Michel Constantin
- Recitazione
- 13 luglio 1924 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
- 29 agosto 2003
Biografia
Michel Constantin (born Constantin Hokhloff; 13 July 1924 – 28 August 2003) was a French actor and professional volleyball player. He was the men’s national volleyball champion from 1954 to 1956, before making his film debut as a convict in the 1960 prison thriller The Hole. Thanks to his stature and striking features, he became a popular character actor in crime films, often playing thugs and gangsters. He appeared in several films alongside his friend Charles Bronson during the 1970's. Born Constantin Hokhloff in Billancourt (near Paris), he was the son of a White Russian emigre father and his Polish wife. Hokhloff's father was a former officer in the Russian Army, of Kalmyk descent. He had met Hokhloff's mother while he was stationed in Warsaw, Congress Poland. After the Russian Civil War, the coupled moved to Paris, along with many other White emigres. During World War II, he worked at the Renault factories in Boulogne-Billancourt, where his family lived. Thanks to his height (1.85 meters) and athletic ability, Constantin was recruited by the volleyball team of Club olympique de Billancourt (CO Billancourt) in 1943. He switched teams to Racing Club de France for the 1947-48 season, but returned to CO Billancourt the following season. As setter, he led the team to French national championships in 1954, 1955 and 1956. It was during this period that he changed his name to Michel Constantin. During this time, he was also a freelance reporter for the sports journal L'Équipe. Constantin appeared as an extra in the 1956 film Plucking the Daisy, but made his first significant acting debut in the 1960 prison thriller The Hole. Director Jacques Becker and screenwriter José Giovanni sought to recruit a cast of non-professional actors to play the various convicts. Becker's son Jean knew Constantin from his volleyball days, and recommended him for the part. The film was a critical and commercial success, and enabled Constantin's transition into an acting career. Source: Article "Michel Constantin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Filmografia
- Ville à vendre · Docteur Bernier
- Big Man · Xavier Baudin
- Paparoff · Cyril Paparoff dit Papa
- La loi sauvage · Victor Molini
- La Compromission · Dialogue
- La Baston · Raoul
- Le Deuxième Couteau · Commissaire Bartillot
- Telephone · Le directeur du cinéma
- Les Morfalous · Adjutant Edouard Mahuzard
- Amok · Sceneggiatura
- Due ore meno un quarto avanti Cristo · Secutor Flavien Magister
- Tir groupé · Alexandre Gagnon
- Il cappotto di legno · Don Vincenzo Talascio
- Signé Furax · Grougnache
- Plein les poches pour pas un rond... · Steff
- Quel maledetto treno blindato · Veronique
- Les Diamants du Président · Georges Lancier
- Sahara Cross · Carl Mank
- La paura dietro la porta · Guilloux
- Il sapore della paura · Le capitaine Nimier
- Un lenzuolo non ha tasche · Culli
- Il bestione · Sandro Colautti
- OK patron · Mario (uncredited)
- Hai mai provato... in una valigia? · Capt. Augier
- La ragazza di via Condotti · Inspector Palma
- Tre per una grande rapina · Bernard Solville
- Regolamento di conti · Marius Fantoni, aka 'Fanto'
- Funerale a Los Angeles · Antoine
- Il clan dei marsigliesi · Xavier Saratov, Georgia's brother and Roberto's friend
- Il clan dei francesi · Weiss
- Midi trente · In persona
- C'era una volta un commissario... · Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez
- L'ultima rapina a Parigi · Inspector Michel Grazzi
- Tre canaglie e un piedipiatti · Michel
- Samedi soir · In persona
- L'uomo dalle due ombre · Whitey
- L'uomo venuto da Chicago · Viletti
- Città violenta · Killain
- Vertigine per un assassino · René
- Dossier 212: destinazione morte · Coster
- Ultimo domicilio conosciuto · Greg, the henchman
- L'Ardoise · Gilani
- Alla bella Serafina piaceva far l'amore sera e mattina · André
- Quelli che sanno uccidere · Chamoun
- The Southern Star · Jose
- Una notte per 5 rapine · Georges
- Dalle Ardenne all'inferno · Sgt Rudolph Petrowsky
- Cento milioni per morire · Vincent
- La donna per una notte · Stan
- Tutte le ore feriscono... l'ultima uccide · Alban
- Licenza di esplodere · Jeff, boss of the "Homard Américain"
- Una vampata di violenza · Skida
- Les Gorilles · Otto, the legionnaire (uncredited)
- Maigret e i gangsters · Cicero
- Grisbì da un miliardo · Paulo, friend of Sophie
- Quello che spara per primo · Head of the American Racketeers
- Il buco · Geo Cassine
- Cinépanorama · In persona