Michel Serrault

WriterActorProducer Jan 24 (died age 79) Brunoy, Essonne, France 1954–2024 (70 year career)

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Biography

Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serraul…

Known For

Film

Diabolique

Mr. Raymond

Film

Joyeux Noel

The Castle Keeper

Film

The Inquisitor

Jérôme Martinaud

Film

La Cage aux Folles

Zaza

Film

Buffet Froid

Le comptable

Film

The Children of the Marshland

Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'

Film

Happiness Is in the Field

Francis Bergeade

Film

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

Mr. Pierre Arnaud

Filmography

Acting (176)

Movies (157)

Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles

2023

as Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)

9.5

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

2009

as Self (archive footage)

L'Avare

as Harpagon

Have Mercy on Us All

as Hervé Decambrais

Le Bénévole

as Max Birgos

Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice

2007

as L'archevêque de Venise

Les enfants du pays

as Gustave

Joyeux Noel

as The Castle Keeper

Monsieur Léon

as Docteur Léon Chapuis

6.6

Grabuge!

2005

as Commissaire Lancret

Albert est méchant

as Albert Moulinot

Le Furet

as Anzio

L'Affaire Dominici

as Gaston Dominici

Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes

2002

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

The Butterfly

2002

as Julien

6.8

24 Hours in the Life of a Woman

2002

as Louis

5.2

Un cœur oublié

2001

as Monsieur de Fontenelle

5.0

Vajont

2001

as L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza

6.6

The Girl from Paris

2001

as Adrien Rochas

6.4

Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

as Verlac

Actors

as Michel Serrault

The Libertine

as Le Cardinal

Marty's World

as Antoine Berrant

The Children of the Marshland

1999

as Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'

7.1

Artemisia

1997

as Orazio Gentileschi

Assassin(s)

as Mr. Wagner

The Comedian

as Le comédien

The Swindle

1997

as Victor

6.5

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996

as Louis XV

6.6

Happiness Is in the Field

1995

as Francis Bergeade

6.8

Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud

1995

as Mr. Pierre Arnaud

6.9

Tel est Serrault

1995

as Self

Bonsoir

as Alex Ponttin

Old Rascal

as Darius Caunes

Ville à vendre

as Rousselot, le maire

4.5

Room Service

1992

as M. Luc

3.3

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

as Pompilius

L'Huissier

as Maître Malicorne

Héloïse

as Maurice Martin, Héloïse

4.0

Dr. Petiot

1990

as Docteur Petiot

6.3

Merry Christmas... Happy New Year

as Gino

Love Comedy

as Paul Léautaud

Bonjour l'angoisse

as Michaud

Let Sleeping Cops Lie

as Roger Scatti

No Harm Intended

as Paul Duchêne

Ennemis intimes

as Baudin

Miracle Healing

1987

as Ronald Fox-Terrier

5.3

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

1986

as Octave Clapoteau

4.2

He Died with His Eyes Open

1985

as Robert Staniland

5.6

La Cage aux Folles 3

1985

as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'

5.1

Liberté, égalité, choucroute

1985

as Louis XVI

5.9

Les Rois du gag

1985

as Gaëtan / Robert Wellson

Good King Dagobert

as Otarius

Le Bon Plaisir

as Le ministre de l'Intérieur

5.7

Kill the Referee

1984

as Rico, aggressive supporter

5.4

Deadly Circuit

1983

as Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '

6.1

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

as Jules César

The Roaring Forties

as Sébastien Barral

The Hatter's Ghost

as Léon Labbé

Nestor Burma, détective de choc

as Nestor Burma

The Inquisitor

as Jérôme Martinaud

Malevil

as Emmanuel Comte

Il lupo e l'agnello

as Léon

Heads or Tails

as Édouard Morlaix

La Cage aux Folles II

1980

as Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'

6.0

L'Esprit de famille

1979

as le docteur Charles Moreau

La Grâce

as Henri Dupérier

The Associate

as Julien Pardot

Buffet Froid

as Le comptable

The Other One's Mug

as Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard

Other People's Money

as Miremant

La Cage aux Folles

as Zaza

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978

as le voisin

6.6

Le Roi des bricoleurs

as Bordin

Le Passe-muraille

as Dutilleul

La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée

1976

as Jean-Pierre Mazard

The Red Ibis

as Jérémie

The Restroom Robbery

as Max

Bloody Murder

as Edouard Henricot

Operation Lady Marlene

1974

as Paulo

4.8

Chinese In Paris

1974

as Grégoire Montclair

6.1

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

1974

as Jean-Paul Rondin

6.4

La Gueule de l’emploi

1974

as L'inspecteur de police

2.6

No Pockets in a Shroud

1974

as Justin Blesh

5.2

La Cage aux folles

1973

as Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'

