Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. In 1977-1978 he played the composer Jacques Offenbach in a six-part series of one-hour episodes about the musician's life, each one focusing on a specific aspect or work. Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault. Source: Article "Michel Serrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

• 2024Poiret Serrault - Extraits extra — Author, Dialogue
• 2007Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice — L'archevêque de Venise
• 2007Have Mercy on Us All — Hervé Decambrais
• 2007L'Avare — Harpagon
• 2007Le Bénévole — Max Birgos
• 2006Les enfants du pays — Gustave
• 2005Grabuge! — Commissaire Lancret
• 2005Joyeux Noel — The Castle Keeper
• 2005Monsieur Léon — Docteur Léon Chapuis
• 2004Albert est méchant — Albert Moulinot
• 2003L'Affaire Dominici — Gaston Dominici
• L'Affaire Dominici — Gaston Dominici
• 2003Le Furet — Anzio
• 200224 Hours in the Life of a Woman — Louis
• 2002The Butterfly — Julien
• 2001Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre — Verlac
• 2001The Girl from Paris — Adrien Rochas
• 2001Un cœur oublié — Monsieur de Fontenelle
• 2001Vajont — L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
• 2000Actors — Michel Serrault
• 2000Marty's World — Antoine Berrant
• 2000The Libertine — Le Cardinal
• 1999The Children of the Marshland — Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
• 1997Artemisia — Orazio Gentileschi
• 1997Assassin(s) — Mr. Wagner
• 1997The Comedian — Le comédien
• 1997The Swindle — Victor
• 1996Beaumarchais the Scoundrel — Louis XV
• 1995Happiness Is in the Field — Francis Bergeade
• 1995Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud — Mr. Pierre Arnaud
• 1994Bonsoir — Alex Ponttin
• 1992Old Rascal — Darius Caunes
• 1992Room Service — M. Luc
• 1992Ville à vendre — Rousselot, le maire
• 1991Héloïse — Maurice Martin, Héloïse
• 1991L'Huissier — Maître Malicorne
• 1991The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea — Pompilius
• 1990Dr. Petiot — Docteur Petiot, Producer
• Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé — Martin / Héloïse, Maître Malicorne
• 1989Love Comedy — Paul Léautaud
• 1989Merry Christmas... Happy New Year — Gino
• 1988Bonjour l'angoisse — Michaud
• 1988Let Sleeping Cops Lie — Roger Scatti
• 1988No Harm Intended — Paul Duchêne
• 1987Ennemis intimes — Baudin
• 1987Miracle Healing — Ronald Fox-Terrier
• 1986My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister — Octave Clapoteau
• 1985He Died with His Eyes Open — Robert Staniland
• 1985La Cage aux Folles 3 — Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
• 1985Les Rois du gag — Gaëtan / Robert Wellson
• 1985Liberté, égalité, choucroute — Louis XVI
• 1984Good King Dagobert — Otarius
• 1984Kill the Referee — Rico, aggressive supporter
• 1984Le Bon Plaisir — Le ministre de l'Intérieur
• 1983Deadly Circuit — Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '
• 1982Nestor Burma, détective de choc — Nestor Burma
• 1982Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ — Jules César
• 1982The Hatter's Ghost — Léon Labbé
• 1982The Roaring Forties — Sébastien Barral
• 1981Malevil — Emmanuel Comte
• 1981The Inquisitor — Jérôme Martinaud
• 1980Heads or Tails — Édouard Morlaix
• 1980Il lupo e l'agnello — Léon
• 1980La Cage aux Folles II — Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
• 1979Buffet Froid — Le comptable
• 1979L'Esprit de famille — le docteur Charles Moreau
• 1979La Grâce — Henri Dupérier
• 1979The Associate — Julien Pardot
• 1979The Other One's Mug — Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
• 1978Get Out Your Handkerchiefs — le voisin
• 1978La Cage aux Folles — Zaza
• 1978Other People's Money — Miremant
• 1977Le Passe-muraille — Dutilleul
• 1977Le Roi des bricoleurs — Bordin
• Les Folies Offenbach — Jacques Offenbach
• 1976La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée — Jean-Pierre Mazard
• 1975The Red Ibis — Jérémie
• 1975The Restroom Robbery — Max
• 1974Bloody Murder — Edouard Henricot
• 1974Chinese In Paris — Grégoire Montclair
• 1974La Gueule de l’emploi — L'inspecteur de police
• 1974No Pockets in a Shroud — Justin Blesh
• 1974Operation Lady Marlene — Paulo
• 1974The Down-in-the-Hole Gang — Jean-Paul Rondin
• 1973Big Deal — Paul
