Michel Modo

Birthday:

03/30/1937

Place of birth:

Carpentras, Vaucluse, France:

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.



Credits

Poltergay (2006)
Henri "Nanny" Bernier
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere (2003)
Ambassadeur
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)
Self
Highlander: The Series - Counterfeit (1994)
Maurice (credit only)
Faites comme chez nous (1993)
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine (1992)
Persouard
My Mother's Castle (1990)
Postman
My Father's Glory (1990)
Postman
The Female Executioner (1986)
Commissioner
S.O.S homme seul (1984)
Les Planqués du régiment (1983)
Adjudant Badubec
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
Jules Berlicot
Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres (1981)
le sergent Merlin
Pétrole ! Pétrole ! (1981)
Alain Terrieur
The Miser (1980)
La merluche
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen (1979)
Cavallo (Voice)
We'll Grow Thin Together (1979)
Le clerc de notaire
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
Jules Berlicot
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978)
Konrad Zillich
Les coucous (1978)
Georges Despeu
Sadsacks In the Boarding School (1978)
Sergent Michaud
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing (1977)
Le gendarme
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976)
Pirlouit (voix)
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (1975)
Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
Musidora (1973)
Anatole Biscarlet
Ubu enchaîné (1971)
Herminie (1971)
Jean-Baptise
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970)
Jules Berlicot
The Gendarme Gets Married (1968)
Jules Berlicot
Rita the Field Marshal (1967)
Fritz Vogel's Assistant
Shock Troops (1967)
Le juif torturé
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
Cross-Eyed German Soldier
The Restaurant (1966)
Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
The Gendarme in New York (1965)
Jules Berlicot
Killer Spy (1965)
L'autre agent à bicyclette qui verbalise
Under Your Hat (1965)
Le collègue de François-Joseph
The Sucker (1965)
un douanier
Les Gorilles (1964)
A cycling agent
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
Jules Berlicot
La cloche (1964)
Bébert et l'omnibus (1963)
Un gendarme (sous le nom Modo)
Carom Shots (1963)
Le facteur
All the Gold in the World (1961)
Tony
The American Beauty (1961)
Slovak
Faites comme chez nous (1993)
Author
Les coucous (1978)
Author
The Funny Guys in a Crazy World (1974)
Writer
The Little Bather (1968)
Screenplay