Michel Bouquet Dies: French Acting Legend Was 96
deadline.comLegendary French stage and screen actor Michel Bouquet has died. The César Award winner passed away today at a Paris hospital, his spokesperson confirmed to AFP.
A tribute on the official website of the Elysée Palace did not cite a cause of death. Bouquet was 96.Born in 1925, Bouquet began his film career in 1947 and went on to appear in more than 100 movies.
In the 1960s and 70s, he collaborated with New Wave directors François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol in such films as Truffaut’s The Bride Wore Black and Mississippi Mermaid; and Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife and Just Before Nightfall, among others.Later in his career, Bouquet won a European Film Award for Jaco Van Dormael’s Toto Le Héros (1991) and took two Best Actor Césars for Anne Fontaine’s How I Killed My Father (2001) and Robert Guédiguian’s The Last Mitterand (2005).
Other directors he worked with include Alain Resnais, Jacques Deray, Francis Veber, Alain Corneau, Jean Becker and Bertrand Blier.Bouquet started out in the theater at age 17, growing to be a monument of the stage.
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