Maurice Bénichou
Acting · Directing
Born January 23, 1943, Tlemcen, Algeria
Maurice Bénichou (23 January 1943 in Tlemcen, French Algeria – 14 June 2019) was a French actor. His best known roles include three collaborations with director Michael Haneke (Code inconnu, Le Temps du Loup, and Caché), and a part in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie. He has also played in Peter Brook's 1989 film version of The Mahabharata. Source: Article "Maurice Bénichou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
- 2011Au cas où je n'aurais pas la palme d'or — Le rabbin / Maurice Bénichou
- 2011Comment je me suis réveillé
- 2011If You Die, I'll Kill You — L'employé de la morgue
- 2011Omar Killed Me — Maître Jacques Vergès
- 2011The Rabbi's Cat — Rabbi (voice)
- 2010La Tueuse — Tarnowski
- 2009Every Jack Has a Jill — le Réceptionniste de l'Hôtel Favard
- 2009Great life — Kowalski
- Doom-doom — Nataf
- 2008Inju: The Beast in the Shadow — L'agent d'Alex Fayard
- 2008Off and Running — Serge
- 2008Paris — Le Psy
- 2008The Great Alibi — Commandant Grange
- 2007Beneath the Rooftops of Paris — Amar
- 2007Boxes — Max
- 2007The Candidate — maxime
- 2005Caché — Majid
- 2005The Passenger — Joseph
- 2004Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine — Stage Director
- 2004Loser Takes All! — Serge Vaudier
- 2003Time of the Wolf — M. Azoulay
- Le Champ Dolent, le roman de la terre — Célestin Angelmon
- 2002Special Delivery — Antoine
- 2001Amélie — Dominique Bretodeau
- 2001Candidature
- 2000Adventures of Félix — Fisherman
- 2000Code Unknown — The Old Arab
- 2000Quand on sera grand — Isaac
- 1998Man Is a Woman — Rosalie's father
- Between Land and Sea — Cul-Roussi
- 1997Mordbüro — Léo Stoychev
- 1994The Patriots — Yuri
- 1993Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents — Bernard
- 1993The Little Apocalypse — Arnold
- 1993À la Mode — Lucien
- 1991Cross My Heart — The neighbour
- The Mahabharata — Kitchaka
- 1988Ile Flottante — Maurice Bénichou
- 1982La Cerisaie — Yacha, Co-Director
- 1982Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ? — Albert
- 1981Instinct de femme — Rat speaker
- 1981Le jardinier — The overseer
- 1979I... for Icarus — Robert Sanio, l'homme à la caméra
- 1978Roads to the South — García
- 1978Sale rêveur — Taupin
- 1977Animal — Le domestique
- 1977The Question — Vincent
- 1976Little Marcel — Garcia
- 1976Pardon Mon Affaire — Gonthier
- 1974Cadoudal — Savary
- 1974Travail du comédien
- 1973Marriage a la Mode — Leporello
- 1972Les Fossés de Vincennes — La voix de Bonaparte
- 1972The French Calvinists — Moïse Plantat
- 1970Reportage sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques — Arlequin #2
- 1969Paris Does Not Exist
Appearances as themselves (1)
- 2002Brook by Brook — Self