Michel Drucker
{{Short description|French journalist (born 1942)}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Michel Drucker
| image = Salon Du Livre 2011 Michel Drucker 2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Drucker in 2011
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|09|12|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vire, France
| occupation = Television and radio host
| employer = France 2, Europe 1
| spouse = Dany Saval
| relatives = Jean Drucker (brother)
Marie Drucker (niece)
Léa Drucker (niece)
}}
Michel Drucker, CQ (born 12 September 1942) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that he was included in the price of their TV sets.
Career
Drucker was born in Vire. He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as sports reporter and commentator. Although he kept doing live coverage of major association football matches until 1986, he soon turned to hosting variety shows, such as Champs-Élysées on Antenne 2 in the 1980s, then Stars 90 on TF1 in the 1990s, then finally Vivement dimanche on France 2 every Sunday afternoon since 1998.
Drucker is known for his polite, toned-down attitude towards show-business stars, and is best known outside France for the incident between Serge Gainsbourg and American singer Whitney Houston on the television programme, Champs-Élysées.[http://www.ina.fr/divertissement/showbiz-et-people/dossier/1959/champs-elysees.20090331.I00009901.non.fr.html Ina: Rencontre mémorable entre Whitney Houston et Serge Gainsbourg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115131712/http://www.ina.fr/divertissement/showbiz-et-people/dossier/1959/champs-elysees.20090331.I00009901.non.fr.html|date=15 November 2010}}
Personal life
Drucker is Jewish. His father, Abraham Drucker, was a Jewish immigrant who arrived in France in 1925 to study medicine. Drucker's younger brother, Jacques, is a doctor, and his older brother, Jean, was a television executive.
Drucker is married to French actress Dany Saval and is an uncle of Léa Drucker, an actress, and Marie Drucker, a telejournalist on France 2.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! Director ! Notes |
| rowspan=1|2005
| Un fil à la patte | The florist | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2006
| Trois jeunes filles nues | | Richard Valverde | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2007
| Trois contes merveilleux | The priest | Hélène Guétary | TV movie |
| rowspan=1|2012
| Stars 80 | Himself | Frédéric Forestier & Thomas Langmann | |
| rowspan=3|2013
| Y'a pas d'âge | Michel Jocker | July Hygreck | TV series (1 episode) |
| Platane
| Himself | Éric Judor & Denis Imbert | TV series (1 episode) |
| La grande boucle (fr)
| Himself | |
| rowspan=2|2014
| Himself | |
| Avis de mistral
| Himself | Rose Bosch | |
| 2015
| L'Hôtel du Libre-Echange | Monsieur | TV movie |
| rowspan=2|2016
| Himself | |
| Un chapeau de paille d'Italie
| The client | François Goetghebeur (2) | TV movie |
| rowspan=2|2017
| Himself | Fabrice Eboué | |
| Call My Agent !
| Himself | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2018
| Guy | Himself | |
Honours
= National honours =
- {{Flag|France}}:
- Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (1994)
- Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1984)
= Foreign honours =
- {{Flag|Canada}}:
- {{Flag|Quebec}}: Knight (2001), now Officer (2010) of the National Order of Quebec[http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/index-en.asp National Order of Quebec]'s recipients, [http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre-en.asp?id=1654 Michel Drucker]
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{official website}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114074351/http://vivementdimanche.france2.fr/?page=vivement-dimanche Vivement Dimanche]
- [http://animateurs.france2.fr/michel-drucker.html Michel Drucker on the website on France 2 TV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217120141/http://animateurs.france2.fr/michel-drucker.html |date=17 December 2009 }}
- [http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/michel-drucker-13236.php Michel Drucker biographie (in French)]
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Category:20th-century French Jews
Category:French people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Category:20th-century French journalists
Category:French television presenters
Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
Category:Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Category:Knights of the National Order of Quebec
Category:French male non-fiction writers
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