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.
Acting
Movie
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as Cross-eyed Soldier
1966
Movie
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
as Jules Berlicot
1964
Movie
The Sucker
as Un douanier
1965
Movie
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
as Jules Berlicot
1979
Movie
The Gendarme Gets Married
as Jules Berlicot
1968
Movie
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
as Maréchal des Logis Berlicot
1982
Movie
The Gendarme in New York
as Jules Berlicot
1965
Movie
The Restaurant
as Petit-Roger, le serveur lèche-bottes
1966
Movie
The Gendarme Takes Off
as Jules Berlicot
1970
Movie
The Miser
as La merluche
1980
TV
Highlander: The Series
as Maurice
1992
Movie
My Father's Glory
as Postman
1990
Movie
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
as Le soldat allemand 'groupir'
1975
Movie
My Mother's Castle
as Postman
1990
TV
Relic Hunter
as Hugo Murnau
1999
Movie
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
as Pirlouit (voice)
1975
Movie
Poltergay
as Henri "Nanny" Bernier
2006
Movie
The American Beauty
as Slovak
1961
Movie
Carom Shots
as Le Facteur (uncredited)
1963
Movie
Shock Troops
as Le juif torturé
1967
Movie
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
as Policeman
1971
Movie
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
as Ambassadeur
2003
Movie
All the Gold in the World
as Tony
1961
Movie
The Female Executioner
as Commissioner
1986
