Michel Serrault
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 24, 1928, Brunoy, Essonne, France
- Died
- July 29, 2007
- Movies
- 158
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles | Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice | L'archevêque de Venise |
| 2007 | Le Bénévole | Max Birgos |
| 2007 | Have Mercy on Us All | Hervé Decambrais |
| 2007 | L'Avare | Harpagon |
| 2006 | Les enfants du pays | Gustave |
| 2005 | Monsieur Léon | Docteur Léon Chapuis |
| 2005 | Joyeux Noel | The Castle Keeper |
| 2005 | Grabuge! | Commissaire Lancret |
| 2004 | Albert est méchant | Albert Moulinot |
| 2003 | Le Furet | Anzio |
| 2003 | L'Affaire Dominici | Gaston Dominici |
| 2002 | The Butterfly | Julien |
| 2002 | 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman | Louis |
| 2002 | Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Vajont | L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza |
| 2001 | The Girl from Paris | Adrien Rochas |
| 2001 | Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre | Verlac |
| 2001 | Un cœur oublié | Monsieur de Fontenelle |
| 2000 | Actors | Michel Serrault |
| 2000 | The Libertine | Le Cardinal |
| 2000 | Marty's World | Antoine Berrant |
| 1999 | The Children of the Marshland | Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette' |
| 1997 | The Comedian | Le comédien |
| 1997 | The Swindle | Victor |
| 1997 | Artemisia | Orazio Gentileschi |
| 1997 | Assassin(s) | Mr. Wagner |
| 1996 | Beaumarchais the Scoundrel | Louis XV |
| 1995 | Happiness Is in the Field | Francis Bergeade |
| 1995 | Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud | Mr. Pierre Arnaud |
| 1995 | Tel est Serrault | Self |
| 1994 | Bonsoir | Alex Ponttin |
| 1992 | Old Rascal | Darius Caunes |
| 1992 | Room Service | M. Luc |
| 1992 | Ville à vendre | Rousselot, le maire |
| 1991 | The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea | Pompilius |
| 1991 | Héloïse | Maurice Martin, Héloïse |
| 1991 | L'Huissier | Maître Malicorne |
| 1990 | Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot |
| 1989 | Merry Christmas... Happy New Year | Gino |
| 1989 | Love Comedy | Paul Léautaud |
| 1988 | Let Sleeping Cops Lie | Roger Scatti |
| 1988 | Bonjour l'angoisse | Michaud |
| 1988 | No Harm Intended | Paul Duchêne |
| 1987 | Ennemis intimes | Baudin |
| 1987 | Miracle Healing | Ronald Fox-Terrier |
| 1986 | My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister | Octave Clapoteau |
| 1985 | La Cage aux Folles 3 | Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli' |
| 1985 | He Died with His Eyes Open | Robert Staniland |
| 1985 | Liberté, égalité, choucroute | Louis XVI |
| 1985 | Les Rois du gag | Gaëtan / Robert Wellson |
| 1984 | Good King Dagobert | Otarius |
| 1984 | Kill the Referee | Rico, aggressive supporter |
| 1984 | Le Bon Plaisir | Le ministre de l'Intérieur |
| 1983 | Deadly Circuit | Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil ' |
| 1982 | Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ | Jules César |
| 1982 | The Roaring Forties | Sébastien Barral |
| 1982 | The Hatter's Ghost | Léon Labbé |
| 1982 | Nestor Burma, détective de choc | Nestor Burma |
| 1981 | The Inquisitor | Jérôme Martinaud |
| 1981 | Malevil | Emmanuel Comte |
| 1980 | La Cage aux Folles II | Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli' |
| 1980 | Heads or Tails | Édouard Morlaix |
| 1980 | Il lupo e l'agnello | Léon |
| 1979 | Buffet Froid | Le comptable |
| 1979 | The Other One's Mug | Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard |
| 1979 | The Associate | Julien Pardot |
| 1979 | La Grâce | Henri Dupérier |
| 1979 | L'Esprit de famille | le docteur Charles Moreau |
| 1978 | La Cage aux Folles | Zaza |
| 1978 | Other People's Money | Miremant |
| 1978 | Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | le voisin |
| 1977 | Le Passe-muraille | Dutilleul |
| 1977 | Le Roi des bricoleurs | Bordin |
| 1976 | La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée | Jean-Pierre Mazard |
| 1975 | The Red Ibis | Jérémie |
| 1975 | The Restroom Robbery | Max |
| 1974 | No Pockets in a Shroud | Justin Blesh |
| 1974 | Operation Lady Marlene | Paulo |
| 1974 | La Gueule de l’emploi | L'inspecteur de police |
