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Self-effacing, he described himself as ‘dull, banal, a little flat’, but he had the ability to disappear completely into his roles

Actor who played a series of wicked men in the French New Wave, including in Claude Chabrol’s La Femme Infidèle

Bouquet appeared in nearly 120 film and television roles

Michel Bouquet, a French actor whose talent for suggesting passion and turmoil beneath a bland, middle-class facade made him a favorite of new wave di

French President Emmanuel Macron leads tributes to the veteran stage and screen actor.

One of his country’s great theater performers, he went on to appear in more than 100 films playing ordinary men whose outward blandness masked complicated lives.