Michel Modo
- Recitazione
- 30 marzo 1937 · Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
- 24 settembre 2008
Biografia
Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). He is best known in France for having formed in the late 1950s a comedy duo, Grosso et Modo, with actor Guy Grosso. The duo appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played the role of Constable Berlicot alongside Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre and Christian Marin. They were also Laflûte and Quince in The Dream of a Summer Night by Jean-Christophe Averty. Between 1993 and 1997 he is one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander as Maurice Lolande, humorous character characterizing the average French person. In December 2005, he stars in the television series Plus belle la vie alongside Colette Renard. He plays a bum philosopher disguised as Santa Claus. He also dubbed several recurring characters in the French version of the animated series The Simpsons. At his sudden death in 2008 at the age of 71, when dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.
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Filmografia
- Poltergay · Henri "Nanny" Bernier
- Lagardère · Ambassadeur
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire · In persona
- Relic Hunter · Hugo Murnau
- Mélissol · Zanzi
- Robinson Sucroë · M. Floyd
- Faites comme chez nous · Georges Despeu, Author
- Highlander · Maurice
- Bienvenue à Bellefontaine · Persouard
- Le Château de ma mère · Postman
- La Gloire de mon Père · Postman
- A Tale of Two Cities · Guard Officer
- L'esecutrice · Commissioner
- S.O.S homme seul
- La Chance aux chansons · In persona
- Les Planqués du régiment · Adjudant Badubec
- Il Gendarme e le Gendarmette · Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- Champs-Elysées · In persona
- Si ma gueule vous plaît... · Sex shop seller
- Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres · le sergent Merlin
- Pétrole ! Pétrole ! · Alain Terrieur
- Grandiose Delusions · La merluche
- Il barone di Munchausen · Cavallo (Voce)
- We'll Grow Thin Together · Le clerc de notaire
- Il gendarme e gli extraterrestri · Jules Berlicot
- Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee · Konrad Zillich
- Les coucous · Georges Despeu, Author
- Les bidasses au pensionnat · Sergent Michaud
- Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes · Le gendarme
- Les Patapluches · Pataclou
- Commissaire Moulin · Inspecteur Janin
- 30 millions d'amis · In persona
- Il flauto a sei puffi · Pirlouit (Voce)
- Tre eroi in fuga · Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
- Système 2 · In persona
- La 7ª compagnia ha perso la guerra · Sansonnet
- La Grande Nouba · Sceneggiatura
- Musidora · Anatole Biscarlet
- Colinot l'alzasottane · Brother Robichon
- Midi trente · In persona
- Ubu enchaîné
- Herminie · Jean-Baptise
- Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques · Policeman
- Samedi soir · In persona
- Alice au pays des merveilles · Dormouse
- 6 Gendarmi in fuga · Jules Berlicot
- Le Songe d'une nuit d'été · Laflûte
- Calma ragazze oggi mi sposo · Jules Berlicot
- Si salvi chi può · Sceneggiatura
- La feldmarescialla · Fritz Vogel's Assistant
- Il 13° uomo · Le juif torturé
- Tre uomini in fuga · Cross-eyed Soldier
- Chi ha rubato il presidente? · Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
- La 99ème Minute
- Au théâtre ce soir · Jean-Baptiste
- Tre gendarmi a New York · Jules Berlicot
- Pleins feux sur Stanislas · Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
- La Tête du client · Le collègue de François-Joseph
- Colpo grosso ma non troppo · Un douanier
- Les Gorilles · A cycling agent
- Una ragazza a Saint Tropez · Jules Berlicot
- La cloche
- Pierino la peste · Gendarme
- Kriss Romani · Guard of Pilate (uncredited)
- Tre morti per Giulio · Le Facteur (uncredited)
- Tutto l'oro del mondo · Tony
- La bella americana · Slovak
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes · Pierre Pégoux, Yves Lacaze