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Michel Such

Michel Such

Actor · b. 1944 · Algiers, Algeria

Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. » Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau... Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996. Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.

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  • Movie6.5

    L'été en pente douce

    1987 · 69 votes

  • Movie7.0

    L'Important c'est d'aimer

    That Most Important Thing: Love

    1975 · 136 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Mortelle randonnée

    Deadly Circuit

    1983 · 115 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Les Bronzés

    French Fried Vacation

    1978 · 964 votes

  • Movie7.3

    Les Bronzés font du ski

    French Fried Vacation 2

    1979 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie6.6

    Tenue de soirée

    Ménage

    1986 · 256 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Plein sud

    Heat of Desire

    1981 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.5

    La Soif de l'or

    The Thirst for Gold

    1993 · 117 votes

  • Movie6.4

    L'Héritier

    The Inheritor

    1973 · 96 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Quartet

    1981 · 41 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Garde à vue

    The Inquisitor

    1981 · 286 votes

  • Movie6.5

    La Meilleure Façon de marcher

    The Best Way to Walk

    1976 · 92 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Lévy et Goliath

    Levy & Goliath

    1987 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Dites-lui que je l'aime

    This Sweet Sickness

    1977 · 31 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Triple sec

    1986 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.0

    La frisée aux lardons

    1979 · 2 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Thomas

    1975 · 1 votes

  • Movie4.7

    Ils sont grands, ces petits

    These Kids Are Grown-Ups

    1979 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Des enfants gâtés

    Spoiled Children

    1977 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Mes meilleurs copains

    My Best Pals

    1989 · 104 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Colloque de chiens

    Dog's Dialogue

    1987 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine

    Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's

    1981 · 160 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Félix et Lola

    Felix and Lola

    2001 · 11 votes

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