Jean-Michel Dupuy’s death at age 69, supporting role, seen in La Boum and Claude Lelouch.

Accustomed to supporting roles on the small and big screens, a mainstay of the theater where he received no less than six Moliere nominations in his career, Jean-Michel Dupuis has died aged 69 after a long illness. His partner, actor and screenwriter Sylvie Audcour made a statement about this very briefly on Facebook.

Born on February 2, 1955, Jean-Michel Dupuy began his career in 1976 in Jacques Feinstein’s Le Petit Marcel. Four years later, he appeared in the public eye with the role of Étienne, Claude Brasseur’s doctor friend, in Claude Pinot’s cult film La Boum.

In the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in about twenty films, which allowed him to shoot with leading directors. Alain René is a novel in life; with Edouard Molinaro in L’amour en cinq in 1985, which he would return to at the Comedy Palace. Claude Lelouch, Twice, Attention Bandits!, released in 1987, and the feature film La Belle Histoire, in 1992.

On television, she has appeared regularly in series with huge audience successes, from Cordier, The Judge and The Policeman to Josephine the Guardian Angel, including Maid of Honor, to name just a few examples.

The beast of the stage

But Jean-Michel Dupuis will find more material to express his dramatic art on the theater stage, where he spent 40 years. He earned six nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Moliere, without winning a statuette. The public was able to applaud him in the famous work nameWritten by Mathieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellier, directed by Bernard Murat, 2010-2011.

He shared the bill with Patrick Bruel, Valery Benguig and Guillaume de Tonquedec. When the play was made into a film by the same authors the following year, he would be the only one not reprising his role, played on screen by Charles Berlin. “We didn’t want to give Jean-Michel Dupuis the role of Pierre. It was a difficult decision to make on a human level, because he was brilliant on stage. But it was important for us to show another Pierre, more animal. Plus the rooster, Patrick’s kind of alter ego.” He entrusted the duo of directors Express.

The last screen appearance of Jean-Michel Dupuy dates back to 2006, in the film “Spring in Paris” by Jacques Brall.