Michel Modo

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Carpentras, Vaucluse, France, 1937-03-30

Died: 2008-09-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	The American Beauty	Slovak	60
2	1961	All the Gold in the World	Tony	63
3	1963	Carom Shots	Postman (uncredited)	61
4	1963	Gypsy Law	Guard of Pilate (uncredited)	0
5	1963	Bebert and the Train	Gendarme	63
6	1964	La cloche		50
7	1964	Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez	Jules Berlicot	70
8	1964	Les Gorilles	A cycling agent	55
9	1965	The Sucker	Customs officer	74
10	1965	Under Your Hat	Le collègue de François-Joseph	36
11	1965	Killer Spy	Other officer on the bicycle who issues tickets	50
12	1965	The Gendarme in New York	Jules Berlicot	63
13	1966	La 99ème Minute		80
14	1966	The Restaurant	Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes	68
15	1966	Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!	Cross-eyed German machine gunner	79
16	1967	Shock Troops	Le juif torturé	67
17	1967	Rita the Field Marshal	Fritz Vogel's Assistant	52
18	1968	The Gendarme Gets Married	Jules Berlicot	65
19	1969	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Laflûte	100
20	1970	The Gendarme Takes Off	Jules Berlicot	64
21	1970	Alice au pays des merveilles	Dormouse	57
22	1971	Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques	Policeman	58
23	1971	Herminie	Jean-Baptise	60
24	1971	Ubu enchaîné		0
25	1973	The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot	Brother Robichon	51
26	1973	Musidora	Anatole Biscarlet	0
27	1975	The Seventh Company Has Been Found	Le soldat allemand 'groupir'	73
28	1976	The Smurfs and the Magic Flute	Pirlouit (voice)	66
29	1977	The Centipede Is Tap Dancing	Le gendarme	51
30	1978	Sadsacks In the Boarding School	Sergent Michaud	27
31	1978	Les coucous	Georges Despeu	0
32	1978	Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee	Konrad Zillich	60
33	1979	The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space	Jules Berlicot	61
34	1979	We'll Grow Thin Together	Le clerc de notaire	10
35	1979	The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen	Cavallo (Voice)	64
36	1980	The Miser	La merluche	63
37	1981	Pétrole ! Pétrole !	Alain Terrieur	46
38	1981	Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers	le sergent Merlin	42
39	1981	Si ma gueule vous plaît...	Sex shop seller	22
40	1982	The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes	Jules Berlicot	60
41	1983	Les Planqués du régiment	Adjudant Badubec	40
42	1984	S.O.S homme seul		40
43	1986	The Female Executioner	Commissioner	42
44	1990	My Father's Glory	Postman	73
45	1990	My Mother's Castle	Postman	72
46	1992	Bienvenue à Bellefontaine	Persouard	0
47	1993	Faites comme chez nous	Georges Despeu	0
48	2003	Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire	Self	61
49	2003	The Masked Avenger: Lagardere	Ambassadeur	74
50	2006	Poltergay	Henri "Nanny" Bernier	52

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	Pierre Pégoux	0
2	1958	Les Cinq Dernières Minutes	Yves Lacaze	0
3	1966	At Theatre Tonight	Jean-Baptiste	67
4	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
5	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
6	1975	Système 2	Self	0
7	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
8	1976	Police Commissioner Moulin	Inspecteur Janin	58
9	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
10	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self	40
11	1992	Highlander: The Series	Maurice	74
12	1995	Robinson Sucroë	M. Floyd	0
13	1999	Mélissol	Zanzi	100
14	1999	Relic Hunter	Hugo Murnau	67

Michel Modo

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Television