Michel Subor

Michel Subor

Born: February 2, 1935
Died: January 17, 2022
in Paris, France
Michel Subor (February 2 1935 - January 17 2022) was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.

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to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
Title: to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour
Character: Commander Bruno Forestier (archive footage)
Released: November 26, 2023
Type: Movie
An omnium-gatherum of film, poem, and song excerpts contextually juxtaposed in an attempt to explore masculinity, alienation, and identity in a post-industrial society.
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Title: War on Beasts
Character: Pierre Duruy
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: TV
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Godard Mon Amour
Title: Godard Mon Amour
Character: Narrator #4 (voice)
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
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Bastards
Title: Bastards
Character: Edouard Laporte
Released: August 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
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Last Winter
Title: Last Winter
Character: Hélier
Released: February 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
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White Material
Title: White Material
Character: Henri Vial
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
On the brink of civil war breaking out in an African country, a French woman struggles to save her floundering coffee plantation.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Louis Trebor
Released: May 4, 2005
Type: Movie
An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
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Dear Hunter
Title: Dear Hunter
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Wild Innocence
Title: Wild Innocence
Character: Chas
Released: December 19, 2001
Type: Movie
A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.
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Beau Travail
Title: Beau Travail
Character: Commander Bruno Forestier
Released: May 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
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Fidelity
Title: Fidelity
Character: Rupert MacRoi
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
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Ainsi soit-il
Title: Ainsi soit-il
Character: Barroux
Released: March 29, 2000
Type: Movie
An honorable man is murdered because he knew too much about the dreadful deeds of the ruling class who puts gain before any human consideration. A happy family is destroyed by this murder. The son plunges into the heart of the tragedy and finds himself facing a double mission: he must honor his dead father by making his killers pay with their own blood and re-establish family harmony.
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Title: Counterstrike
Character: Yuri
Released: July 1, 1990
Type: TV
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
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Braxton
Title: Braxton
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
An animal-rights activist and his lawyer companion track leopard-hide poachers in Africa.
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The French Revolution
Title: The French Revolution
Character: Vadier
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
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Der Mann im Salz
Title: Der Mann im Salz
Character: Meister Zwanzigeisen
Released: October 24, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Fourth Power
Title: The Fourth Power
Character: Xavier Mareche
Released: October 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Catherine Carré, his former friend, editor and chief and star presenter of a television newscast.
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Passage secret
Title: Passage secret
Character: Enrique
Released: July 24, 1985
Type: Movie
In a somewhat deflated story of robbery and deception set against the rooftops and byways of Paris, a group of enterprising petty thieves take advantage of the dog days of August to burglarize vacated apartments. At this time of year, all Parisiens are on vacation elsewhere, and the city is invaded by tourists on vacation from their own cities. In this mass rearrangement of the European population, the thieves get away with their looting until they run into an architect who catches them in the act. But his morals are nothing to brag about, as he gets more involved in what they are doing and wants some of their take. He is also smitten with one of the down-and-out women the thieves have been supporting (Dominque Laffin). As in so many French dramas, these conflicting relationships are doomed to be resolved only by tragedy.
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Stress
Title: Stress
Character: Police commissioner
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Character: Beaufils
Released: November 12, 1980
Type: Movie
After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
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The Sewers of Paradise
Title: The Sewers of Paradise
Character: Biki le Targuy
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
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The Accuser
Title: The Accuser
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Roger
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: OAS Terrorist in Car
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: André
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Mauregard
Character: Charles-Auguste
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: TV
Upon his return from Louisiana in 1865, Maxence de Mettray decides to use the profits from his last commercial trip to buy the castle of Mauregard in Touraine, the castle of his ancestors. From there, his story and that of his descendants is told over six different periods. A French mini-series in six 60-minute episodes.
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Topaz
Title: Topaz
Character: François Picard
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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Sadistic Hallucinations
Title: Sadistic Hallucinations
Character: L'inspecteur
Released: July 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.
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À nous deux, Paris!
Title: À nous deux, Paris!
Character: Patrick Cartier
Released: February 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Two ambitious young provincials, Patrick and Michel, go to Paris to seek their fortune. Patrick seems to be the epitome of the up-and-comer at any price: with no scruples whatsoever, he manages to break into the world of finance, i.e. into the home of banker Philippe Haguenauer. He soon becomes the lover of the woman, Hélène, director of a major fashion house, while Philippe, for his part, is having the perfect love affair with Nadine, his secretary. And this with the mutual consent of both spouses. Meanwhile, Michel, shy and sentimental, is looking for a situation, while remaining honest.
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Le Reflux
Title: Le Reflux
Character: Henri Person
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Queen of Spades
Title: The Queen of Spades
Character: Herman
Released: December 29, 1965
Type: Movie
A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.
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What's New Pussycat?
Title: What's New Pussycat?
Character: Philippe
Released: June 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Character: Roger
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Character: Roger
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Young Girls of Good Families
Title: Young Girls of Good Families
Character: Gerard LeGall
Released: July 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez
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The Little Soldier
Title: The Little Soldier
Character: Bruno Forestier
Released: January 25, 1963
Type: Movie
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of his terrorist group of being a double agent.
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Jules and Jim
Title: Jules and Jim
Character: Récitant / Narrator (voix)
Released: January 23, 1962
Type: Movie
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
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Vacation in Hell
Title: Vacation in Hell
Released: May 26, 1961
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.
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Please, Not Now!
Title: Please, Not Now!
Character: Alain Varnier
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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My Pal the Gypsy
Title: My Pal the Gypsy
Character: Bruno Pittuiti
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The "Védrines", whose head of family is a publisher, are well established in Paris. The "Pittuiti", on the other hand, are gypsies camping out in the suburbs. Young Zita belongs to the tribe and meets Théo Védrines, the publisher's son, a wild seducer. Zita is soon forced to tell her family that she is expecting a child. A scandal for the Pittuiti family, who instruct Zita's brother to apply the law of retaliation, Bruno must in turn seduce the pleasant Gisèle Védrines. And why not? But while Théo gradually becomes an anarchist, Bruno becomes more and more embourgeoise as Védrines discovers in him a real talent for writing. Still, Bruno and Gisèle will be as happy as Théo and Zita ever were.
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Sunday Encounter
Title: Sunday Encounter
Character: Un élève du cours (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Frou-Frou
Title: Frou-Frou
Character: Le jeune homme au restaurant (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.