French actor Michel Blancwho became known in his country for his comic role of the character Jean-Claude Dusse in ‘Les Bronzés’ in 1978, deceased in the night from Thursday to Friday for a heart attack At 72 years old.
The information, initially revealed by the magazine Paris Match then confirmed by Blanc’s press secretary to the BFMTV channel, makes a big splash in Francewhere his work had been recognized and distinguished, notably with a Caesar in 2012 for his work on “The Exercise of the State”.
His career in the world of entertainment began in the 1970s at the Splendid, a café-theater in the Montparnasse district of Paris, notably with roles as a sympathetic loser in comedies.
The one who truly dedicated it was Jean-Claude Dusse in “Les Bronzés” then in “Les Bronzés sont du ski”, a clumsy and somewhat desperate so-called flirtation. After the enormous popular success of this series, Blanc wanted to take a turning point and first changed register with “Tenue de soir” (1986), by Bernard Blier, a dramatic comedy in which he played a man who discovers his homosexuality, and which earned him the prize for best performance in the Cannes Film Festival.
In the years 1980s and 1990s He participated in films of various kinds and played for foreign directors such as Peter Greenaway (“Prospero’s Books”), Robert Altman (“Prêt-à-porter”) and Roberto Benigni (“The Monster”). White too made several filmsunder the title ‘Marche à l’ombre’ in 1984. In 2002, he achieved his first major commercial success behind the camera with the comedy ‘Kiss whoever you want‘, which achieved more than a million admissions in France.
A prelude to what will follow with “Les Bronzés 3” (10 million entries) and “I find you very handsome” (3.3 million). After the 2012 Césars prize for “The Exercise of the State”, by Pierre Schoeller, a political story, return to comedy.
He wrote with Pascal Chaumeil “Un petit travail” (2016), a detective comedy, and played in great productions such as “Les Nouvelles Aventures d’Aladdin” (2015) or “Raid dingue” (2016), by Dany Boon .
