Michel Serrault
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin.
In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. In 1977-1978 he played the composer Jacques Offenbach in a six-part series of one-hour episodes about the musician's life, each one focusing on a specific aspect or work.
Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault.
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Filmography (177 Appearances)
C'est pas Parce qu'on n'a Rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa Gueule...
Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
Le Bénévole
Have Mercy on Us All
L'Avare
Les enfants du pays
Monsieur Léon
Joyeux Noel
Grabuge!
Albert est méchant
Le Furet
L'Affaire Dominici
L'Affaire Dominici
The Butterfly
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Vajont
The Girl from Paris
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
Un cœur oublié
Actors
The Libertine
Marty's World
The Children of the Marshland
Vivement dimanche
The Comedian
The Swindle
Artemisia
Assassin(s)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Happiness Is in the Field
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Tel est Serrault
Bonsoir
Old Rascal
Room Service
Ville à vendre
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
Héloïse
L'Huissier
Nouvelles de Marcel Aymé
Dr. Petiot
Stars 90
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year
Love Comedy
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Bonjour l'angoisse
No Harm Intended
Ennemis intimes
Sacrée Soirée
Matin Bonheur
Miracle Healing
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
La Cage aux Folles 3
He Died with His Eyes Open
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Les Rois du gag
Good King Dagobert
Kill the Referee
Le Bon Plaisir
Deadly Circuit
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
The Roaring Forties
The Hatter's Ghost
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Champs-Elysées
The Inquisitor
Malevil
La Cage aux Folles II
Heads or Tails
Il lupo e l'agnello
Buffet Froid
The Other One's Mug
The Associate
La Grâce
L'Esprit de famille
La Cage aux Folles
Other People's Money
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Le Passe-muraille
Les Folies Offenbach
Le Roi des bricoleurs
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
30 millions d'amis
The Red Ibis
The Restroom Robbery
Système 2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Apostrophes
No Pockets in a Shroud
Spécial cinéma
Operation Lady Marlene
La Gueule de l’emploi
Bloody Murder
Chinese In Paris
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
The Big Store
Big Deal
La Cage aux folles
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
A Murder Is a Murder
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Midi trente
The Annuity
Le Grand Échiquier
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Samedi soir
La Liberté en croupe
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Call Me Mathilde
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Would-Be Gentleman
À bout portant
The Great Chase
The Men in the Family
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
The Madman of Lab Four
Loose in the Trigger
The Great Gadget
Pour avoir Adrienne
Order of the Daisy
King of Hearts
Les enquiquineurs
At Theatre Tonight
The Boss of Champignol
Les Combinards
When the Pheasants Pass
Under Your Hat
The Double Bed
Le petit monstre
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Me and the Forty Year Old Man
The Real Bargain
Les baratineurs
Male Hunt
Clémentine chérie
Jaloux comme un tigre
Hard Boiled Ones
Dandelions by the Roots
How Do You Like My Sister?
Bebert and the Train
Carom Shots
We Will Go to Deauville
The Four Truths
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
How to Succeed in Love
Love on a Pillow
The Dance
The American Beauty
My Wife Is a Panther
On purge bébé
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Love and the Frenchwoman
La Malle volante
You Have Nothing to Declare?
The Bureaucrats
Oh! What a Mambo
Discorama
Nina
L'anglais tel qu'on le parle
Clara and the Villains
Musée Grévin
The Innocent with Forty Children
Adorables démons
L'Habit vert
The Terror with Women
Murderers and Thieves
Life is beautiful
Mon bébé
That Naughty Girl
Diabolique
Peek-a-boo
What the East Wind Saw