Personal Info
Birth date
1929-09-21 (95 Years)
Day of death
2016-10-22
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vertou, Loire-Atlantique, France
Also known as
-Michel Delahaye
Biography
Michel Delahaye was born in 1929 in Vertou close to Nantes, Bretagne, France. Raised by a very religious father who was an ex-pilot of the Great War (World War I). He attended a Jesuit private school in Saint Malo, during World War II, under the German invasion. In 1951, he did his military service in Germany.
Filmography
Out 1
10
Overview:
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.Alphaville
6.9
Overview:
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”Holy Motors
6.989
Overview:
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.Band of Outsiders
7.502
Overview:
Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.Mr. Klein
7.241
Overview:
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.Donkey Skin
7.2
Overview:
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.The Shiver of the Vampires
5.1
Overview:
A young, honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires who have their own plans for the couple.The Nun
7.1
Overview:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.Exposed
4.533
Overview:
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...Ro.Go.Pa.G.
7.212
Overview:
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.Simone Barbès or Virtue
5.25
Overview:
Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.The Nude Vampire
4.807
Overview:
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.The Lady Banker
5.4
Overview:
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.The Secret
6.5
Overview:
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?The Telephone Always Rings Twice
5.5
Overview:
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
6.235
Overview:
A young sociologist researching criminal women selects a captivating inmate as his subject. As he conducts interviews in prison, her troubled past and justifications for her actions intrigue him. His growing interest soon blurs professional boundaries, testing his ability to resist her charm.Act of Aggression
4.8
Overview:
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.Zig Zig
5.3
Overview:
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.Blanche
6.1
Overview:
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.L'Amour fou
6.5
Overview:
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.Out 1
7.4
Overview:
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.The Probability Factor
3.6
Overview:
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.The Comedy of Work
5.7
Overview:
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.À vot' bon cœur
4
Overview:
French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.The Savior
3.7
Overview:
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.Take It from the Top
5.188
Overview:
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
6.1
Overview:
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.Acting
2016The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited as Self (archive footage)
2012Holy Motors as Limousine (voice)
2009Renault-Seguin la fin as Narrator
2005À vot' bon cœur as Member of the Advance on Receipts Committee
1998Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition as Dupont de l'Eure
1992Fugue en sol mineur as Illusio
1990Out 1 as Un ethnologue
1989Les jurés de l'ombre (7 Episodes) as Prosecutor
1988The Comedy of Work as Le chef de l'ANPE
1986À titre posthume as Unknown
1985Simone as Marcelin
1985The Telephone Always Rings Twice as Un journaliste
1983Last Affair as Unknown
1983At the Top of the Stairs as Le Nantais
1983Une sale histoire de sardines as The storyteller
1983Une villa aux environs de New York as Unknown
1983Exposed as Man in the Street (Paris)
1983Archipelago of Love as Mathieu (segment "Sara")
1982Employment Offer as Le chercheur d'emploi
1982Far from Manhattan as Le colonel
1981Lourdes l'hiver as Michoux
1980The Lady Banker as Chief accountant
1980Simone Barbès or Virtue as Le Dragueur Délicat
1980Pétain's Advent as Narrator
1979Drugstore Romance as Platon
1978Take It from the Top as Le comptable
1977The Theatre of the Matters as Le client
1977Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice as (Re)citer
1977La Machine as Platon
1977The Eagle and the Dove as Le psychiatre
1977Shadow of the Castles as Unknown
1976Mr. Klein as (uncredited)
1976The Probability Factor as Member of the board of directors
1976Let's Make a Dirty Movie as Boudon
1975La chatte sur un doigt brûlant as Édouard Lalyre
1975Don't Change Hands as Colonel Bourgeois
1975Zig Zig as Le chauffeur
1975The Brigade as Rabbi
1975Act of Aggression as Gunsmith
1974Femmes femmes as Docteur
1974The Secret as Le Médecin
1974Cry of the Heart as Unknown
1972A Gorgeous Girl Like Me as Marchal
1972Chut ! as Unknown
1972Blanche as The Monk
1972Les jonquilles as Adolphe
1972Romanticism as Unknown
1971Out 1 (8 Episodes) as Un ethnologue
1971The Albatross as Prison director
1971The Savior as Monnery
1971The Shiver of the Vampires as 1st Vampire
1971Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy as Edmond, le père
1970Donkey Skin as The Second Minister
1970The Nude Vampire as Grandmaster
1969Pierre and Paul as Unknown
1969L'Amour fou as Michel-Phoenix
1967The Nun as Un Vicaire
1966Brigitte and Brigitte as Le surveillant
1965Alphaville as von Braun's Assistant (uncredited)
1964Band of Outsiders as The Doorman
1963The New World as Unknown
1963Ro.Go.Pa.G. as (segment "Il nuovo mondo") (uncredited)
Writing
1983At the Top of the Stairs ... Dialogue
1980Simone Barbès or Virtue ... Writer
1978Mountain Pass ... Writer
Art
1958The Yellow Loves ... Art Direction