Marc Michel

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| name = Marc Michel

| birth_date = February 10, 1929

| birth_place = Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

| death_date = 3 November 2016 (aged 87)

| death_place = Eure-et-Loir, France

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| occupation = Actor

| years active = 1955-2016

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Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor.{{cite web|url=http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/19127/marc-michel|title=Marc Michel|work=unifrance.org|accessdate=5 November 2016}} He appeared in more than fifty films.{{cite web|url=http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Cinema/Marc-Michel-Les-Parapluies-de-Cherbourg-est-mort-1110278|title=Marc Michel ("Les Parapluies de Cherbourg") est mort|work=parismatch.com|accessdate=5 November 2016|language=French}}

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.

Filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
rowspan=2\|1955 \| Sophie et le crime \| \| Uncredited
Les premiers outrages \| Le jeune marié \|
1960 \| The Hole \| Claude Gaspard \|
1961 \| Lola \| Roland Cassard \| Main male protagonist
1963 \| Blague dans le coin \| Bob, l'électricien \|
rowspan=3\|1964 \| La ragazza di Bube \| Stefano \|
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg \| Roland Cassard \| Supporting role
El señor de La Salle \| Andrés \|
rowspan=3\|1965 \| Samba \| Paulo \|
Six Days a Week \| Arturo Santini \|
Su e giù \| Baldovino Uberti \| (segment " Il Colpo Del Leone")
1967 \| Five Ashore in Singapore \| Captain Kevin Gray \|
1968 \| Captain Singrid \| Vignal \|
1969 \| The Pleasure Pit \| Marss \|
1970 \| Le coeur fou \| L'acteur \|
1973 \| Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu \| Jean-Paul Leroy \|
1974 \| Les divorcés \| L'amant de Jacqueline \|
1977 \| The French Woman \| Hugo \|
1983 \| Un dimanche de flic \| Charlie \|
1998 \| Sucre amer \| Nolivos \|
2001 \| Papa je crack \| \|
2004 \| 1802, l'épopée guadeloupéenne \| \|
2004 \| Cracking Up \| Frank Cardonat \|
2011 \| Tout est encore possible \| president Basto \|
2012 \| Summer in Provence \| Tom Washington \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan=2|1955

| Sophie et le crime

| Uncredited

Les premiers outrages

| Le jeune marié

1960

| The Hole