
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. ...
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Acting (87 movies)

Mississippi Mermaid
1969

Night and Fog
1959

Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977

The Bride Wore Black
1968

The Breach
1970

Two Men in Town
1973

Les Misérables
1982

Cop au Vin
1985

The Unfaithful Wife
1969

Borsalino
1970

The Suspects
1974

How I Killed My Father
2001

Monsieur Vincent
1947

The Serpent
1973

White Paws
1949

Malpertuis
1972

Our Agent Tiger
1965

Vagabond Humor
1972

The Chops
2003

The Last Mitterrand
2005

No Escape
1958

Toto the Hero
1991

The Toy
1976

God Chose Paris
1969

Just Before Nightfall
1971

The Little Bedroom
2011

Elisa
1995

The Cop
1970

Mina de Vanghel
1953

Tower of Lust
1955

Secret Ceremony
2022

The Sorceress
1982

The Road to Corinth
1967

The Assassination
1972

Renoir
2012

Where There's Smoke
1973

Tartuffe
1971

The Conspiracy
1973

Défense de savoir
1973

France, Incorporated
1974

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022

Katia
1959

Last Leap
1970

Kisses Till Monday
1974

Last In, First Out
1978

The Prince's Manuscript
2000

A Look at Madness
1962

Le malade imaginaire
2008

Milice, film noir
1997

State Reasons
1978

Three Women
1952

Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet
2022

Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
1973

Bloody Sun
1974

Thomas
1975

Beyond Fear
1975

The Double Contempt
1967

A Wall in Jerusalem
1968

The Angels
1973

Lamiel
1967

The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
2004

The Origin of Violence
2016

Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971

Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
1976

The Art Dealer
2015

Le Sourire
1960

Bloody Murder
1974

Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999

3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972

Countdown to Vengeance
1970

All the Mornings of the World
1991

Trees
2001

Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951

Criminal Brigade
1947

Velvet Paws
1987

The Lives of Albert Camus
2020

This Special Friendship
1964

Manon
1949

Villa Caprice
2021

Muriel Robin, oser être soi...
2018

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006

Le Curé de Tours
1980

Paulina 1880
1972

La danse de mort
1982

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

La Légende du siècle
1972

Visages de Paris
1955
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