Acting
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. ... Source: Article "Michel Bouquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol
Film · 2024
Secret Ceremony
Film · 2022
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Film · 2022
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
Film · 2022
Villa Caprice
Film · 2021
The Lives of Albert Camus
Film · 2020
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Film · 2018
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Film · 2017
The Origin of Violence
Film · 2016
The Art Dealer
Film · 2015
Rebecca
Film · 2014
Renoir
Film · 2012
28 minutes
Series · 2012
The Little Bedroom
Film · 2011
La Case du Siècle
Series · 2010
Le malade imaginaire
Film · 2008
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Film · 2006
The Last Mitterrand
Film · 2005
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
Film · 2004
The Chops
Film · 2003
How I Killed My Father
Film · 2001
Trees
Film · 2001
The Prince's Manuscript
Film · 2000
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Film · 1999
Vivement dimanche
Series · 1998
Milice, film noir
Film · 1997
Élisa
Film · 1995
La Joie de vivre
Film · 1993
The Eye of Vichy
Film · 1993
Il segno del comando
Film · 1992
Toto the Hero
Film · 1991
All the Mornings of the World
Film · 1991
Maigret
Series · 1991
Velvet Paws
Film · 1987
Cop au Vin
Film · 1985
Le Regard dans le miroir
Series · 1985
A Christmas Carol
Film · 1984
Péchés originaux
Series · 1984
The Secret of Mister L
Film · 1983
Les Misérables
Film · 1982
The Sorceress
Film · 1982
La Danse de mort
Film · 1982
Mozart
Series · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
Film · 1981
Le Curé de Tours
Film · 1980
Les Jeunes Filles
Film · 1979
Last In, First Out
Film · 1978
State Reasons
Film · 1978
Les Jeunes Filles
Series · 1978
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Film · 1977
The Toy
Film · 1976
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Film · 1976
Thomas
Film · 1975
Beyond Fear
Film · 1975
The Suspects
Film · 1974
France, Incorporated
Film · 1974
Kisses Till Monday
Film · 1974
Bloody Sun
Film · 1974
Bloody Murder
Film · 1974
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
Two Men in Town
Film · 1973
The Serpent
Film · 1973
Where There's Smoke
Film · 1973
The Conspiracy
Film · 1973
Défense de savoir
Film · 1973
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Film · 1973
The Angels
Film · 1973
The Holy Family
Film · 1973
Malpertuis
Film · 1972
Vagabond Humor
Film · 1972
The Assassination
Film · 1972
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Film · 1972
Le volet
Film · 1972
Paulina 1880
Film · 1972
La Légende du siècle
Film · 1972
Just Before Nightfall
Film · 1971
Tartuffe
Film · 1971
Papa, the Lil' Boats
Film · 1971
Samedi soir
Series · 1971
The Breach
Film · 1970
Borsalino
Film · 1970
The Cop
Film · 1970
Last Leap
Film · 1970
Countdown to Vengeance
Film · 1970
Mississippi Mermaid
Film · 1969
The Unfaithful Wife
Film · 1969
God Chose Paris
Film · 1969
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Film · 1969
The Bride Wore Black
Film · 1968
A Wall in Jerusalem
Film · 1968
The Road to Corinth
Film · 1967
The Double Contempt
Film · 1967
Lamiel
Film · 1967
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Film · 1967
Our Agent Tiger
Film · 1965
Marco the Magnificent
Film · 1965
This Special Friendship
Film · 1964
A Look at Madness
Film · 1962
Rodolphe Bresdin
Film · 1962
Le Sourire
Film · 1960
Katia
Film · 1959
Discorama
Series · 1959
No Escape
Film · 1958
Night and Fog
Film · 1956
Tower of Lust
Film · 1955
Visages de Paris
Film · 1955
Mina de Vanghel
Film · 1953
Three Women
Film · 1952
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Film · 1951
White Paws
Film · 1949
Manon
Film · 1949
Monsieur Vincent
Film · 1947
Criminal Brigade
Film · 1947