Michel Modo

Michel Modo, born Michael Goi Henri Louis at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Michel died of cancer on September 25, 2008 to 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 will appear many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will play 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 is replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who dies in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.

Films

• La Belle Américaine as Slovak (1961)
• Tout l'or du monde as Tony (1961)
• Carom Shots as Le facteur (uncredited) (1963)
• Bebert and the Train as Un gendarme (as Modo) (1963)
• Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (1964)
• Les gorilles as Un agent cycliste (1964)
• The Sucker as Un douanier (as Modo) (1965)
• La tête du client as Le collègue de François-Joseph (1965)
• Killer Spy as L'agent à la bicyclette qui verbalise #2 (1965)
• The Gendarme in New York as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (as Modo) (1965)
• What's Cooking in Paris as Petit Roger, un serveur (1966)
• Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At as Soldat allemand qui louche (as Modo) (1966)
• Un homme de trop as Le juif torturé (1967)
• La feldmarescialla as Fritz, Vogel's Assistant (1967)
• The Gendarme Gets Married as Maréchal des Logis Tricard (1968)
• Cry of the Cormoran Le policier (1970)
• The Gendarme Takes Off as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (1970)
• The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Le frère Robichon (1973)
• Operation Lady Marlene as Sansonnet (1975)
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute as Peewit (1976)
• Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes as Le gendarme (1977)
• Les Bidasses au pensionnat as Sergeant Michaud (1978)
• Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose, 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee as Konrad Zillich (1978)
• Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (1979)
• fr (1979)
• Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen (1979) (voice)
• L'avare as La merluche (1980)
• Pétrole! Pétrole! as Alain Terrieur (1981)
• Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent as Norbert (1981)
• Le gendarme et les gendarmettes as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (1982)
• Les Planqués du régiment as Adjudant Badubec (1983)
• L'Exécutrice as Le commissaire (1986)
• My Mother's Castle as Le facteur (1990)
• My Father's Glory as le facteur (1990)
• Pétain as Pucheu (1993)
• Bimboland as Aristide Roumestan (1998)
• Poltergay as Henri 'Nanny' Bernier - le patron du bar (2006)

External links

• Michel Modo at IMDb