Michel Subor (born Mischa Subotzki; February 2 1935 - January 17 2022) was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.

Filmography

• 2025Sang titre — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2022Le Soldat
• 2022Stars at Noon — In Memory Of
• War on Beasts — Pierre Duruy
• 2017Godard Mon Amour — Narrator #4 (voice)
• 2013Bastards — Edouard Laporte
• 2012Last Winter — Hélier
• 2012The Bardot mystery
• 2010White Material — Henri Vial
• 2005The Intruder — Louis Trebor
• 2003Dear Hunter
• 2002In the Darkness of Time — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2001Wild Innocence — Chas
• 2000Ainsi soit-il — Barroux
• 2000Beau Travail — Commander Bruno Forestier
• 2000Fidelity — Rupert MacRoi
• 1997Un petit grain de folie — Alexandre Pelozov
• Counterstrike — Yuri
• A Tale of Two Cities — Le père de Darnay
• 1989Braxton
• 1989The French Revolution — Vadier
• 1988Der Mann im Salz — Meister Zwanzigeisen
• 1985Secret Passage — Enrique
• 1985The Fourth Power — Xavier Mareche
• 1984Stress — Police commissioner
• 1981Le pilon — Roland Boileu
• 1980The Rebel — Beaufils
• 1979The Sewers of Paradise — Biki le Targuy
• 1977The Accuser — Brignon
• Un curé de choc — Roger
• 1973The Day of the Jackal — OAS Terrorist in Car
• Mauregard — Charles-Auguste
• Scene of the Crime — André
• 1969Sadistic Hallucinations — L'inspecteur
• 1969Topaz — François Picard
• 1966À nous deux, Paris! — Patrick Cartier
• 1965Le Reflux — Henri Person
• 1965The Queen of Spades — Herman
• 1965What's New Pussycat? — Philippe
• 1964Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise — Roger
• 1964Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc — Roger
• 1963Le Petit Soldat — Bruno Forestier
• 1963Young Girls of Good Families — Gerard LeGall
• 1962Jules and Jim — Récitant / Narrator (voix)
• 1961Please, Not Now! — Alain Varnier
• 1961Vacation in Hell — André
• 1959My Pal the Gypsy — Bruno Pittuiti
• 1958Sunday Encounter — Un élève du cours (uncredited)
• 1955Frou-Frou — Le jeune homme au restaurant (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self