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name: "Michel Delahaye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michel-delahaye"
fi1m_id: "michel-delahaye"
imdb_id: "nm0216155"
tmdb_id: 38903
wikidata_id: "Q3309416"
roles: []
born: "21 September 1929"
died: "22 October 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T15:51:04.959682+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Michel Delahaye

## Identity

Michel Delahaye

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michel-delahaye
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michel-delahaye
- **IMDb ID:** nm0216155
- **TMDB ID:** 38903
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3309416
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309416, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0216155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38903

Actor. Born 21 September 1929 in Vertou, Loire-Atlantique, France. Died 22 October 2016.

## Details

- **Born:** 21 September 1929, Vertou, Loire-Atlantique, France
- **Died:** 22 October 2016
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 78 (1), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309416, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0216155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38903

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Alphaville*](https://film.one/film/alphaville.md) (78)

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## Biography

Michel Delahaye was a French actor and film critic. Born on 21 September 1929 in Vertou, Loire-Inférieure, he died on 22 October 2016 in Paris.

He began as a journalist and critic, writing for *Cahiers du cinéma* from 1960 to 1970. From the mid-1960s he appeared in films by directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Jean Rollin, with roles in *Band of Outsiders* (1964), *Alphaville* (1965), *The Nun* (1966), *The Nude Vampire* (1970) and *The Shiver of the Vampires* (1971). He later took parts in films by Truffaut, Straub-Huillet and Leos Carax, including a voice role in *Holy Motors* (2012).

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, lemonde.fr, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Holy Motors* (2012), Fi1m 84, as Limousine (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/holy-motors.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Alphaville* (1965), Fi1m 78, as von Braun's Assistant (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/alphaville.md)

## Complete filmography (71)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Holy Motors* (2012), as Limousine (voice) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/holy-motors.md)
- *Renault-Seguin la fin* (2009), as Narrator
- *Horezon* (2006), Actor
- *À vot' bon cœur* (2005), as Member of the Advance on Receipts Committee
- *Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition* (1998), as Dupont de l'Eure
- *Fugue en sol mineur* (1992), as Illusio
- *Out 1* (1990), as Un ethnologue
- *Les jurés de l'ombre* (1989), series, as Prosecutor
- *The Comedy of Work* (1988), as Le chef de l'ANPE
- *À titre posthume* (1986), Actor
- *Simone* (1985), as Marcelin
- *The Telephone Always Rings Twice* (1985), as Un journaliste
- *Last Affair* (1983), Actor
- *At the Top of the Stairs* (1983), as Le Nantais · Dialogue
- *Une sale histoire de sardines* (1983), as The storyteller
- *Exposed* (1983), as Man in the Street (Paris)
- *Archipelago of Love* (1983), as Mathieu (segment "Sara") · Director
- *Une villa aux environs de New York* (1982), as Mr. Green
- *Employment Offer* (1982), as Le chercheur d'emploi
- *Far from Manhattan* (1982), as Le colonel
- *C'est la vie !* (1981), as Le flic
- *Lourdes l'hiver* (1981), as Michoux
- *The Lady Banker* (1980), as Chief accountant
- *Simone Barbès or Virtue* (1980), as Le Dragueur Délicat · Writer
- *Pétain's Advent* (1980), as Narrator
- *Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)* (1980), Actor
- *Drugstore Romance* (1979), as Platon
- *La petite enfance du cinéma* (1979), Actor
- *Mountain Pass* (1978), Writer
- *Take It from the Top* (1978), as Le comptable
- *Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice* (1977), as (Re)citer
- *The Theatre of the Matters* (1977), as Le client
- *La Machine* (1977), as Platon
- *The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died* (1977), as The Professor
- *The Eagle and the Dove* (1977), as Le psychiatre
- *Shadow of the Castles* (1977), Actor
- *Mr. Klein* (1976), as (uncredited)
- *The Probability Factor* (1976), as Member of the board of directors
- *Let's Make a Dirty Movie* (1976), as Boudon
- *Village Girls* (1975), as Édouard Lalyre
- *Don't Change Hands* (1975), as Colonel Bourgeois
- *Zig Zig* (1975), as Le chauffeur
- *The Brigade* (1975), as Rabbi
- *Act of Aggression* (1975), as Gunsmith
- *Serious as Pleasure* (1975), Actor
- *Femmes femmes* (1974), as Docteur
- *The Secret* (1974), as Le Médecin
- *Cry of the Heart* (1974), Actor
- *Romanticism* (1972), as Benedek Zoietta, architect
- *A Gorgeous Kid Like Me* (1972), as Marchal
- *Chut !* (1972), Actor
- *Blanche* (1972), as The Monk
- *Les jonquilles* (1972), as Adolphe
- *Out 1* (1971), series, as Un ethnologue
- *The Albatross* (1971), as Prison director
- *The Savior* (1971), as Monnery
- *The Shiver of the Vampires* (1971), as 1st Vampire
- *Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy* (1971), as Edmond, le père
- *Donkey Skin* (1970), as The Second Minister
- *The Nude Vampire* (1970), as Grandmaster
- *Winter Wind* (1969), Actor
- *Pierre and Paul* (1969), Actor
- *L'Amour fou* (1969), as Michel-Phoenix
- *The Nun* (1967), as Un Vicaire
- *Brigitte and Brigitte* (1966), as Le surveillant
- *Alphaville* (1965), as von Braun's Assistant (uncredited) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/alphaville.md)
- *Band of Outsiders* (1964), as The Doorman
- *Ro.Go.Pa.G.* (1963), as (segment "Il nuovo mondo") (uncredited)
- *The New World* (1963), as (uncredited)
- *The Eighth Day* (1960), Assistant Director
- *The Yellow Loves* (1958), as Art Direction

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