Michel Modo
출생 : 1937-03-30, Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
사망 : 2008-09-24
약력
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.
Henri "Nanny" Bernier
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.
Ambassadeur
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Self
A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.
Maurice (credit only)
Horton, an old mortal enemy, puts a criminal through plastic surgery to make her look like Tessa. The false Tessa sets Duncan up for the final death.
Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She returns from the United States to meet her father. With the complicity of his brother, guardian of the Monjambier's property, Georges decides to settle in the luxurious villa and to play the rich owner not to disappoint his daughter. Things get complicated when, on the one hand, two gangsters on the run take refuge in the villa, and on the other hand, Mr. Monjambier decides to try his luck with his secretary and also arrives at the villa to spend a fraudulent weekend.
Author
Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She returns from the United States to meet her father. With the complicity of his brother, guardian of the Monjambier's property, Georges decides to settle in the luxurious villa and to play the rich owner not to disappoint his daughter. Things get complicated when, on the one hand, two gangsters on the run take refuge in the villa, and on the other hand, Mr. Monjambier decides to try his luck with his secretary and also arrives at the villa to spend a fraudulent weekend.
Persouard
Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal made before he died. Back in Bellefontaine, his village, the good man is the host of a party organized in his honor. As a gift, the mayor and the inhabitants give him a magnificent hunting rifle. At first disconcerted, Gaëtan pulls himself together and tells the audience that his years of imprisonment give him the right to kill the biggest bastard in the village. Most of the inhabitants have something to reproach themselves with and fear being taken for the silhouette, the one who witnessed the murder but never made himself known, even though his testimony would have cleared Gaëtan. Fear invades Bellefontaine and everyone tries to coax Gaëtan with attentions and gifts.
Postman
여름 방학을 보냈던 시골 별장을 그리워하는 마르셀을 위해 엄마는 매주 주말마다 별장에 가기로 한다. 하지만 즐거움도 잠시, 가방과 보따리를 메고 4시간을 걸어야 하는 길은 꼬마 마르셀에게 벅차다. 주변에서 운하 관리인을 하고 있는 아버지의 제자 부지그는 마르셀 가족에게 별장으로 가는 지름길을 알려준다. 개인 소유지를 지나가는 길이기에 함부로 들어가선 안 되지만, 마르셀의 가족은 결국 지름길로 향한다. 마치 모험을 하듯 지름길을 지나가는 마르셀 가족은 그 곳에서 특별한 사람들을 만나게 되는데... 의 아버지에 관한 이야기에 이어 마르셀 파뇰의 ‘어린 시절의 추억’ 중 어머니에 관한 기억을 영화화한 작품. 새 학기가 시작되고 마르셀은 시골에서 보냈던 여름방학 생활을 잊지 못해, 가족들 모두는 주말마다 시골에서의 한때를 보내기로 결정한다.
Postman
교사인 아버지와 재단사인 어머니를 둔 마르셀에게 있어 아버지는 신에 가까운 존재였다. 어머니는 장에 가실 때마다 마르셀을 교실에 맡기셨고 이런 순간마다 자신보다 큰 아이들을 가르치시는 아버지가 무척 존경스러웠다. 그러던 어느날 '어머니는 아이를 벌 주셨습니다'라는 칠판 글씨를 보고 '엄마는 나 벌 안줘'라고 반박했고, 제대로 글을 배운 적이 없는 마르셀이 글씨를 읽자 아버지는 무척 기뻐했으나 어린 아이는 아이답게 자라길 바라는 어머니는 마르셀에게 책도 교실도 금지시켰다. 마르셀의 동생이 태어나자 아버지는 공립학교로 전임을 갔고 노처녀였던 이모가 고급 공무원이며 부자인 이모부와 결혼했다. 그 여름 이모의 가족과 마르셀의 가족은 시골 농장으로 휴가를 떠났다. 마르셀에게 있어 신과 같던 존재였던 아버지는 이모부와 같이 있을 땐 경쟁적인 관계가 되었고, 특히 사냥에 있어서는 이모부를 따라가지 못한다. 어떻게 해서든 아버지가 자신에게 있어 제 자리를 찾기 원한 마르셀은 아버지와 이모부 몰래 사냥터에 따라가 아버지 앞으로 새를 몰아주려 하지만 길을 잃어버린다. 그러나 그곳에서 우연히 만난 릴리의 도움으로 길을 찾는다. 그 순간 총소리가 들리고 마르셀 앞에 새가 떨어진다. 아버지가 잡은 새였던 것이다. 드디어 사냥에 성공한 아버지. 그로 인해 마르셀은 아버지를 다시 만나게 된 것이다. 릴리와의 우정도 깊어만 가는데 어느덧 휴가의 마지막이 다가오고 있었다. 도시로 돌아가기 싫어진 마르셀은 릴리의 도움으로 가출을 시도하고, 릴리와 산으로 들어온 마르셀은 가정의 중요함을 깨닫고 다시 집으로 돌아온다.