• 1973La Cage aux folles — Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'
• 1973Moi y'en a vouloir des sous — Le curé Léon
• 1973The Big Store — Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché
• 1972A Murder Is a Murder — Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
• 1972Aujourd'hui à Paris — Writer
• 1972Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful — Marcel Jolin
• 1972The Annuity — Louis Martinet
• 1971Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques — Alfred Mullanet
• 1971Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? — Achille
• 1970Ces messieurs de la gâchette — Gabriel Pelletier
• 1970La Liberté en croupe — Paul Cérès
• 1969Call Me Mathilde — François
• 1969Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille — Commissaire Le Gac
• 1968The Great Chase — Aldo Moreni
• 1968The Men in the Family — Gabriel Pelletier
• 1968Would-Be Gentleman — M. Jourdain
• 1967Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
• 1967Loose in the Trigger — The armorer
• 1967Order of the Daisy — L'inspecteur Papin
• 1967Pour avoir Adrienne — Thomeret
• 1967The Great Gadget — Pounet
• 1967The Madman of Lab Four — Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory
• At Theatre Tonight — Thomeret
• 1966King of Hearts — Monsieur Marcel
• 1966Les Combinards — La père de Lucile
• 1966Les enquiquineurs — Martin - instituteur
• 1966The Boss of Champignol — Hector
• 1965How Not to Rob a Department Store — Méloune
• 1965Le petit monstre — Valet
• 1965Les baratineurs — Henri
• 1965Me and the Forty Year Old Man — Bénéchol
• 1965The Double Bed — Albert
• 1965The Real Bargain — Hutin
• 1965Under Your Hat — Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
• 1965When the Pheasants Pass — Rimero
• 1964Clémentine chérie — Maître Brunet
• 1964Dandelions by the Roots — Jérôme Martinet
• 1964Hard Boiled Ones — Rossignol, private detective
• 1964How Do You Like My Sister? — Varangeot
• 1964Jaloux comme un tigre — Mr. Lurot
• 1964Male Hunt — Gaston Lartois
• 1963Bebert and the Train — Barthoin
• 1963Carom Shots — Le commissaire Baudu
• 1962How to Succeed in Love — Commissioner
• 1962Love on a Pillow — Varange
• 1962The Dance — Pétrarque
• 1962The Four Truths — Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
• 1962Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge — Charpentier, le conférencier
• 1962We Will Go to Deauville — Lucien Moreau
• 1961My Wife Is a Panther — Butcher
• 1961On purge bébé — Guillaume Chouilloux
• 1961The American Beauty — Tramp
• 1960Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century — Le second policier / Policeman
• 1960Love and the Frenchwoman — L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
• 1959L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle — Eugène, l'interprète
• 1959La Malle volante — M. Loiseau
• 1959Nina — Adolphe Tessier
• 1959Oh! What a Mambo — L'inspecteur Vidalie
• 1959The Bureaucrats — le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
• 1959You Have Nothing to Declare? — Dr. Emile Couzan
• 1958Clara and the Villains — 'La Parole'
• 1958Musée Grévin — The visitor
• 1957Adorables démons — Jacques Willis Senior
• 1957The Green Dress — Count Hubert de Latour-Latour
• 1957The Innocent with Forty Children — Jean-François Robignac
• 1956Life is beautiful — le démarcheur
• 1956Mon bébé — Jimmy Scott
• 1956Murderers and Thieves — Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
• 1956That Naughty Girl — Inspector Leduc
• 1956The Terror with Women — Gendarme
• 1955Diabolique — Mr. Raymond
• 1954Peek-a-boo — Serrault, le trompettiste
• 1954What the East Wind Saw — Zamore
• On ne réveille pas un flic qui dort — Commissaire Roger Scatti

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2023Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles — Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes — Self (archive footage)
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1995Tel est Serrault — Self
• Stars 90 — Self
• Matin Bonheur — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self, Self (archive footage)
• Champs-Elysées — Self, Self (archive footage)
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Système 2 — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• À bout portant — Self
• Discorama — Self