir
The Road to Corinth
1967 · Sharps
Lamiel
1967 · Le docteur Sansfin
The Double Contempt
1967 · Reciter (voice)
Our Agent Tiger
1965 · Jacques Vermorel
Marco the Magnificent
1965 · Narrator (uncredited)
This Special Friendship
1964 · Father Trennes
A Look at Madness
1962 · Narrator (voice)
Rodolphe Bresdin
1962 · Narrator
Le Sourire
1960 · Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
Katia
1959 · Bibesco
No Escape
1958 · Commissioner
Night and Fog
1956 · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tower of Lust
1955 · Louis X
Visages de Paris
1955 · Voix
Mina de Vanghel
1953 · Narrator (voice)
Three Women
1952 · Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951 · Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
White Paws
1949 · Maurice
Manon
1949 · Second
Monsieur Vincent
1947 · Le tuberculeux
Criminal Brigade
1947 · Le tueur
TV shows (12)
28 minutes
2012 · Self
La Case du Siècle
2010 · Arnaud de Roquefeuil (old) (voice)
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Maigret
1991 · Le juge Forlacroix
Le Regard dans le miroir
1985 · Mathias
Péchés originaux
1984
Mozart
1982 · Leopold Mozart
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Les Jeunes Filles
1978
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Samedi soir
1971 · Self
Discorama
1959 · Self