Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault. Source: Article "Michel Serrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Brunoy, Essonne, France, 1928-01-24

Died: 2007-07-29

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	What the East Wind Saw	Zamore	35
2	1954	Peek-a-boo	Serrault, le trompettiste	49
3	1955	Diabolique	Mr. Raymond	79
4	1956	That Naughty Girl	Inspector #2	60
5	1956	Mon bébé	Jimmy Scott	65
6	1956	Life is beautiful	le démarcheur	45
7	1956	Murderers and Thieves	Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur	62
8	1956	The Terror with Women	Gendarme	0
9	1957	L'Habit vert		0
10	1957	Adorables démons	Jacques Willis Senior	20
11	1957	The Innocent with Forty Children	Jean-François Robignac	50
12	1958	Musée Grévin	The visitor	0
13	1958	Clara and the Villains	La Parole	50
14	1959	L'anglais tel qu'on le parle	Eugène, l'interprète	0
15	1959	Nina	Adolphe Tessier	30
16	1959	Oh! What a Mambo	L'inspecteur Vidalie	55
17	1959	The Bureaucrats	le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils	55
18	1959	You Have Nothing to Declare?	Dr. Emile Couzan	58
19	1959	La Malle volante	M. Loiseau	0
20	1960	Love and the Frenchwoman	L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")	49
21	1960	Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century	Le second policier / Policeman	61
22	1961	On purge bébé	Guillaume Chouilloux	80
23	1961	My Wife Is a Panther	Butcher	10
24	1961	The American Beauty	Tramp	60
25	1962	The Dance	Pétrarque	10
26	1962	Love on a Pillow	Varange	59
27	1962	How to Succeed in Love	Le commissaire	25
28	1962	Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge	Charpentier, le conférencier	50
29	1962	The Four Truths	Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")	42
30	1962	We Will Go to Deauville	Lucien Moreau	57
31	1963	Carom Shots	Baudu, police inspector	61
32	1963	Bebert and the Train	Barthoin	63
33	1964	How Do You Like My Sister?	Varangeot	0
34	1964	Dandelions by the Roots	Jérôme Martinet, actor and cousin of Jockey Jack	56
35	1964	Hard Boiled Ones	Rossignol, le détective privé	35
36	1964	Jaloux comme un tigre	M. Lurot	20
37	1964	Clémentine chérie	Maître Brunet	60
38	1964	Male Hunt	Gaston Lartois	66
39	1965	Les baratineurs	Henri	40
40	1965	How Not to Rob a Department Store	Méloune	10
41	1965	The Real Bargain	Hutin	10
42	1965	Me and the Forty Year Old Man	Bénéchol	50
43	1965	Le petit monstre		0
44	1965	The Double Bed	Albert	30
45	1965	Under Your Hat	Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max	36
46	1965	When the Pheasants Pass	Rimero	65
47	1966	Les combinards	La père de Lucile	47
48	1966	The Boss of Champignol	Hector	0
49	1966	Les enquiquineurs	Martin - instituteur	30
50	1966	King of Hearts	Monsieur Marcel	69
51	1967	The Men in the Family	Gabriel Pelletier	52
52	1967	Les Compagnons de la marguerite	L'inspecteur Papin	63
53	1967	Pour avoir Adrienne	Thomeret	45
54	1967	The Great Gadget	Pounet	32
55	1967	Du mou dans la gâchette	The armorer	56
56	1967	The Madman of Lab Four	Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory	59
57	1967	Cette nuit-là à Bethléem		0
58	1968	The Great Chase	Aldo Moreni	30
59	1968	Would-Be Gentleman	M. Jourdain	0
60	1969	Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille	Commissaire Le Gac	30
61	1969	Call Me Mathilde	François	85
62	1970	Ces messieurs de la gâchette	Gabriel Pelletier	33
63	1970	La Liberté en croupe	Paul Cérès	43
64	1971	Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques	Alfred Mullanet	59
65	1971	Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?	Achille	40
66	1972	The Annuity	Louis Martinet	66
67	1972	Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful	Marcel Jolin	66
68	1972	A Murder Is a Murder	Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant	52
69	1973	Moi y'en a vouloir des sous	Le curé Léon	65
70	1973	La Cage aux folles	Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'	0
71	1973	Big Deal	Paul	27
72	1973	The Big Store	Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché	63
73	1974	The Down-in-the-Hole Gang	Jean-Paul Rondin	64
74	1974	Chinese In Paris	Grégoire Montclair	63
75	1974	Bloody Murder	Edouard Henricot	53
76	1974	La Gueule de l’emploi	L'inspecteur de police	28
77	1974	Operation Lady Marlene	Paulo	50
78	1974	No Pockets in a Shroud	Justin Blesh	54
79	1975	The Restroom Robbery	Max	65
80	1975	The Red Ibis	Jérémie	54
81	1976	La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée	Jean-Pierre Mazard	55
82	1977	Le Roi des bricoleurs	Bordin	20
83	1977	Le Passe-muraille	Dutilleul	22
84	1978	Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	le voisin	66
85	1978	Other People's Money	Miremant	58
86	1978	La Cage aux Folles	Zaza	68
