Michel Duchaussoy

Michel Duchaussoy
Duchaussoy in 2008
Born(1938-11-29)29 November 1938
Valenciennes, France
Died13 March 2012(2012-03-13) (aged 73)
Paris, France
OccupationActor
Years active1962–2012

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]

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

  1. ^ "Le comédien Michel Duchaussoy est mort" [Comedian Michel Duchaussoy had died]. RTL (in French). Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d 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.