Michael Roux Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationality French
Birth July 22, 1929 (Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine – France)
Death February 2, 2007

BIOGRAPHY
Michel Roux debuted in La Cavalcade des Heures in 1943. For twenty years, he made numerous appearances ( La Fête à Henriette , Maternite clandestine ), opposite Louis Seigner ( Détournement de minores ) and rubbed shoulders with the Bardot phenomenon ( La Femme et le puppet ). From 1960, Michel Roux put his film career on hold to devote himself to theater and dubbing. He made his return to theaters in the mid-80s using his greatest asset: his voice. He is in fact the narrator of the life of Good King Dagobert . The actor made his last film appearance in 1994 in the police comedy Not Very Catholic by Tonie Marshall . He plays the boss of a private detective agency who hides from his wife that he is homosexual.

Michel Roux was an ardent defender of boulevard theater, which he considered noble because it was popular, a genre that he also defended on television thanks to the program Au théâtre ce soir , broadcast between 1966 and 1988, and of which he was a leading figure. On the stage, Michel Roux played opposite Michel Serrault (in La Cage aux Folles ), Jacques Villeret ( Le dinner de cons ) and Roger Carel and Jacqueline Maillan ( Féfé de Broadway ). The actor left the stage for good in 2006, following performances of the play Le Charlatan , written by his accomplice Robert Lamoureux .

Michel Roux remains in the annals for the dubbing of Tony Curtis in the cult series Amically yours . His amused intonations and ironic inflections have indeed largely contributed to the success of the series. But the actor also lent his casual tone to Peter Sellers , Alec Guinness , Vittorio Gassman and Jack Lemmon . Popular actor par excellence, Michel Roux was a Knight of Arts and Letters. His funeral will be celebrated on Thursday in Paris.