Biography
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born to a Serbian father (born in Požarevac, Serbia) and a French mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujović, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International. Auclair moved to Paris when he was three years old. He entered medical school but then studied acting at the CNSAD in Paris. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Torquemada
1989
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas

Preuve d'amour
1988
as Charles Maurin
A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.

Le Bon Plaisir
1984
as Herbert
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his...

Street of the Damned
1984
as Georges Chetman, père de Chet
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who v...

The Beautiful Prisoner
1983
as La voix de Walter (voice)
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a night...
Mr. President
1983
as El presidente
Adaptation of the famous novel, impassioned denunciation of the Guatemalan dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera.

Enigma
1982
as Doctor
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent ...

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
1982
as Consul Demetrius
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar c...

Lise and Laura
1982
as Frédéric
Laura lives in a Hotel in Britanny and meets there an old man. Laura looks like his wife Lise, who's killed by the Gestapo...

A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982
as Michel Saint-Claude, director of GTI-Europe
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determ...

For a Cop's Hide
1981
as Haymann
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

Les Avocats du Diable
1981
as Maître Orsini Belcourt
In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against parat...

Three Men to Destroy
1980
as Leprince
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped h...
Madame Sourdis
1979
as Rennequin

The Medic
1979
as Boss
The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surg...

The Kick of Sirocco
1979
as Lucien Bonheur
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.

Question of Love
1978
as Philippe Dumais
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom...

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977
as Simon Pradal aka 'Le Docteur'
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re...

Seven Deaths by Prescription
1975
as Dr Mathy
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

French Provincial
1975
as Hector
In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family.

Black Thursday
1974
as monsieur Edmond
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Chris...

Impossible Object
1973
as Georges
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distin...

The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Colonel Rolland
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...

December
1973
as Colonel de St-Méran
In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most viole...

The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
as Prince
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others tr...

The Mad Heart
1970
as Serge Ménessier
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe beca...

Salomé
1969
as Hérode
Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the ...

Under the Sign of the Bull
1969
as M. Magnin, le banquier d'Albert
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathe...

Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
1968
as Villefort
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Siste...

Father's Trip
1966
as Friend and client of Marie-Louise
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdress...

Chance at Love
1964
as Alain Lorrière (segment "Une chance explosive")
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.

Trafics dans l'ombre
1964
as Philippe
Codeine has been stolen from Philippe Calaro's pharmaceutical laboratory. The police are investigating and ask the young chemical engineer to remain a...

Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964
as Jean
Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun

Portuguese Vacation
1963
as Michel
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a ro...

Symphony for a Massacre
1963
as Clavet
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems ...

Sentimental Education
1962
as Didier Arnoux
Frédéric, a shy small-town man, falls in love with Anne, a middle class woman married to Didier, who cheats on her with top model Barbara. Catherine, ...

Le Mal court
1962
as F...

Midnight Meeting
1961
as Jacques
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?

Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1960
as Jean Le Prat
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, th...

A Mistress for the Summer
1960
as Philippe
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Phil...

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959
as Maurice de Saint-Fiacre
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...

The Lovers of Tomorrow
1959
as Pierre Montfort
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her ...

Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel
1958
as (Narrator)

The Fox of Paris
1957
as André, Chef des Widerstandes
Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretl...

A Bomb for a Dictator
1957
as Diego Dias
RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up ...

L'irrésistible Catherine
1957
as Georges Bartone
A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the youn...

Funny Face
1957
as Prof. Emile Flostre
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

Reproduction interdite
1957
as Jacques Lacroix
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyi...

Rice Girl
1956
as Mario
The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds ou...

Tres hombres van a morir
1955
as Pierre de Prémont

Le souffle de la liberté
1955
as André Chénier
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.

One Step to Eternity
1954
as François Roques dit Larry
Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper invites four women to a housewarming at his penthouse apartment. He plans on one of...

Double Destiny
1954
as Jacques Frontenac
A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.

La patrouille des sables
1954
as Pierre de Prémont
Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in search of gold in the Sahara. They happen to be capt...

Quai des blondes
1954
as Jacques Fenner
The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky E...

Zoé
1954
as Arthur Delay
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair...

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954
as Jacques Damiens
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, ...

The Daughter of the Regiment
1953
as Tenente Andrea

Holiday for Henrietta
1952
as Maurice
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with...

Under the Thousand Lanterns
1952
as Michel Dumas
This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to...

The Two Truths
1951
as Lut Loris
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot h...

The Red Needle
1951
as Florian Faber
A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has ...

Justice Is Done
1950
as Serge Cremer
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal ...

No Pity for Women
1950
as Michel Dunan, Alain's look-alike / Alain de Norbois, missing man
The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken...

Tuesday's Guest
1950
as Maurice Vineuse, le convalescent
When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.

The Wind Is My Lover
1949
as Erland Monesköld
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet...

The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949
as Léonard François
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reser...

Manon
1949
as Robert Dégrieux
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collabo...

Eternal Conflict
1948
as Mario
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new ...

The Damned
1947
as Willy Morus
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Beauty and the Beast
1946
as Ludovic
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests...

Sophie's Misfortune
1946
as Paul d'Auber
Sophie de Réan, an unruly mischievous little girl grows up under the thumb of Mademoiselle, her strict governess. Following her mother's death, she is...