Michel Ruhl

Michel Ruhl (2 February 1934 – 15 January 2022) was a French actor.^[1]

Life and career

Ruhl became widely known for his role as Jean de Plessis-Vaudreuil in the series Au plaisir de Dieu [fr], directed by Robert Mazoyer [fr]. He began his career in 1952 under the direction of Gérard Philipe. He held his first major role in the theatre with a staging of Long Day's Journey into Night at the Théâtre Hébertot in Paris. He began acting in film in 1963 with Your Shadow is Mine [fr]. He then appeared in the films Nick Carter and Red Club and Nouveau journal d'une femme en blanc [fr].

In addition to his acting career, Ruhl was well known for

Ruhl died in Guérande on 15 January 2022, at the age of 87.^[2]

Filmography

Cinema

• Your Shadow is Mine (1963)
• Nick Carter and Red Club (1965)
• Nouveau journal d'une femme en blanc (1966)
• L'Oiseau rare [fr] (1973)
• Maître Pygmalion [fr] (1975)
• Gloria Mundi [fr] (1976)
• Police Python 357 (1976)
• If I Had to Do It All Over Again
  (1976)
• The Toy (1976)
• La Menace (1977)
• Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)
• On peut le dire sans se fâcher [fr] (1978)
• Le Mouton noir [fr] (1979)
• L'Œil du maître [fr] (1980)
• La provinciale (1981)
• The Passion of Bernadette [fr] (1989)
• Wild Reeds (1994)
• Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)^[3]

Short film

• Il va faire jour mon amour (2013)

References