Michel Bouquet

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

100

Movies

102

Born: November 6, 1925 – April 13, 2022
From: Paris, France

Biography

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.

Works

102 films

The Unfaithful Wife

19696.9

Night and Fog

19568.3

The Toy

19766.9

Élisa

19956.4

This Special Friendship

19647.8

Les Anneaux de Bicêtre

197710.0

Borsalino

19706.9

The Bride Wore Black

19687.1

The Serpent

19736.1

Mississippi Mermaid

19696.6

Manon

19496.9

Secret Ceremony

20224.0

Two Men in Town

19737.1

The Assassination

19726.6

The Conspiracy

19735.7

Countdown to Vengeance

19705.8

Katia

19596.4

All the Mornings of the World

19917.1

Les Misérables

19827.0

Just Before Nightfall

19716.6

Renoir

20126.3

Toto the Hero

19917.1

Paulina 1880

19728.7

La danse de mort

19828.5

3000 Million Without an Elevator

19725.6

Le Sourire

19607.0

Lamiel

19675.2

Marco the Magnificent

19654.8

Trees

20018.5

Thomas

19758.0

Kisses Till Monday

19744.8

White Paws

19495.4

Malpertuis

19726.4

God Chose Paris

19696.5

Villa Caprice

20215.5

La Joie de vivre

19938.0

Last Leap

19705.4

Rebecca

20142.0

The Eye of Vichy

19935.4

Monsieur Vincent

19476.6

The Suspects

19745.4

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber

2022

State Reasons

19785.6

Cop au Vin

19856.1

The Breach

19706.1

Les Jeunes Filles

19798.0

A Look at Madness

19628.0

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Where There's Smoke

19736.4

Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge

1981

No Escape

19584.5

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

2018

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol

2006

Tartuffe

19717.0

The Cop

19706.3

Velvet Paws

19878.0

The Art Dealer

20153.6

How I Killed My Father

20015.8

The Prince's Manuscript

20008.2

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons

19734.8

Le malade imaginaire

20087.0

The Last Mitterrand

20056.6

Our Agent Tiger

19654.8

Three Women

19528.0

The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas

20048.0

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

19765.2

Milice, film noir

199710.0

The Origin of Violence

20166.0

The Secret of Mister L

1983

The Lives of Albert Camus

20208.0

The Road to Corinth

19674.5

Last In, First Out

19784.5

Le Curé de Tours

19808.0

Papa, the Lil' Boats

19714.6

Défense de savoir

19735.9

Bloody Sun

19745.0

The Holy Family

197310.0

France, Incorporated

19744.1

Beyond Fear

19756.7

Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet

2022

Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol

20247.3

Tower of Lust

19555.1

Rodolphe Bresdin

19629.0

The Chops

20036.1

Bloody Murder

19745.2

A Wall in Jerusalem

19688.0

The Little Bedroom

20116.6

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

1969

A Christmas Carol

198410.0

The Angels

19736.0

Il segno del comando

19925.0

Le volet

19727.0

The Sorceress

19823.7

La Légende du siècle

1972

Visages de Paris

19559.0

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

19514.7

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

Vagabond Humor

19724.7

Mina de Vanghel

19539.0

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

19998.3

The Double Contempt

196710.0

Criminal Brigade

19478.0