10.0

The Big Store

1973

as Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché

6.3

Big Deal

1973

as Paul

2.7

Moi y'en a vouloir des sous

as Le curé Léon

The Annuity

as Louis Martinet

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful

1972

as Marcel Jolin

6.4

A Murder Is a Murder

1972

as Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant

5.2

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

1971

as Alfred Mullanet

5.9

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

1971

as Achille

7.0

Ces messieurs de la gâchette

as Gabriel Pelletier

La Liberté en croupe

as Paul Cérès

Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille

1969

as Commissaire Le Gac

Call Me Mathilde

as François

The Great Chase

as Aldo Moreni

Would-Be Gentleman

as M. Jourdain

The Men in the Family

as Gabriel Pelletier

The Great Gadget

as Pounet

Loose in the Trigger

as The armorer

Pour avoir Adrienne

as Thomeret

Order of the Daisy

as L'inspecteur Papin

6.3

The Madman of Lab Four

1967

as Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory

5.9

Cette nuit-là à Bethléem

1967

The Boss of Champignol

1966

as Hector

Les Combinards

1966

as La père de Lucile

4.7

Les enquiquineurs

1966

as Martin - instituteur

King of Hearts

as Monsieur Marcel

Under Your Hat

as Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max

3.3

How Not to Rob a Department Store

1965

as Méloune

1.0

When the Pheasants Pass

as Rimero

Les baratineurs

as Henri

The Double Bed

as Albert

Le petit monstre

as Valet

The Real Bargain

1965

as Hutin

1.0

Me and the Forty Year Old Man

as Bénéchol

Clémentine chérie

as Maître Brunet

Male Hunt

as Gaston Lartois

Dandelions by the Roots

1964

as Jérôme Martinet, contrebassiste et comédien

5.4

How Do You Like My Sister?

1964

as Varangeot

Jaloux comme un tigre

1964

as Mr. Lurot

2.0

Hard Boiled Ones

1964

as Rossignol, private detective

3.5

Carom Shots

1963

as Le commissaire Baudu

Bebert and the Train

as Barthoin

The Four Truths

as Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")

The Dance

as Pétrarque

Love on a Pillow

as Varange

We Will Go to Deauville

1962

as Lucien Moreau

5.6

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

1962

as Charpentier, le conférencier

5.0

How to Succeed in Love

as Commissioner

My Wife Is a Panther

as Butcher

The American Beauty

as Tramp

On purge bébé

as Guillaume Chouilloux

8.0

Love and the Frenchwoman

1960

as L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")

4.5

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

1960

as Le second policier / Policeman

6.2

You Have Nothing to Declare?

1959

as Dr. Emile Couzan

5.8

The Bureaucrats

1959

as le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils

5.5

Oh! What a Mambo

1959

as L'inspecteur Vidalie

Nina

as Adolphe Tessier

La Malle volante

as M. Loiseau

L'anglais tel qu'on le parle

1959

as Eugène, l'interprète

Clara and the Villains

1958

as 'La Parole'

5.0

Musée Grévin

1958

as The visitor

The Innocent with Forty Children

1957

as Jean-François Robignac

5.0

Adorables démons

1957

as Jacques Willis Senior

2.0

L'Habit vert

1957

as Count Hubert de Latour-Latour

Life is beautiful

1956

as le démarcheur

4.5

The Terror with Women

1956

as Gendarme

Mon bébé

as Jimmy Scott

That Naughty Girl

as Inspector Leduc

Murderers and Thieves

1956

as Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur

Diabolique

as Mr. Raymond

Peek-a-boo

as Serrault, le trompettiste

4.9

What the East Wind Saw

1954

as Zamore

2.7

C'est pas Parce qu'on n'a Rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa Gueule...

as Max

Television (19)

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

2022

as Self (archive footage)

Vivement dimanche

as Self

Stars 90

as Self

Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé

1990

as Maître Malicorne

Sacrée Soirée

1987

as Self

5.1

Matin Bonheur

1987

as Self

Champs-Elysées

1982

as Self

6.3

Les Folies Offenbach

1977

as Jacques Offenbach

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Apostrophes

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Système 2

1975

as Self

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Samedi soir

as Self

À bout portant

as Self

At Theatre Tonight

as Thomeret

Discorama

as Self

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Poiret Serrault extraits extra

2024

Writer

Dr. Petiot

1990

Producer

6.3