Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is 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.

All movies available from Michel Piccoli

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May Fools

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Topaz

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The Witches of Salem

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Is Paris Burning?

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The Passerby

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On War

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Dangerous Moves

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The Dust of Time

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A Leap in the Dark

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The Game Is Over

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One Hundred and One Night

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The Day and the Hour

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Holy Motors

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The Assassination

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Boxes

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Rene the Cane

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Lines of Wellington

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Fire's Share

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Touch and Go

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I’m Going Home

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That Day

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To Each His Own Cinema

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The Happiest Place on Ear

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Movies unavailable from Michel Piccoli

Contempt

Paul Javal

Movie 1963

Spoiled Children

Bernard Rougerie

Movie 1977

Belle de Jour

Henri Husson

Movie 1967

Mado

Simon Léotard

Movie 1976

Max and the Junkmen

Max

Movie 1971

The Things of Life

Pierre Bérard

Movie 1970

The Infernal Trio

Georges Sarret

Movie 1974

La Grande Bouffe

Michel

Movie 1973

The Last Woman

Michel

Movie 1976

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Le Ministre

Movie 1972

Danger: Diabolik

Inspector Ginko

Movie 1968

A Room in Town

Edmond Leroyer

Movie 1982

Masquerade

Georges Sarrassin

Movie 1965

The Sleeping Car Murder

René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)

Movie 1965

La Voleuse

Werner Kreuz

Movie 1966

The War Is Over

Inspector #1

Movie 1966

The Phantom of Liberty

Le deuxième préfet de police

Movie 1974

Hauteclaire

Serlon de Savigny

Movie 1961

Kiarostami in Close up

as Self

Movie 2000

Atlantic City

Joseph

Movie 1980

Raining Cats and Frogs

Ferdinand (voice)

Movie 2003

Themroc

Themroc

Movie 1973

Death in a French Garden

Graham Tombsthay

Movie 1985

Strange Affair

Bertrand Malair

Movie 1981

Godard's Passion

Michel Boulard

Movie 1982

La Belle Noiseuse

Edouard Frenhofer

Movie 1991

La Lune

Movie 1985

The Milky Way

Marquis de Sade

Movie 1969

Death in the Garden

Father Lizzardi

Movie 1956

Diary of a Chambermaid

Monsieur Monteil

Movie 1964

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

François, médecin

Movie 1974

Wedding in Blood

Pierre Maury

Movie 1973

Danger in the Middle East

Brian Cannon

Movie 1960

Passion in the Desert

Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis

Movie 1997

We Have a Pope

Melville

Movie 2011

Espion, lève-toi

Jean-Paul Chance

Movie 1982

Liza

Giorgio's friend

Movie 1972

The Prodigal Daughter

Le père

Movie 1981

Sugar

Grezillo

Movie 1978

Gardens in Autumn

Marie, la mère de Vincent

Movie 2006

Walking a Tightrope

Marcel Spadice

Movie 1991

Mauvais Sang

Marc

Movie 1986

Heartbeat

Charles

Movie 1968

The Prude

Pierre

Movie 1986

Le Coup de grâce

Capri / Bruno

Movie 1966

The Veiled Man

Kassar

Movie 1987

The Duchess of Langeais

Vidame de Pamiers

Movie 2007

The Supper

Chateaubriand (voice)

Movie 1992

Tykho Moon

Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee

Movie 1996

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Prince de Conti

Movie 1996

The Accuser

Saint-Rame

Movie 1977

Against Oblivion

Self

Movie 1991

Actors

Self

Movie 2000

The Children Thief

Mr. Armand

Movie 1991

Belle Toujours

Henri Husson

Movie 2006

The Audience

Padre Amerin

Movie 1972

Woman in Chains

L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)

Movie 1968

La Rumba

Damien Malleville

Movie 1987

Little Lili

acteur qui joue Simon

Movie 2003

Sunday Buddies

Le directeur de l'aéro-club

Movie 1957

París-Tombuctú

Michel des Assantes

Movie 1999

The Creatures

Edgar Piccoli

Movie 1966

Nothing About Robert

Lord Ariel Chatwick-West

Movie 1999

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Buffalo Bill

Movie 1974

F as in Fairbanks

Etienne

Movie 1976

Libero Burro

Uncle Tony

Movie 1999

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Movie 2019

Le Roi Lear

Le roi Lear

Movie 2007

Le Bel Âge

Maurice Reverdy

Movie 2009

Ten Days' Wonder

Paul Regis

Movie 1971

Coming Apart

(archive footage)

