Michel bouquet
Michel Bouquet (born November 6, 1925 in Paris ) is a French actor .
Life
As a teenager he began an apprenticeship as a baker and was employed by a bank at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1942 he took acting classes with Maurice Escande at the Paris Conservatoire d'art dramatique and made his debut a little later with Gérard Philipe in Caligula . He gained in profile especially in plays by Jean Anouilh . He made his film debut in 1946, but it was Truffaut and Chabrol that made him famous in the later films of the Nouvelle Vague. He was best known as a representative of the bourgeoisie in Claude Chabrol's films , mostly at the side of Stéphane Audran , for example in Before Nightfall , The Unfaithful Woman , The Rift and Chicken in Vinegar . François Truffaut cast him as one of the victims of Jeanne Moreau in The Bride Wore Black and as a private investigator murdered by Jean-Paul Belmondo in The Secret of the False Bride .
He had other significant roles in the Simenon film adaptation Between Death and Life (after The Bells of Bicêtre), in which he portrays a man who is brought back to life by Claude Jade after a stroke , or in Schafott as a commissioner who stubbornly the rehabilitation of a released prisoner ( Alain Delon ) sabotaged.
His other outstanding works include The Legion of the Damned , Robert Hossein's film adaptation of Victor Hugo's Die Elenden , in which he pursues Javert Lino Ventura as inspector .
Bouquet continues to impress with great roles in the new millennium, for example in the title role in Renoir in 2012 .
Working method
Michel Bouquet is considered to be a convincing performer of honest, calculating and cold-feeling married men and businessmen of the French small-town bourgeoisie. Actress Claude Jade, his partner in Between Death and Life, describes Bouquet, who played one of his most difficult roles in it, as a very friendly perfectionist in her book Baisers envolés : “Michel Bouquet is extremely precise and leaves nothing to chance. I am very impressed with his focus and his ability to work so precisely. He was fully prepared for the role of the press tycoon suddenly stricken with hemiplegia and aphasia after a stroke . In the first two thirds of the film he only says his lines in the voice-over . When the shooting takes place, nothing or almost nothing is like what we envisioned; the external disturbances are confusing, the arrangement of the sickroom, restored in a house, is different. But despite all these guidelines, Michel Bouquet adapts, sometimes he does the opposite of what he had planned, and he is great at it. And he's also a man of perfect courtesy. "
Filmography (selection)
- 1947: Monsieur Vincent
- 1952: Trois femmes
- 1955: Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard)
- 1959: Katja, the uncrowned Empress (Katia)
- 1967: Lamiel - I love love (Lamiel)
- 1968: The bride wore black (La mariée était en noir)
- 1969: The unfaithful woman (La femme infidèle)
- 1970: Cobra command (Le dernier saut)
- 1970: A bull sees red (Un condé)
- 1971: Malpertuis (Malpertuis)
- 1971: Before nightfall
- 1972: The assassination (L'attentat)
- 1973: The snake (Le serpent)
- 1973: No smoke without fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu)
- 1973: Scaffold terminus (Deux hommes dans la ville)
- 1976: The toy (Le jouet)
- 1977: Between death and life (Les anneaux de Bicêtre)
- 1982: The Legion of the Damned (Les misérables)
- 1985: Chicken in vinegar ( chicken au vinaigre)
- 1985: Looking in the mirror / The fear in the mirror (Le regard dans le miroir) (TV series)
- 1991: Toto the hero (Toto le héros)
- 1991: The seventh string (Tous les Matins du monde)
- 1995: Elisa (Élisa)
- 2005: Last days in the Elysée (Le promeneur du champ de Mars)
- 2010: The small room (La petite chambre)
- 2012: Renoir
Awards
- 2002: César in the category of best leading actor in Comment j'ai tué mon père
- 2006: César as best leading actor in Last Days at the Elysée (as François Mitterrand )
- 2014: César nomination for best leading actor in Renoir
Web links
- Michel Bouquet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bouquet, Michel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |