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person_profile-Michel Modo

Michel Modo Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Michel Modo

Date of Birth:

Mar 30, 1937

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Sep 24, 2008

Biography of

Michel Modo

    Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born 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 The Dream of a Summer Night 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.

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Filmography of

Michel Modo

Found 42 Movies in total

Poltergay

Henri "Nanny" Bernier ( Actor )

... 2006

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

Ambassadeur ( Actor )

... 2003

Highlander: Counterfeit

Maurice (credit only) ( Actor )

... 1994

Bienvenue à Bellefontaine

Persouard ( Actor )

... 1992

My Mother's Castle

Postman ( Actor )

... 1990

My Father's Glory

Postman ( Actor )

... 1990

The Female Executioner

Commissioner ( Actor )

... 1986

Les Planqués du régiment

Adjudant Badubec ( Actor )

... 1983

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

Jules Berlicot ( Actor )

... 1982

Pétrole ! Pétrole !

Alain Terrieur ( Actor )

... 1981

The Miser

La merluche ( Actor )

... 1980

We'll Grow Thin Together

Le clerc de notaire ( Actor )

... 1979

... 1979

Sadsacks In the Boarding School

Sergent Michaud ( Actor )

... 1978

The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

Le gendarme ( Actor )

... 1977

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

Pirlouit (voix) ( Actor )

... 1976

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

Le soldat allemand 'groupir' ( Actor )

... 1975

Musidora

Anatole Biscarlet ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1971

The Gendarme Takes Off

Jules Berlicot ( Actor )

... 1970

The Gendarme Gets Married

Jules Berlicot ( Actor )

... 1968

Rita the Field Marshal

Fritz Vogel's Assistant ( Actor )

... 1967

Shock Troops

Le juif torturé ( Actor )

... 1967

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

The cross-eyed German soldier ( Actor )

... 1966

The Restaurant

Petit Roger, un serveur ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

The Gendarme in New York

Jules Berlicot ( Actor )

... 1965

Killer Spy

L'autre agent à bicyclette qui verbalise ( Actor )

... 1965

The Sucker

Customs officer ( Actor )

... 1965

Les Gorilles

A cycling agent ( Actor )

... 1964

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Jules Berlicot ( Actor )

... 1964

Carom Shots

Le facteur ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1961

The American Beauty

Slovak ( Actor )

... 1961