Movie 2017

Dillinger Is Dead

Glauco

Movie 1969

Le bal des Casse-pieds

Désiré, l'homosexuel

Movie 1992

Seven Deaths by Prescription

Dr Losseray

Movie 1975

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

Étienne Sembadel

Movie 1986

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres

Self

Movie 2011

Without Leaving an Address

Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)

Movie 1951

Torticola versus Frankensberg

Torticola

Movie 1952

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

José Viss

Movie 1982

Going and Coming Back

Simon Lerner

Movie 1985

The Woman in Blue

Pierre

Movie 1973

Malady of Love

Raoul Bergeron

Movie 1987

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death

Victor Navarro

Movie 1979

Everything's Fine, We're Leaving

Louis

Movie 2000

Leonor

Richard

Movie 1975

Le Plus Heureux des trois

Pianist

Movie 1957

Délire à deux

Movie 1968

The Black Angel

Georges Feuvrier

Movie 1994

Life Size

Michel

Movie 1974

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

Marcel

Movie 2007

Genealogies of a Crime

Georges Didier

Movie 1997

Beyond the Door

Mr. Mutti

Movie 1982

Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.

Morrand

Movie 1981

Un coupable

L'avocat

Movie 1988

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

Count Philippe

Movie 1968

Il bambino di Betlemme

Movie 2002

Long Live Life

Michel Perrin

Movie 1984

Speaking of Buñuel

Self

Movie 2000

How Good the Whites Are

Père Jean-Marie

Movie 1988

Loonies at Large

Henri Toussaint

Movie 1993

Sinners of Paris

L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.

Movie 1958

Amazons of Rome

Console Publicola

Movie 1961

The World of Jacques Demy

Self

Movie 1995

The Young Girls Turn 25

Self (archive footage)

Movie 1993

Nathalie

Franck Marchal

Movie 1957

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Lebel

Movie 1949

Success Is the Best Revenge

French Official

Movie 1984

L'Été en hiver

Jean, the reporter

Movie 1964

The Eyes, the Mouth

Tío Agostino

Movie 1982

The Monkey Folk

Movie 1989

The Distant Land

Friedrich Hofreiter

Movie 1987

Adieu Bonaparte

Caffarelli

Movie 1985

Archipel

Leonard Wilde

Movie 1993

All About Loving

Raoul

Movie 1964

Godard by Godard

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2023

Traveling Companion

Cosimo

Movie 1996

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2021

One Way or Another

Lui

Movie 1976

La Cerisaie

Léonid

Movie 1982

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

Conrad Brukner

Movie 1978

The Bellman

Un villageois

Movie 1945

The Uninvited

François Desailly

Movie 1969

Marx Can Wait

Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie 2021

Climates of Love

François

Movie 1962

Martha and I

Ernst

Movie 1990

Hello Cubans

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1963

Dom Juan

Dom Juan

Movie 1965

The Bit Between the Teeth

Pierre Chazerand

Movie 1979

Le divorcement

Philippe

Movie 1979

Marie Soleil

Kafka

Movie 1964

Portrait Of My Father

Self

Movie 2010

Les joueurs

Chvokhniev

Movie 1960

Confused Feelings

Professor

Movie 1981

The General of the Dead Army

Benetandi

Movie 1983

Daughters of Destiny

Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")

Movie 1954

La Chevelure

L'homme

Movie 1961

French Cancan

Le Capitaine Valorgueil

Movie 1954

The Taste of Blueberries

Michel

Movie 2014

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2022

Our Lady of Hormones

Narrator

Movie 2015

Price of Love

Georges

Movie 1955

Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère

Self

Movie 2002

Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2017

Shock Troops

L'homme de trop

Movie 1967

The Nonentity

der Tölpel

Movie 1986

Tödliches Geld

Paul Belmont

Movie 1995

Bête de scène

Movie 1994

Elsa the Rose

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1966

The Prize of Peril

Frédéric Mallaire

Movie 1983

Far West

Movie 1973

Paparazzi

Texte dit par (voice)

Movie 1964

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

Maurice Rouger

Movie 1955

It's Not Me

(archive footage)

