Michel Modo
Born: 1937-03-30 in Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
Died: 2008-09-24
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2006
- Poltergay as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
2003
- The Masked Avenger: Lagardere as Ambassadeur
- Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire as Self
1999
- Relic Hunter as Hugo Murnau
- Mélissol as Zanzi
1995
- Robinson Sucroë as M. Floyd
1993
- Faites comme chez nous as Georges Despeu
1992
- Highlander: The Series as Maurice
- Bienvenue à Bellefontaine as Persouard
1990
- My Mother's Castle as Postman
- My Father's Glory as Postman
1989
- A Tale of Two Cities as Guard Officer
1986
- The Female Executioner as Commissioner
1984
1983
- Les Planqués du régiment as Adjudant Badubec
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
1981
- Pétrole ! Pétrole ! as Alain Terrieur
- Si ma gueule vous plaît... as Sex shop seller
- Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers as le sergent Merlin
1980
- The Miser as La merluche
1979
- The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space as Jules Berlicot
- We'll Grow Thin Together as Le clerc de notaire
- The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen as Cavallo (Voice)
1978
- Les coucous as Georges Despeu
- Sadsacks In the Boarding School as Sergent Michaud
- Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee as Konrad Zillich
1977
- The Centipede Is Tap Dancing as Le gendarme
1976
- Police Commissioner Moulin as Inspecteur Janin
- 30 millions d'amis as Self
1975
- Système 2 as Self
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute as Pirlouit (voice)
- The Seventh Company Has Been Found as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
1974
- Operation Lady Marlene as Sansonnet
- The Funny Guys in a Crazy World ... (Writer)
1973
- Musidora as Anatole Biscarlet
- The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Brother Robichon
1972
- Midi trente as Self
1971
- Samedi soir as Self
- Herminie as Jean-Baptise
- Ubu enchaîné
- Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques as Policeman
1970
- The Gendarme Takes Off as Jules Berlicot
- Alice au pays des merveilles as Dormouse
1969
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Laflûte
1968
- The Little Bather ... (Screenplay)
- The Gendarme Gets Married as Jules Berlicot
1967
- Shock Troops as Le juif torturé
- Rita the Field Marshal as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
1966
- At Theatre Tonight as Jean-Baptiste
- Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! as Cross-eyed Soldier
- The Restaurant as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
- La 99ème Minute
1965
- The Sucker as Un douanier
- The Gendarme in New York as Jules Berlicot
- Killer Spy as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
- Under Your Hat as Le collègue de François-Joseph
1964
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Jules Berlicot
- Les Gorilles as A cycling agent
- La cloche
1963
- Carom Shots as Le Facteur (uncredited)
- Gypsy Law as Guard of Pilate (uncredited)
- Bebert and the Train as Gendarme
1961
- The American Beauty as Slovak
- All the Gold in the World as Tony
1958
- Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Pierre Pégoux