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Maurice Bénichou (23 January 1943 in
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– 14 June 2019) was a French actor. His best known roles include three collaborations with director
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('' Code inconnu'', '' Le Temps du Loup'', and '' Caché''), and a part in
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's ''
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''. He has also played in
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's 1989 film version of '' The Mahabharata''.


Filmography

*1969: '' Paris n'existe pas'' (directed by Robert Benayoun) *1972: '' Les Camisards'' (directed by René Allio) - Moïse Plantat *1973: '' Le Mariage à la mode'' (directed by Michel Mardore) *1976: '' Le Petit Marcel'' (directed by Jacques Fansten) - Garcia *1976: '' Un éléphant ça trompe énormément'' (directed by
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) - Gonthier *1977: ''
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'' (directed by Laurent Heynemann) - Vincent *1977: '' L'Animal'' (directed by
Claude Zidi Claude Zidi (born 25 July 1934) is a French film director and screenwriter noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then a cinematographer, and he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1 ...
) - Le valet *1978: '' Dirty Dreamer'' (directed by Jean-Marie Périer) - Taupin *1978: '' Les Routes du sud'' (directed by
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) - Garcia *1978: '' La Vocation suspendue'' (directed by Raoul Ruiz) - Le membre de la Dévotion #1 *1979: '' I... comme Icare'' (''I as in Icarus'') (directed by Henri Verneuil) - Robert Sanio, l'homme à la caméra *1981: '' Le Jardinier'' (directed by Jean-Pierre Sentier) - The overseer *1981: ''Instinct de femme'' (directed by Claude Othnin-Girard) - Le conférencier des rats *1982: '' Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?'' (directed by
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) - Albert *1990: '' The Mahabharata'' (TV Mini-Series) (directed by
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) - Kitchaka *1990: '' La Fracture du myocarde'' (directed by Jacques Fansten) - Le voisin *1993: '' La Petite apocalypse'' (directed by
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) - Arnold *1993: '' Fausto'' (directed by Rémy Duchemin) - Lucien *1993: '' Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes'' (directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann) - Bernard *1994: '' Les Patriotes'' (directed by Éric Rochant) - Yuri *1997: '' Mordbüro'' (directed by Lionel Kopp) - Léo Stoychev *1998: '' L'homme est une femme comme les autres'' (''Man Is a Woman'') (directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann) - Père de Rosalie / Rosalie's father *2000: '' Drôle de Félix'' (directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau) - Fisherman *2000: '' Code inconnu'' (directed by
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) - The Old Arab *2000: '' Quand on sera grand'' (directed by Renaud Cohen) - Isaac *2000: ''
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'' (directed by
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) - Dominique Bretodeau *2001: ''Candidature'' (directed by Emmanuel Bourdieu) - Le président du jury *2002: '' C'est le bouquet !'' (directed by
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) - Antoine *2003: '' Le Temps du Loup'' (directed by
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) - M. Azoulay *2003: '' Qui perd gagne !'' (directed by Laurent Bénégui) - Serge Vaudier *2005: '' Caché'' (directed by
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) - Majid *2005: '' Le Passager'' (directed by Éric Caravaca) - Joseph *2007: '' Boxes'' (directed by
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) - Max *2007: '' Le Candidat'' (directed by Niels Arestrup) - Maxime - écrivain *2007: '' Les Toits de Paris'' (directed by Hiner Saleem) - Amar *2008: ''
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'' (directed by
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) - Le psy *2008: '' Passe-passe'' (directed by
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) - Serge *2008: '' Le Grand Alibi'' (directed by Pascal Bonitzer) - Lieutenant Grange *2008: '' Inju: The Beast in the Shadow'' (directed by Barbet Schroeder)- L'agent d'Alex Fayard *2009: ''La Grande Vie'' (directed by Emmanuel Salinger) - Kowalski *2009: '' Jusqu'à toi'' (directed by Jennifer Devoldère) - Le réceptionniste / Receptionist *2009: ''Mensch'' (directed by Steve Suissa) - Simon Safran *2011: '' Si tu meurs, je te tue'' (directed by Hiner Saleem) - L'employé de la morgue *2011: '' The Rabbi's Cat'' (directed by Antoine Delesvaux and
Joann Sfar Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director. Life and career Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well know ...
)- Le rabbin (voice) *2011: '' Omar Killed Me'' (directed by
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) - Jacques Vergès *2011: '' L'amour fraternel'' (TV Movie) (directed by Gérard Vergez) - Père Chanu *2011: '' Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or'' (directed by Renaud Cohen) - Le rabbin / Maurice Bénichou *2015: '' The Kind Words'' (directed by Shemi Zarhin) - Maurice Lyon (final film role)


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