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.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as Cross-Eyed German SoldierDuring World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to...
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Jules BerlicotThe bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from...
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Jules BerlicotCruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but...
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The Restaurant
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottesA great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one...
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Jules BerlicotThe ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes...
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The Sucker
as un douanierIn this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a...
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The Gendarme Gets Married
as Jules BerlicotThe Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot...
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My Mother's Castle
as PostmanTo his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles,...
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The Gendarme Takes Off
as Jules BerlicotThe whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her...
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The Gendarme in New York
as Jules BerlicotSergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of...
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The Miser
as La merlucheBased on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in...
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The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a...
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The American Beauty
as SlovakMarcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American...
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
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My Father's Glory
as PostmanRaised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young...
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
as AmbassadeurFrance, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is...
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Carom Shots
as Le facteurPaul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the...
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Poltergay
as Henri "Nanny" BernierMarc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To...
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
as Le frère RobichonColinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
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The Female Executioner
as CommissionerMartine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of...
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Under Your Hat
as Le collègue de François-JosephAn illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
as Cavallo (Voice)The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean...
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Shock Troops
as Le juif torturéA French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Le policierAlfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the...
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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
as SelfA documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from...
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Les Gorilles
as A cycling agentA confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
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Rita the Field Marshal
as Fritz Vogel's AssistantA waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
as uncreditedShakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is...
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The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
as Le gendarmeWhen they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre...
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All the Gold in the World
as TonyBusinessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He...
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Les Planqués du régiment
as Adjudant BadubecA young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the...
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Killer Spy
as L'autre agent à bicyclette qui verbaliseThe most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to...
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Bebert and the Train
as Un gendarmeThe Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after...
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We'll Grow Thin Together
as Le clerc de notaireVictor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer....
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Pétrole ! Pétrole !
as Alain TerrieurLe PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune...
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School
as Sergent Michaud1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding...
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Ubu enchaîné
as uncreditedFather Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a...
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Alice au pays des merveilles
as Le loirAlice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a...
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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
as PersouardSentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been...
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Faites comme chez nous
as Georges DespeuGeorges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara...
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La 99ème minute
as uncreditedDeath live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a...
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
as Konrad ZillichSepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they...
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Musidora
as Anatole BiscarletJean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here...
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Gypsy Law
as uncreditedThe idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged...
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Highlander: The Series
as MauriceDuncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...
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Relic Hunter
as Hugo MurnauSydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to...
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Police Commissioner Moulin
as Inspecteur JaninThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and...
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At Theatre Tonight
as Jean-BaptisteAt Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The...
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