Michel Duchaussoy

Acting

Michel Duchaussoy

Born — Died

1938-11-29 — 2012-03-13

Place of birth

Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

93 titles

Michel René Jacques Duchaussoy (29 November 1938 – 13 March 2012) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 130 films between 1962 and 2012. At first a theater actor, he worked for many years in the Comédie Française, where he started his career in 1964.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

2000s · 23 titles

Little Nicholas poster
6.1

Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.

Little Nicholas

2009

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 poster
7.3

After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

2008

Mesrine: Killer Instinct poster
7.3

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

2008

The Widow of Saint-Pierre poster
6.6

In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

2000

Two Worlds poster
5.1

A French tradesman travels in time and liberates an oppressed tribe in another world.

Two Worlds

2007

Intimate Strangers poster
6.4

Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.

Intimate Strangers

2004

Amen. poster
7.0

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Amen.

2002

The Code poster
5.1

Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.

The Code

2002

The Best Day of My Life poster
5.3

Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.

The Best Day of My Life

2005

Black Box poster
5.5

An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.

Black Box

2005

Poltergay poster
5.3

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, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.

Poltergay

2006

Tom Thumb poster
5.5

Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.

Tom Thumb

2001

Persecution poster
4.4

A solitary man and his partner share a tense love/hate relationship. Their lives are disrupted when a stranger enters, gradually insinuating himself into their world. The stranger’s persistence creates strain, leaving the man with lingering questions about his motivations and the impact on his life.

Persecution

2009

At Home with the Rozes poster
5.5

Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary...

At Home with the Rozes

2003

Labyrinth poster
6.6

Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?

Labyrinth

2003

Elena's Gift poster
10.0

After more than 40 years of absence, Socrates spends some days in Corsica, accompanied by his son Antoine, to see his cousins. But Antoine discovers his father's secret before his birthday party.

Elena's Gift

2004

Murphy's Law poster
5.4

After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will make a fresh start and forget about his past. But that would be forgetting about Murphy's law and its string of problems.

Murphy's Law

2009

The Bridesmaid poster
6.3

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

The Bridesmaid

2004

Doors of Glory poster
5.3

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

Doors of Glory

2001

T'aime poster
3.3

Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.

T'aime

2000

Troubled Waters poster
7.0

Clara takes her daughter and her friends to a weekend visit at her grandfather's village. They all have a great time, but after they return home people start dying. First Clara's grandfather mysteriously drowns, then the children start getting sick and one, her goddaughter, dies. Around same time clients at the spa she teaches aqua-aerobics start getting sick with one dying. She finds some mysterious algea, related to Caulerpa taxifolia, planted near where her grandfather supposedly drowned. Clara suspects the algea and all of these illnesses and deaths are related to some sort of poisonings of fish caught near her Grandfather's village.

Troubled Waters

2004

Le Lit près de la fenêtre poster
NR

Three old gentlemen are in a hospital, where amazing things seem to happen, just outside the window.

Le Lit près de la fenêtre

2009

Hidden Diary poster
6.3

In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?

Hidden Diary

2009

1990s · 3 titles

May Fools poster
6.9

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

May Fools

1990

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life poster
6.0

On a vital military mission for the Allies, Indy comes across a disease-ravaged African village and is able to rescue one small child from certain death. The presence of the child endangers the mission, leaving Indy in a moral quandary; fighting his conscience, his sense of duty, his own men and the enemy as he battles his way across the country. Depressed by the turmoil around him, Indy reaches his lowest point. Hope appears in the presence of Albert Schweitzer, a profoundly inspiring and committed doctor, philosopher and musician. Helping out at Schweitzer's jungle hospital, Indy finds his faith in humanity restored and his outlook on life forever changed in this beautiful and moving film.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life

1999

Pas d'amour sans amour! poster
3.8

After her gynecologist tells her that her current involuntary celibacy could result in her being unable to enjoy sex in the future, Eva begins to consider ways that she could take active steps to get some action going in that area. Unfortunately, none of the men she currently knows are interested in going to bed with her, including her business partner, who just might be sexually attracted to trees but certainly isn't to her. That being the case, it is particularly galling that he gets jealous at the very notion of her having sex with business clients. Eva discusses these issues (and a great deal more) with her similarly forty-ish gal-pals.

Pas d'amour sans amour!

1993

1980s · 8 titles

The French Revolution poster
7.5

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.

The French Revolution

1989

Fort Saganne poster
6.0

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Fort Saganne

1984

Life and Nothing But poster
7.2

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.

Life and Nothing But

1989

La Dame de chez Maxim poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Dame de chez Maxim

1981

Surprise Party poster
5.0

Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.

Surprise Party

1983

The Enigmatic Mister S. poster
NR

The story of man who kills his friends during night party by toxin gas. He films the moment that the guests are breathing gas until they die. He attempts to kill other guests who didn't come to the party in several ways.

The Enigmatic Mister S.

