Michel Piccoli

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Michel Piccoli (born 27 December 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist.

He has appeared in many different roles, from seducer to cop to gangster, in more than 170 movies. Piccoli has worked with Jean Renoir, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy, Claude Sautet, Louis Malle, Agnès Varda, Leos Carax, Luis Buñuel, Costa-Gavras, Alfred Hitchcock, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Rivette, Otar Iosseliani and Jacques Doillon.

He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine Clerc. He has one daughter from his first marriage, Anne-Cordélia.

Piccoli is politically active on the left, and is vocally opposed to the Front National.

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Movie		Character	Year
	Amazons of Rome	Console Publicola	1961
	Diary of a Chambermaid	Monsieur Monteil	1964
	The War Is Over	l'inspecteur des douanes	1966
	The Young Girls of Rochefort	Simon Dame	1967
	Belle de Jour	Henri Husson	1967
	Danger: Diabolik	Ginko	1968
	Topaz	Jacques Granville	1969
	Ten Days Wonder	Paul Regis	1972
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Le Ministre	1972
	The Assassination	Le colonel kassar - le ministre de l'intérieur d'un pays du maghreb	1972
	The Phantom of Liberty		1974
	Neapolitan Mystery	Victor Navarro	1979
	Atlantic City	Joseph	1980
	Une étrange affaire	Bertrand Malair	1981
	Une chambre en ville	Edmond Leroyer	1982
	The Prude	Pierre	1986
	Malady of Love	Raoul Bergeron	1987
	La Belle Noiseuse	Edouard Frenhofer	1991
	Archipel	Leonard Wilde	1993
	Rien sur Robert	Lord Ariel Chatwick-West	1999
	Actors	lui-même	2000
	Little Lili	acteur qui joue Simon	2003
	The Duchess of Langeais	Vidame de Pamiers	2007
	Restless	Maurice Reverdy	2009
	We Have a Pope	Melville	2011
	Holy Motors	L'homme à la tache de vin	2012