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Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli

Birthday: 1925-12-27 | Place of Birth: Paris, France

Michel Piccoli (1925-2020) was a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He had one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia. Piccoli was politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the Front National.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2012
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

as    Le père

2012
Holy Motors

as    Man with the Wine Stain

2011
We Have a Pope

as    Melville

2008
On War

as    Le grand Hou

2008
The Duchess of Langeais

as    Vidame de Pamiers

2007
To Each His Own Cinema

as    Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

2006
Belle Toujours

as    Henri Husson

2003
Raining Cats and Frogs

as    Ferdinand (voice)

2003
Little Lili

as    acteur qui joue Simon

2001
I’m Going Home

as    Gilbert Valence

1996
Tykho Moon

as    Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee

1995
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

as    Himself

1995
The World of Jacques Demy

as    Self

1995
One Hundred and One Nights

as    Simon Cinéma

1994
The Black Angel

as    Georges Feuvrier

1991
La Belle Noiseuse

as    Edouard Frenhofer

1990
May Fools

as    Milou

1987
Mauvais Sang

as    Marc

1987
Malady of Love

as    Raoul Bergeron

1985
Death in a French Garden

as    Graham Tombsthay

1984
Dangerous Moves

as    Akiva Liebskind

1983
The Prize of Peril

as    Frédéric Mallaire

1983
Godard's Passion

as    Michel Boulard

1982
Espion, lève-toi

as    Jean-Paul Chance

1981
Strange Affair

as    Bertrand Malair

1981
Atlantic City

as    Joseph

1978
Little Girl in Blue Velvet

as    Conrad Brukner