Michel Etcheverry
Date of birth: 1919-12-16
Place of birth: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Michel-Adrien Etcheverry
Biography
Michel Etcheverry was a French actor. First a teacher, he began his career in the theater as a stage manager, then joined the troupe of Louis Jouvet. He entered the Comédie-Française in 1961, was named member in 1964, honorary member in 1984. His repertoire includes many tragedies from the classical repertoire. His austere physique, his deep voice and the rigor of his acting serve the tragic repertoire as well as contemporary drama. He participated in numerous films and television programs.
Movie Credits
It Happened in Aden
1956-08-22
During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
Eyes Without a Face
1960-01-11
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daug
The Milky Way
1969-02-28
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way
Blackmail
1955-07-19
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
Emma Zunz
1969-01-01
Honoré de Marseille
1956-12-12
As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseill
Without Leaving an Address
1951-01-17
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left h
Leathernose
1952-03-26
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behin
Matrimonial Agency
1952-05-21
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to
The Case Against X
1952-06-11
Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrust
Desperate Decision
1952-10-01
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household
The Solitary Conquerors
1952-10-08
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to P
Crimson Curtain
1952-11-14
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in wh
Witness in the City
1959-05-06
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husb
The Drunkard
1953-02-27
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Tower of Lust
1955-03-18
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sister
La Mort de Pompée
1961-02-07
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassi
The Aristocrats
1955-10-12
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging
L'Affaire Lourdes
1967-11-07
In Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the sma
On ne badine pas avec l'amour
1978-01-01
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a c
Julie la rousse
1959-08-12
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her pa
Double Agents
1959-09-09
Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play
Quatrevingt-treize
1962-12-29
Madame du Barry
1954-10-13
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the mos
Élisa
1957-03-08
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her
Tonight We Kill
1959-09-15
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what
The Crab Basket
1960-05-20
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up
Dangerous Games
1958-12-12
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where
Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959-11-11
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings com
Women's Prison
1958-07-15
Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her
More Whiskey for Callaghan
1955-12-07
Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate
The Wages of Sin
1956-04-20
Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marr
L'Exécution
1961-01-29
Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
The New Aristrocrats
1961-12-13
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do pare
I... For Icarus
1979-12-19
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses
The Contessa's Secret
1954-09-26
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's li
The Blonde Witch
1956-06-06
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been
Tomorrow Is My Turn
1960-10-27
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German far
Three Faces of Sin
1961-09-12
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique
Woman in Chains
1968-11-20
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising
Perceval
1978-10-08
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of th
Horace
1973-03-24
A staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Horace" by Jean-Pierre Miquel.
The Golem
1967-02-18
Athanase Pernath is a gem cutter in the Prague ghetto. In spite of himself, he becomes embroiled in
Our Agent Tiger
1965-11-05
The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresur
Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Michael Strogoff
1956-12-14
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern
A French Woman
1995-03-14
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debac
The Desert of Pigalle
1958-04-02
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to
Le Maître de Santiago
1974-11-03
It has been years since Don Alvaro Dabo, the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago, has given up the
Sertorius
1983-08-29
La Poudre aux yeux
1976-10-09
Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearan
La Volupté de l'honneur
1968-10-12
George Dandin
1973-01-06
The Last Writer
1993-11-03
Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he ha
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1955-10-18
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever
Recourse in Grace
1960-05-19
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine,
Towards Ecstasy
1960-09-22
Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious b
Night Dance Hall
1959-07-24
Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can
The Whole Town Accuses
1956-05-23
François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.
The Little Boy from the Lift
1962-04-05
A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream
Diamond Machine
1955-12-29
A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst
Maid in Paris
1956-01-20
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by
Rasputin
1954-07-19
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages
In Six Easy Lessons
1957-12-06
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes we
Dom Juan
1965-11-06
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It und
Mathias Sandorf
1963-02-13
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. T
Le Roi Lear
1965-02-13
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his
Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be
Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon
1975-06-07
La Légende du siècle
1972-06-04