Michel Bouquet, French Acting Icon of Stage and Screen, Dies at 96
thewrap.coma statement Wednesday but gave no other details about his passing. “For seven decades, Michel Bouquet brought theater and cinema to the highest degree of incandescence and truth, showing man in all his contradictions, with an intensity that burned the boards and burst the screen.
A sacred monster has left us,” French president Emmanuel Macron said in a tweet Wednesday. In 1991, Bouquet won the European Film Award for Best Actor his film “Toto the Hero.” He also won two César Awards for “How I Killed My Father” (2001) and “The Last Mitterrand” (2005).
His career on stage dates all the way back to the 1940s, and he retired as recently as 2019. And on screen, he emerged during the French New Wave and worked with directors like Francois Truffaut, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Alain Resnais and Claude Chabrol, as well as shared the screen with Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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