Biography
Michel Blanc (April 1952 – 3 October 2024) was a French actor, writer and director. He is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with Le Splendid, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel and Gérard Jugnot. Michel Blanc has also shown his versatility by appearing in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire. Description above from the Wikipedia articl...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Rookie Guide
2025
as Docteur Charoux
Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees ...

The Safe House
2025
as Père-Grand
An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents p...

Take a Chance on Me
2023
as Judge Gilles d'Outremont
Marie-Line is juggling between odd jobs to support her agoraphobic father. Despite the precariousness of their lifestyle, she remains a lively and che...

L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023
as Self (archive footage)
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of ...

The Small Victories
2023
as Emile Menoux
Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile,...

Top Dogs
2023
as Jean-Pierre Deloup
Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with...

Christmas with the Tuches
2021
as Jean-Yves Marteau
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end o...

A Good Doctor
2019
as Serge Mamou Mani, the doctor
On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who wi...

Kiss & Tell
2018
as Jean-Pierre
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Eliza...

Kiss & Tell
2018
Director, Writer
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Eliza...

R.A.I.D. Special Unit
2017
as Jacques Pasquali
The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her f...

Odd Job
2016
as Gardot
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

Odd Job
2016
Writer
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.

The New Adventures of Aladdin
2015
as Sultan
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch i...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Les Souvenirs
2014
as Le père de Romain
Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retire...

The Hundred-Foot Journey
2014
as Mayor
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
2014
as Self / Various characters

Half-Sister
2013
as Paul
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by...

The Minister
2011
as Gilles, director of staff
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no ...

The Day I Saw Your Heart
2011
as Eli Dhrey
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail...

A Spot of Bother
2010
as Jean-Paul Muret
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.

A Spot of Bother
2010
Writer
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.

The Girl on the Train
2009
as Samuel Bleistein
Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover y...

A Day at the Museum
2008
as Mosk
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin,...

School's Out
2008
as Professor Martineau
A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.

The Second Wind
2007
as le commissaire Blot
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu ne...

The Witnesses
2007
as Adrien
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006
as Jean-Claude "Jessy" Dusse
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
2006
Writer
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

You Are So Beautiful
2005
as Aymé Pigrenet
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who ...

93, rue Lauriston
2004
as Inspecteur Blot
93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was ...

Madame Edouard
2004
as le commissaire Léon
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn nee...

L'Affaire Dominici
2003
as Commissaire Sébeille
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near th...

Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...

Summer Things
2002
as Jean-Pierre
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it ...

Summer Things
2002
Screenplay, Director
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it ...

Espèces menacées
2001
Adaptation
An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to change his life.

The Escort
1999
Director, Screenplay
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He meets friendly Tom, who offers to help him make en...

The Grand Dukes
1996
as Shapiron
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of cour...

Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Inspector Forget
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

The Monster
1994
as Paride Taccone, le psychiatre
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate ha...

The Monster
1994
Adaptation
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate ha...

Dead Tired
1994
as Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fa...

Dead Tired
1994
Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fa...

Toxic Affair
1993
as The suicidal
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast ar...

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
1993
Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Prospero's Books
1991
as Alonso
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this un...

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1991
as Norbert
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds...

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991
as L'hindou
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

Thank You, Life
1991
as Raymond Pelleveau, le père jeune
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new frien...

Uranus
1990
as Gaigneux
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The...

Separate Bedrooms
1989
as Martin
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced ...

Monsieur Hire
1989
as Monsieur Hire
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local...

Sans peur et sans reproche
1988
as Verdiglione, surgeon
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.

L'Excès contraire
1988
Director

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
1988
as Walter Arbeit
The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.

The Fugitives
1986
as Doctor Bourdarias (uncredited)
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained ro...

I Hate Actors
1986
as Monsieur Albert
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever p...

Ménage
1986
as Antoine
Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a bar. With husband and wife in need of cash, Bob teach...

Bunny's Bar
1985
as Jacques, portier
In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to ...

Drôle de samedi
1985
as Driving school student
For Véronique and Pierre, it's a strange Saturday: unusual encounters and unpredictable events follow one after another...

Nuit d'ivresse
1985
as Jacques Belin
In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next ...

Dream One
1984
as Boris / Nemo's Father
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.

The Defective Detective
1984
as Laurent Martin
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has r...

Marche à l'ombre
1984
as Denis
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here ...

Marche à l'ombre
1984
Director, Writer
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here ...

Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
as Le père Lebœuf, résistant
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do ...

Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
1983
as Leroux
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen p...

Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
1983
as Pierre
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.

Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
as L'obsédé sexuel au téléphone (voice)
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfrien...

Singles
1982
as Bernard
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night gu...

Singles
1982
Screenplay
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night gu...

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
1981
as Guy
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
1981
Screenplay, Adaptation
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.

The Horse of Pride
1980
as Corentin Calvez
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division...

The Other One's Mug
1979
as Taboureau
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious...

Out of Whack
1979
as Marcel Dupin / Passager métro effrayé
Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Vari...

French Fried Vacation 2
1979
as Jean-Claude Dusse
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Cla...

French Fried Vacation 2
1979
Writer
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Cla...

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
as Construction site police officer
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun...

Pierrot mon ami
1979
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place...

The Adolescent
1979
as M. Bertin
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity ...

Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
1979
as Passerby who provides information
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...

French Fried Vacation
1978
as Jean-Claude Dusse, the frustrated
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, co...

French Fried Vacation
1978
Writer
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, co...

Like a Turtle on Its Back
1978
as le fêtard qui lit
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his ...

Surprise Sock
1978
as L'interne
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfou...

Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
1978
as Le fils du capitaine
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.

Focal Point
1977
as Policeman
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually...

You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
1977
as Antremont
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the co...

Spoiled Children
1977
as Agent immobilier véreux
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for...

The Devil in the Box
1977
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy ...

The Bottom Line
1976
as Un copain du café-théâtre
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine...

The Tenant
1976
as Scope's Neighbor
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Probability Factor
1976
as Choukroun
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial table...

I Love You, I Don't
1976
as A worker
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Kr...

The Best Way to Walk
1976
as Deloux
In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, a...

Let's Make a Dirty Movie
1976
as Un flic
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Louis XV's valet
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Un bol d'air
1975
as Michel

Un bol d'air
1975
Writer

Bonne présentation exigée
1974
as L'homme qui arrive

The Girl's Dead, Man
1974
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth cent...