Comedian Michel Bouquet died at the age of 96

The theater and the stage were his second home. Michel Bouquet, who died at the age of 96, Wednesday April 13, was a lover of words. The actor with the recognizable deep voice had learned this trade at the conservatory. A revenge after a childhood spent in boarding school and a youth upset by the war. In 2015, at age 90, he was still serving the characters. “Authors are the purpose of my existence“, he confided.

From the 1950s, the cinema appealed to Michel Bouquet, who embodied an icy character. There was also in the actor a desire to transmit. The comedian William of Tonquedec had in Michel Bouquet an extraordinary professor at the conservatory. “He said ‘being an actor is not a job, it’s a vocation’. We are very much at the service of others”remembers Guillaume de Tonquedec.