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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 27, 1925
Died
May 12, 2020
Place of Birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Also Known As
- Мишель Пикколи
- ميشيل بيكولي
Michel Piccoli
1.0 Popularity
Biography
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was 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.
Known For
0.0
The Life of Mirrors
2025
7.0
(archive footage)
It's Not Me
2024
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
2023
6.6
Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
7.2
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
7.3
Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marx Can Wait
2021
6.0
Self (archive footage)
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
2021
6.2
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
2019
🎬
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Dios de monoambiente
2018
0.0
(archive footage)
Coming Apart
2017
Credits
The Life of Mirrors
2025
0.0
It's Not Me
as (archive footage)
2024
7.0
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.8
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.6
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.2
Marx Can Wait
as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.3
François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.0
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2019
6.2
🎬
Dios de monoambiente
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Coming Apart
as (archive footage)
2017
0.0
Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
as Self (archive footage)
2017
0.0
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
6.9
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.7
Our Lady of Hormones
as Narrator
2015
5.1
The Taste of Blueberries
as Michel
2014
0.0
Lines of Wellington
as Leópold Scheitzer
2012
5.7
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Le père
2012
6.7
Holy Motors
as Man with the Wine Stain
2012
7.0
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
2011
6.4
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
2011
7.6
Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
as Self
2011
0.0
We Have a Pope
as Melville
2011
6.8
Portrait Of My Father
as Self
2010
7.3
Le Bel Âge
as Maurice Reverdy
2009
4.2
Once Upon a Time… Contempt
as Self
2009
8.0
The Beaches of Agnès
as Self (archive footage)
2008
7.7
The Dust of Time
as Spyros
2008
6.4
On War
as Le grand Hou
2008
4.9
To Each His Own Cinema
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
2007
6.5
🎬
Le Roi Lear
as Le roi Lear
2007
0.0
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
as Marcel
2007
6.2
Boxes
as Daddy
2007
5.3
The Duchess of Langeais
as Vidame de Pamiers
2007
5.1
Belle Toujours
as Henri Husson
2006
5.9
Gardens in Autumn
as Marie, la mère de Vincent
2006
5.6
Magic Mirror
as Prof. Heschel
2006
6.4
Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur
as Himself
2006
5.0
Everything's Connected
as Narrator
2005
6.0
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
as Self
2004
5.0
Raining Cats and Frogs
as Ferdinand (voice)
2003
6.9
Little Lili
as acteur qui joue Simon
2003
5.4
That Day
as Harald
2003
5.8
A Man, a Real One
as Michel Piccoli
2003
6.8
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
as Self
2002
0.0
🎬
Il bambino di Betlemme
2002
0.0
I’m Going Home
as Gilbert Valence
2001
6.7
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
as Louis
2000
3.6
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
5.9
Actors
as Michel Piccoli
2000
5.7
Kiarostami in Close up
as as Self
2000
0.0
París-Tombuctú
as Michel des Assantes
1999
5.7
Libero Burro
as Zio Tony
1999
4.1
The Happiest Place on Earth
as Récitant (voice)
1999
1.0
Nothing About Robert
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
1999
6.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
as Self
1998
0.0
Passion in the Desert
as Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis
1997
5.5
Genealogies of a Crime
as Georges Didier
1997
6.7
Tykho Moon
as Mac Bee / frère Mac Bee
1996
5.6
Ousmane Sow
as Narrateur
1996
0.0
Party
as Michel
1996
6.3
Traveling Companion
as Cosimo
1996
6.1
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Prince de Conti
1996
6.6
The World of Jacques Demy
as Self
1995
6.8
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as Self
1995
6.4
One Hundred and One Nights
as Simon Cinéma
1995
6.0
🎬
Tödliches Geld
as Paul Belmont
1995
0.0
The Black Angel
as Georges Feuvrier
1994
5.2
The Emigrant
as Adam - Ram's father
1994
5.6
Train de nuit
1994
5.0
🎬
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
as Presenter
1994
0.0
🎬
Bête de scène
1994
6.0
🎬
Rupture(s)
as Paul
1993
5.0
Loonies at Large
as Henri Toussaint
1993
6.0
The Young Girls Turn 25
as Self (archive footage)
1993
7.1
🎬
Archipel
as Leonard Wilde
1993
2.0
The Supper
as Chateaubriand (voice)
1992
6.7
From Time to Time
as Jules Verne
1992
0.0
Le Bal des casse-pieds
as Désiré, l'homosexuel
1992
5.8
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento
as Edouard Frenhofer
1992
6.5
Against Oblivion
as Self
1991
6.5
The Children Thief
as Mr. Armand
1991
4.5
La Belle Noiseuse
as Edouard Frenhofer
1991
7.3
Walking a Tightrope
as Marcel Spadice
