
Michel Subor
Biography
Michel Subor (February 2 1935 - January 17 2022) was a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou (1961). In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? (as lover Philippe) and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (as Claude Jade's husband, the journalist François Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie was Claire Denis' Bastards in 2013.
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Acting History
2025
Sang titre as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023to Crinkle their Wrist, Perfumed Splendour as Commander Bruno Forestier (archive footage)
2018War on Beasts as Pierre Duruy
2017Godard Mon Amour as Narrator #4 (voice)
2013Bastards as Edouard Laporte
2012Last Winter as Hélier
2010White Material as Henri Vial
2005The Intruder as Louis Trebor
2003Dear Hunter
2001Wild Innocence as Chas
2000Beau Travail as Commander Bruno Forestier
2000Fidelity as Rupert MacRoi
2000Ainsi soit-il as Barroux
1997Un petit grain de folie as Alexandre Pelozov
1990Counterstrike as Yuri
1989Braxton
1989A Tale of Two Cities as Le père de Darnay
1989The French Revolution as Vadier
1988Der Mann im Salz as Meister Zwanzigeisen
1985The Fourth Power as Xavier Mareche
1985Passage secret as Enrique
1984Stress as Police commissioner
1981Le pilon as Roland Boileu
1980The Rebel as Beaufils
1979The Sewers of Paradise as Biki le Targuy
1977The Accuser as Brignon
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974Un curé de choc as Roger
1973The Day of the Jackal as OAS Terrorist in Car
1970Scene of the Crime as André
1970Mauregard as Charles-Auguste
1969Topaz as François Picard
1969Sadistic Hallucinations as L'inspecteur
1966À nous deux, Paris! as Patrick Cartier
1965Le Reflux as Henri Person
1965The Queen of Spades as Herman
1965What's New Pussycat? as Philippe
1964Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc as Roger
1964Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise as Roger
1963Young Girls of Good Families as Gerard LeGall
1963Le Petit Soldat as Bruno Forestier
1962Jules and Jim as Récitant / Narrator (voix)
1961Vacation in Hell as André
1961Please, Not Now! as Alain Varnier
1959My Pal the Gypsy as Bruno Pittuiti
1958Sunday Encounter as Un élève du cours (uncredited)
1956Cinépanorama as Self
1955Frou-Frou as Le jeune homme au restaurant (uncredited)









