Michel Piccoli

ACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER

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This suave, elegant character star was a ubiquitous presence in French cinema for nearly seven decades. His distinguished career extended to both stage and screen and his versatility was such that he could take on just about any persona (in his own words: "I do not put on an act... I slip away behind my characters"), from police inspectors to gangsters, from priests and academics to King Louis XVI and the Marquis de Sade. More than a few of his portrayals were of ordinary bourgeois caught up in difficult circumstances or undergoing mid-life crisis. However, Piccoli truly excelled in sardonic, cynical or morally ambiguous roles - playing smooth, quietly-spoken types harbouring dark passions or sinister secrets. His directors have included a veritable who's who of European film makers: Luis Buñuel (six times), Claude Sautet (five times), Alfred Hitchcock (who cast him as Jacques Granville, the principal antagonist in Topaz (1969)), Jean-Pierre Melville, Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard.Piccoli was born in Paris on December 27 1925. His parents were both musicians: his father a Swiss-born violinist, his mother a French pianist. He made his screen debut at 19, for a number of years confined to small supporting roles. Becoming actively involved in left-wing politics, Piccoli joined the Saint-Germain-des-Prés social set, headquartered at the Tabou club and comprising intellectuals and artists whose adherents included the philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the chanson and cabaret singer Juliette Gréco (to whom Piccoli was married from 1966 to 1976). His career took off in the early 60s and he enjoyed his first major success as Brigitte Bardot's husband in Godard's Le mépris (1963). Luis Bunuel also recognized Piccoli's potential and employed his trademark cerebral eloquence on pivotal parts in important films like Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964), Belle de jour (1967) and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972). In 1973, Piccoli formed his own production company, Films 66, which allowed him even greater freedom in selecting his roles. He continued to work steadily, retaining his huge popularity with French audiences throughout the 80s and 90s. Though nominated four times, he never won the coveted Cesar Award. However, his many other accolades included a win as best actor at Cannes in 1980 and two German Film Awards (in 1988 and 1992). He also directed three feature films, one of which, Alors voilà, (1997), won the Bastone Bianco critical award at the Venice Film Festival. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Michel Piccoli’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Michel Piccoli on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 2017. See the full graphs of the number of Michel Piccoli movies released per year from 1999 till 2017.

Top Genres

Michel Piccoli works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 51% of Michel Piccoli movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Michel Piccoli worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Michel Piccoli has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

Michel Piccoli's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.

7.9/10235 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.

7.8/10104 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

The former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.

7.5/10238 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

A highway engineer is involved in a car crash, after which, near death, he remembers his life leading up to the accident.

7.5/1089 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Romance
Atlantic City (1980)

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

7.3/10104 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming ...

7.3/10118 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Romance
Max and the Junkmen (1971)

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

7.3/10112 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Comedy,Romance
May Fools (1990)

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives are collide in their family estate.

7.2/10107 min

Available in 1 platform(s).