1925-11-06 ( 99 years old ) in Paris, France
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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Secret Ceremony
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2022-06-01
Villa Caprice
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2020-01-22
Velvet Paws
2019-04-20
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2017-09-01
The Origin of Violence
2016-05-25
The Art Dealer
2015-03-18
Rebecca
2014-10-05
Renoir
2012-07-02
The Little Bedroom
2011-02-16
Le malade imaginaire
2008-09-30
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
2006-02-21
The Last Mitterrand
2005-02-16
The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
2004-07-14
The Chops
2003-05-28
Trees
2001-11-13
How I Killed My Father
2001-09-19
The Prince's Manuscript
2000-03-31
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
1999-03-09
Milice, film noir
1997-12-10
Elisa
1995-02-01
Il segno del comando
1992-03-01
All the Mornings of the World
1991-12-18
Toto the Hero
1991-05-17
Cop au Vin
1985-04-10
A Christmas Carol
1984-12-25
Le secret de monsieur L
1983-08-22
Les Misérables
1982-10-20
The Sorceress
1982-05-25
La danse de mort
1982-01-01
Histoire du petit Chaperon rouge
1981-01-01
Le Curé de Tours
1980-12-02
Les Jeunes Filles
1979-11-09
Last In, First Out
1978-08-30
State Reasons
1978-04-26
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977-01-05
The Toy
1976-12-08
Beyond Fear
1975-09-23
Thomas
1975-03-05
The Suspects
1974-11-27
Kisses Till Monday
1974-11-27
France, Incorporated
1974-06-04
Bloody Sun
1974-05-31
Bloody Murder
1974-03-06
Two Men in Town
1973-10-24
Défense de savoir
1973-08-29
The Angels
1973-08-23
Where There's Smoke
1973-05-16
The Conspiracy
1973-05-10
La Sainte Famille
1973-04-14
The Serpent
1973-04-07
The Assassination
1972-10-04
Le volet
1972-09-15
3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972-08-18
Vagabond Humor
1972-07-05
Paulina 1880
1972-06-09
La Légende du siècle
1972-06-04
Tartuffe
1971-06-12
Papa, the Lil' Boats
1971-04-22
Just Before Nightfall
1971-03-31
Malpertuis
1971-01-02
The Cop
1970-10-05
The Breach
1970-08-26
Last Leap
1970-06-07
Borsalino
1970-05-19
Countdown to Vengeance
1970-01-29
God Chose Paris
1969-09-05
Mississippi Mermaid
1969-06-18
The Unfaithful Wife
1969-01-22
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
1969-01-01
A Wall in Jerusalem
1968-11-20
The Bride Wore Black
1968-03-22
The Road to Corinth
1967-10-27
Lamiel
1967-08-30
The Double Contempt
1967-04-02
Our Agent Tiger
1965-11-05
This Special Friendship
1964-09-04
A Look at Madness
1962-01-02
Rodolphe Bresdin
1962-01-01
Le Sourire
1960-05-01
Katia
1959-12-22
Night and Fog
1959-04-27
No Escape
1958-06-25
Tower of Lust
1955-03-18
Mina de Vanghel
1953-03-06
Three Women
1952-08-13
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951-10-31
White Paws
1949-04-13
Manon
1949-03-09
Monsieur Vincent
1947-11-05
Criminal Brigade
1947-09-05
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