Michel Piccoli
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| Michel Piccoli | |||||||
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.jpg) Michel Piccoli at Cannes in 2000 |
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| Born | Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli December 27, 1925 Paris, France |
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| Occupation | actor, screenwriter, director, musician, singer | ||||||
| Years active | 1945 - present | ||||||
| Spouse(s) | Eléonore Hirt (m.1954) Juliette Gréco (1966-1977) Ludivine Clerc (1980-) |
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor who has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard (in le Mépris, where he formed a legendary couple with Brigitte Bardot), Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, and Jacques Doillon.
He is an extremely versatile actor who can take on all kinds of different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, with a predilection in the 70s and 80s for ambiguous roles in which he excels.
He has appeared in more than 170 movies.
He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter by his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.
Piccoli is politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the National Front.
[edit] Filmography
- La mort en ce jardin (1956)
- Le Doulos (1962)
- Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
- La Chance et l'Amour (1964)
- The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
- Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre (1965, TV)
- Is Paris Burning? (1966)
- La Curée (The Game is Over) (1966)
- La Guerre est finie (1966)
- Belle de jour (A Bela da Tarde, 1967)
- Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
- Danger: Diabolik (1968)
- La Chamade (1968)
- Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto, 1969)
- La Voie lactée (1969)
- Topaz (1969)
- Les Choses de la vie (1970)
- Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972)
- La Grande Bouffe (The Grande Bouffe or Blow-Out, 1973)
- Themroc (1973)
- Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)
- Le Trio infernal (1974)
- Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974)
- Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
- La Dernière femme (1976)
- Mado (1976)
- Des enfants gatés (1977)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Atlantic City (1980)
- Espion Lève-toi (1981)
- La Fille prodigue (1981)
- Une étrange affaire (1981)
- La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
- Passion (1982)
- Une chambre en ville (1982)
- Viva la vie (1984)
- La Diagonale du Fou (1984)
- Péril en la demeure (1985)
- Partir, revenir (1985)
- Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur (1986)
- Le Paltoquet (1986)
- La Puritaine (1986)
- Mala Sangre de Leos Carax(1986)
- Milou en Mai (1990)
- La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
- Le Visionarium (The Timekeeper, 1992)
- Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
- Passion in the Desert (1997)
- Belle Toujours (2007)
- De la guerre (2008)
