Actor
Michel Such
Born August 15, 1944 in Algiers, Algeria36 films
Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
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Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. »
Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau...
Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996.
Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.
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The best way into Michel Such's work
First watchThe Inquisitor19817.5as Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car OwnerMartinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
36 films as actor- 2004Mon fils d'ailleursThe controller
- 2001Felix and LolaFrantz
- 2001Les p'tits gars LadouceurLe chef de gare
- 1994Bab El Oued CityPaulo Gosen
- 1993The Thirst for GoldLe gendarme
- 1989Elli Fat Mat
- 1989My Best PalsLe gendarme
- 1987Dog's Dialogue
- 1987L'été en pente doucePaul le vigile
- 1987Levy & GoliathCafe owner
- 1986Trop tard BalthazarLino
- 1986L'Objectif
- 1986MénageThe Nightclub Flirt
- 1986Triple sec
- 1984New Year's Eve At Bob's
- 1984ManipulationsMichel
- 1984Stress
- 1983Deadly CircuitThe Man with the Briefcase
- 1982Lucie sur SeineL'inspecteur au bonnet
- 1981QuartetPrison Guard
- 1981The InquisitorJean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner
- 1981Why Not Us?Un client de la librairie
- 1981Heat of DesireL'employé des wagons-lits
- 1981Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend'sLe client au loden
- 1979French Fried Vacation 2Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late
- 1979These Kids Are Grown-UpsLe caissier
- 1979La frisée aux lardonsAldo, marchand de glaces
- 1978French Fried VacationLenny
- 1977This Sweet SicknessRaymond
- 1977Spoiled Children
- 1977Violette & FrancoisLe copain musicien
- 1976The Best Way to WalkLéni
- 1975ThomasAntoine
- 1975That Most Important Thing: LoveElectrician
- 1973The Inheritor(uncredited)
- 1971The Laboratory of FearAntoine