Tribute to the legend Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020)

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

Michel Piccoli: The great seducer is dead Archyworldys

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)

Belle de Jour (1967) - Photo Gallery - IMDb

Belle de Jour (1967) 

Michel Piccoli! With Geneviève Page Twitter Belle de Jour (1967) Michel Piccoli

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972),

Discreet Charms & Obscure Objects

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review (1972) Roger Ebert

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)

Contempt (1963) - Filmaffinity

Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard - Film - The New York Times

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Also as the main antagonist in Alfred Hitchcocks Topaz (1969).

Week 50: 'Topaz' – 1969 (With images) Alfred hitchcock Pinterest

Michel Piccoli: 10 essential films BFI

1000 Frames of Topaz (1969) - frame 820 - The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki

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).

We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam)  Amazon.com 

We Have a Pope movie review & film summary (2011) Roger Ebert

Eye For Film: Michel Piccoli - obituary

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre Biography, Books, Philosophy, & Facts Britannica

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).

Juliëtte Greco Pin on veil of smoke Pinterest

Juliette Greco Movie Photo Starstills.com

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.

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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Funerals for writer Edgar Allan Poe, 160 years after his death

Funerals for writer Edgar Allan Poe, 160 years after his death literature, funeral, Poe, funeral, death

American master of macabre fiction has had, finally, a funeral ceremony worthy of a great writer.

True to his funeral, spent in 1849, only 10 people took part. The writer's death, a pioneer of science fiction stories and virtuoso romantic "black", marked by sensational mysteries and dark atmosphere, it was very mysterious, because they are not known until today.

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, aged only 40, just days after being found near a bar in the city of Baltimore, in a deplorable state, delirious, unable to explain what happened.

Edgar Allen Poe 1898 photo: wikipedia.org

Over time, various theories have been proposed on the cause of his death: cholera, rabies, syphilis, alcoholism, cerebral congestion ... One explanation there is not yet universally accepted.

Funeral ceremony this year included speeches by actors who portray famous writers; casket - containing a model that reproduces the appearance of Poe - was carried to the cemetery in Baltimore with a hearse drawn by horses, the event taking the aspect funerals in the style of the nineteenth century, worthy of great crititc literary writer who was but little understood and appreciated in his lifetime.



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