Michel Bouquet
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.
Known For
Comolli
La Sirène du Mississipi
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Nuit et Brouillard
Maugras
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Coral
La mariée était en noir
Ludovic Regnier
La Rupture
Commissioner Goitreau
Deux hommes dans la ville
Inspector Javert
Les Misérables
Hubert Lavoisier
Poulet au vinaigre
Charles Desvallées
La Femme infidèle
Maître Rinaldi
Borsalino
Prosecutor Delarue
Les Suspects
Maurice
Comment j'ai tué mon père
Le tuberculeux
Monsieur Vincent
Tavel
Le Serpent
Maurice
Pattes blanches
Charles Dideloo
Malpertuis
Jacques Vermorel
Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite
Marcel Bingeot and 19 other roles
L'Humeur vagabonde
le Vieux
Les Côtelettes
Le Président
Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars
Commissioner
Le Piège
Old Thomas
Toto le héros
Pierre Rambal-Cochet, powerful businessman
Le Jouet
Narrator
Dieu a choisi Paris
Charles Masson
Juste avant la nuit
Edmond
La Petite Chambre
Samuel
Elisa
L'inspecteur Favenin
Un condé
Narrator (voice)
Mina de Vanghel
Louis X
La Tour de Nesle
Cérémonie secrète
Jules Michelet
La Sorcière
Sharps
La Route de Corinthe
Lempereur
L'Attentat
Auguste Renoir
Renoir
Morlaix
Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
Lelong
Le Complot
Paul Cristiani
Défense de savoir
The Frenchman
France, société anonyme
Self
Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Bibesco
Katia
Jauran
Le Dernier Saut
Nez-D'Boeuf
Bons baisers... à lundi
Banquier Muller
L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il manoscritto del principe
Narrator (voice)
Regards sur la folie
Argan
Le malade imaginaire
Narrator (voice)
Milice, film noir
Francis Jobin
La Raison d'État
Monsieur Lesable (segment "Zora")
Trois femmes
self
Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
Marquis of Santerre
Il segno del comando
Claude Reverson
Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
Doctor
La Dynamite est bonne a boire
André, the father
Thomas
Claude Balard
Au-delà de la peur
Reciter (voice)
Julie de Chaverny ou La double méprise
Narrator (citations) (voice)
Un mur à Jérusalem
Maurice
Les anges
Ebenezer Scrooge
Le Chant de Noël
Le docteur Sansfin
Lamiel
Monsieur Andesmas
L'après-midi de monsieur Andesmas
Marcel Fabre (2014)
L'Origine de la violence
Marc the Boss
Papa les petits Bateaux…
Pierre Vergne
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Raoul
L'Antiquaire
Récitant (Commentaires bouddhique) (voice)
Le Sourire
Georges Noblet
...La Main à couper
Récitant / Narrator
Les Jeunes Filles
Narration (Voice)
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Albert
Trois Milliards Sans Ascenseur
Valberg
Comptes à rebours
Baugin
Tous les matins du monde
Narrator
Arbres
Storm
La Sainte Famille
Maurice Desforges, le frère de Thérèse
Deux sous de violettes
Le tueur
Brigade criminelle
Quid
Pattes de Velours
Rebecca
Self
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Self
Les Vies d'Albert Camus
Father Trennes
Les Amitiés particulières
Second
Manon
Narrator
Rodolphe Bresdin
Marcel Germon
Villa Caprice
Self
Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
Self
Grand manège : Qu'est-ce qui fait tourner Claude Chabrol ?
L'abbé Troubet
Le Curé de Tours
Narrator (voice)
Le volet
Monsieur Pandolfini
Paulina 1880
Victor Lumen
Le secret de monsieur L
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
Edgar
La danse de mort
Self - Actor (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self
La Légende du siècle
Voix
Visages de Paris
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
97
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-11-06
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
Мишель Буке