Michel Modo

Known for ActingBorn 1937-03-30Died 2008-09-24Carpentras, Vaucluse, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mélissol

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Gypsy Law

Bienvenue à Bellefontaine

Musidora

La 99ème Minute

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

Highlander: The Series

My Father's Glory

The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

My Mother's Castle

The Seventh Company Has Been Found

The Sucker

Police Commissioner Moulin

Relic Hunter

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

At Theatre Tonight

Champs-Elysées

The Restaurant

La Chance aux chansons

Shock Troops

The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen

The Little Bather

The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

The Gendarme Gets Married

La cloche

The Miser

Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

All the Gold in the World

The Gendarme Takes Off

Les Gorilles

Bebert and the Train

The Gendarme in New York

Alice au pays des merveilles

30 millions d'amis

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

Les Planqués du régiment

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

Midi trente

Herminie

Samedi soir

Carom Shots

Killer Spy

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

The American Beauty

A Tale of Two Cities

We'll Grow Thin Together

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