Michel Modo
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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.
Known for
Credits
Les coucous (1978)
as Georges Despeu
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
as Cross-eyed Soldier
The Miser (1980)
as La merluche
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
as Jules Berlicot
The Female Executioner (1986)
as Commissioner
The Sucker (1965)
as Un douanier
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
Les Gorilles (1964)
as A cycling agent
Pétrole ! Pétrole ! (1981)
as Alain Terrieur
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1975)
as Pirlouit (voice)
My Mother's Castle (1990)
as Postman
Poltergay (2006)
as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
Carom Shots (1963)
as Le Facteur (uncredited)
Gypsy Law (1963)
as Guard of Pilate (uncredited)
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
as Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme in New York (1965)
as Jules Berlicot
La cloche (1964)
Actor
Les Planqués du régiment (1983)
as Adjudant Badubec
Ubu enchaîné (1971)
Actor
Herminie (1971)
as Jean-Baptise
All the Gold in the World (1961)
as Tony
Musidora (1973)
as Anatole Biscarlet
My Father's Glory (1990)
as Postman
The American Beauty (1961)
as Slovak
The Restaurant (1966)
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
Killer Spy (1965)
as Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets
Shock Troops (1967)
as Le juif torturé
We'll Grow Thin Together (1979)
as Le clerc de notaire
La 99ème Minute (1966)
Actor
Rita the Field Marshal (1967)
as Fritz Vogel's Assistant
Operation Lady Marlene (1974)
as Sansonnet
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere (2003)
as Ambassadeur
Faites comme chez nous (1993)
as Georges Despeu
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine (1992)
as Persouard
Si ma gueule vous plaît... (1981)
as Sex shop seller
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques (1971)
as Policeman
Bebert and the Train (1963)
as Gendarme
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen (1979)
as Cavallo (Voice)
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973)
as Brother Robichon
Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
as Sergent Michaud
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969)
as Laflûte
Under Your Hat (1965)
as Le collègue de François-Joseph
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing (1977)
as Le gendarme
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers (1981)
as le sergent Merlin
Alice au pays des merveilles (1970)
as Dormouse
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)
as Self
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978)
as Konrad Zillich
S.O.S homme seul (1984)
Actor