Michel Piccoli

Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli violinist and Marcelle ExpertBezançon 18921990 pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles ExpertBezançon In 1954 Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter AnneCordélia Piccoli In 1966 he married the singer Juliette Gréco then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin Inord and Missia Placed in an establishment for problem children the commitments of the young Piccoli are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather senator of the Third Republic financier of the Radical Party and important industrial painter accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée BauerThéraud and then during Simon After an appearance as an extra in Sortilèges by ChristianJaque in 1945 Michel Piccoli made his film debut in Le Point Du Jour by Louis Daquin In the theater he distinguished himself with the RenaudBarrault and GrenierHussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone Noticed in the film French Cancan in 1954 he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti Jean Vilar JeanMarie Serreau Peter Brook Luc Bondy Patrice Chéreau and André Engel and became also know in popular TV movies Having become an atheist after a family bereavement he met Luis Buñuel in 1956 and ironically took on the role of a priest in La Mort En Ce Jardin In 1959 he shot Le RendezVous De Noël a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary Le Noël Du Petit Cireur in Algiers The 1960s sounded his consecration noticed in Le Doulos by JeanPierre Melville he was revealed internationally with Le Mépris by JeanLuc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot From then on he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock Luis Buñuel Youssef Chahine Manoel de Oliveira He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980 with Le Saut Dans Le Vide by Marco Bellocchio and that of the Berlin festival in 1982 with Une Étrange Affaire by Pierre GranierDeferre He worked with Jacques Doillon Leos Carax before trying his hand at directing In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007 chaired by Stephen Frears In 2011 he played in Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film Le Goût Des Myrtilles by Thomas de Thiers in 2013 Politically committed to the left member of the Peace Movement communist Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front and mobilized for Amnesty International Michel Piccoli died on May 12 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in SaintPhilbertsurRisle in Eure His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19 2020 where he is cremated his ashes are scattered within the family property