Michel Modo

Michel Modo (born Michel Henri Louis Goi; 30 March 1937 – 25 September 2008) was a French actor and comedian. Modo died of cancer on 25 September 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne).

Career 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 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 was one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander. He played Maurice Lolande, a 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, while dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on 2 March 2012.

Filmography

La Belle Américaine (1961) as Slovak All the Gold in the World (1961) as Tony Carom Shots (1963) as Le facteur (uncredited) Kriss Romani (1963) as Le garde de Pilate (uncredited) Bebert and the Train (1963) as Un gendarme Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot Les gorilles (1964) as Un agent cycliste The Sucker (1965) as Un douanier La tête du client (1965) as Le collègue de François-Joseph Killer Spy (1965) as L'agent à la bicyclette qui verbalise #2 The Gendarme in New York (1965) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot What's Cooking in Paris (1966) as Petit Roger, un serveur Don't Look Now, We're Being Shot At (1966) as cross-eyed German soldier Un homme de trop (1967) as Le juif torturé La feldmarescialla (1967) as Fritz, Vogel's Assistant Le Gendarme se marie (1968) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot Le Gendarme en balade (1970) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot Cry of the Cormoran (1970) as Le policier The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973) as Le frère Robichon Operation Lady Marlene (1975) as Sansonnet (1975) as Le soldat 'groupir' The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976) as Peewit (voice) Ne me touchez pas... (1977) as Albert Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes (1977) as Le gendarme Les Bidasses au pensionnat (1978) as Sergeant Michaud Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose, 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee (1978) as Konrad Zillich Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres (1979) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot (1979) as Le clerc de notaire Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen (1979) (voice) L'avare (1980) as La merluche Pétrole! Pétrole! (1981) as Alain Terrieur Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent (1981) as Norbert (1981) as Sergent Merlin (1981) as Le vendeur du sex-shop Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes (1982) as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot Le Braconnier de Dieu (1983) as The president of the polling station Les Planqués du régiment (1983) as Adjudant Badubec L'Exécutrice (1986) as Le commissaire The Big Bang (1987) as Conseillé (voice) My Father's Glory (1990) as le facteur My Mother's Castle (1990) as Le facteur Pétain (1993) as Pucheu Bimboland (1998) as Aristide Roumestan Poltergay (2006) as Henri 'Nanny' Bernier - le patron du bar