Michel Piccoli

Biography

Born in a musician's family, he spent the first fifteen years of his career appearing both on stage and on screen, mostly in supporting roles.

His breakthrough came after 'Jean-Luc Godard'.

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Country: France
Gender: Male
Education: École alsacienne·Cours Simon
Place of birth: Paris
Birth date: 27 December 1925
Member of: Socialist Party
Nationality: French

European Film Academy Honorary Award
Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism

Has one daughter, Anne-Cordlia, with Elonore Hirt.
He has Italian origins.
Has supported Lionel Jospins 2002 presidential campaign.
Supports young directors by producing their movies.
Good friends with Simone Signoret , Yves Montand , Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. They all supported the communist movement, but Piccoli disapproved of the totalitarian regimes in former Eastern Europe.
Son of a French mother, Marcelle, and an Italian father, Henri Piccoli who both were musicians. She was a pianist and he was a violinist.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
Was favorite co-star of his best friend Romy Schneider.
Best friends with late actress Romy Schneider.
Very good friends with late Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni and French actress Catherine Deneuve.

Finally, I have played many loners who were both cerebral and physical.
[on Brigitte Bardot] With Brigitte the relations were very courteous but,no more than that. She did not want to make an effort to understand.

Movies

Notre-Dame des Hormones
2015
Two actresses are rehearsing a play over a weekend in a country house.
Le goût des myrtilles
2014
An elderly couple in their eighties with a mixed past escape into a fantastic world, full of their desires and fears, the door to which is a motorway rest area and their son's tombstone.
We Have a Pope
2011
At the Vatican, following the demise of the Pope, the conclave to elect his successor settles on Cardinal Melville.
Block-notes di Habemus Papam
2011
Restless
2009
Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance.
Flying Away
2009
Before death might be the good time to escape life in a dreamy journey..
Death in the Garden Interviews
2009
The Dust of Time
2008
A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents.
The Duchess of Langeais
2007
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her.
Boxes
2007
Anna, a woman in her fifties, has just moved into her seaside new house somewhere in Brittany.
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
2007
Beneath the rooftops of Paris - The song is no longer the same.
Rencontre unique
2007
A special surreal encounter between Nikita Khrouchtchev and the Pope John XXIII..
Le roi Lear
2007
Belle toujours
2006
Belle toujours occurred to me unexpectedly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I was happy to have found a way to do so, perhaps the best, and I started working.
Mal de mer
2004
Raining Cats and Frogs
2003
It's a catastrophe!
New World Order: Somewhere in Africa
2001
I'm Going Home
2001
I'm Going Home (French: Je rentre à la maison, Portuguese: Vou Para Casa) is a 2001 French-Portuguese film written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira..
Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
2000
Three French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question when their father returns to visit 15 years after having abandoned them and their now-deceased mother.
Regarding Buñuel
2000
Documentary about spanish director Luis Buñuel..
Rien sur Robert
1999
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles..
Libero Burro
1999
Libero Burro è burino, tenero e sgrammaticato.
Paris-Timbuktu
1999
The story of an old surgeon and with impotence problems that believes he's near to death.
Le prince des imposteurs
1998
Genealogies of a Crime
1997
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the Franco-Belgian Psychoanalytic Society, known for odd views and methods.
Passion in the Desert
1997
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.
Traveling Companion
1996
In Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with pals, and has a salty tongue.
Party
1996
The battle of the sexes?
Tykho Moon
1996
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall.
One Hundred and One Nights
1995
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa.
Family of Lies
1995
Béatrice Belmont is attractive - and a successful business woman who has built up her career on her own.
L'ange noir
1994
Stephane, the wife of an older, prominent magistrate, coldbloodedly shoots a male visitor in her upscale home, then claims she was defending herself against a rapist.
The Emigrant
1994
The biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character study.
Train de nuit
1994
The Bear
1994
Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad
1994
La cavale des fous
1993
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again.
Rupture(s)
1993
Divertimento
1992
More than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some important differences in point of view - this one being more from Marianne's point of view..
Walking a Tightrope
1992
Marcel Spadice is a famous writer with a criminal background and a penchant for handsome men.
Archipel
1992
A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season..
Le souper
1992
France, 1815.
La vie crevée
1992
La belle noiseuse
1991
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife in his countryside residence in the French Provence.
L'amour maudit de Leisenbohg
1991
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell.
Le voleur d'enfants
1991
Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children.
Le bateau de Lu
1991
May Fools
1990
Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate.
Martha et moi
1990
A child meets his uncle, a Czech Jew living in the south of Germany in the days before the 2nd world war.
Les grandes familles
1989
The Monkey Folk
1989
This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species.
Le conte d'hiver
1989
Blanc de Chine
1988
Mathieu (Robin Renucci) is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris in this routine thriller.
La ruelle au clair de lune
1988
No plot available.
Un coupable
1988
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration.
L'homme voilé
1987
Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict.
Malady of Love
1987
Mad love.
La rumba
1987
Paris, 1938.
Das weite Land
1987
A promising young pianist commits suicide.
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
1986
Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister.