Michel Modo
Also Known As: Modo, Michel Goi, Michel Henri Luis Goi
Biography: 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 vie alongside Colette Renard. He plays a bum philosopher disguised as Santa Claus. He also dubbed several recurring characters in the French version of the animated series The Simpsons. At his sudden death in 2008 at the age of 71, when dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
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Birthday: March 30, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 24, 2008
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Overview: The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-31
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The Gendarme in New York
Overview: Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-28
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Overview: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-08
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The Gendarme Gets Married
Overview: The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-30
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Overview: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Overview: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-03
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Overview: Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Overview: During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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The Sucker
Overview: In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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The Female Executioner
Overview: Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the gang feeding her information, but progress is hindered by her own police commissioner. In her private live, Martine likes to hang around with her male colleagues, swapping a younger cop for the more mature and experienced Jean.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-15
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Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Rita the Field Marshal
Overview: A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
Overview: The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil purposes. Johan and Pirlouit, assisted by the magician Homnibus, travel to the land of the Smurfs, the only manufacturers of this sort of instrument, to get a new one and battle the usurpers.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-21
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School
Overview: 1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Les Planqués du régiment
Overview: A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-15
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Pétrole ! Pétrole !
Overview: Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de son fournisseur arabe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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All the Gold in the World
Overview: Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Herminie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-09
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Faites comme chez nous
Overview: Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She returns from the United States to meet her father. With the complicity of his brother, guardian of the Monjambier's property, Georges decides to settle in the luxurious villa and to play the rich owner not to disappoint his daughter. Things get complicated when, on the one hand, two gangsters on the run take refuge in the villa, and on the other hand, Mr. Monjambier decides to try his luck with his secretary and also arrives at the villa to spend a fraudulent weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
Overview: Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal made before he died. Back in Bellefontaine, his village, the good man is the host of a party organized in his honor. As a gift, the mayor and the inhabitants give him a magnificent hunting rifle. At first disconcerted, Gaëtan pulls himself together and tells the audience that his years of imprisonment give him the right to kill the biggest bastard in the village. Most of the inhabitants have something to reproach themselves with and fear being taken for the silhouette, the one who witnessed the murder but never made himself known, even though his testimony would have cleared Gaëtan. Fear invades Bellefontaine and everyone tries to coax Gaëtan with attentions and gifts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Les Gorilles
Overview: A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
Overview: Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they come up with the idea of opening a flying school, but meet with resistance from the mayor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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Poltergay
Overview: Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-25
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The Miser
Overview: Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-05
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The Centipede Is Tap Dancing
Overview: When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks, three Frenchmen decide to take action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-25
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Bebert and the Train
Overview: The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Gypsy Law
Overview: The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-24
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Overview: Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Alice au pays des merveilles
Overview: Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by beasts who behave like humans. She changes size, is invited to a wacky tea-time party and becomes a witness to a momentous trial conducted by the Queen of Hearts.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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La 99ème Minute
Overview: Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-23
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Overview: Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her off to Demetrius, himself loved by Helena. In a magical forest, the couple cross paths with Obéron, king of the elves, who is quarreling with his wife and in possession of love potions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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La cloche
Overview: The misfortune of a young man who tries to keep a rendezvous and finds himself a prisoner in a bell.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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My Father's Glory
Overview: Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-29
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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Overview: A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Musidora
Overview: Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature role in the adventure serial.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-29
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Overview: The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Rookie Soldiers on Maneuvers
Overview: Five young conscripts lead a peaceful life in the barracks of a small town. Their officer is an eccentric man who lets them spend their time listening to music. The atmosphere changes completely with the arrival of a new officer who wants to prepare them for major maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Under Your Hat
Overview: An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Les coucous
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-27
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S.O.S homme seul
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-07
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The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Killer Spy
Overview: The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Overview: France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Shock Troops
Overview: A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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My Mother's Castle
Overview: To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Overview: The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Ubu enchaîné
Overview: Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel to "Ubu roi" (1965) directed by Averty.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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Si ma gueule vous plaît...
Overview: A French satirical comedy that examines society’s obsession with appearance. A man with unconventional looks unexpectedly becomes a public sensation, facing ridicule and admiration. His striking features thrust him into a whirlwind of media sensationalism and superficial relationships. Amid a series of ironic and humorous encounters, he grapples with the burden of being judged solely on his appearance, ultimately questioning the true essence of beauty and personal worth.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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