Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years. He was lauded as one of the greatest French character actors of his generation who played a wide variety of roles and worked with many acclaimed directors
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Life and career
Piccoli was born in Paris to a musical family; his French mother was a pianist and his Swiss father was a violinist. He appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster to Pope, in more than 170 movies. He appeared in six films directed by Luis Buñuel including:
Belle de Jour (1967)
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| Belle de Jour (1967) |
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972),
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| Discreet Charms & Obscure Objects |
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| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Movie review – The Upcoming |
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Also appeared as
Brigitte Bardot's husband in
Jean-Luc Godards Contempt (1963)
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Also as the main antagonist in
Alfred Hitchcocks Topaz (1969).
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He also appeared in numerous films by Claude Sautet, sometimes co-starring in them with Romy Schneider.
In the
1990s, Michele Piccoli also worked as a director on a number of films. One of his last leading roles was his portrayal of a depressed, newly elected pope in Nanni Moretti's
We Have a Pope (2011).
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| We Have a Pope movie review & film summary (2011) Roger Ebert |
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| We Have a Pope movie review & film summary (2012) Roger Ebert |
Piccoli was part of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés circle in the 1950s, which included
Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir. He was a member of the French Communist Party in this era.
A life-long left-winger, he objected to repression in the Soviet bloc, and supported the Solidarity trade union in Poland. Piccoli married three times, first to
Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer
Juliette Gréco she was born in Montpellier to an absent Corsican father, Gérard Gréco, and a mother from Bordeaux, Juliette Lafeychine (1899-1978).
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You're the child of rape". She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Bordeaux with her older
sister Charlotte. After the death of her grandparents, her mother took her two daughters back to come live with her in Paris. In 1938, she became a ballerina at the Opéra Garnier, and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He had one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.
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| Michel Piccoli : Romy Schneider, Juliette Gréco, Ludivine Clerc Elle |
Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli died from complications of a stroke on
12 May 2020, aged 94
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