Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years.
16 Facts About Michel Piccoli
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Michel Piccoli was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors, being awarded with a Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Michel Piccoli appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster to Pope, in more than 170 movies.
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Michel Piccoli appeared in six films directed by Luis Bunuel including Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but appeared as Brigitte Bardot's husband in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt and as the main antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz.
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Michel Piccoli appeared in many films by Claude Sautet, sometimes co-starring in them with Romy Schneider, and became a frequent collaborator of director Marco Ferreri, with whom he worked on several films, including Dillinger Is Dead and La Grande Bouffe.
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Michel Piccoli was part of the Saint-Germain-des-Pres circle in the 1950s, which included Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
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Michel Piccoli was a member of the French Communist Party in this era.
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Michel Piccoli was then married for eleven years to singer Juliette Greco.
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Michel Piccoli died from complications of a stroke on 12 May 2020, at the age of 94.
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Michel Piccoli began his career on the stage - his Don Juan remains celebrated - before crossing to the "other shore", the cinema, finally coming to accept the relativity of travelling back and forth between the two and taking full advantage of their potential interaction.
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Michel Piccoli was not trapped by an image, but brought a unique presence.
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Michel Piccoli was ready to take on an unprecedented variety of roles, which took him from Schnitzler to Chekhov and Pirandello, from Shakespeare to Koltes.
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Michel Piccoli has never lacked commitment, and has always taken sides and got involved.
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Michel Piccoli's ethic is constant, whether as an actor or as a citizen.
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Michel Piccoli is not a hero who puts himself on display.
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Michel Piccoli is an exemplary actor, responsible towards himself and towards his art.