Michel Bouquet

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

100

Movies

102

Born: November 6, 1925 – April 13, 2022
From: Paris, France

Biography

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.

Works

102 films

The Unfaithful Wife

19696.9

Night and Fog

19568.3

The Toy

19766.9

Les Anneaux de Bicêtre

197710.0

The Bride Wore Black

19687.1

This Special Friendship

19647.8

Élisa

19956.4

Borsalino

19706.9

Manon

19496.9

Two Men in Town

19737.1

Les Misérables

19827.0

The Assassination

19726.6

The Conspiracy

19735.7

The Serpent

19736.1

Mississippi Mermaid

19696.6

All the Mornings of the World

19917.1

Katia

19596.4

Renoir

20126.3

Countdown to Vengeance

19705.8

Toto the Hero

19917.1

Secret Ceremony

20224.0

Just Before Nightfall

19716.6

Marco the Magnificent

19654.8

La danse de mort

19828.5

White Paws

19495.4

Malpertuis

19726.4

Paulina 1880

19728.7

3000 Million Without an Elevator

19725.6

Le Sourire

19607.0

Kisses Till Monday

19744.8

Cop au Vin

19856.1

Villa Caprice

20215.5

Rebecca

20142.0

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber

2022

La Joie de vivre

19938.0

Lamiel

19675.2

God Chose Paris

19696.5

The Suspects

19745.4

Thomas

19758.0

Les Jeunes Filles

19798.0

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...

2018

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Tartuffe

19717.0

The Breach

19706.1

Trees

20018.5

Monsieur Vincent

19476.6

The Cop

19706.3

The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas

20048.0

Last Leap

19705.4

The Origin of Violence

20166.0

The Eye of Vichy

19935.4

Where There's Smoke

19736.4

The Art Dealer

20153.6

Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge

1981

France, Incorporated

19744.1

A Christmas Carol

198410.0

How I Killed My Father

20015.8

No Escape

19584.5

The Lives of Albert Camus

20208.0

The Secret of Mister L

1983

A Look at Madness

19628.0

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol

2006

Papa, the Lil' Boats

19714.6

The Prince's Manuscript

20008.2

The Last Mitterrand

20056.6

Bloody Murder

19745.2

Défense de savoir

19735.9

The Holy Family

197310.0

Velvet Paws

19878.0

Three Women

19528.0

Le malade imaginaire

20087.0

Bloody Sun

19745.0

Our Agent Tiger

19654.8

Last In, First Out

19784.5

The Little Bedroom

20116.6

State Reasons

19785.6

Beyond Fear

19756.7

The Road to Corinth

19674.5

Rodolphe Bresdin

19629.0

Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol

20247.3

Le Curé de Tours

19808.0

Two Pennies Worth of Violets

19514.7

Milice, film noir

199710.0

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

19765.2

The Chops

20036.1

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons

19734.8

Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet

2022

À la recherche de Jean Grémillon

1969

The Sorceress

19823.7

Tower of Lust

19555.1

The Angels

19736.0

Visages de Paris

19559.0

Il segno del comando

19925.0

Le volet

19727.0

The Double Contempt

196710.0

Mina de Vanghel

19539.0

A Wall in Jerusalem

19688.0

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur

19998.3

La Légende du siècle

1972

Vagabond Humor

19724.7

Criminal Brigade

19478.0