1. Michel Subor acted in a couple of American films in the late 1960s including the role of Claude Jade's husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz.
11 Facts About Michel Subor
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Michel Subor was born as Mischa Subotzki in France in 1935, to anti-Bolshevik parents from the Soviet Union who had immigrated a few years earlier.
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Michel Subor's father was an engineer in Moscow, and his mother was born in Azerbaijan.
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Michel Subor has a sister who moved to the United States as an adult.
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Michel Subor's career started with small roles in Frou-Frou and Un drole de dimanche, followed by playing Roger Hanin's son in Mon pote le gitan.
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Michel Subor's first leading role came by playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou.
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Michel Subor worked with the director Paul Gegauff, in The Reflux, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Michel Subor appeared in Jean-Louis Bertucelli's The Imprecator and Gerard Blain's The Rebel, but felt he never made the transition to mainstream cinema.
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That year's renewal of Michel Subor's career included a role in Claire Denis's Beau Travail, as a Foreign Legion captain named Bruno Forestier.
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Michel Subor has since worked with Denis on other films, including The Intruder.
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Michel Subor died in a traffic collision in Toulouse on 17 January 2022, at the age of 86.