Michael Bouquet is dead [mercredi] at the end of the morning in a hospital in Pariswe explain.

After 75 years of career, Michel Bouquet confessed in 2019 to the AFP that he would never return to the stage, after he did his men on the road.

Unforgettable to The king is dying and in The stingy of Molière, he always showed his preference for theater.

In theater, the personality of the author is so great, whether it is Pinter or Molière, that all one does is try to convey the word as obediently as possible. Self -forgetfulness is the most importanthe said in 2019.

Known roles on the screen

However, he marked the big screen by playing François Mitterrand on the night of his life in The walker of the Champs-de-Mars by Robert Guédiguian (2004), with imitations that would disturb even those close to the former French socialist president.

He received the César for best actor (the highest award in French cinema) for this film, after which it was acquired a few years ago for the film by Anne Fontaine how I killed my father (2002).

On screen, he also played in some Claude Chabrol films (The unfaithful wife, Chicken With Vinegar) and under the direction of François Truffaut (The bride is in the darkin 1967, and The Mississippi Mermaid in 1968). He is an expert Javert, the inspector who chases Jean Valjean Kawawa by Robert Hossein (1982).

A great actor

Born on November 6, 1925 in Paris, Michel Bouquet owes his love of performance to his mother, who regularly took him to the Opéra Comique in Paris.

He left his mark on French theater after the war by publicizing the work of Harold Pinter and by placing himself in the service of the great classical (Molière, Diderot or Strindberg) and contemporary (Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco. , Albert Camus or Thomas Bernard).

Michel Bouquet was a genius, an immense actor. I also think of the former comedy teacher and revealed generations of actorsactor and director Nicolas Briançon reacted to the AFP.