Micheline Presle
Age: 101 | From: Paris, France
Person Details
Birthday: 1922-08-22 03:20:07
Aliases: Micheline Chassagne
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Paris, France
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Movie Involvements: 69
TV Involvements: 5
Most Famous Work
Biography
Micheline Presle (born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne on 22 August 1922) is a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Born in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of La Fessée. In 1938, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema. Her rise to European stardom, in films such as Devil in the Flesh, led to offers from Hollywood and in 1950, she was signed by 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox executives changed Presle's last name to Prell. It was later changed to Prelle after a soap company brought out Prell shampoo. Her first Hollywood production was a starring role opposite John Garfield in the film Under My Skin directed by Jean Negulesco. That same year director Fritz Lang cast her opposite Tyrone Power in the war drama American Guerrilla in the Philippines. In 1950 she became the second wife of American actor William Marshall with whom she had a daughter, Tonie. William Marshall had teamed up with actor Errol Flynn and his production company and in 1951 he directed her and Flynn in the film Adventures of Captain Fabian. Presle's marriage did not last and she returned to France, divorcing Marshall in 1954. Her career flourished in French films and in 1957 she was a guest on the American Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she performed in the United Kingdom English-language production of Blind Date directed by Joseph Losey. She returned to Hollywood in 1962 for the role of Sandra Dee's mother in the Universal Studios film If a Man Answers which also featured Dee's husband, singer Bobby Darin. The following year Presle acted again in English in The Prize starring Paul Newman. She did not make another English film but after performing in more than fifty films in French, in 1989 she appeared in the French-made bilingual production I Want to Go Home for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1971, Presle signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had an illegal abortion. Presle continued to act both in film and on television until relatively recently, and over her career she has made more than one hundred and fifty films. One of her more recent appearances is Venus Beauty Institute. Source: Article "Micheline Presle" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Famous Work
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Madame Lagrue
Combat!
(1962) Annette
Midi Première
(1975) Self
The Ray Bradbury Theater
(1985) Grandma
The Count of Monte Cristo
(1998) Madame de Saint-Méran
The Prize
(1963) Denise Marceau
Devil in the Flesh
(1947) Marthe Grangier
Napoleon
(1955) Queen Hortense de BeauharnaisActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Self | |
| 2013 | Jeanne | |
| la tante | ||
| 2012 | Grandmother | |
| 2011 | Micheline Presle | |
| 2010 | Huguette | |
| 2009 | La grand-mère | |
| Femme | ||
| 2008 | Liliane | |
| 2007 | Jane Latour-Jackson | |
| 2005 | Gisèle Lenoir | |
| 2004 | Mme Renaud | |
| Self (voice) | ||
| 2003 | Nicole | |
| Mrs. Saltim | ||
| Marie | ||
| La mère de Stanislas | ||
| 2002 | Claire Lacombe | |
| 2001 | La mère de Vincent | |
| Juliette | ||
| Violette Ancelin | ||
| Bélise | ||
| 2000 | Madeleine | |
| 1999 | Mamie | |
| Madame Dubosc | ||
| Tante Maryse | ||
| Self | ||
| 1998 | Elle-même (l'actrice) | |
| Self | ||
| Madame de Saint-Méran | ||
| Madame Raymonde | ||
| 1996 | la "mère" de Bernard | |
| Marcelle Ichak | ||
| Hermine | ||
| Diane | ||
| 1995 | La mère supérieure / Mother Superior | |
| 1994 | Gisèle | |
| Mrs. Loussine | ||
| 1993 | Maude | |
| Avril Espart | ||
| Luce | ||
| 1991 | Self | |
| Mme Donnadieu | ||
| Germaine et Marie-Louise | ||
| 1990 | La voisine | |
| Mireille Miran | ||
| 1989 | Isabelle Gauthier | |
| Gloria Maieul | ||
| 1988 | Prof. Girelli | |
| Lady with jewels | ||
| 1986 | Jacqueline | |
| La mère de Christian | ||
| 1985 | Grandma | |
| 1984 | Mme Argente | |
| N/A | ||
| Denise | ||
| Genevieve | ||
| 1983 | Mathilde | |
| The mother (segment "Remue-ménage") | ||
| 1982 | Self | |
| 1980 | Hélène | |
| Betty | ||
| 1979 | Carmen | |
| Rose | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mlle Chagrin | ||
| Madame Lagrue | ||
| Madame Courdevey | ||
| 1978 | Valentine Vatrin | |
| 1977 | Madame Aubert | |
| 1976 | Helen Ashby | |
| 1975 | Mother | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1974 | Laurence | |
| Micheline Presle | ||
| 1973 | Docteur Delavigne | |
| 1972 | Countess Claudia Osio De Blanc | |
| 1971 | Aunt Amelie | |
| Self | ||
| 1970 | La reine rouge | |
| L'Antiquaire | ||
| Madame de Séryeuse | ||
| 1969 | Self | |
| 1966 | Madame Eva alias Madame Eglantine | |
| Mme de Moni | ||
| 1965 | Ève Lagarde | |
| Daisy | ||
| 1964 | Paméla Van Der Mèche | |
| Isabelle Lartois | ||
| Monique Bouvier | ||
| 1963 | Denise Marceau | |
| N/A | ||
| Angèle Brissac | ||
| 1962 | Josephine | |
| Germaine Stacy | ||
| Annette | ||
| Micheline Allan | ||
| Sophie Givier | ||
| Madame Duparc - la mère de Bernard (segment "La luxure") | ||
| Madame Duparc - la Mère de Bernard | ||
| 1961 | Madame de Rénal | |
| La marchesa | ||
| Adalgisa De Matteis | ||
| Madeleine | ||
| Michele | ||
| 1960 | Mrs. Latour | |
| Madame Latour | ||
| Perle Germain-Joubert | ||
| Paule | ||
| 1959 | Jacqueline Cousteau | |
| Régine / Simone | ||
| 1958 | Baroness Lena Eggersdorf | |
| Nicole | ||
| 1957 | Hélène Vanaux | |
| 1956 | Judith Aurigault | |
| Lucrezia Cenci | ||
| 1955 | Madeleine Villardier | |
| Queen Hortense de Beauharnais | ||
| 1954 | Virginia Marchi | |
| Michèle | ||
| Mme de Pompadour | ||
| 1953 | Valeria Valenzano (segment: Gli amanti) | |
| Marie Prieur | ||
| Marguerite Gauthier | ||
| 1951 | Lea Mariotte | |
| 1950 | Jeanne Martinez | |
| Paule Manet (as Micheline Prelle) | ||
| Hélène | ||
| 1949 | Laura Lee | |
| 1948 | Self | |
| 1947 | Marthe Grangier | |
| Eve Charlier | ||
| 1945 | Élisabeth Rousset, dite "Boule de suif" | |
| Claire Ancelot | ||
| Micheline Lafaurie | ||
| 1944 | Félicie Nanteuil | |
| 1943 | Clara Biondi | |
| Micheline | ||
| 1942 | Françoise Pimbrache | |
| Irène | ||
| 1941 | Adélaïde Barbier | |
| Irène Morillon | ||
| 1940 | Lydia | |
| Lucie | ||
| 1939 | Janine et Jeannette | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Jacqueline Presle | ||
| 1938 | (uncredited) | |
| 1937 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
