PARIS – French actor Michel Piccoli, a prolific screen star who appeared in landmark films by directors such as Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard, has died.
He was 94. His family confirmed to French media Monday that he died last week, but they did not give a cause of death. Though less famous in the English-speaking world, in continental Europe and his native France Paris-born Piccoli was a stalwart of art house cinema.
Beginning his career in the 1940s, he went on to make over 170 movies, working into his late eighties. His most memorable appearance came arguably during the French New Wave – starring opposite Brigitte Bardot in Godard’s 1963 masterpiece “Contempt," with his dark hat and signature bushy eyebrows.