The actor and director Michel Blanc, figure of Splendid, died on the night of Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4, at the age of 72, the press officer for his main films announced to AFP, Laurent Renard, confirming information from Paris Match.
He suffered a heart attack in the evening and was transported in serious condition to a Parisian hospital, his entourage told AFP.
“Fuck Michel… What did you do to us…”, his sidekick from Splendid and “Bronzés”, Gérard Jugnot, wrote in a story on Instagram during the night.
“Michel my friend my brother my partner”, reacted on Instagram the actress Josiane Balasko, another figure of this flagship troupe of the 70s and 80s.
A popular actor since the success of “Bronzés”, Michel Blanc has alternated laughter and emotion by exploring the human soul in front of and behind the camera.
After the enormous public success of “Marche à l’ombre” (1984), his first film as a director, he broadened his range by disappearing as the first of the Splendid gang, notably with the transgressive “Tenue de evening” (1986) by Bertrand Blier. He plays the moving Antoine, who becomes infatuated with Gérard Depardieu and cross-dresses. The role, crowned with the Best Actor Prize at Cannes, marks a turning point in his career.
In the dramatic register, Michel Blanc also portrayed the disturbing “Monsieur Hire” (1989), according to Simenon, or a homosexual doctor at the beginning of AIDS in “Les Témoins” (2007) by André Téchiné.
After the missed appointment of the third opus of “Bronzés” in 2006, the actor, nominated four times for the César for best actor, won the precious statuette in 2012 for his unexpected second role as chief of staff in the political thriller “L ‘Exercise of the State’
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