Acting
Michel Modo
Biography
Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in 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 appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played 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 was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.
Movies with Michel Modo
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1966
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964
The Sucker
1965
The Miser
1980
Carom Shots
1963
The Restaurant
1966
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979
The Gendarme Takes Off
1970
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975
The Gendarme Gets Married
1968
My Mother's Castle
1990
The Gendarme in New York
1965
Poltergay
2006
Pétrole ! Pétrole !
1981
The Female Executioner
1986
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
1975
My Father's Glory
1990
Les coucous
1978
Les Gorilles
1964
Herminie
1971
The American Beauty
1961
Killer Spy
1965
Ubu enchaîné
1971
Shock Troops
1967
Gypsy Law
1963
All the Gold in the World
1961
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
1979
La cloche
1964
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
2003
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973
Faites comme chez nous
1993
Les Planqués du régiment
1983
We'll Grow Thin Together
1979
Musidora
1973
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
1992
Under Your Hat
1965
Bebert and the Train
1963
La 99ème Minute
1966
Sadsacks In the Boarding School
1978
Rita the Field Marshal
1967
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
1978
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1969
Operation Lady Marlene
1974
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
1977
Si ma gueule vous plaît...
1981
Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
1981
Alice au pays des merveilles
1970
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
2003
S.O.S homme seul
1984
TV Shows with Michel Modo
Champs-Elysées
1982
Highlander: The Series
1992
Relic Hunter
1999
At Theatre Tonight
1966
Police Commissioner Moulin
1976
Samedi soir
1971
Midi trente
1972
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
1958
La Chance aux chansons
1984
Système 2
1975
30 millions d'amis
1976
Robinson Sucroë
1995
A Tale of Two Cities
1989
Mélissol
1999