Michel Duchaussoy
Michel René Jacques Duchaussoy (29 November 1938 – 13 March 2012)[1] was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 130 films between 1962 and 2012. At first a theatre actor, he worked for many years in the Comédie Française, where he started his career in 1964.[2]
Michel Duchaussoy | |
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 Duchaussoy in 2008 | |
| Born | 29 November 1938 Valenciennes, France |
| Died | 13 March 2012 (aged 73) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1962–2012 |
Duchaussoy performed in many French classic plays including those by Molière, Marivaux, Corneille and Ionesco. He received the prestigious Molière award for best supporting actor in 2003.[2] The deep-voiced actor dubbed Marlon Brando in the French version of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather.[2] In 2010 he co-starred with Sophie Marceau in Yann Samuell's L’age de raison.[2]
Selected filmography
- The Killing Game (1967)
- The Unfaithful Wife (1968)
- This Man Must Die (1969)
- Bye bye, Barbara (1969)
- Just Before Nightfall (1971)
- Man with the Transplanted Brain (1972)
- Nada (1974)
- Man in a Hurry (1977)
- Fort Saganne (1984)
- Life and Nothing But (1989)
- May Fools (1990)
- The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
- Amen. (2002)
- Intimate Strangers (2004)
- La Boîte noire (2005)
- Poltergay (2006)
- Mesrine (2008)
- Hidden Diary (2009)
- Le Petit Nicolas (2009)
- L'Autre Dumas (2010)
- L'âge de raison (2010)
- Sarah's Key (2010)
- The Other Side of the Wind (2018) (posthumous)
References
- "Le comédien Michel Duchaussoy est mort" [Comedian Michel Duchaussoy had died]. RTL (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2018.
- Minovitz, Ethan (14 March 2012). "French actor Michel Duchaussoy was voice of Aramis". Big Cartoon News. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
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