Movie 2024

The Savage State

Orlaville

Movie 1978

My Love, My Love

Marrades

Movie 1967

Le quadrille des diamants

Richard Burke

Movie 1957

Le Doulos

Nuttheccio

Movie 1962

The Beaches of Agnès

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2008

Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1964

Beast at Bay

Commissaire Jacques Guimard

Movie 1959

Party

Michel

Movie 1996

Le Matelot 512

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1984

The Mark Of The Day

Georges Gohelle

Movie 1949

Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur

Himself

Movie 2006

Rupture(s)

Paul

Movie 1993

La Ruelle au clair de lune

Pierre Willer

Movie 1988

Magic Mirror

Prof. Heschel

Movie 2006

Everything's Connected

Narrator

Movie 2005

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

Himself

Movie 1995

Rendezvous

Paul

Movie 1961

Once Upon a Time… Contempt

Self

Movie 2009

Cesar and Rosalie

Narrator (voice)

Movie 1972

The Dinosaur and the Baby

Paul Javal (archive footage)

Movie 1967

Strauberg ist da

Movie 1978

Romy: Anatomy of a Face

Self

Movie 1967

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

Le baron de Leisenbohg

Movie 1991

La dragée haute

Movie 1960

Tout chante autour de moi

Reverdier

Movie 1954

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Movie 2017

Bardot et Godard

Himself

Movie 1964

Weak Spot

L'enquêteur

Movie 1975

La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento

Edouard Frenhofer

Movie 1992

Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad

Presenter

Movie 1994

La Nuit de Tom Brown

Tom Brown, jeune

Movie 1959

Bad Liaisons

un inspecteur

Movie 1955

Invasion

Marcello

Movie 1970

The Night of Varennes

King Louis XVI (uncredited)

Movie 1982

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun

Movie 1974

Blanc de Chine

Batz

Movie 1988

Un amour de pluie

Mr. Dellerue (voice)

Movie 1974

The Price of Survival

René Winterhalter

Movie 1980

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Simon Dame

Movie 1967

The Devil's Tricks

L'antiquaire

Movie 1966

Lady L

Lecoeur

Movie 1965

Without Leaving an Address

Un journaliste aux archives

Movie 1951

Scénario du film Passion

Self

Movie 1982

A Man, a Real One

Michel Piccoli

Movie 2003

Train de nuit

Movie 1994

The Emigrant

Adam - Ram's father

Movie 1994

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

Self (archive footage)

Movie 2017

Le Chalet sous la neige

Robert

Movie 1959

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Self

Movie 2011

The Grand Manoeuvre

Officer (uncredited)

Movie 1955

Chance at Love

Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")

Movie 1964

Tabarin

Jacques Forestier

Movie 1958

Terreur en Oklahoma

Tommy Goudchote

Movie 1951

La Leçon d'humour dans un parc

Movie 1951

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

Gérard

Movie 1954

Chicago Digest

Slim Spring

Movie 1951

Le Rendez-vous de Noël

Movie 1960

Croissance de Paris

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1955

La France romane

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1956

Quarante fontaines

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1961

Parisienne... Parisiennes

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1962

Fumée, histoire et fantaisie

Movie 1961

Le Temps des assassins

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1962

Café tabac

Récitant (voice)

Movie 1964

Dios de monoambiente

Archive footage

Movie 2018

Tv series unavailable from Michel Piccoli

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Himself

Tv 2011

Nulle part ailleurs

Self

Tv 1987

Wetten, dass..?

Self

Tv 1981

V.I.P. Schaukel

Self

Tv 1971

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Self

Tv 2011

Spécial cinéma

Self

Tv 1974

Deutscher Filmpreis

Self

Tv 1951

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Self

Tv 1975

Champs-Elysées

Self

Tv 1982

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Self (archive footage)

Tv 2022

Star Life

Self (archive footage)

Tv 1990

Midi Première

Self

Tv 1975

Apostrophes

Self

Tv 1975

Docteur Teyran

Jean Teyran

Tv 1980

Treffpunkte

Self

Tv 1970

Vivement dimanche

Self

Tv 1998

Midi trente

Self

Tv 1972

Samedi soir

Self

Tv 1971

Nouvelles d'Henry James

Capitaine Roger

Tv 1976