Michel Modo

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Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). He is best known in France for having formed in the late 1950s a comedy duo, Grosso et Modo, with actor Guy Grosso. The duo appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played the role of Constable Berlicot alongside Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre and Christian Marin. They were also Laflûte and Quince in The Dream of a Summer Night by Jean-Christophe Averty. Between 1993 and 1997 he is one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander as Maurice Lolande, humorous character characterizing the average French person. In December 2005, he stars in the television series Plus belle la...

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Highlander: The SeriesSeries • 1992Relic HunterSeries • 1999Les Cinq Dernières MinutesSeries • 1958Police Commissioner MoulinSeries • 1976At Theatre TonightSeries • 1966Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!Movie • 1966Le Gendarme de Saint-TropezMovie • 1964The Gendarme and the GendarmettesMovie • 1982The Gendarme Gets MarriedMovie • 1968The SuckerMovie • 1965The MiserMovie • 1980The RestaurantMovie • 1966The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer SpaceMovie • 1979The Gendarme Takes OffMovie • 1970The Gendarme in New YorkMovie • 1965The Little BatherMovie • 1968My Mother's CastleMovie • 1990The Seventh Company Has Been FoundMovie • 1975My Father's GloryMovie • 1990The Smurfs and the Magic FluteMovie • 1975Shock TroopsMovie • 1967Carom ShotsMovie • 1963The Female ExecutionerMovie • 1986PoltergayMovie • 2006