Marc Michel

Marc Michel

Born: February 10, 1929
Died: November 3, 2016
in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films.

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.

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Summer in Provence
Title: Summer in Provence
Character: Tom Washington
Released: February 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Lily, a Chinese girl brought up in strict Chinese tradition, meets Tom, a painter living with his four models in Provence, France. Although Tom is secretly condemned by an incurable disease, the painter passes his love of life and dreams to this young woman. Unexpected events awake Lily's senses and enable her to leave her "good girl" life to discover the real meaning of life.
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Title: Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Title: Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Character: M. de Tournehem
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.
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Title: Un film et son époque
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: TV
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Sucre amer
Title: Sucre amer
Character: Nolivos
Released: January 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Sucre Amer tells the story of a unique court case in which an event from the past is judged by a court of history. Major figures from history are brought together in the present to re-examine the "Ignace case", about a legendary figure in the history of Guadeloupe who fought against the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte to preserve his freedom. A hero despite himself, Ignace's life and struggle were subsequently consigned to oblivion by his enemies. His treatment has left a bittersweet taste in the mouths of the people of Guadeloupe.
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La Femme abandonnée
Title: La Femme abandonnée
Character: Arthur
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny de Lussange, as beautiful as she is mysterious. The young man decides to court Fanny.
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Scopitone
Title: Scopitone
Released: April 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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Madame Claude
Title: Madame Claude
Character: Hugo
Released: May 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
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Where There's Smoke
Title: Where There's Smoke
Character: Jean-Paul Leroy
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
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Title: Graf Luckner
Character: Gladstone
Released: February 20, 1973
Type: TV
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.
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Le Cyborg  (Le Voyage vertical)
Title: Le Cyborg (Le Voyage vertical)
Character: Jean
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Mad Heart
Title: The Mad Heart
Character: L'acteur
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.
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Katmandu
Title: Katmandu
Character: Marss
Released: September 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane.
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Guerilla Hellcats
Title: Guerilla Hellcats
Character: Vignal
Released: July 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Under the mundane guise of a public relations firm, Singrid Karaman is actually running an intelligence network. Her new mission is to foil an upcoming coup attempt in the African country of Myassaland, and to recover the large stock of diamonds that have fallen into the hands of the mercenaries behind the plot. She instructs a former Nazi, Eric, to form a shock commando and her assistant, Carol, to contact the mercenary leaders, Commandant St Robert and Captain Tarquier. Although Tarquier is very suspicious, St Robert agrees to go aboard Ingrid's yacht.
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Singapore, Singapore
Title: Singapore, Singapore
Character: Captain Kevin Gray
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
Singapore. Following the mysterious disappearance of several Marines on leave, the U.S. Secret Service appoints young Art Smith to lead the investigation. Four volunteers decide to assist him in his dangerous undertaking, and prepare to act as bait for the kidnappers.
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Su e giù
Title: Su e giù
Character: Il conte Baldovino
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished nobleman wins at gambling after taking the earring of the wife of a factory owner.
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Six Days a Week
Title: Six Days a Week
Character: Arturo Santini
Released: March 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard.
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Samba
Title: Samba
Character: Paulo
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Singer Laura Monteiro (Montiel) is murdered by her old protector João Fernandes de Oliveira (Giachetti), who has found out her love affair with Assis (Carlos Alberto). Favela-girl Belén (also Montiel) is the look-alike who takes her place, unaware she is being used by a gang that smuggles precious stones sewn in Carnival costumes. Written by fabreu
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Title: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Character: Roland Cassard
Released: February 19, 1964
Type: Movie
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
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Bebo's Girl
Title: Bebo's Girl
Character: Stefano
Released: January 24, 1964
Type: Movie
At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.
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El señor de La Salle
Title: El señor de La Salle
Character: Andrés
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
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Blague dans le coin
Title: Blague dans le coin
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Roland Cassard
Released: March 3, 1961
Type: Movie
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
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Le Trou
Title: Le Trou
Character: Claude Gaspard
Released: March 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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The First Outrages
Title: The First Outrages
Released: October 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Christian has just returned home after failing his A-levels. His father, incensed by his failure, asks a neighboring teacher to give him lessons. But Christian falls for Simone, the teacher's cousin. Jealous, Christian's girlfriend Bichette arranges for the father and the teacher to learn everything. Christian is sent away and reunited with Françoise, the house's pretty maid, who had been dismissed. Bichette has had it.
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Girl on the Third Floor
Title: Girl on the Third Floor
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.