87	1979	L'Esprit de famille	le docteur Charles Moreau	50
88	1979	La Grâce	Henri Dupérier	80
89	1979	The Associate	Julien Pardot	64
90	1979	The Other One's Mug	Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard	56
91	1979	Buffet Froid	Le comptable	70
92	1980	Il lupo e l'agnello	Léon	60
93	1980	Heads or Tails	Édouard Morlaix	69
94	1980	La Cage aux Folles II	Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'	60
95	1981	Malevil	Emmanuel Comte	65
96	1981	The Inquisitor	Jérôme Martinaud	75
97	1982	Nestor Burma, détective de choc	Nestor Burma	47
98	1982	The Hatter's Ghost	Léon Labbé	63
99	1982	The Roaring Forties	Sébastien Barral	59
100	1982	Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ	Jules César	61
101	1983	Deadly Circuit	Beauvoir, « l'Œil »	62
102	1984	Le Bon Plaisir	Le ministre de l'Intérieur	59
103	1984	Kill the Referee	Rico, aggressive supporter	55
104	1984	Good King Dagobert	Otarius	41
105	1985	Les Rois du gag		57
106	1985	Liberté, égalité, choucroute	Louis XVI	60
107	1985	He Died with His Eyes Open	Robert Staniland	59
108	1985	La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding	Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'	51
109	1986	My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister	Octave Clapoteau	49
110	1987	Miracle Healing	Ronald Fox-Terrier	54
111	1987	Ennemis intimes	Baudin	0
112	1988	No Harm Intended	Paul Duchêne	57
113	1988	Bonjour l'angoisse	Michaud	56
114	1988	Let Sleeping Cops Lie	Roger Scatti	55
115	1989	Love Comedy	Paul Léautaud	50
116	1989	Merry Christmas... Happy New Year	Gino	66
117	1990	Dr. Petiot	Docteur Petiot	67
118	1991	L'Huissier	Maître Malicorne	0
119	1991	Héloïse	Maurice Martin, Héloïse	40
120	1991	The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea	Pompilius	56
121	1992	Ville à vendre	Rousselot, le maire	45
122	1992	Room Service	M. Luc	40
123	1992	Old Rascal	Darius Caunes	66
124	1994	Bonsoir	Alex Ponttin	36
125	1995	Tel est Serrault	Self	0
126	1995	Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud	M. Pierre Arnaud	69
127	1995	Happiness Is in the Field	Francis Bergeade	69
128	1996	Beaumarchais the Scoundrel	Louis XV	66
129	1997	Assassin(s)	Mr. Wagner	63
130	1997	Artemisia	Orazio Gentileschi	60
131	1997	The Swindle	Victor	65
132	1997	The Comedian	Le comédien	0
133	1999	The Children of the Marshland	Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'	71
134	2000	The Libertine	Le Cardinal	56
135	2000	Actors	Self	57
136	2001	Un cœur oublié	Monsieur de Fontenelle	50
137	2001	Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre	Verlac	46
138	2001	The Girl from Paris	Adrien Rochas	63
139	2001	Vajont	L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza	66
140	2002	24 Hours in the Life of a Woman	Louis	54
141	2002	The Butterfly	Julien	68
142	2003	L'Affaire Dominici	Gaston Dominici	70
143	2003	Le Furet	Anzio	41
144	2004	Albert est méchant	Albert Moulinot	46
145	2005	Grabuge!	Commissaire Lancret	45
146	2005	Joyeux Noel	The Castle Keeper	74
147	2005	Monsieur Léon	Docteur Léon Chapuis	67
148	2006	Les enfants du pays	Gustave	68
149	2007	L'Avare	Harpagon	70
150	2007	Have Mercy on Us All	Hervé Decambrais	59
151	2007	Le Bénévole	Max Birgos	20
152	2007	Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice	L'archevêque de Venise	52
153	2009	Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)	Self (archive footage)	0
154	2023	Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles	Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)	95
155	2023	The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling	Self (archive footage)	68

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Discorama	Self	0
2	1966	At Theatre Tonight	Thomeret	75
3	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
4	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
5	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
6	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
7	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
8	1975	Apostrophes	Self	85
9	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
10	1975	Système 2	Self	0
11	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
12	1977	Les Folies Offenbach	Jacques Offenbach	0
13	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
14	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self (archive footage)	62
15	1987	Matin Bonheur	Self	0
16	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	62
17	1990	Stars 90	self	62
18	1990	Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé	Martin / Héloïse	0
19	1990	Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé	Maître Malicorne	0
20	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	32
21	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66