Commissioner
Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the gang feeding her information, but progress is hindered by her own police commissioner. In her private live, Martine likes to hang around with her male colleagues, swapping a younger cop for the more mature and experienced Jean.
Adjudant Badubec
A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes.
Jules Berlicot
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
le sergent Merlin
Alain Terrieur
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de son fournisseur arabe.
La merluche
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
Cavallo (Voice)
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
Le clerc de notaire
Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
Jules Berlicot
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Konrad Zillich
Georges Despeu
Author
Sergent Michaud
1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards...
Le gendarme
When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks, three Frenchmen decide to take action.
Pirlouit (voice)
The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil purposes. Johan and Pirlouit, assisted by the magician Homnibus, travel to the land of the Smurfs, the only manufacturers of this sort of instrument, to get a new one and battle the usurpers.
Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Writer
The viscount Galmiche de Quoibedec and his wife have today the engagement party of their daughter.Suddenly The viscount leaves the house, tries to drive his car, but there is great traffic jam.At the same time Alexandre Ladislas Ladretsky, the pianist needs to go to the television.The viscount steals a taxi , Alexandre jumps in the taxi and the owner of a perfume shop jump also into the taxi.Some minutes later two gangsters kidnapped the viscount, the pianist and the young woman of the perfume shop.
Anatole Biscarlet
Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role in the adventure serial.
Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel to "Ubu roi" (1965) directed by Averty.
Jules Berlicot
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Jules Berlicot
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Screenplay
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Fritz Vogel's Assistant
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
Le juif torturé
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
The cross-eyed German soldier
1941년, 나치 점령하의 프랑스. 임무를 수행하고 돌아가던 영국 공군의 비행기가 독일군 대공포를 맞아 추락한다. 영국군 조종사 레지널드, 피터, 앨런은 낙하산을 타고 간신히 탈출해 목숨을 건진다. 셋은 도장업자 오귀스탱, 인형극을 하는 쥘리에트, 오케스트라 지휘자 스타니슬라스의 도움을 받게 되는데, 독일군 장교 아흐바흐는 이들을 붙잡기 위해 추격을 멈추지 않는다. 나치 점령기를 배경으로 한 코미디로, 오랜 세월 동안 깨지지 않은 흥행 기록을 세우기도 했다.
Petit Roger, un serveur
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Jules Berlicot
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot, who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
L'autre agent à bicyclette qui verbalise
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Le collègue de François-Joseph
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
Customs officer
중년의 상인들이 겨우 모은 돈으로 자동차 여행에 나섰다. 그런데 출발하자마자 사고로 차가 고장 난다. 상대는 그 대신 자신이 가진 새 차를 제공하지만 실은 그 차에는 갱이 훔친 금품이 숨겨져 있었는데…. 선량한 소시민들이 범죄에 휘말리는 소동을 그린 슬랩스틱 코미디.
A cycling agent
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Jules Berlicot
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
The misfortune of a young man who tries to keep a rendezvous and finds himself a prisoner in a bell.
Un gendarme (sous le nom Modo)
Tony
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
Slovak
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more
