Actor Michel Piccoli is dead
Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020, announced the actor's family in a press release sent to AFP on Monday, May 18. The 94-year-old actor died after a stroke. The actor began in the 1940s and had filmed in more than 200 productions, including Le Mépris or more recently Habemus Papam.
Despite his advanced age, Michel Piccoli never wanted an end to his immense acting career. The actor did not stand out in the cinema, but also in the theater and on television, making him one of the great actors of his generation.
A cultivated man, fine and full of irony, the man who has always been an atheist had delivered his last major role in a papal cassock. It was in 2011 with “Habemus papam” by Nanni Moretti, where he embodied a newly elected pope and tortured by the fear of not being up to par.
Among his greatest roles in his immense filmography, there are notably Le Mépris, Les Choses de la vie, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort but also more recently Habemus Papam.
He was 40 years old, and twenty years of career, when he interpreted under the direction of Marcel Bluwal a formidable Dom Juan, for television, in 1965. And it seems that the figure of the great evil lord man of Molière has marked Piccoli's 1960s to 1980s.
He also toured under the direction of Renoir, Resnais, Demy, Melville, Varda and Hitchcock. His refusal of career plans, his "anti-star" side also led him to shoot author films: Leos Carax, Jean-Claude Brisseau, Jacques Doillon. In 1990, he camped greedily a character of a fantastic bourgeois in "Milou en mai" by Louis Malle.
Four times nominated for the César, in particular for "La belle Noiseuse" by Jacques Rivette in 1992, it has never been awarded by the Academy.
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