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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-02-02 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Michel Subor

Biography:

Michel Subor (February 2 1935 - January 17 2022) was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.

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Known For

Acting

2023

to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour as Commander Bruno Forestier (archive footage)

2018

War on Beasts as Pierre Duruy

2017

Godard Mon Amour as Narrator #4 (voice)

2013

Bastards as Edouard Laporte

2012

Last Winter as Hélier

2010

White Material as Henri Vial

2005

The Intruder as Louis Trebor

2003

2001

2000

Beau Travail as Commander Bruno Forestier
Fidelity as Rupert MacRoi
Ainsi soit-il as Barroux

1990

1989

1988

Der Mann im Salz as Meister Zwanzigeisen

1985

Passage secret as Enrique
The Fourth Power as Xavier Mareche

1984

Stress as Police commissioner

1981

Le pilon as Roland Boileu

1980

The Rebel as Beaufils

1979

The Sewers of Paradise as Biki le Targuy

1977

The Accuser as Brignon

1975

1974

1973

The Day of the Jackal as OAS Terrorist in Car

1970

Mauregard as Charles-Auguste

1969

Topaz as François Picard
Sadistic Hallucinations as L'inspecteur

1966

À nous deux, Paris! as Patrick Cartier

1965

Le Reflux as Henri Person

1964

1963

Le Petit Soldat as Bruno Forestier

1962

Jules and Jim as Récitant / Narrator (voix)

1961

Please, Not Now! as Alain Varnier

1959

My Pal the Gypsy as Bruno Pittuiti

1958

Sunday Encounter as Un élève du cours (uncredited)

1956

1955

Frou-Frou as Le jeune homme au restaurant (uncredited)