The first rumors evoked a possible settling of scores. However, according to our exclusive information, Michel Cordes would have shot himself to death. As confirmed by a key actor in the series “Plus belle la vie”, a letter left for the attention of his wife and his darling children would have been found near his body, this Friday, May 5, 2023, at his home in Grabels, in Hérault. A property located at number 27 rue des Lavandes where he had been living for a year and a half.
At 77, the actor played for 18 seasons, from 2004 to 2022, in “Plus belle la vie”, one of the cult characters in the series of France 3 : Roland Marci, the grumpy owner of the bar “Le Mistral”, located in Marseille. Actor, author and director, Michel Cordes had left the series shortly before the final end of it with the death of his fictional character.
He had then explained that he had the will to withdraw from the daily series, even if this one had not yet been deleted by France Televisions. “I am no longer very young. I wanted to rest, he explained in September 2022. I had imagined my exit because I am a little tired. I’ve been doing this job for fifty-some years. I do not live in Marseilles. It was starting to get heavy in my life. I had imagined that I would distance myself, not that the soap opera would stop”.
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An actor and director, in the theater and in the cinema!
His actor friends then sent him public messages, praising “a very handsome actor but above all a simple and sincere man” as well as his “kindness”. let’s remember that “More beautiful life” is the longest soap opera ever produced in France, which has been able to attract up to six million spectators per evening.
But Michel Cordes had also distinguished himself in the theater as in the cinema, as an actor but also as a director. The man, born on October 20, 1945 in Hérault, a fervent defender of Occitan, had also played secondary roles in films such as “The hussar is on the roof” by Jean-Paul Rappenau, alongside Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez (1995), or in “A matter of taste” (2000) alongside Bernard Giraudeau.
For the time being, an investigation has been opened by the gendarmes of the Castelnau-le-Lez company in order to elucidate the circumstances of the death of the septuagenarian, according to our colleagues from the Free lunch.
We imagine his playmates in shock. No one yet knows the reasons that would have pushed him to commit this fatal act.
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