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
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
as Jules Berlicot
The Miser (1980)
as La merluche
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
as Jules Berlicot
Carom Shots (1963)
as Le Facteur (uncredited)
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
My Mother's Castle (1990)
as Postman
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme in New York (1965)
as Jules Berlicot
Les Gorilles (1964)
as A cycling agent
The Female Executioner (1986)
as Commissioner
Herminie (1971)
as Jean-Baptise
Pétrole ! Pétrole ! (1981)
as Alain Terrieur
The Sucker (1965)
as Un douanier
Poltergay (2006)
as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
Killer Spy (1965)
as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
Ubu enchaîné (1971)
Actor
Gypsy Law (1963)
as Guard of Pilate (uncredited)
Les coucous (1978)
as Georges Despeu
La 99ème Minute (1966)
Actor
All the Gold in the World (1961)
as Tony
Les Planqués du régiment (1983)
as Adjudant Badubec
La cloche (1964)
Actor
The Restaurant (1966)
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1975)
as Pirlouit (voice)
We'll Grow Thin Together (1979)
as Le clerc de notaire
My Father's Glory (1990)
as Postman
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
Faites comme chez nous (1993)
as Georges Despeu
Musidora (1973)
as Anatole Biscarlet
Shock Troops (1967)
as Le juif torturé
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen (1979)
as Cavallo (Voice)
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)
as Brother Robichon
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine (1992)
as Persouard
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing (1977)
as Le gendarme
Rita the Field Marshal (1967)
as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere (2003)
as Ambassadeur
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers (1981)
as le sergent Merlin
Under Your Hat (1965)
as Le collègue de François-Joseph
Alice au pays des merveilles (1970)
as Dormouse
Bebert and the Train (1963)
as Gendarme
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)
as Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969)
as Laflûte
The American Beauty (1961)
as Slovak
Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
as Sergent Michaud
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
as Policeman
Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981)
as Sex shop seller
Operation Lady Marlene (1974)
as Sansonnet
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978)
as Konrad Zillich
S.O.S homme seul (1984)
Actor