Michel Bouquet

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1925-11-06
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Also Known As: Мишель Буке, Michel Bouquet

Movies List of Michel Bouquet

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Mississippi Mermaid

1969 Movie
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Night and Fog

1959 Movie
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The Bride Wore Black

1968 Movie
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The Breach

1970 Movie
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Two Men in Town

1973 Movie
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Les Misérables

1982 Movie
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Cop au Vin

1985 Movie
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The Unfaithful Wife

1969 Movie
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Borsalino

1970 Movie
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The Suspects

1974 Movie
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Monsieur Vincent

1947 Movie
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The Serpent

1973 Movie
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White Paws

1949 Movie
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Malpertuis

1971 Movie
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Our Agent Tiger

1965 Movie
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Vagabond Humor

1972 Movie
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The Chops

2003 Movie
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The Last Mitterrand

2005 Movie
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No Escape

1958 Movie
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Toto the Hero

1991 Movie
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The Toy

1976 Movie
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God Chose Paris

1969 Movie
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Just Before Nightfall

1971 Movie
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The Little Bedroom

2011 Movie
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Elisa

1995 Movie
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The Cop

1970 Movie
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Mina de Vanghel

1953 Movie
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Tower of Lust

1955 Movie
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Secret Ceremony

2022 Movie
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The Sorceress

1982 Movie
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The Road to Corinth

1967 Movie
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The Assassination

1972 Movie
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Renoir

2012 Movie
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Where There's Smoke

1973 Movie
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Tartuffe

1971 Movie
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The Conspiracy

1973 Movie
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Défense de savoir

1973 Movie
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France, Incorporated

1974 Movie
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Katia

1959 Movie
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Last Leap

1970 Movie
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Kisses Till Monday

1974 Movie
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Last In, First Out

1978 Movie
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A Look at Madness

1962 Movie
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Le malade imaginaire

2008 Movie
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Milice, film noir

1997 Movie
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State Reasons

1978 Movie
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Three Women

1952 Movie
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Il segno del comando

1992 Movie
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Bloody Sun

1974 Movie
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Thomas

1975 Movie
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Beyond Fear

1975 Movie
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The Double Contempt

1967 Movie
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A Wall in Jerusalem

1968 Movie
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The Angels

1973 Movie
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A Christmas Carol

1984 Movie
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Lamiel

1967 Movie
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Papa, the Lil' Boats

1971 Movie
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The Art Dealer

2015 Movie
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Le Sourire

1960 Movie
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Bloody Murder

1974 Movie
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Les Jeunes Filles

1979 Movie
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Trees

2001 Movie
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The Holy Family

1973 Movie
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Criminal Brigade

1947 Movie
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Velvet Paws

1987 Movie
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Rebecca

2014 Movie
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Manon

1949 Movie
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Rodolphe Bresdin

1962 Movie
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Villa Caprice

2021 Movie
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Le Curé de Tours

1980 Movie
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Le volet

1972 Movie
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Paulina 1880

1972 Movie
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La danse de mort

1982 Movie