Michel Duchaussoy obituary

French actor who played many classical roles on stage and turned the voice of Marlon Brando in The Godfather

order to appreciate the talents of the powerful performance Duchaussoy Michel, who died of a heart attack at age 73, should be both in French and living in France. For the less fortunate, Duchaussoy knowledge is limited to their striking appearances in several films by Claude Chabrol, Alain Jessua and others, Louis Malle and Patrice Leconte, who were among the few relatively large number of his films to be released in Great Britain and America.

In France, also known as an actor in television Duchaussoy, whose voice was also recognized for dubbing cartoon characters and stars like Marlon Brando in The Godfather. Prolific as he was in the film and television, Duchaussoy was celebrated primarily for his 20 years in the theater of the Comédie-French in Paris. There he was shown in a variety of functions, their ability to express much with extreme simplicity of means, such as an earthquake with a lip or eyebrow lift.

He was born in Valenciennes, northern France, one of seven children of a businessman. After studying literature at the University of Lille, spent an unhappy military service in Algeria. On his return, he moved to Paris where he entered the Conservatory. In 1964, having won awards for acting roles in classical and modern, he was accepted at the Comedie-French.

tall, blond and handsome, with blue eyes that could easily have obtained the parties and underage operators, but he preferred the more enigmatic, dramatic or comedic roles beings in general. For over two decades, was established as a versatile actor in the French repertoire - Molière, Marivaux, and Feydeau - Clarence and play into the hands of Terry production of Richard III in 1972 and Prince Myshkin in light adaptation of Dostoyevsky is the Idiot (1975), directed by Michel Vitold.

Far from the Comedie-French, Duchaussoy played in Shakespeare, Shaw, Pirandello and Pinter in Paris and the provinces, and created the role of a gay man dying of AIDS when he visited a inappropriate (unexpected visit) by playwright Copi (Raul Damonte Botana) in 1987. He returned to the Comédie-French in 2007 by Sean O'Casey, The End of the Beginning.

• He has had an impact in his first film role in the slaughter of game Jessua (The Killing Game, 1967), the demands of young playboy paranoid experiences of a hero comics and I think you are being chased by a gang after his life. It was not long before Duchaussoy came to the attention of Chabrol, who chose him as a police officer in La Femme Infidel (the unfaithful wife, 1969), investigates the murder of the wife's lover by her husband . Faced with Stephane Audran, in the title role, Duchaussoy is usually impassive, but a very slight smile ironically suggests he knows more than he intended.

This performance was hot Chabrol support to one of his screen roles in The Beast Meure This is rare! (This Man Must Die, 1969). Duchaussoy plays a widower who, after killing his eight year old son of a hit and run driver, decides to kill the culprit. "When found, I will not kill him immediately," he said with a cold calculation. "I'll get to know and enjoy my revenge." Duchaussoy impassive, almost Bressonian, performance brilliantly masking his true passion.

It was followed by a small role in the distribution of Chabrol, The (1970) that the lawyer of a woman (Audran), whose marriage breaks up. In a long sequence on a tram, which is a substitute for the public to hear their confessions. In Nothing (Nothing Band, 1974), Chabrol black political thriller, a disgruntled teacher joins a diverse group of leftist terrorists who planned the kidnapping of U.S. ambassador in Paris. Pretending to be a "libertarian communist" opting out, believing the group and state are "two cheeks of the same trap." The last film with Chabrol La Demoiselle d'Honneur was Duchaussoy (The Bridesmaid, 2004), which was almost unrecognizable as a vagabond.

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