Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli at Cannes in 2000
Born	Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli 27 December 1925 (1925-12-27) Paris, France
Occupation	actor, screenwriter, director, musician, singer
Years active	1945 - present
Spouse	Eléonore Hirt (1954-?) Juliette Gréco (1966-1977) Ludivine Clerc (1980-present)

Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor.

Biography

He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.

He has appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani, Nanni Moretti, Jacques Doillon, Manoel de Oliviera, Raul Ruiz and Alain Resnais.

He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.

Piccoli is politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the Front National.

Filmography

• Destinées (1954)
• Ernst Thälmann (1955)
• La mort en ce jardin (1956)
• Les Sorcières de Salem (1957)
• Le Doulos (1962)
• Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963)
• Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
• La Chance et l'Amour (1964)
• All About Loving (1964)
• Masquerade (1965)
• The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
• Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre (1965, TV)
• Is Paris Burning? (1966)
• La Curée (The Game is Over) (1966)
• The War Is Over (1966)
• My Love, My Love (1967)
• Belle de jour (A Bela da Tarde, 1967)
• Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
• Benjamin (1968)
• Danger: Diabolik (1968)
• La Chamade (1968)
• Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto, 1969)
• La Voie lactée (1969)
• Topaz (1969)
• Les Choses de la vie (1970)
• Max et les ferrailleurs (1971)
• L'udienza (1971)
• Liza (1972)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972)
• Wedding in Blood (1973)
• La Grande Bouffe (The Grande Bouffe or Blow-Out, 1973)
• Themroc (1973)
• Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
• Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)
• Le Trio infernal (1974)
• Vincent, Paul, François, et les Autres (1974)
• Leonor (1975)
• Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
• La Dernière femme (1976)
• Mado (1976)
• F comme Fairbanks (1976)
• Des enfants gatés (1977)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
• Neapolitan Mystery (1978)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Salto nel vuoto (A Leap in the Dark) (1980)
• Der Preis fürs Überleben (1980)
• Espion Lève-toi (1981)
• La Fille prodigue (1981)
• Une étrange affaire (1981)
• Beyond the Door (1982)
• La Passante du Sans-Souci (1982)
• Passion (1982)
• Une chambre en ville (1982)
• The General of the Dead Army (1983)
• Le Prix du Danger (1983)
• Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
• Viva la vie (1984)
• La Diagonale du Fou (1984)
• Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
• Péril en la demeure (1985)
• Partir, revenir (1985)
• Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur‎ (1986)
• Le Paltoquet (1986)
• La Puritaine (1986)
• Mauvais Sang(1986)
• The Distant Land (1987)
• Milou en Mai (1990)
• The Children Thief (1991)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• Le Visionarium (The Timekeeper, 1992)
• Les Cent et une Nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)
• Traveling Companion (1996)
• Beaumarchais (1996)
• Passion in the Desert (1997)
• I'm Going Home (2001)
• That Day (2003)
• C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé (2005 - directed)
• Gardens in Autumn (2006)
• Party (2006)
• Boxes (2007)
• Belle Toujours (2007)
• De la guerre (2008)
• The Dust of Time ("Mia aioniotita kai mia mera") (2008)
• We Have a Pope (2011)
• You Haven't Seen Anything Yet (2012)
• As Linhas de Torres (2012)

Awards

He won the Best Actor Award at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for A Leap in the Dark. In 1982, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Strange Affair

External links

• Michel Piccoli at the Internet Movie Database