Marc Michel

Marc Michel
Born 4 December 1932
Montreux, Switzerland
Died 3 November 2016 (aged 83)
Eure-et-Loir, France
Occupation Actor
Years active 1955-2016

Marc Michel (4 December 1932 – 3 November 2016) was a Swiss actor.[1] He appeared in more than fifty films.[2]

He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), and two films by Jacques Demy: Lola (1961) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). In both Demy films, he played the same role, Roland Cassard, a lovesick writer and jeweler.

Selected filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1960 The Hole Claude Gaspard
1961 Lola Roland Cassard Main male protagonist
1963 La ragazza di Bube Stefano
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Roland Cassard Supporting role
1965 Six Days a Week Arturo Santini
Su e giù Baldovino Uberti
Samba Paulo
1969 The Pleasure Pit
1973 Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu Jean-Paul Leroy
1977 The French Woman Hugo
2013 Summer in Province Tom Washington

References

  1. ↑ "Marc Michel". unifrance.org. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Marc Michel ("Les Parapluies de Cherbourg") est mort". parismatch.com (in French). Retrieved 5 November 2016.


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