Michel Modo

Born: 1937-03-30

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

as Cross-eyed German machine gunner
Released: 1966-12-08

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to...

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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1964-09-08

The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes...

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The Restaurant

as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
Released: 1966-09-09

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one...

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My Mother's Castle

as Postman
Released: 1990-10-26

To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles,...

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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1982-10-03

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but...

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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1979-01-31

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from...

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The Miser

as La merluche
Released: 1980-03-05

Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in...

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The Gendarme in New York

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1965-10-28

Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of...

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The Gendarme Gets Married

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1968-10-30

The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot...

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The Gendarme Takes Off

as Jules Berlicot
Released: 1970-10-28

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her...

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My Father's Glory

as Postman
Released: 1990-08-29

Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young...

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The Sucker

as Customs officer
Released: 1965-03-24

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a...

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Poltergay

as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
Released: 2006-10-25

Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To...

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Carom Shots

as Le facteur
Released: 1963-05-17

Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the...

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The Seventh Company Has Been Found

as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
Released: 1975-12-10

The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.

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as Pirlouit (voice)
Released: 1976-01-21

The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a...

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All the Gold in the World

as Tony
Released: 1961-11-01

Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He...

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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen

as Cavallo (Voice)
Released: 1979-10-24

The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean...

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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

as Policeman
Released: 1971-02-10

Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the...

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Shock Troops

as Le juif torturé
Released: 1967-04-05

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...

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The American Beauty

as Slovak
Released: 1961-09-29

Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American...

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Rita the Field Marshal

as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
Released: 1967-12-21

A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

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Killer Spy

as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
Released: 1965-09-23

The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to...

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The Female Executioner

as Commissioner
Released: 1986-01-15

Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of...

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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

as Self
Released: 2003-01-01

A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from...

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Bebert and the Train

as Gendarme
Released: 1963-12-03

The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after...

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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

as Brother Robichon
Released: 1973-10-24

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.

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S.O.S homme seul

as uncredited
Released: 1984-06-07

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Alice au pays des merveilles

as Dormouse
Released: 1970-12-22

Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a...

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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

as Ambassadeur
Released: 2003-12-25

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is...

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Under Your Hat

as Le collègue de François-Joseph
Released: 1965-09-03

An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.

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The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

as Le gendarme
Released: 1977-09-25

When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as uncredited
Released: 1969-12-25

Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is...

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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee

as Konrad Zillich
Released: 1978-12-23

Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they...

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Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres

as le sergent Merlin
Released: 1981-10-28

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Faites comme chez nous

as Georges Despeu
Released: 1993-05-20

Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara...

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La 99ème Minute

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-23

Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a...

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Pétrole ! Pétrole !

as Alain Terrieur
Released: 1981-01-01

Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune...

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Ubu enchaîné

as uncredited
Released: 1971-10-02

Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a...

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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine

as Persouard
Released: 1992-01-01

Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been...

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Les Planqués du régiment

as Adjudant Badubec
Released: 1983-06-15

A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the...

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We'll Grow Thin Together

as Le clerc de notaire
Released: 1979-08-15

Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer....

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Sadsacks In the Boarding School

as Sergent Michaud
Released: 1978-05-17

1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding...

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Les Gorilles

as A cycling agent
Released: 1964-12-23

A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.

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Gypsy Law

as uncredited
Released: 1963-05-24

The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged...

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Les coucous

as Georges Despeu
Released: 1978-10-27

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Musidora

as Anatole Biscarlet
Released: 1973-12-29

Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here...

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Herminie

as Jean-Baptise
Released: 1971-09-09

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Relic Hunter

as Hugo Murnau
First aired: 1999-09-25

Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to...

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Highlander: The Series

as Maurice
First aired: 1992-10-03

Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's...

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Police Commissioner Moulin

as Inspecteur Janin
First aired: 1976-08-04

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and...

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30 millions d'amis

as Self
First aired: 1976-01-06

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La Chance aux chansons

as Self
First aired: 1984-03-26

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At Theatre Tonight

as Jean-Baptiste
First aired: 1966-07-21

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The...

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Robinson Sucroë

as M. Floyd
First aired: 1995-01-16

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