| 1974 | Bloody Murder | Edouard Henricot |
| 1974 | Chinese In Paris | Grégoire Montclair |
| 1974 | The Down-in-the-Hole Gang | Jean-Paul Rondin |
| 1973 | The Big Store | Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché |
| 1973 | Big Deal | Paul |
| 1973 | Moi y'en a vouloir des sous | Le curé Léon |
| 1973 | La Cage aux folles | Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli' |
| 1972 | A Murder Is a Murder | Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant |
| 1972 | Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful | Marcel Jolin |
| 1972 | The Annuity | Louis Martinet |
| 1971 | Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? | Achille |
| 1971 | Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques | Alfred Mullanet |
| 1970 | La Liberté en croupe | Paul Cérès |
| 1970 | Ces messieurs de la gâchette | Gabriel Pelletier |
| 1969 | Call Me Mathilde | François |
| 1969 | Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille | Commissaire Le Gac |
| 1968 | Would-Be Gentleman | M. Jourdain |
| 1968 | The Great Chase | Aldo Moreni |
| 1968 | The Men in the Family | Gabriel Pelletier |
| 1967 | Cette nuit-là à Bethléem | |
| 1967 | The Madman of Lab Four | Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory |
| 1967 | Loose in the Trigger | The armorer |
| 1967 | The Great Gadget | Pounet |
| 1967 | Pour avoir Adrienne | Thomeret |
| 1967 | Order of the Daisy | L'inspecteur Papin |
| 1966 | King of Hearts | Monsieur Marcel |
| 1966 | Les enquiquineurs | Martin - instituteur |
| 1966 | The Boss of Champignol | Hector |
| 1966 | Les Combinards | La père de Lucile |
| 1965 | When the Pheasants Pass | Rimero |
| 1965 | Under Your Hat | Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max |
| 1965 | The Double Bed | Albert |
| 1965 | Le petit monstre | Valet |
| 1965 | How Not to Rob a Department Store | Méloune |
| 1965 | Me and the Forty Year Old Man | Bénéchol |
| 1965 | The Real Bargain | Hutin |
| 1965 | Les baratineurs | Henri |
| 1964 | Male Hunt | Gaston Lartois |
| 1964 | Clémentine chérie | Maître Brunet |
| 1964 | Jaloux comme un tigre | Mr. Lurot |
| 1964 | Hard Boiled Ones | Rossignol, private detective |
| 1964 | Dandelions by the Roots | Jérôme Martinet |
| 1964 | How Do You Like My Sister? | Varangeot |
| 1963 | Bebert and the Train | Barthoin |
| 1963 | Carom Shots | Le commissaire Baudu |
| 1962 | We Will Go to Deauville | Lucien Moreau |
| 1962 | The Four Truths | Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard") |
| 1962 | Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge | Charpentier, le conférencier |
| 1962 | How to Succeed in Love | Commissioner |
| 1962 | Love on a Pillow | Varange |
| 1962 | The Dance | Pétrarque |
| 1961 | The American Beauty | Tramp |
| 1961 | My Wife Is a Panther | Butcher |
| 1961 | On purge bébé | Guillaume Chouilloux |
| 1960 | Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Le second policier / Policeman |
| 1960 | Love and the Frenchwoman | L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce") |
| 1959 | La Malle volante | M. Loiseau |
| 1959 | You Have Nothing to Declare? | Dr. Emile Couzan |
| 1959 | The Bureaucrats | le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils |
| 1959 | Oh! What a Mambo | L'inspecteur Vidalie |
| 1959 | Nina | Adolphe Tessier |
| 1959 | L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle | Eugène, l'interprète |
| 1958 | Clara and the Villains | 'La Parole' |
| 1958 | Musée Grévin | The visitor |
| 1957 | The Innocent with Forty Children | Jean-François Robignac |
| 1957 | Adorables démons | Jacques Willis Senior |
| 1957 | The Green Dress | Count Hubert de Latour-Latour |
| 1956 | The Terror with Women | Gendarme |
| 1956 | Murderers and Thieves | Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur |
| 1956 | Life is beautiful | le démarcheur |
| 1956 | Mon bébé | Jimmy Scott |
| 1956 | That Naughty Girl | Inspector Leduc |
| 1955 | Diabolique | Mr. Raymond |
| 1954 | Peek-a-boo | Serrault, le trompettiste |
| 1954 | What the East Wind Saw | Zamore |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1990 | Dr. Petiot | Producer |
| 1972 | Aujourd'hui à Paris | Writer |
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