Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli (born the December 27th 1925 with Paris) is a Acteur of Cinéma and Théâtre French. It is also producer, Réalisateur and Scénariste.

Biography

Born in a family from musicians (of a mother Pianist and a father Violonist), it follows a formation of actor to the Cours Simon.

Movie actor and actor of theater

After an appearance in Magic spells of Christian-Jaque in 1945, it begins with the cinema in the Point from the day from Louis Daquin. It starts on the boards with the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault and with the Théâtre of Babylon. Noticed in Doulos of Jean-Pierre Melville, it is revealed with the general public with the Contempt of Jean-Luc Godard with dimensions of Brigitte Bardot. Consequently, it turns with the largest French scenario writers (Jean Renoir, Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Louis Malle, Jacques Rivette, Michel Deville, Léos Carax etc…) and Europeans (Shine Buñuel, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Marco Ferreri, Alfred Hitchcock…).

He becomes the actor fetish of Claude Sautet, with the Things of the life , max and the scrap merchants and Vincent, Francois, Paul and others and of Luis Buñuel with which he maintains a long complicity. He collaborates in six of films of the Spanish realizer of which several major works like the newspaper of a chambermaid , Belle of day, the discrete Charm of the middle-class . In parallel, it assoit its notoriety at the beginning of the Years 1960, by several roles on television ( the Players , Montserrat , Don Juan …).

It begins the decade 1980 by the price from interpretation to the Cannes festival in 1980, with the Jump in the vacuum of Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Festival of Berlin in 1982, with a strange business of Pierre Granier-Removes iron. He works with the young French cinema, like Jacques Doillon ( the Girl lavishes " in 1985), Leos Carax ( Bad blood in 1986), not hesitating to break a benevolent image with provocative or antipathetic roles, before testing itself with the realization.

Accustomed Cannes festival, it belongs to the jury of the official competition of the 60e Cannes festival in 2007 pennies the presidency of Stephen Frears.

Political commitment

Engaged politically on the left, member of the Movement of Peace, it was often illustrated by his standpoint against the National front, and mobilized himself for international Amnesty. In March 2007, it signed with 150 intellectuals a text which invites to vote for Ségolène Royal, " against a line of arrogance " , for " a left of hope ". After having supported François Mitterrand in 1981, there remains faithful to the socialist camp.

Private life

He was married with the actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he has a girl, Anne-Cordélia, then during eleven years with the singer Juliette Gréco before sharing the life of the scenario writer Ludivine Clerc.

Catalog of films (more than 200 films and telefilms)

Cinema

Television

Theater

  • 1948 : the human Material
  • 1981: the Queen and the Insurrectionists and the Cherry orchard ,
  • 1983: Combat of negros and dogs ,
  • 1984: foreign Ground (price of the Best actor of the Trade union of dramatic criticism),
  • 1985: Phèdre and False following the ,
  • 1988: Tale of winter and the Return to the desert ,
  • 1993: John Gabriel Borkman ,
  • 1997: the Disease of dead the ,
  • 1998: In connection with the Giants of the mountain ,
  • 2001: the Jealousy ,
  • 2003: Your hand in mine
  • 2006: the King Lear

Realizer

Distinctions

See too

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