# Michel Auclair

Michel Auclair (born Vladimir Vujović, Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Вујовић; 14 September 1922 – 7 January 1988) was an actor of Serbian and French ancestry, known best for his roles in French cinema.
Auclair was born to a Serbian father (born in Požarevac, Serbia) and a French mother in Koblenz. His father was Vojislav Vujović, prominent Yugoslav Communist and secretary of the Communist Youth International. Auclair moved to Paris when he was three years old. He entered medical school but then studied acting at the CNSAD in Paris.
While a major French star, he only had two English-language roles: as Professor Flostre in the 1957 musical Funny Face with Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, and as a French police investigator in Day of the Jackal (1973) with Edward Fox.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Director | Role | Notes |
| 1946 | The Misfortunes of Sophie | Jacqueline Audry | Paul d'Auber | |
| 1946 | La Belle et la Bête | Jean Cocteau | Ludovic | |
| 1946 | Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire | Alain Resnais | | |
| 1947 | Les Maudits | René Clément | Willy Morus | |
| 1948 | Eternal Conflict | Georges Lampin | Mario | |
| 1949 | Manon | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Robert Dégrieux | |
| 1949 | Le Paradis des pilotes perdus | Georges Lampin | Léonard François | |
| 1949 | Singoalla | Christian-Jaque | Erland | |
| 1950 | Tuesday's Guest | Jacques Deval | Maurice Veneuse | |
| 1950 | Pas de pitié pour les femmes | Christian Stengel | Michel Dunan/Alain de Norbois | |
| 1950 | Justice est faite | André Cayatte | Serge Cremer | |
| 1951 | The Red Needle | Emil-Edwin Reinert | Florian Faber | |
| 1952 | Under the Thousand Lanterns | Erich Engel | Michel Dumas | |
| 1952 | Red Shirts (Camicie rosse) | Goffredo Alessandrini and Francesco Rosi | A volunteer | Uncredited |
| 1952 | The Temptress | Antonio Leonviola | Lut Loris | |
| 1952 | La Fête à Henriette | Julien Duvivier | Maurice/Marcel | |
| 1953 | The Daughter of the Regiment | Géza von Bolváry | Leutnant Andreas | |
| 1953 | La figlia del reggimento | Géza von Bolváry and Tullio Covaz | Tenente Andrea | |
| 1954 | Zoé | Charles Brabant | Arthur Delay | |
| 1954 | Royal Affairs in Versailles (Si Versailles m'était conté) | Sacha Guitry | Jacques Damiens | |
| 1954 | Quay of Blondes | Paul Cadéac | Jacques Fenner | |
| 1954 | La Patrouille des sables | René Chanas | Pierre de Prémont | |
| 1954 | A Double Life | Victor Vicas | Jacques Frontenac | |
| 1954 | One Step to Eternity | Henri Decoin | François Roques (Larry) | |
| 1954 | Tres hombres van a morir | Feliciano Catalán | Pierre de Prémont | |
| 1955 | Andrea Chénier | Clemente Fracassi | Andrea Chénier | |
| 1956 | Rice Girl (La risaia) | Raffaello Matarazzo | Mario | |
| 1957 | The Schemer | Gilles Grangier | Jacques Lacroix | |
| 1957 | Funny Face | Stanley Donen | Prof. Emile Flostre | |
| 1957 | Irresistible Catherine | André Pergament | Georges Bartone | |
| 1957 | A Bomb for a Dictator | Alex Joffé | Franco Géron | |
| 1957 | The Fox of Paris | Paul May | André | |
| 1959 | The Lovers of Tomorrow | Marcel Blistène | Pierre Montfort | |
| 1959 | Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre | Jean Delannoy | Maurice de Saint-Fiacre | |
| 1960 | Une fille pour l'été [fr] | Edouard Molinaro | Philippe | |
| 1960 | Murder at 45 R.P.M. | Étienne Périer | Jean Le Prat | |
| 1962 | L'Éducation sentimentale | Alexandre Astruc | Didier Arnoux | |
| 1962 | Le Rendez-vous de minuit | Roger Leenhardt | Jacques | |
| 1963 | Symphonie pour un massacre | Jacques Deray | Clavet | |
| 1963 | Portuguese Vacation | Pierre Kast | Michel | |
| 1964 | Mort, où est ta victoire? | Hervé Bromberger | Jean Paleyzieux | |
| 1964 | Trafics dans l'ombre | Antoine d'Ormesson | Philippe | |
| 1964 | La Chance et l'amour | Bertrand Tavernier | Alain Lorrière | (segment "Une chance explosive") |
| 1966 | Le Voyage du père | Denys de La Patellière | The friend of Marie-Louise | |
| 1968 | Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo | André Hunebelle | Villefort | |
| 1968 | Under the Sign of the Bull | Gilles Grangier | Magnin | |
| 1970 | Le Cœur fou | Jean-Gabriel Albicocco | Serge Menessier | |
| 1971 | Les Mariés de l'an II | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Prince | |
| 1972 | Paulina 1880 | Jean-Louis Bertucelli | Narrator | |
| 1973 | Décembre | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Colonel de St-Méran | |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | Col. Rolland | |
| 1973 | Impossible Object | John Frankenheimer | Georges | |
| 1974 | Les Guichets du Louvre | Michel Mitrani | M. Edmond | |
| 1975 | Souvenirs d'en France | André Téchiné | Hector | |
| 1975 | Sept morts sur ordonnance | Jacques Rouffio | Dr. Mathy | |
| 1977 | Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff | Yves Boisset | Simon Pradal (the doctor) | |
| 1978 | L'Amour en question | André Cayatte | Philippe Dumais | |
| 1979 | Le Coup de Sirocco | Alexandre Arcady | Lucien Laurent Bonheur | |
| 1979 | Le Toubib | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Le patron | |
| 1980 | Three Men to Kill | Jacques Deray | Leprince | |
| 1981 | Pour la peau d'un flic | Alain Delon | Haymann | |
| 1982 | Mille milliards de dollars | Henri Verneuil | Michel Saint-Claude | |
| 1982 | Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | Jean Yanne | Le consul Demetrius | |
| 1983 | Enigma | Jeannot Szwarc | | |
| 1983 | La Belle Captive | Alain Robbe-Grillet | Walter | Voice |
| 1983 | El señor presidente | Manuel Octavio Gómez | El Presidente | |
| 1984 | Rue barbare [fr] | Gilles Béhat | Georges Chetman (Chet's father) | |
| 1984 | Le Bon Plaisir | Francis Girod | Herbert | |
| 1988 | Preuve d'amour | Miguel Courtois | Charles Maurin | |
| 1989 | Torquemada | Stanislav Barabáš | | (final film role) |

