Personal Info
Birth date
1922-09-14 (102 Years)
Day of death
1988-01-07
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Koblenz, Germany
Also known as
Vladimir Vujovic
Vladimir Vujovic Caspar
Vladimir Vujović
Michel Auclair
Biography
Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema. Auclair was born to a Serbian father (born in Požarevac, Serbia) and a French mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujović, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International. Auclair moved to Paris when he was three years old. He entered medical school but then studied acting at the CNSAD in Paris. While a major French star, he only had two English-language roles: as Professor Flostre in the 1957 musical Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, and as a French police investigator in Day of the Jackal (1973) with Edward Fox. Source: Article "Michel Auclair" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
NYR
Overview:
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television seriesPolice Commissioner Moulin
5.8
Overview:
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.The Day of the Jackal
7.5
Overview:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.Christopher Columbus
6.5
Overview:
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.Funny Face
6.979
Overview:
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.Beauty and the Beast
7.525
Overview:
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
6.083
Overview:
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.Enigma
5.6
Overview:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.A Mistress for the Summer
5.5
Overview:
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.Three Men to Destroy
6.188
Overview:
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.For a Cop's Hide
5.922
Overview:
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.Manon
6.972
Overview:
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.The Damned
6
Overview:
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8
Overview:
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.The Beautiful Prisoner
6.171
Overview:
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?Justice Is Done
6.5
Overview:
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
6.944
Overview:
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
7.007
Overview:
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.Holiday for Henrietta
7
Overview:
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.The Married Couple of the Year Two
6.6
Overview:
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.The Medic
5.4
Overview:
The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting.A Thousand Billion Dollars
6.947
Overview:
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.Father's Trip
6.4
Overview:
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.The Fox of Paris
7.9
Overview:
Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.Street of the Damned
5.044
Overview:
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes.A Bomb for a Dictator
5.4
Overview:
RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to France. The rebels have made careful plans to blow up the dictator's private plane as he returns, but at the last second he changes plans and travels on a commercial flight. The rebels then must make a difficult decision: they must either blow up a flight filled with innocent passengers, or else allow the dictator to return home and take brutal reprisals against the leaders of the uprising.Murder at 45 R.P.M.
5.7
Overview:
Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.Acting
1989Torquemada as Unknown
1988Preuve d'amour as Charles Maurin
1985Christopher Columbus (4 Episodes) as Luis De Santangel
1984Le Bon Plaisir as Herbert
1984Street of the Damned as Georges Chetman, père de Chet
1983Bel ami (1 Episode) as M. Walter
1983The Beautiful Prisoner as La voix de Walter (voice)
1983Mr. President as El presidente
1982Enigma as Doctor
1982Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ as Consul Demetrius
1982Lise and Laura as Frédéric
1982A Thousand Billion Dollars as Michel Saint-Claude, director of GTI-Europe
1981For a Cop's Hide as Haymann
1981Les Avocats du Diable as Maître Orsini Belcourt
1980Three Men to Destroy as Leprince
1979Madame Sourdis as Rennequin
1979The Medic as Boss
1979The Kick of Sirocco as Lucien Bonheur
1978Question of Love as Philippe Dumais
1977Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff as Simon Pradal aka 'Le Docteur'
1976Police Commissioner Moulin (1 Episode) as Commissaire Kirs
1975Seven Deaths by Prescription as Dr Mathy
1975French Provincial as Hector
1974Spécial cinéma (1 Episode) as Self
1974Black Thursday as monsieur Edmond
1973Impossible Object as Georges
1973The Day of the Jackal as Colonel Rolland
1973December as Colonel de St-Méran
1971The Married Couple of the Year Two as Prince
1970The Mad Heart as Serge Ménessier
1969Salomé as Hérode
1969Under the Sign of the Bull as M. Magnin, le banquier d'Albert
1968Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo as Villefort
1966Father's Trip as Friend and client of Marie-Louise
1964Chance at Love as Alain Lorrière (segment "Une chance explosive")
1964Trafics dans l'ombre as Philippe
1964Death, Where Is Your Victory? as Jean
1963Portuguese Vacation as Michel
1963Symphony for a Massacre as Clavet
1962Sentimental Education as Didier Arnoux
1962Le Mal court as F...
1961Midnight Meeting as Jacques
1960Murder at 45 R.P.M. as Jean Le Prat
1960A Mistress for the Summer as Philippe
1959Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case as Maurice de Saint-Fiacre
1959The Lovers of Tomorrow as Pierre Montfort
1958Des Hommes Dans Le Ciel as (Narrator)
1958Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (1, 1 Episode) as Portal, Fondier
1957The Fox of Paris as André, Chef des Widerstandes
1957A Bomb for a Dictator as Diego Dias
1957L'irrésistible Catherine as Georges Bartone
1957Funny Face as Prof. Emile Flostre
1957Reproduction interdite as Jacques Lacroix
1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self
1956Rice Girl as Mario
1955Tres hombres van a morir as Pierre de Prémont
1955Le souffle de la liberté as André Chénier
1954One Step to Eternity as François Roques dit Larry
1954Double Destiny as Jacques Frontenac
1954La patrouille des sables as Pierre de Prémont
1954Quai des blondes as Jacques Fenner
1954Zoé as Arthur Delay
1954Royal Affairs in Versailles as Jacques Damiens
1953The Daughter of the Regiment as Tenente Andrea
1952Holiday for Henrietta as Maurice
1952Under the Thousand Lanterns as Michel Dumas
1951The Two Truths as Lut Loris
1951The Red Needle as Florian Faber
1950Justice Is Done as Serge Cremer
1950No Pity for Women as Michel Dunan, Alain's look-alike / Alain de Norbois, missing man
1950Tuesday's Guest as Maurice Vineuse, le convalescent
1949The Wind Is My Lover as Erland Monesköld
1949The Hell of Lost Pilots as Léonard François
1949Manon as Robert Dégrieux
1948Eternal Conflict as Mario
1947The Damned as Willy Morus
1946Beauty and the Beast as Ludovic
1946Sophie's Misfortune as Paul d'Auber