AKA: Jacques Daniel Michel Piccoli
Nationality: French
Birthdate: 12/27/1925
Birthplace: Paris, France
Urbane Franco-Italian performer, on stage from the late 1940s and in routine screen character roles through the 50s. Piccoli gained prominence in the following decades with roles as sophisticated bourgeois types in films by Bunuel, Hitchcock and Chabrol. He has since cemented his reputation as one of France's most prolific and acclaimed performers, working through the 1990s with directors including Bertrand Tavernier ("Spoiled Children" 1977), Louis Malle ("Atlantic City" 1980) and Leos Carax ("Bad Blood" 1986).
Lord Ariel Chatwick-West
1999
1945
Feature acting debut, "The Sorcerer"
Manager of Theatre Babylone in Paris until 1957
Started own production company, Film 66
1972
First producing credit, "Themroc"
1973
Co-starred in Marco Ferreri's "La grande abbuffata/The Grande Bouffe" with Marcello Mastroianni