Coluche
Coluche, Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci bourgeois, ( born October 28, 1944 in Paris, † June 19, 1986 in Opio, near Grasse ) was a French humorist, actor, comedian and author.
Life
He became famous for films such as breast or leg with Louis de Funès. For his portrayal of Claude Berri's film Lambert in the margins of the night he received the 1984 César Award for Best Male Actor.
End of October 1980 announced Coluche on to run for the French presidency to protest against the political situation in the country. In polls, he got up to 16% of respondents in favor and were supported by many intellectuals, but then did not submit any official candidacy.
He is also the initiator of the initiative Les Restos du Coeur ( German: The Restaurants of the Heart ), a kind of soup kitchens that are still practiced today.
Michel Colucci died in 1986 at the age of 41 years in the South of France by broken neck in a motorcycle accident. It rests on the municipal cemetery of Montrouge, Hauts -de -Seine department in the Paris suburbs.
In October 2006, Coluches death jährte for the twentieth time. This took the Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and the district mayor of the 13th and 14th arrondissements as an opportunity to honor the artist by the inauguration of a square at the intersection of Rue d' Alesia streets and Rue de Tolbiac. Named after Coluccis stage name Place Coluche place is located near the Parc Montsouris and Rue Gazan, in which he had lived until 1981.
Coluche was married from 1975 to 1981 with Véronique Kantor. They had two sons.