Michel Serrault
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Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. In 1977-1978 he played the composer Jacques Offenbach in a six-part series of one-hour episodes about the musician's life, each one focusing on a specific aspect or work. Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault. Source: Article "Michel Serrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Credits
Actors (2000)
as Michel Serrault
Deadly Circuit (1983)
as Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '
The Annuity (1972)
as Louis Martinet
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974)
as Jean-Paul Rondin
Le Bénévole (2007)
as Max Birgos
Joyeux Noel (2005)
as The Castle Keeper
L'Avare (2007)
as Harpagon
Carom Shots (1963)
as Le commissaire Baudu
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
as Zaza
Diabolique (1955)
as Mr. Raymond
The Children of the Marshland (1999)
as Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
Oh! What a Mambo (1959)
as L'inspecteur Vidalie
Old Rascal (1992)
as Darius Caunes
Le Furet (2003)
as Anzio
Héloïse (1991)
as Maurice Martin, Héloïse
Kill the Referee (1984)
as Rico, aggressive supporter
Assassin(s) (1997)
as Mr. Wagner
Clémentine chérie (1964)
as Maître Brunet
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
as Gino
Vajont (2001)
as L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
The Four Truths (1962)
as Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Les baratineurs (1965)
as Henri
Marty's World (2000)
as Antoine Berrant
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
as Verlac
That Naughty Girl (1956)
as Inspector Leduc
Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)
as Michaud
The Comedian (1997)
as Le comédien
The Terror with Women (1956)
as Gendarme
Nestor Burma, détective de choc (1982)
as Nestor Burma
Peek-a-boo (1954)
as Serrault, le trompettiste
Chinese In Paris (1974)
as Grégoire Montclair
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1991)
as Pompilius
Liberté, égalité, choucroute (1985)
as Louis XVI
Adorables démons (1957)
as Jacques Willis Senior
Ville à vendre (1992)
as Rousselot, le maire
The Inquisitor (1981)
as Jérôme Martinaud
The Girl from Paris (2001)
as Adrien Rochas
Other People's Money (1978)
as Miremant
Murderers and Thieves (1956)
as Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
as Le ministre de l'Intérieur
You Have Nothing to Declare? (1959)
as Dr. Emile Couzan
Nina (1959)
as Adolphe Tessier
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
as Mr. Pierre Arnaud
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
as Léon Labbé
Monsieur Léon (2005)
as Docteur Léon Chapuis
On ne réveille pas un flic qui dort (—)
as Commissaire Roger Scatti
Les Rois du gag (1985)
as Gaëtan / Robert Wellson
The Double Bed (1965)
as Albert
Buffet Froid (1979)
as Le comptable
The Butterfly (2002)
as Julien
King of Hearts (1966)
as Monsieur Marcel
Love Comedy (1989)
as Paul Léautaud
La Grâce (1979)
as Henri Dupérier
Jaloux comme un tigre (1964)
as Mr. Lurot
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille (1969)
as Commissaire Le Gac
The Swindle (1997)
as Victor
Albert est méchant (2004)
as Albert Moulinot
La Cage aux Folles 3 (1985)
as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
The Big Store (1973)
as Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché
The Boss of Champignol (1966)
as Hector
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Justin Blesh
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
as le voisin
On purge bébé (1961)
as Guillaume Chouilloux
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ (1982)
as Jules César
Le Passe-muraille (1977)
as Dutilleul
Le Roi des bricoleurs (1977)
as Bordin
Love on a Pillow (1962)
as Varange
When the Pheasants Pass (1965)
as Rimero
L'Huissier (1991)
as Maître Malicorne
Male Hunt (1964)
as Gaston Lartois
Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
as Jérôme Martinet
Mon bébé (1956)
as Jimmy Scott
The Bureaucrats (1959)
as le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
How Do You Like My Sister? (1964)
as Varangeot
Heads or Tails (1980)
as Édouard Morlaix
