Michel Modo

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Michel Modo

Michel Modo (born Michel Henri Louis Goi; 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 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.

Films[]

  • La Belle Américaine (1961) as Slovak
  • All the Gold in the World (1961) as Tony
  • Carom Shots (1963) as Le facteur (uncredited)
  • Kriss Romani (1963) as Le garde de Pilate (uncredited)
  • Bebert and the Train (1963) as Un gendarme
  • Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  • Les gorilles (1964) as Un agent cycliste
  • The Sucker (1965) as Un douanier
  • (1965) as Le collègue de François-Joseph
  • Killer Spy (1965) as L'agent à la bicyclette qui verbalise #2
  • (1965) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  • (1966) as Petit Roger, un serveur
  • Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At (1966) as cross-eyed German soldier
  • Un homme de trop (1967) as Le juif torturé
  • La feldmarescialla (1967) as Fritz, Vogel's Assistant
  • (1968) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  • The Gendarme Takes Off (1970) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  • (1970) as Le policier
  • The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973) as Le frère Robichon
  • (1975) as Sansonnet
  •  [fr] (1975) as Le soldat 'groupir'
  • The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976) as Peewit (voice)
  • Ne me touchez pas... (1977) as Albert
  • (1977) as Le gendarme
  • (1978) as Sergeant Michaud
  • (1978) as Konrad Zillich
  • Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1979) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  •  [fr] (1979) as Le clerc de notaire
  • (1979) (voice)
  • L'avare (1980) as La merluche
  • (1981) as Alain Terrieur
  • (1981) as Norbert
  •  [fr] (1981) as Sergent Merlin
  •  [fr] (1981) as Le vendeur du sex-shop
  • Le gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
  • Le braconnier de Dieu (1983) as The president of the polling station
  • (1983) as Adjudant Badubec
  • (1986) as Le commissaire
  • The Big Bang (1987) as Conseillé (voice)
  • My Father's Glory (1990) as le facteur
  • My Mother's Castle (1990) as Le facteur
  • (1993) as Pucheu
  • Bimboland (1998) as Aristide Roumestan
  • Poltergay (2006) as Henri 'Nanny' Bernier - le patron du bar

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