Michel Modo
Nascimento : 1937-03-30, Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
Morte : 2008-09-24
História
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
França inicio do século 18. Órfão, criado pelos mestres de armas Cocardasse e Guarnição, o Jovem Lagardére, desafia para um duelo o Duque Nevers. Ele perde, mas seu atrevimento e segurança cativa o Duque que o chama a seus serviços. Nevers e Inès, se casam em segredo, pois Cayus, o pai da bela jovem. Prometeu sua mão ao príncipe de Gonzague, primo de Nevers. Furioso ao descobrir, Gonzague decide se livrar do rival e de sua filha Aurora, que Inès acaba de dar a luz. Acompanhado de mercenários, ele prepara uma armadilha para Nevers e o mata covardemente. Antes de morrer, Nevers confia seu segredo a Lagardère, que chega para socorrê-lo tarde demais. Lagardère jura vingar seu melhor a migo e cuidar da pequena Aurora. Após 16 anos, Gonzague, que ainda deseja se casar com Inès, a convence de que o assassino do marido e seqüestrador da filha é Lagardère e promete encontrar a menina. O duelo final de espadas de Lagardère e Gonzague, está cada vez mais próximo de acontecer.
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
É uma continuação e peça complementar do filme A Glória de Meu Pai (1990), ambas baseadas nas lembranças de infância de Marcel Pagnol. Como seu antecessor, o filme explora as aventuras do jovem Marcel durante seus verões na casa de verão da família em Provence.
Postman
A vida de um garoto na França da virada do século. Marcel, testemunha o sucesso de seu pai professor, bem como o sucesso de seu arrogante tio Jules. Marcel e sua família passam as férias de verão em uma cabana na Provença, e Marcel faz amizade com um garoto local que lhe ensina os segredos das colinas na Provença.
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
Quatro novas gendarmes jovens chegam à delegacia do Gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) com o objetivo de aprender a profissão com os melhores.
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
O Gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) tenta salvar os habitantes de Saint-Tropez e o resto da humanidade de uma invasão alienígena.
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)
Um vilão pegou a flauta mágica dos Smurfs, um instrumento que faz as pessoas dançarem sem parar. Ele a usou para roubá-los. O Rei dos Smurfs manda um emissário para localizar o ladrão e recuperar a flauta.
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
Depois de ser obrigado a se reformar, o Gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) volta a usar o uniforme para ajudar um amigo que sofre de amnésia.
Jules Berlicot
Quando o Gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) se apaixona por uma viúva e planeja casar-se com ela, sua filha travessa vai fazer de tudo para cancelar o casamento.
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
Aventureiros desastrados transformam a Segunda Grande Guerra na maior bagunça.
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
Em 1942, um avião da Royal Air Force é abatido sobre uma Paris ocupada pelo exército nazi. Os três pilotos saltam em para-quedas: Peter Cunningham cai nos andaimes de Augustin Bouvet, um pintor da construção civil que está a trabalhar na fachada do comando alemão, Alan Macintosh aterra no telhado da Ópera, durante o ensaio da orquestra, dirigida por Stanislas LeFort, e Sir Reginald mergulha no tanque das focas, no Jardim Zoológico de Vincennes. Enquanto a polícia alemã se lança à sua procura, Stanislas e Augustin ocupam-se dos ingleses, lançando-se nas mais extraordinárias aventuras, para os conduzirem para a zona livre.
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
Após ser escolhido para representar a França em um congresso internacional, o gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) e sua brigada vão para Nova York.
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
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
A cycling agent
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Jules Berlicot
O ambicioso oficial de polícia Cruchol é transferido para Saint-Tropez. Além de lutar contra persistentes nadadores que insistem em ficar nus, ele também precisa lidar com a filha adolescente que está tentando impressionar os amigos ricos dizendo que seu pai era um homem milionário que possuía um iate no porto. Cruchol acaba sendo atraído para essa história ao precisar encobrir a filha quando um amigo empresta um carro do suposto pai dela.
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
