Michel Auclair
Acting
Biography
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born to a Serbian father (born in Požarevac, Serbia) and a French mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujović, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International. Auclair moved to Paris when he was three years old. He entered medical school but then studied acting at the CNSAD in Paris. While a major French star, he only had two English-language roles: as Professor Flostre in the 1957 musical Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, and as a French police investigator in Day of the Jackal (1973) with Edward Fox. Source: Article "Michel Auclair" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Born: September 14, 1922
Place of Birth: Koblenz, Germany
Known For
Les Avocats du Diable
In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against paratroopers who had beaten him. Stay out of Algerian affairs, his peers advise him because the trial is taking a political turn. Chabrier acquired the reputation of the Fellaghas' lawyer.
Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
December
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
The Two Truths
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up under the wheels of a tram. On the remains of the woman's body, however, there is no trace of a gunshot wound and, during the trial, the accused, who appears hypnotized, refuses to answer. The arrival of the ex-lawyer Cidoni, who takes the place of the defense, overturns the thesis of the prosecution and instead demonstrates that the victim was not a naive girl as had been believed up to then.
Torquemada
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas
Cinépanorama
The Fox of Paris
Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
The Day of the Jackal
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Beauty and the Beast
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
Police Commissioner Moulin
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Filmography
as Charles Maurin
as Luis De Santangel
as Herbert
as Georges Chetman, père de Chet
as La voix de Walter (voice)
as Doctor
as Consul Demetrius
as Frédéric
as Michel Saint-Claude, director of GTI-Europe
as Haymann
as Maître Orsini Belcourt
as Leprince
as Rennequin
as Boss
as Lucien Bonheur
as Philippe Dumais
as Simon Pradal aka 'Le Docteur'
as Commissaire Kirs
as Dr Mathy
as Hector
as Self
as monsieur Edmond
as Georges
as Colonel Rolland
as Colonel de St-Méran
as Prince
as Serge Ménessier
as Hérode
as M. Magnin, le banquier d'Albert
as Villefort
as Friend and client of Marie-Louise
as Alain Lorrière (segment "Une chance explosive")
as Philippe
as Michel
as Clavet
as Jacques
as Didier Arnoux
as F...
as Jean Le Prat
as Philippe
as Maurice de Saint-Fiacre
as Pierre Montfort
as (Narrator)
as Portal
as Fondier
as André, Chef des Widerstandes
as Diego Dias
as Georges Bartone
as Prof. Emile Flostre
as Jacques Lacroix
as Self
as Mario
as André Chénier
as Pierre de Prémont
as François Roques dit Larry
as Jacques Frontenac
as Pierre de Prémont
as Jacques Fenner
as Arthur Delay
as Jacques Damiens
as Tenente Andrea
as Maurice
as Michel Dumas
as Lut Loris
as Florian Faber
as Serge Cremer
as Michel Dunan, Alain's look-alike / Alain de Norbois, missing man
as Maurice Vineuse, le convalescent
as Erland Monesköld
as Léonard François
as Robert Dégrieux
as Mario
as Willy Morus
as Ludovic
as Paul d'Auber