1991
4.3
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
as Le baron de Leisenbohg
1991
3.0
🎬
Martha and I
as Ernst
1990
7.0
May Fools
as Milou
1990
6.8
Les Grandes Familles
as Noël Schoudler
1989
0.0
The Monkey Folk
1989
6.5
Un coupable
as L'avocat
1988
7.5
🎬
La Ruelle au clair de lune
as Pierre Willer
1988
7.0
Blanc de Chine
as Batz
1988
0.0
How Good the Whites Are
as Père Jean-Marie
1988
6.1
Malady of Love
as Raoul Bergeron
1987
4.7
The Veiled Man
as Kassar
1987
4.0
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
La Rumba
as Damien Malleville
1987
4.6
The Distant Land
as Friedrich Hofreiter
1987
5.0
The Prude
as Pierre
1986
4.4
Mauvais Sang
as Marc
1986
7.1
The Nonentity
as der Tölpel
1986
6.0
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
as Étienne Sembadel
1986
4.2
Adieu Bonaparte
as Caffarelli
1985
5.8
Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner
1985
6.4
Death in a French Garden
as Graham Tombsthay
1985
5.9
La Lune
1985
0.0
Le Matelot 512
as Narrator (voice)
1984
4.1
Success Is the Best Revenge
as French Official
1984
6.0
Long Live Life
as Michel Perrin
1984
5.9
Dangerous Moves
as Akiva Liebskind
1984
5.8
The General of the Dead Army
as Benetandi
1983
5.5
The Prize of Peril
as Frédéric Mallaire
1983
6.4
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
as José Viss
1982
5.5
A Room in Town
as Edmond Leroyer
1982
6.4
The Eyes, the Mouth
as Tío Agostino
1982
5.3
Beyond the Door
as Mr. Mutti
1982
3.8
Godard's Passion
as Michel Boulard
1982
5.7
The Night of Varennes
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)
1982
6.8
The Passerby
as Max Baumstein
1982
6.1
La Cerisaie
as Léonid
1982
0.0
Scénario du film Passion
as Self
1982
5.6
Spy, Stand Up
as Jean-Paul Chance
1982
7.2
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Strange Affair
as Bertrand Malair
1981
6.1
🎬
Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.
as Morrand
1981
0.0
Confused Feelings
as Professor
1981
3.8
The Prodigal Daughter
as Le père
1981
7.0
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Docteur Teyran
as Jean Teyran
1980
0.0
Atlantic City
as Joseph
1980
6.8
The Price of Survival
as René Winterhalter
1980
0.0
A Leap in the Dark
as Mauro Ponticelli
1980
6.2
The Bit Between the Teeth
as Pierre Chazerand
1979
5.6
Le Divorcement
as Philippe
1979
6.0
Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
as Victor Navarro
1979
6.2
Sugar
as Grezillo
1978
6.7
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Conrad Brukner
1978
4.5
The Savage State
as Orlaville
1978
6.2
🎬
Strauberg ist da
as Strauberg
1978
0.0
Fire's Share
as Robert Hansen
1978
5.2
The Accuser
as Saint-Ramé
1977
5.7
Spoiled Children
as Bernard Rougerie
1977
6.2
That Obscure Object of Desire
as Mathieu Faber (voice) (uncredited)
1977
7.4
Rene the Cane
as Ispettore Marchand
1977
4.1
Mado
as Simon Léotard
1976
6.4
F as in Fairbanks
as Etienne
1976
6.4
One Way or Another
as Lui
1976
7.6
The Last Woman
as Michel
1976
6.1
🎬
Nouvelles d'Henry James
as Capitaine Roger
1976
0.0
Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Dr Losseray
1975
6.1
Leonor
as Richard
1975
5.6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
Apostrophes
as Self
1975
9.0
Midi Première
as Self
1975
10.0
Weak Spot
as L'enquêteur
1975
6.3
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
as François, médecin
1974
7.0
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
The Phantom of Liberty
as The Second Police Prefect
1974
7.4
Life Size
as Michel
1974
5.5
The Infernal Trio
as Georges Sarret
1974
5.2
Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Buffalo Bill
1974
5.5
Un amour de pluie
as Mr. Dellerue (voice)
1974
4.7
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974
0.0
Far West
as Indian chief
1973
6.2
La Grande Bouffe
as Michel
1973
7.1
Wedding in Blood
as Pierre Maury
1973
6.2
Themroc
as Themroc
1973
6.5
The Woman in Blue
as Pierre
1973
5.2
Cesar and Rosalie
as Narrator (voice)
1972
7.2
The Assassination
as Colonel Kassar
1972
6.7
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as Interior Minister
1972
7.5
Liza
as Giorgio's friend
1972
6.0
The Audience
as Padre Amerin
1972
6.5
🎬
Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Ten Days' Wonder
as Paul Regis
1971
6.1
Touch and Go
as Valentin
1971
5.0
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Max and the Junkmen
as Max, inspector
1971
7.1
🎬
Samedi soir
as Self
1971
6.0
🎬
Treffpunkte
as Self
1970
0.0
Invasion
as Marcello
1970
2.0
The Things of Life
as Pierre Bérard
1970
7.1
Topaz
as Jacques Granville
1969
6.0
The Uninvited
as François Desailly
1969
6.0
The Milky Way
as Marquis de Sade
1969
7.0
Dillinger Is Dead
as Glauco
1969
7.1
Délire à deux
as Him
1968
0.0
Woman in Chains
as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)
1968
6.9
Heartbeat
as Charles
1968
6.4
Danger: Diabolik
as Inspector Ginko
1968
6.4
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Count Philippe
1968
5.9
My Love, My Love
as Marrades
1967
6.2
Belle de Jour
as Henri Husson
1967
7.3
Shock Troops
as L'homme de trop
1967
6.7
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Paul Javal (archive footage)
1967
6.0
The Young Girls of Rochefort
as Simon Dame
1967
7.7
Romy: Anatomy of a Face
as Self
1967
6.5
Is Paris Burning?
