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