Michel Modo
Actor
- Born
- March 30, 1937 · Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
- Died
- September 24, 2008 (age 71)
Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne).
He is best known in France for having formed in the late 1950s a comedy duo, Grosso et Modo, with actor Guy Grosso. The duo appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played the role of Constable Berlicot alongside Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre and Christian Marin. They were also Laflûte and Quince in The Dream of a Summer Night by Jean-Christophe Averty.
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Between 1993 and 1997 he is one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander as Maurice Lolande, humorous character characterizing the average French person.
In December 2005, he stars in the television series Plus belle la vie alongside Colette Renard. He plays a bum philosopher disguised as Santa Claus.
He also dubbed several recurring characters in the French version of the animated series The Simpsons. At his sudden death in 2008 at the age of 71, when dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.
Known for
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
December 8, 1966
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
September 8, 1964
The Sucker
March 24, 1965
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
January 31, 1979
The Gendarme Gets Married
October 30, 1968
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
October 3, 1982
The Gendarme in New York
October 28, 1965
The Restaurant
September 9, 1966
The Gendarme Takes Off
October 28, 1970
The Miser
March 5, 1980
My Father's Glory
August 29, 1990
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
December 10, 1975
Acting51
- 2006Poltergay as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
- 2003The Masked Avenger: Lagardere as Ambassadeur
- 2003Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self
- 1993Faites comme chez nous as Georges Despeu
- 1992Bienvenue à Bellefontaine as Persouard
- 1990My Mother's Castle as Postman
- 1990My Father's Glory as Postman
- 1986The Female Executioner as Commissioner
- 1984S.O.S homme seul
- 1983Les Planqués du régiment