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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.016 |
Birthday | 1937-03-30 |
Place of Birth | Carpentras, Vaucluse, France |
Also Known As | Modo, Michel Goi, |
1979
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
6.1/585
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell t...
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1964
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
7.048/834
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with hi...
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1968
The Gendarme Gets Married
6.5/538
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursue...
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The Gendarme Gets Married
1965
The Gendarme in New York
6.326/488
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
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The Gendarme in New York
1966
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
7.928/1299
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Nort...
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
1970
The Gendarme Takes Off
6.385/485
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with...
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The Gendarme Takes Off
1982
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
6.031/525
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. Al...
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1986
The Female Executioner
4/14
Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the ga...
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The Female Executioner
1976
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
6.6/84
The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil purposes....
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The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
1967
Rita the Field Marshal
5.3/13
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
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Rita the Field Marshal
1983
Les Planqués du régiment
4/2
A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a milit...
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Les Planqués du régiment
1978
Sadsacks In the Boarding School
2.708/12
1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. S...
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School
1981
Pétrole ! Pétrole !
4.7/16
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de so...
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Pétrole ! Pétrole !
1961
All the Gold in the World
6.2/16
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also in...
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All the Gold in the World
1964
Les Gorilles
5.5/4
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
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Les Gorilles
1978
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
6/2
Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they come up with the idea of opening a flying school, but m...
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
1980
The Miser
6.377/415
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. H...
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The Miser
1977
The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
5.1/7
When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks,...
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The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
1963
Bebert and the Train
6.3/15
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girl...
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Bebert and the Train
1973
Musidora
0/0
Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role...
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Musidora
1965
The Sucker
7.4/633
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only comp...
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The Sucker
1964
La cloche
5/1
The misfortune of a young man who tries to keep a rendezvous and finds himself a prisoner in a bell.
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La cloche
2003
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
5.4/4
A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.
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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
1990
My Father's Glory
7.359/294
Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of h...
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My Father's Glory
1981
Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres
4.2/6
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Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres
1975
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
7.339/270
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1965
Under Your Hat
3.6/5
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
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Under Your Hat
1978
Les coucous
0/0
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Les coucous
1984
S.O.S homme seul
4/1
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S.O.S homme seul
1966
The Restaurant
6.8/475
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
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The Restaurant
1961
The American Beauty
6/54
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into th...
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The American Beauty
1965
Killer Spy
5/1
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, p...
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Killer Spy
2003
The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
7.4/24
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a...
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
1967
Shock Troops
6.7/37
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s...
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Shock Troops
1990
My Mother's Castle
7.207/270
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills...
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My Mother's Castle
1979
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
5.95/10
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Mu...
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
1971
Ubu enchaîné
0/0
Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel t...
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Ubu enchaîné
1992
Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
0/0
Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal made...
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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
1993
Faites comme chez nous
0/0
Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She r...
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Faites comme chez nous
2006
Poltergay
5.1/77
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, a...
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Poltergay
1979
We'll Grow Thin Together
1/1
Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy....
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We'll Grow Thin Together
1963
Carom Shots
6.1/45
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on cre...
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Carom Shots
1971
Herminie
6/1
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Herminie
1973
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
5.2/11
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1963
Gypsy Law
0/0
The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety...
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Gypsy Law
1966
La 99ème minute
8/1
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partner...
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La 99ème minute
1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream
10/1
Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her o...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1970
Alice au pays des merveilles
5.7/3
Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by...
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Alice au pays des merveilles
1971
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
5.9/27
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
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