as Edgar Pisani
1966
7.2
Elsa the Rose
as Narrator (voice)
1966
6.1
The Creatures
as Edgar Piccoli
1966
6.4
La Voleuse
as Werner Kreuz
1966
5.6
The Game Is Over
as Alexandre Saccard
1966
4.9
The Devil's Tricks
as L'antiquaire
1966
5.5
The War Is Over
as Inspector #1
1966
6.4
Le Coup de grâce
as Capri / Bruno
1966
5.0
Lady L
as Lecoeur
1965
5.7
The Sleeping Car Murder
as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)
1965
6.9
Dom Juan
as Dom Juan
1965
6.1
Masquerade
as Georges Sarrassin
1965
5.0
🎬
Café tabac
as Récitant (voice)
1964
0.0
All About Loving
as Raoul
1964
4.4
Marie Soleil
as Kafka
1964
0.0
Chance at Love
as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")
1964
5.8
Paparazzi
as Texte dit par (voice)
1964
6.8
Bardot et Godard
as Self
1964
6.1
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
as Narrator (voice)
1964
7.2
Diary of a Chambermaid
as Monsieur Monteil
1964
7.1
L'Été en hiver
as Jean, the Reporter
1964
8.0
Hello Cubans
as Narrator (voice)
1963
7.4
Contempt
as Paul Javal
1963
7.1
The Day and the Hour
as Antoine
1963
6.7
Le Doulos
as Nuttheccio
1962
7.4
Adieu Philippine
as Izquierdo dans l'émission de télévision 'Montserrat' (uncredited)
1962
6.9
Climates of Love
as François
1962
10.0
Parisienne... Parisiennes
as Récitant (voice)
1962
0.0
🎬
Le Temps des assassins
as Récitant (voice)
1962
0.0
Rendezvous
as Paul
1961
6.2
🎬
Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
1961
0.0
Hauteclaire
as Serlon de Savigny
1961
2.0
Amazons of Rome
as Console Publicola
1961
4.5
La Chevelure
as L'homme
1961
4.5
🎬
Quarante fontaines
as Récitant (voice)
1961
0.0
🎬
Le Rendez-vous de Noël
1960
0.0
Danger in the Middle East
as Brian Cannon
1960
0.0
La dragée haute
as Hugo Barsac
1960
0.0
Les Joueurs
as Chvokhniev
1960
5.5
🎬
Le Chalet sous la neige
as Robert
1959
0.0
Beast at Bay
as Commissioner Jacques Guimard
1959
4.3
La Nuit de Tom Brown
as Tom Brown, jeune
1959
5.5
Tabarin
as Jacques Forestier
1958
4.0
Sinners of Paris
as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.
1958
5.1
Nathalie
as Franck Marchal
1957
6.1
Le Quadrille des diamants
as Richard Burke
1957
0.0
🎬
Le Plus Heureux des trois
as Pianist
1957
0.0
Sunday Buddies
as Le directeur de l'aéro-club
1957
6.1
The Witches of Salem
as James Putnam
1957
6.9
🎬
La France romane
as Récitant (voice)
1956
0.0
Death in the Garden
as Father Lizzardi
1956
6.3
The Grand Manoeuvre
as Officer (uncredited)
1955
6.0
Bad Liaisons
as un inspecteur
1955
6.0
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
as Maurice Rouger
1955
7.0
Croissance de Paris
as Récitant (voice)
1955
0.0
French Cancan
as Le Capitaine Valorgueil
1955
7.2
Price of Love
as Georges
1955
4.2
Tout chante autour de moi
as Reverdier
1954
0.0
Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
as Gérard
1954
0.0
Daughters of Destiny
as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")
1954
4.0
Horizons...
as un ouvrier
1953
0.0
🎬
Torticola versus Frankensberg
as Torticola
1952
4.0
Chicago Digest
as Slim Spring
1951
0.0
🎬
German Film Award
as Self
1951
6.0
🎬
Terreur en Oklahoma
as Tommy Goudchote
1951
0.0
🎬
La Leçon d'humour dans un parc
1951
0.0
Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archives (uncredited)
1951
6.1
Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archives
1951
6.1
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Lebel
1949
5.0
The Mark of the Day
as Georges Gohelle
1949
7.3
The Bellman
as Un villageois
1945
6.7