Michel Such

Born: 1944-08-15

Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. » Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau... Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996. Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.


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French Fried Vacation 2

as Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late
Released: 1979-11-22

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end...

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That Most Important Thing: Love

as Electrician
Released: 1975-02-12

Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by...

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The Inquisitor

as Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner
Released: 1981-09-23

Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes,...

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French Fried Vacation

as Fat guy who wants to go water skiing
Released: 1978-11-11

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their...

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The Thirst for Gold

as Le gendarme
Released: 1993-08-31

Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only...

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The Inheritor

as (uncredited)
Released: 1973-03-22

After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim...

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Deadly Circuit

as l'homme à l'attaché-case
Released: 1983-03-09

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

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Ménage

as uncredited
Released: 1986-04-23

Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a...

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Spoiled Children

as Un locataire
Released: 1977-09-06

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate...

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L'été en pente douce

as Paul le vigile
Released: 1987-04-29

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane...

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The Best Way to Walk

as Léni
Released: 1976-03-03

In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night,...

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Heat of Desire

as L'employé des wagons-lits
Released: 1981-04-29

In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand,...

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These Kids Are Grown-Ups

as Le caissier
Released: 1979-03-14

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot...

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Felix and Lola

as Frantz
Released: 2001-03-07

Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a...

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Dog's Dialogue

as uncredited
Released: 1979-05-17

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs...

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The Laboratory of Fear

as Antoine
Released: 1971-01-01

All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara,...

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Levy & Goliath

as Cafe owner
Released: 1987-01-27

A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to...

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Pourquoi pas nous ?

as Un client de la librairie
Released: 1981-06-14

A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.

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New Year's Eve At Bob's

as uncredited
Released: 1984-12-12

On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people -...

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Mon fils d'ailleurs

as The controller
Released: 2004-11-17

A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.

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Elli Fat Mat

as uncredited
Released: 1989-11-15

27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...

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Stress

as uncredited
Released: 1984-09-19

A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.

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Manipulations

as Michel
Released: 1984-10-03

Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the...

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Ladies of the Law

as Michel le vigile
First aired: 2000-06-22

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Le Gerfaut

as Monsieur
First aired: 1987-07-08

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