Michel Piccoli
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
268
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-12-27
Day of death
2020-05-12 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Michel Piccoli
Biography
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia. Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning. Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira... He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013. Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International. Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
Known For
Champs-Elysées
To Each His Own Cinema
Vivement dimanche
Midi Première
Wetten, dass..?
Apostrophes
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
German Film Award
One Hundred and One Nights
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
Midi trente
Themroc
La Ruelle au clair de lune
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
Marie Soleil
The Bellman
Le divorcement
Sugar
Death in the Garden
Tykho Moon
Liza
Tabarin
The Audience
Life Size
Leonor
Godard's Passion
Mado
Nulle part ailleurs
Samedi soir
Mauvais Sang
Magic Mirror
Weak Spot
Holy Motors
The Nonentity
The Game Is Over
The Sleeping Car Murder
The Uninvited
París-Tombuctú
V.I.P. Schaukel
Adieu Philippine
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Nathalie
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Atlantic City
The Creatures
Woman in Chains
Walking a Tightrope
Lady L
Belle de Jour
Les Joueurs
Heartbeat
Masquerade
Raining Cats and Frogs
The Supper
Rupture(s)
The Bit Between the Teeth
La Grande Bouffe
The Assassination
Tödliches Geld
Topaz
Belle Toujours
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
One Way or Another
Invasion
Actors
Is Paris Burning?
Climates of Love
Going and Coming Back
The Prude
French Cancan
La Lune
The Phantom of Liberty
Party
La Voleuse
The Beaches of Agnès
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Max and the Junkmen
La Belle Noiseuse
Dangerous Moves
The Emigrant
The Milky Way
The War Is Over
Chicago Digest
The Dinosaur and the Baby
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Prodigal Daughter
Shock Troops
The Dust of Time
The Passerby
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
The Prize of Peril
That Obscure Object of Desire
I’m Going Home
The Grand Manoeuvre
Hauteclaire
The Things of Life
Without Leaving an Address
Without Leaving an Address
Contempt
Cesar and Rosalie
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
The Infernal Trio
The Duchess of Langeais
Adieu Bonaparte
The Day and the Hour
Ousmane Sow
La Cerisaie
Malady of Love
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
Against Oblivion
The Night of Varennes
Loonies at Large
Horizons...
Archipel
Genealogies of a Crime
Death in a French Garden
A Room in Town
Passion in the Desert
Quarante fontaines
La Chevelure
Boxes
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Our Lady of Hormones
Parisienne... Parisiennes
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Café tabac
Daughters of Destiny
The World of Jacques Demy
Danger: Diabolik
We Have a Pope
The Last Woman
Sinners of Paris
Ten Days' Wonder
La Nuit de Tom Brown
The Children Thief
Martha and I
Fire's Share
Long Live Life
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
Hello Cubans
Godard by Godard
Kiarostami in Close up
Beast at Bay
Wedding in Blood
Coming Apart
Touch and Go
Rene the Cane
Amazons of Rome
Diary of a Chambermaid
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Lines of Wellington
A Man, a Real One
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
Nothing About Robert
Far West
May Fools
Le Temps des assassins
Little Lili
Paparazzi
Success Is the Best Revenge
The Life of Mirrors
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
The Savage State
Speaking of Buñuel
The Veiled Man
Spy, Stand Up
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
Un amour de pluie
How Good the Whites Are
Danger in the Middle East
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Gardens in Autumn
Traveling Companion
That Day
Everything's Connected
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
The Monkey Folk
Portrait Of My Father
Marx Can Wait
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
Beyond the Door
Bardot et Godard
The Mark of the Day
The Woman in Blue
The Taste of Blueberries
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Strauberg ist da
Chance at Love
Elsa the Rose
Scénario du film Passion
Le Matelot 512
All About Loving
A Leap in the Dark
Le Roi Lear
Blanc de Chine
Docteur Teyran
From Time to Time
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
Treffpunkte
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
Libero Burro
La France romane
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Un coupable
It's Not Me
The Happiest Place on Earth
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
The Black Angel
Train de nuit
Croissance de Paris
Sunday Buddies
The Eyes, the Mouth
Strange Affair
My Love, My Love
Il bambino di Betlemme
Dillinger Is Dead
Dom Juan
Le Plus Heureux des trois
Le Doulos
Les Grandes Familles
Bête de scène
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Bad Liaisons
The Devil's Tricks
Le Quadrille des diamants
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Le Coup de grâce
Price of Love
La dragée haute
Dios de monoambiente
Le Chalet sous la neige
Tout chante autour de moi
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
The Young Girls Turn 25
Confused Feelings
F as in Fairbanks
Rendezvous
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
The General of the Dead Army
Délire à deux
The Witches of Salem
Nouvelles d'Henry James
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
The Accuser
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
La Rumba
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
The Price of Survival
Spoiled Children
On War
Le Bel Âge
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Terreur en Oklahoma
The Distant Land
L'Été en hiver
