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Marc Michel

Acting Born Feb 10, 1929 Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe 24 credits

Biography

Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films.

He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), and two films by Jacques Demy: Lola (1961) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). In both Demy films, he played the same role, Roland Cassard, a lovesick writer and jeweler.

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Known for

Film

Le Trou

as Claude Gaspard
Film

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

as Roland Cassard

Full filmography

  • Cinépanorama (1956) as Self
  • Le Trou (1960) as Claude Gaspard
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) as Roland Cassard
  • Graf Luckner (1971) as Gladstone
  • Un film et son époque (2003) as Self
  • Madame Claude (1977) as Hugo
  • Lola (1961) as Roland Cassard
  • Au plaisir de Dieu (1977) as Pierre
  • Model Shop (1969) as Roland Cassard (photos)
  • Bebo's Girl (1964) as Stefano
  • Six Days a Week (1965) as Arturo Santini
  • Katmandu (1969) as Marss
  • El señor de La Salle (1964) as Andrés
  • Girl on the Third Floor (1955) as (uncredited)
  • Where There's Smoke (1973) as Jean-Paul Leroy
  • Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (2008) as Self
  • The Mad Heart (1970) as L'acteur
  • Blague dans le coin (1963) as Bob, electrician
  • Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (2006) as M. de Tournehem
  • La Femme abandonnée (1992) as Arthur
  • Bitter Sugar (1998) as Nolivos
  • Singapore, Singapore (1967) as Captain Kevin Gray
  • Samba (1965) as Paulo
  • Guerilla Hellcats (1968) as Vignal