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Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020) was a French actor, producer and film director with a career spanning 70 years.
www.nytimes.com · 2020/05/18 · obituariesMichel Piccoli, Star of French Stage and Screen, Dies at 94
May 18, 2020 · Michel Piccoli, an actor whose quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century, died on May 12, it was announced on Monday. He was 94.
Mar 13, 2018 · In conjunction with the March 23 premiere of a new 4K restoration of Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour, in which Piccoli plays Henri Husson, who gets Séverine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve) interested in a local brothel, Film Forum is presenting a seventeen-film celebration of the ninety-two-year-old Piccoli’s wide-ranging career, which dates back ...
May 19, 2020 · Piccoli was “discreetly charming as the Marquis de Sade in Buñuel’s The Milky Way (1969), subtly overbearing as the home secretary in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and sinister as a prefect of police in Buñuel’s penultimate film, The Phantom of Liberty (1974),” writes Bergan.
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli.
Dec 23, 2015 · In Belle de jour, Piccoli’s Henri is the conduit for housewife Séverine’s (Catherine Deneuve) illicit desires; he is the connection between the strictures of reality and the liberation of fantasy.
A western following Custer, Buffalo Bill, Custer's boss, General Terry and a white woman-exploiting Indian scout.
