Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli at Cannes in 2000
Born	Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli 27 December 1925 (1925-12-27) (age 83) Paris, France
Occupation	actor, screenwriter, director, musician, singer
Years active	1945 - present
Spouse(s)	Eléonore Hirt (1954-?) Juliette Gréco (1966-1977) Ludivine Clerc (1980-present)

Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.

Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard (in le Mépris, where he was the husband of Brigitte Bardot's character), Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon.

He is an extremely versatile actor who can take on all kinds of different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, with a predilection in the 70s and 80s for ambiguous roles in which he excels. He has appeared in more than 170 movies.

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)
• La mort en ce jardin (1956)
• Le Doulos (1962)
• Le Mépris (Contempt, 1963)
• Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
• La Chance et l'Amour (1964)
• 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)
• La Guerre est finie (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)
• Liza (1972)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972)
• 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)
• Sept morts sur ordonnance (1975)
• La Dernière femme (1976)
• Mado (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)
• 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)
• Mala Sangre de Leos Carax(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)
• Passion in the Desert (1997)
• I'm Going Home (2001)
• That Day (2003)
• Gardens in Autumn (2006)
• Party (2006)
• Belle Toujours (2007)
• De la guerre (2008)
• The Dust of Time ("Mia aioniotita kai mia mera") (2008)

External links

• Michel Piccoli at the Internet Movie Database

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