1987

Extreme Justice poster
5.2

In this action thriller, Richard Anconina is Willie, a young and lonesome cop who loves lonesome cowboy music. While on a drug case Willie comes across a mulatta named Jo (model Ambre of Senegalese extraction), who is trapped in a dismal life of prostitution by two abusive Lebanese brothers. Risking his own life, Willie frees Jo from their fierce imprisonment, but the battered woman runs right back again.

Extreme Justice

1986

Follow My Gaze poster
6.2

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.

Follow My Gaze

1986

1970s · 17 titles

The Hurried Man poster
5.8

Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.

The Hurried Man

1977

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe poster
6.6

With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs poster
5.2

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

1979

The Breach poster
6.2

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The Breach

1970

As Far as Love Can Go poster
10.0

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...

As Far as Love Can Go

1971

Armageddon poster
5.8

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

Armageddon

1977

Shock Treatment poster
6.4

Hélène Masson visits her friend Gérôme Savignat in the isolated rejuvenation clinic owned by Dr. Devilers and his partner Dr. Berbard. But after a series of tragic events, Hélène goes further in her investigation of the clinic.

Shock Treatment

1973

Électre poster
8.0

During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.

Électre

1972

Charlotte poster
4.0

Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.

Charlotte

1974

Sophie's Ways poster
5.5

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

Sophie's Ways

1971

Le Misanthrope poster
9.3

Alceste hates all of humanity, denounces its hypocrisy, cowardice and compromise. But he nevertheless loves Célimène, flirtatious and slanderous. The virtuous thus launches into battles lost in advance which force him to flee.

Le Misanthrope

1977

The Conspiracy poster
5.7

Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.

The Conspiracy

1973

The Nada Gang poster
6.0

Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.

The Nada Gang

1974

Ondine poster
9.0

In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.

Ondine

1975

The City of Silences poster
5.9

Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed. The victim is the founding ancestor of this small empire that has outgrown one man. In Creuzeville, we hardly like foreigners, especially if they are vegetarians, perhaps homosexuals, undoubtedly anarchists like, precisely, this detective. However the detective by whom the scandal broke broke the silence of the city by going to the heart of family secrets hitherto well hidden behind purple shutters. The murders follow one another. We strike on the left - a young ecologist - as on the right - a cynical playboy. Continuing to dissect the mobiles and the characters, the detective dropped the masks one by one. And, little by little, fear and violence are settling in the small town.

The City of Silences

1979

Nul n'est parfait poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Nul n'est parfait

1974

The Three Musketeers poster
8.0

D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.

The Three Musketeers

1974

1960s · 6 titles

Series credits

Sacrée soirée poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrée soirée

1987

Numéro un poster
7.5

A French variety show.

Numéro un

1975

Fan School poster
7.2

Host Jacques Martin invites different talented children from various backgrounds to showcase their beautiful voices. The participants entertain and wow the audience with their lovely performances.

Fan School

1977

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

At Theatre Tonight poster
7.0

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

At Theatre Tonight

1966

Maigret poster
7.7

The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.

Maigret

1991

Les Cordier, juge et flic poster
5.3

The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.

Les Cordier, juge et flic

1994

Ladies of the Law poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ladies of the Law

2000

Les Misérables poster
6.9

Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.

Les Misérables

2000

Palace poster
6.9

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Palace

1988

Palace poster
6.9

The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the reception, the elevator, the rooms, ...

Palace

1988

The French Revolution poster
8.7

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.

The French Revolution

1989

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1979

Les Cœurs brûlés poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Cœurs brûlés

1992

the famous escapes poster
7.0

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

the famous escapes

1972

Les Yeux d'Hélène poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Yeux d'Hélène

1994

The Churchmen poster
7.4

Five very different students navigate life at the Capuchin seminary, facing tough questions of faith under the guidance of a freethinking priest.

The Churchmen

2012

The Churchmen poster
7.4

Five very different students navigate life at the Capuchin seminary, facing tough questions of faith under the guidance of a freethinking priest.

The Churchmen

2012

No artwork available
8.0

A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.

Henry James Stories

1976

Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe

2009

Si Perrault m'était conté poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Si Perrault m'était conté

1966

Ferbac poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ferbac

1991

A judge, a cop poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A judge, a cop

1977

L'Allée du roi poster
5.6

The life of the Marquise de Maintenon, who was the wife of the poet Scarron before becoming, under the seal of a secret marriage, the wife of King Louis XIV.

L'Allée du roi

1996

Les Poneys sauvages poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Poneys sauvages

1983

Regards d'enfance poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Regards d'enfance

1993

Zodiac poster
5.5

In the Marseille region, a woman returns home for her father's birthday, only to be swept into a chilling investigation. As a string of seemingly random murders unfolds, Esther races against time to uncover the truth behind the elusive Zodiac killer.

Zodiac

2004

L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel

1980

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Inséparables

2005

Le Silence de l'épervier poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Silence de l'épervier

2008

La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet

1981

Tarendol poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Tarendol

1980