Michel Modo
Michel Modo was a French actor and comedian. Modo died of cancer on 25 September 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne.
Career
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 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 was one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander. He played Maurice Lolande, a 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, while dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on 2 March 2012.
Filmography
- La Belle Américaine as SlovakAll the Gold in the World as Tony
- Carom Shots as Le facteur
- Kriss Romani as Le garde de Pilate
- Bebert and the Train as Un gendarme
- Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- Les gorilles as Un agent cycliste
- The Sucker as Un douanier
- La tête du client as Le collègue de François-Joseph
- Killer Spy as L'agent à la bicyclette qui verbalise #2
- The Gendarme in New York as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- What's Cooking in Paris as Petit Roger, un serveur
- Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At as cross-eyed German soldier
- Un homme de trop as Le juif torturé
- La feldmarescialla as Fritz, Vogel's Assistant
- Le Gendarme se marie as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- Le Gendarme en balade as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- Cry of the Cormoran as Le policier
- The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Le frère Robichon
- Operation Lady Marlene as Sansonnet
- ' as Le soldat 'groupir'
- The Smurfs and the Magic Flute as Peewit
- Ne me touchez pas... as Albert
- Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes as Le gendarme
- Les Bidasses au pensionnat as Sergeant Michaud
- Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose, 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee as Konrad Zillich
- Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- ' as Le clerc de notaire
- Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen
- L'avare as La merluche
- Pétrole! Pétrole! as Alain Terrieur
- Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent as Norbert
- ' as Sergent Merlin
- ' as Le vendeur du sex-shop
- Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
- Le Braconnier de Dieu as The president of the polling station
- Les Planqués du régiment as Adjudant Badubec
- L'Exécutrice as Le commissaire
- The Big Bang as Conseillé
- My Father's Glory as le facteur
- My Mother's Castle as Le facteur
- Pétain as Pucheu
- Bimboland as Aristide Roumestan
- Poltergay as Henri 'Nanny' Bernier - le patron du bar