Michel Etcheverry (16 December 1919 – 30 March 1999) was a French actor. First a teacher, he was fired in 1941 for refusing to make the Maréchal children sing, here we come! . He began his career in the theater as a stage manager, then joined the troupe of Louis Jouvet .
He entered the Comédie-Française in 1961, was named member in 1964, honorary member in 1984. His repertoire includes many tragedies from the classical repertoire.
Career
In 1951, he resumed in ''Le Diable et le bon Dieu'' by Sartre, the role held by Jean Vilar called to the direction of the TNP. After which, he performed ''L'Alouette'' by Anouilh, ''Sud'' by Julien Green, ''Pygmalion'' by G.-B. Shaw and above all ''The Diary'' of Anne Frank (1957/58) at the Montparnasse Theater and ''The Annunciation Made to Marie'' by Paul Claudel at the Work. It was then that he entered the Comédie-Française, already a seasoned actor whose exemplary diction, intelligence and bearing soon made him an indispensable part of the troupe. His austere physique, his deep voice and the rigor of his acting serve the tragic repertoire as well as contemporary drama. Racine's great confidants (Paulin,''Berenice''; Narcisse, ''Britannicus),'' the noble fathers of Corneille (Don Diègue, ''Le Cid''; Auguste, ''Cinna''; the Old Horace, ''Horace''; Félix, ''Polyeucte'' and Sertorius), the Don Sallust of ''Ruy Blas'' are close to the characters, with a metaphysical dimension, of Claudel ''(The Hard Bread, The Hostage)'' and Montherlant ''(Malatesta, The Master of Santiago, The Cardinal of Spain),'' as well as those of ancient tragedy ''(Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colone, Antigone'' in Brecht's version) . But he also plays Gide, Schiller, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Strindberg, Anouilh and T.-S. Eliot.
He directed ''André del Sarto'' and ''Bettine'' by Musset, ''Bajazet'' by Racine, ''L'Ecole des femmes'' by Molière, ''L'Apollon de Bellac'' by Giraudoux, ''Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement'' by Mérimée, ''Monsieur Le Trouhadec seized by the debauchery'' of Jules Romains, ''The False Confidences'' of Marivaux, ''A Caprice'' by Musset and ''The Barber of Seville'' by Beaumarchais.
On television, where he appeared a lot, he was notably the Marquis de Lantenac in ''Quatre-vingt-treize'' after Victor Hugo, Don Quixote, King Lear, Un Bourgeois de Calais... not to mention the dramas produced with the French comedy. In cinema, he has participated in many films.
After the success of his interpretation of the title role of ''Sertorius'' by Pierre Corneille, he left the Comédie-Française and the theater in full glory.
Selected filmography
* ''
Without Leaving an Address '' (1951) - Langlois, un futur papa
* ''
Nez de cuir '' (1952) - Un gentilhomme
* ''
Matrimonial Agency '' (1952) - Marcel Sarlet, le fiancé de Viviane
* ''
The Case Against X '' (1952) - Bertrand Moal
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Desperate Decision
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* ''Les Conquérants solitaires'' (1952) - Le narrateur
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Crimson Curtain '' (1952) - Un acteur
* ''
The Drunkard
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* ''
Rasputin
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* ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) - Pietri
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Madame du Barry
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* ''
Caroline and the Rebels
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* ''
Tower of Lust '' (1955) - Enguerrand de Marigny
* ''
Papa, maman, ma femme et moi '' (1955) - L'explorateur
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Blackmail
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* ''Les Aristocrates'' (1955) - Le notaire Crouelles
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The Affair of the Poisons '' (1955) - Le prédicateur
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More Whiskey for Callaghan '' (1955) - Prof. Ephraim Ponticollo
* ''Vous pigez?'' (1955) - (uncredited)
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Maid in Paris '' (1956) - Le commissaire des mineurs
* ''
La Sorcière '' (1956) - L'ingénieur Camoin
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The Wages of Sin '' (1956) - Docteur Maroual
* ''
The Whole Town Accuses '' (1956) - Le chef des gangsters
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It Happened in Aden
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* ''
Honoré de Marseille
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Plot
The story begins in 600 BC with the landing in a calque of a Phocéenne galley commanded by the warrior Honorius who, married by mist ... '' (1956) - Bob
* ''
Michel Strogoff '' (1956) - Général Krisloff
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Élisa '' (1957) - Le président
* ''Fumée blonde'' (1957) - Vladimir
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It's All Adam's Fault '' (1958) - Adam de Casaubon
* ''Le Désert de Pigalle'' (1958) - Le Radiologue
* ''
Women's Prison
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* ''La Nuit des espions'' (1959) - L'officier allemand
* ''Ce soir on tue'' (1959) - Interpol Man #2
* ''Signé Arsène Lupin
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Plot
Arsène Lupin and his accomplice L ... Eyes Without a Face '' (1960) - Le docteur Lherminier - médecin légiste / Forensic surgeon
* ''Recours en grâce'' (1960) - L'inspecteur-chef Pardelles
* ''Le Panier à crabes'' (1960) - Bertrand
* '' Tomorrow Is My Turn '' (1960) - Ludovic
* ''Vers l'extase'' (1960) - Père Bruno
* ''Three Faces of Sin
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Cast
''Lauzun''
* Jean-Paul Belmondo as Lauzun
* Dany Robin as Madame de Monaco
* Philippe Noiret as King Lou ... Our Agent Tiger '' (1965) - (uncredited)
* '' Paris brûle-t-il? '' (1966) - Préfet Luizet
* '' La prisonnière '' (1968) - Le chirurgien
* '' The Milky Way '' (1969) - L'inquisiteur / The Inquisitor
* ''Aminata'' (1971) - (voice)
* '' Perceval le Gallois '' (1978) - Le Roi Pecheur
* ''I as in Icarus
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Selected cast
*Yves Montand as Henri Volney
* Michel Etcheverry as Frédéric Heiniger
* Roger Planchon as ... Tangos, the Exile of Gardel '' (1985) - San Martin
* ''L'écrivain public'' (1993) - Le professeur
* ''A French Woman
''A French Woman'' () is a 1995 French drama film directed by Régis Wargnier.
Plot
Shortly after marrying Louis (Daniel Auteuil), a French military officer, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) must face solitude as Louis is sent to fight in World War ... References
1919 births
1999 deaths
French male film actors
French theatre directors
People from Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Male actors from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
French male stage actors
French male television actors
French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
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