### Television shows and series

| Year | Title | Episode | Role |
| 1976 | Bonjour Paris | | M. Flinois |
| 1976 | Le train bleu s'arrête 13 fois | "Cannes : on ne gagne qu'une fois" | |
| 1977 | Commissaire Moulin | "Affectation speciale" | Commissaire Kirs |
| 1978 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | "Les Loges du crime" | Portal |
| 1979 | Histoires insolites | "Une dernière fois Catherine" | M Terrier |
| 1979 | Les Amours de la Belle Époque | "Crapotte" | Ruiné |
| 1981 | Les Héritiers | "Les Brus"" | |
| 1982 | De bien étranges affaires | "Un homme ordinaire" | Le professeur Anderson |
| 1983 | Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | "La Chine à Paris" | Fondier |

### Television films

| Year | Title | Director | Role |
| 1962 | Il est minuit docteur Schweitzer | Gilbert Pineau | Leblanc |
| 1962 | Le mal court | Alain Boudet | F |
| 1964 | La Chambre | Michel Mitrani | Pierre |
| 1965 | Huis clos | Michel Mitrani | Garcin |
| 1973 | Genitrix | Paul Paviot | Fernand |
| 1973 | Salomé | Pierre Koralnik | Hérode |
| 1974 | Faites entrer M. Ariman | Alain Dhenault | Luther Ariman |
| 1975 | Le Prix | René Lucot | Walter |
| 1979 | Madame Sourdis | Caroline Huppert | Rennequin |
| 1980 | Docteur Teyran | Jean Chapot | Axel Thor |
| 1980 | Lettres d'amour sur papier bleu | Edouard Logereau | Maurice |
| 1981 | Les Avocats du diable | André Cayatte | Orsini-Belcourt |
| 1981 | Martine Verdier | Bernard Toublanc-Michel | |
| 1982 | Les Invités | Roger Pigaut | Philippe Dubourg |
| 1982 | Lise et Laura | Henry Helman | Frédéric |
| 1983 | Bel ami | Pierre Cardinal | M. Walter |
| 1985 | Christopher Columbus | Alberto Lattuada | Luis De Santangel |
| 1988 | Les Rats de Montsouris | Maurice Frydland | Gaudebert |

## Stage

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1977 | The Lady from the Sea | |