Michel Serrault

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-01-24 (79 years old)

Deathday

2007-07-29

Place of Birth

Brunoy, Essonne, France

Michel Serrault

Biography

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 19...

Acting

1955

Diabolique

as Mr. Raymond

1994

Bonsoir

as Alex Ponttin

1974

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

as Jean-Paul Rondin

1979

The Other One's Mug

as Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard

1975

The Red Ibis

as Jérémie

1964

Male Hunt

as Gaston Lartois

1962

The Dance

as Pétrarque

1958

1981

The Inquisitor

as Jérôme Martinaud

1980

La Cage aux Folles II

as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'

1979

The Associate

as Julien Pardot

2001

The Girl from Paris

as Adrien Rochas

1995

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

as M. Pierre Arnaud

1997

Assassin(s)

as Mr. Wagner

1999

The Children of the Marshland

as Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'

2007

Have Mercy on Us All

as Hervé Decambrais

1963

Carom Shots

as Baudu, police inspector

1995

Happiness Is in the Field

as Francis Bergeade

1973

The Big Store

as Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché

1983

Deadly Circuit

as Louis Beauvoir, « l'Œil »

1959

Oh! What a Mambo

as L'inspecteur Vidalie

1972

The Annuity

as Louis Martinet

1984

1979

Buffet Froid

as Le comptable

1963

1974

No Pockets in a Shroud

as Justin Blesh

1980

Heads or Tails

as Édouard Morlaix

2002

The Butterfly

as Julien

1987

Miracle Healing

as Ronald Fox-Terrier

1997

The Comedian

as Le comédien

1997

The Swindle

as Victor

1985

Les Rois du gag

as Gaëtan / Robert Wellson

2006

1997

Artemisia

as Orazio Gentileschi

1990

Dr. Petiot

as Docteur Petiot

1981

Malevil

as Emmanuel Comte

1962

1956

That Naughty Girl

as Inspector Leduc

2001

Vajont

as L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza

1966

King of Hearts

as Monsieur Marcel

1959

La Malle volante

as M. Loiseau

1988

2003

Le Furet

as Anzio

2004

Albert est méchant

as Albert Moulinot

2007

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice

as L'archevêque de Venise

1974

Chinese In Paris

as Grégoire Montclair

1984

Kill the Referee

as Rico, aggressive supporter

1982

The Hatter's Ghost

as Léon Labbé

1967

The Men in the Family

as Gabriel Pelletier

1992

Ville à vendre

as Rousselot, le maire

2005

Grabuge!

as Commissaire Lancret

1956

Murderers and Thieves

as Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur

1985

La Cage aux Folles 3

as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'

1986

2023

Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles

as Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)

2000

The Libertine

as Le Cardinal

1978

1988

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

as Roger Scatti

1985

He Died with His Eyes Open

as Robert Staniland

1964

Dandelions by the Roots

as Jérôme Martinet, actor and cousin of Jockey Jack

1962

We Will Go to Deauville

as Lucien Moreau

1960

Love and the Frenchwoman

as L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")

1984

Le Bon Plaisir

as Le ministre de l'Intérieur

1973

Big Deal

as Paul

1960

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

as Le second policier / Policeman

1968

The Great Chase

as Aldo Moreni

1969

Call Me Mathilde

as François

1967

Order of the Daisy

as L'inspecteur Papin

1992

Old Rascal

as Darius Caunes

1962

The Four Truths

as Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")

1967

The Madman of Lab Four

as Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory

1959

You Have Nothing to Declare?

as Dr. Emile Couzan

1992

Room Service

as M. Luc

1989

Love Comedy

as Paul Léautaud

2005

Monsieur Léon

as Docteur Léon Chapuis

1988

No Harm Intended

as Paul Duchêne

1964

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

as Self (archive footage)

1962

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

as Charpentier, le conférencier

1956

Life is beautiful

as le démarcheur

1972

A Murder Is a Murder

as Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant

1967

1956

Mon bébé

as Jimmy Scott

1962

How to Succeed in Love

as Commissioner

2003

L'Affaire Dominici

as Gaston Dominici

2007

Le Bénévole

as Max Birgos

1964

Hard Boiled Ones

as Rossignol, private detective

1965

Under Your Hat

as Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max

1966

Les Combinards

as La père de Lucile

1973

1965

1954

Peek-a-boo

as Serrault, le trompettiste

1965

1970

Ces messieurs de la gâchette

as Gabriel Pelletier

1959

L'anglais tel qu'on le parle

as Eugène, l'interprète

1967

2001

Un cœur oublié

as Monsieur de Fontenelle

1974

Bloody Murder

as Edouard Henricot

1959

Nina

as Adolphe Tessier

1964

Clémentine chérie

as Maître Brunet

1957

Adorables démons

as Jacques Willis Senior

1979

L'Esprit de famille

as le docteur Charles Moreau

1979

La Grâce

as Henri Dupérier

1961

On purge bébé

as Guillaume Chouilloux

1965

1957

The Innocent with Forty Children

as Jean-François Robignac

1991

L'Huissier

as Maître Malicorne

1956

1969

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

as Commissaire Le Gac

1970

La Liberté en croupe

as Paul Cérès

1977

Le Passe-muraille

as Dutilleul

1965

1967

1982

The Roaring Forties

as Sébastien Barral

1959

The Bureaucrats

as le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils

1991

Héloïse

as Maurice Martin, Héloïse

1966

Les enquiquineurs

as Martin - instituteur

1958

Musée Grévin

as The visitor

2005

Joyeux Noel

as The Castle Keeper

1961

1974

La Gueule de l’emploi

as L'inspecteur de police

1968

Would-Be Gentleman

as M. Jourdain

2009

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Actors

as Michel Serrault

1987

1995

1973

La Cage aux folles

as Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'

2007

L'Avare

as Harpagon

Production

1990

Dr. Petiot

as Producer

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