Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin.
In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978.
Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault.
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Movies
Diabolique
Mr. Raymond
Bonsoir
Alex Ponttin
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Jean-Paul Rondin
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
le voisin
The Other One's Mug
Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
La Cage aux Folles
Zaza
Male Hunt
Gaston Lartois
The Red Ibis
Jérémie
The Dance
Pétrarque
The Inquisitor
Jérôme Martinaud
La Cage aux Folles II
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
The Associate
Julien Pardot
The Girl from Paris
Adrien Rochas
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
M. Pierre Arnaud
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Marcel Jolin
Assassin(s)
Mr. Wagner
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
Verlac
Have Mercy on Us All
Hervé Decambrais
Happiness Is in the Field
Francis Bergeade
Carom Shots
Baudu, l'inspecteur de Police
The Big Store
Félix Boucan
The Annuity
Louis Martinet
Deadly Circuit
Beauvoir, « l'Œil »
Good King Dagobert
Otarius
Oh! What a Mambo
L'inspecteur Vidalie
Buffet Froid
Le comptable
Bebert and the Train
Barthoin
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Louis
The Butterfly
Julien
Heads or Tails
Edouard Morlaix
No Pockets in a Shroud
Justin Blesh
Miracle Healing
Ronald Fox-Terrier
The Swindle
Victor
The Comedian
Le comédien
Les Rois du gag
Les enfants du pays
Gustave
Artemisia
Orazio Gentileschi
Dr. Petiot
Docteur Petiot
Malevil
Emmanuel Comte
King of Hearts
Monsieur Marcel
Love on a Pillow
Varange
That Naughty Girl
Inspector #2
Bonjour l'angoisse
Michaud
Vajont
L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Louis XV
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Jules César
Le Furet
Anzio
Albert est méchant
Albert Moulinot
Chinese In Paris
Grégoire Montclair
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
L'archevêque de Venise
The Hatter's Ghost
Léon Labbé
Kill the Referee
Rico, aggressive supporter
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
Jean-Pierre Mazard
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Alfred Mullanet
When the Pheasants Pass
Rimero
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Nestor Burma
The Men in the Family
Gabriel Pelletier
Ville à vendre
Rousselot, le maire
Grabuge!
Commissaire Lancret
Murderers and Thieves
Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
The Restroom Robbery
Max
The Libertine
Le Cardinal
We Will Go to Deauville
Lucien Moreau
Dandelions by the Roots
Jérôme, comédien de théâtrre et cousin de Jockey Jack
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
Octave Clapoteau
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
Pompilius
Other People's Money
Miremant
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Roger Scatti
The American Beauty
le clochard
He Died with His Eyes Open
Robert Staniland
Me and the Forty Year Old Man
Bénéchol
Love and the Frenchwoman
L'avocat de Danielle (Le Divorce)
Le Bon Plaisir
Le ministre de l'Intérieur
Big Deal
Paul
Call Me Mathilde
François
Les Compagnons de la marguerite
L'inspecteur Papin
The Great Chase
Aldo Moreni
Old Rascal
Darius Caunes
The Four Truths
Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Louis XVI
The Madman of Lab Four
M. Granger, directeur du laboratoire scientifique
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Dr. Emile Couzan
Room Service
M. Luc
Love Comedy
Paul Léautaud
Monsieur Léon
Docteur Léon Chapuis
No Harm Intended
Paul Duchêne
Jaloux comme un tigre
M. Lurot
Un clair de lune à Maubeuge
Charpentier, le conférencier
How Not to Rob a Department Store
A Murder Is a Murder
Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
The Children of the Marshland
Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
Pour avoir Adrienne
Thomeret
L'Affaire Dominici
Gaston Dominici
How to Succeed in Love
Le commissaire
Le Bénévole
Max Birgos
How Do You Like My Sister?
Varangeot
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Le second policier / Policeman
Operation Lady Marlene
Paulo
Under Your Hat
Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
Les combinards
La père de Lucile
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year
Gino
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Le curé Léon
Peek-a-boo
Serrault, le trompettiste
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Gabriel Pelletier
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Achille
The Great Gadget
Pounet
Le Roi des bricoleurs
Bordin
Un cœur oublié
Monsieur de Fontenelle
Bloody Murder
Edouard Henricot
Il lupo e l'agnello
Léon
Nina
Adolphe Tessier
Clémentine chérie
Maître Brunet
Adorables démons
Jacques Willis Senior
L'Esprit de famille
le docteur Charles Moreau
La Grâce
Henri Dupérier
On purge bébé
Guillaume Chouilloux
Les baratineurs
Henri
The Innocent with Forty Children
Jean-François Robignac
L'Huissier
Maître Malicorne
The Terror with Women
Un gendarme
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Commissaire Le Gac
La Liberté en croupe
Paul Cérès
Le Passe-muraille
Dutilleul
The Double Bed
Albert
Du mou dans la gâchette
The armorer
The Roaring Forties
Sébastien Barral
The Bureaucrats
le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
Héloïse
Maurice Martin, Héloïse
Les enquiquineurs
Martin - instituteur
Musée Grévin
The visitor
Joyeux Noel
The Castle Keeper
My Wife Is a Panther
le boucher
La Gueule de l’emploi
L'inspecteur de police
Would-Be Gentleman
M. Jourdain
Actors
Self
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
Ennemis intimes
Baudin
Tel est Serrault
Self
La Cage aux folles
Albin dit "Zaza Napoli"
Clara and the Villains
La Parole
What the East Wind Saw
Zamore
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
Life is beautiful
le démarcheur
Mon bébé
Jimmy Scott
Hard Boiled Ones
Rossignol, le détective privé
La Malle volante
M. Loiseau
Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles
The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Self (archive footage)
L'Habit vert
The Real Bargain
Le petit monstre
The Boss of Champignol
Hector
Shows
Champs-Elysées
Self
Les Folies Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach
Vivement dimanche
Self
Stars 90
self
30 millions d'amis
Self
La Saga des Martin
Martin / Héloïse
La Saga des Martin
Maître Malicorne
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
Discorama
Self
Midi trente
Self
Samedi soir
Self
Système 2
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
Apostrophes
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self (archive footage)
At Theatre Tonight
Thomeret
À bout portant
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self