Michel Modo
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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. 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
Credits
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
as Cross-eyed Soldier
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
as Jules Berlicot
The Sucker (1965)
as Un douanier
The Gendarme in New York (1965)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
as Jules Berlicot
The Miser (1980)
as La merluche
The Restaurant (1966)
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1975)
as Pirlouit (voice)
The Female Executioner (1986)
as Commissioner
My Father's Glory (1990)
as Postman
My Mother's Castle (1990)
as Postman
Les coucous (1978)
as Georges Despeu
Les Gorilles (1964)
as A cycling agent
Carom Shots (1963)
as Le Facteur (uncredited)
Shock Troops (1967)
as Le juif torturé
Ubu enchaîné (1971)
Actor
Rita the Field Marshal (1967)
as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
All the Gold in the World (1961)
as Tony
The American Beauty (1961)
as Slovak
Poltergay (2006)
as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
as Policeman
Gypsy Law (1963)
as Guard of Pilate (uncredited)
Pétrole ! Pétrole ! (1981)
as Alain Terrieur
Herminie (1971)
as Jean-Baptise
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere (2003)
as Ambassadeur
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)
as Brother Robichon
Operation Lady Marlene (1974)
as Sansonnet
Les Planqués du régiment (1983)
as Adjudant Badubec
Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
as Sergent Michaud
La 99ème Minute (1966)
Actor
Faites comme chez nous (1993)
as Georges Despeu
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers (1981)
as le sergent Merlin
Musidora (1973)
as Anatole Biscarlet
Bebert and the Train (1963)
as Gendarme
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine (1992)
as Persouard
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen (1979)
as Cavallo (Voice)
Killer Spy (1965)
as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
Under Your Hat (1965)
as Le collègue de François-Joseph
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969)
as Laflûte
Alice au pays des merveilles (1970)
as Dormouse
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)
as Self
We'll Grow Thin Together (1979)
as Le clerc de notaire
La cloche (1964)
Actor
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing (1977)
as Le gendarme
Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981)
as Sex shop seller
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978)
as Konrad Zillich
S.O.S homme seul (1984)
Actor