The Restroom Robbery (1975)
as Max
The Madman of Lab Four (1967)
as Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory
Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
as Hervé Decambrais
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful (1972)
as Marcel Jolin
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous (1973)
as Le curé Léon
Musée Grévin (1958)
as The visitor
Artemisia (1997)
as Orazio Gentileschi
He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
as Robert Staniland
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Les enfants du pays (2006)
as Gustave
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice (2007)
as L'archevêque de Venise
Happiness Is in the Field (1995)
as Francis Bergeade
Good King Dagobert (1984)
as Otarius
Il lupo e l'agnello (1980)
as Léon
Malevil (1981)
as Emmanuel Comte
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée (1976)
as Jean-Pierre Mazard
The Associate (1979)
as Julien Pardot
Pour avoir Adrienne (1967)
as Thomeret
Let Sleeping Cops Lie (1988)
as Roger Scatti
How Not to Rob a Department Store (1965)
as Méloune
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
as Louis
The Men in the Family (1968)
as Gabriel Pelletier
Le petit monstre (1965)
as Valet
Ces messieurs de la gâchette (1970)
as Gabriel Pelletier
The Libertine (2000)
as Le Cardinal
The Great Chase (1968)
as Aldo Moreni
Bloody Murder (1974)
as Edouard Henricot
A Murder Is a Murder (1972)
as Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
as Louis XV
La Liberté en croupe (1970)
as Paul Cérès
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960)
as Le second policier / Policeman
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister (1986)
as Octave Clapoteau
We Will Go to Deauville (1962)
as Lucien Moreau
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem (1967)
Actor
La Gueule de l’emploi (1974)
as L'inspecteur de police
La Malle volante (1959)
as M. Loiseau
The Other One's Mug (1979)
as Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
as L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
Order of the Daisy (1967)
as L'inspecteur Papin
Room Service (1992)
as M. Luc
Call Me Mathilde (1969)
as François
What the East Wind Saw (1954)
as Zamore
How to Succeed in Love (1962)
as Commissioner
The American Beauty (1961)
as Tramp
Clara and the Villains (1958)
as 'La Parole'
Loose in the Trigger (1967)
as The armorer
Miracle Healing (1987)
as Ronald Fox-Terrier
L'Affaire Dominici (2003)
as Gaston Dominici
Under Your Hat (1965)
as Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
Bebert and the Train (1963)
as Barthoin
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
as Alfred Mullanet
Operation Lady Marlene (1974)
as Paulo
Dr. Petiot (1990)
as Docteur Petiot
No Harm Intended (1988)
as Paul Duchêne
Les Combinards (1966)
as La père de Lucile
Bonsoir (1994)
as Alex Ponttin
The Innocent with Forty Children (1957)
as Jean-François Robignac
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge (1962)
as Charpentier, le conférencier
The Green Dress (1957)
as Count Hubert de Latour-Latour
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
The Real Bargain (1965)
as Hutin
L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle (1959)
as Eugène, l'interprète
The Great Gadget (1967)
as Pounet
Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles (2023)
as Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)
Big Deal (1973)
as Paul
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? (1971)
as Achille
Hard Boiled Ones (1964)
as Rossignol, private detective
The Roaring Forties (1982)
as Sébastien Barral
My Wife Is a Panther (1961)
as Butcher
L'Esprit de famille (1979)
as le docteur Charles Moreau
Grabuge! (2005)
as Commissaire Lancret
La Cage aux folles (1973)
as Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'
Tel est Serrault (1995)
as Self
The Dance (1962)
as Pétrarque
Life is beautiful (1956)
as le démarcheur
Me and the Forty Year Old Man (1965)
as Bénéchol
The Red Ibis (1975)
as Jérémie
Ennemis intimes (1987)
as Baudin
Would-Be Gentleman (1968)
as M. Jourdain
Les enquiquineurs (1966)
as Martin - instituteur
Un cœur oublié (2001)
as Monsieur de Fontenelle