# Urbain Cancelier

Urbain Cancelier (born 2 August 1959) is a French comedian and actor, primarily known for his collaborations with French film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and for playing Collignon in Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.

## Career

As a theater actor, he has not left the stage since the beginning of the 1980s. He worked several times with Bernard Murat, who made him the ideal interpreter of Georges Feydeau. Overall, he acted in more than thirty plays
In 2015, he received a nomination at the Molière Award for his role in the play Le Système, directed by Didier Long.
Spotted by Jean-Michel Ribes, he joined the series Palace in 1988.
But it was his role as the grocer Collignon in Amélie that popularized him. Since then, he became a figure of the French cinema who appears often on screen in memorable supporting roles.

## Personal life

He lives in Chalo-Saint-Mars with his wife. He has been elected to the municipal council for 3 terms in his commune.

## Theater

| Year | Title | Author | Director | Notes |
| 1985 | Les Fourberies de Scapin | Molière | Jacques Bachelier | |
| 1987 | Une femme est un Diable | Prosper Mérimée | Frédérique Aufort | |
| 1988 | Les Cannibales | George Tabori | Wolfram Mhering | |
| 1989 | Séance de nuit | Georges Feydeau | Jean-Baptiste Fronty | |
| 1989 | C'est une femme du monde | Georges Feydeau | Jean-Baptiste Fronty | |
| 1990 | La Dame de chez Maxim | Georges Feydeau | Bernard Murat | |
| 1992 | Nina | André Roussin | Bernard Murat | |
| 1992 | A Flea in Her Ear | Georges Feydeau | Jean-Claude Brialy | |
| 1993 | Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Bernard Murat | |
| 1993 | Tailleur pour dames | Georges Feydeau | Bernard Murat | |
| 1994 | On purge bébé | Georges Feydeau | Bernard Murat | |
| 1995 | Monsieur de Saint-Futile | Françoise Dorin | Jean-Luc Moreau | |
| 1996–97 | A Flea in Her Ear | Georges Feydeau | Bernard Murat | |
| 1997 | The Imaginary Invalid | Molière | Richard Taxy | |
| 1998 | Le Mari, la femme et l'amant | Sacha Guitry | Bernard Murat | |
| 1998–99 | Frédérick ou le boulevard du crime | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Bernard Murat | |
| 1999–2002 | Frou-Frou les Bains | Patrick Haudecœur | Jacques Décombe | |
| 2003–05 | Devinez Qui ? Dix petits nègres | Agatha Christie | Bernard Murat | |
| 2005 | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | Stéphane Hillel | |
| 2007 | Victor, or Power to the Children | Roger Vitrac | Alain Sachs | |
| 2008–10 | César, Fanny, Marius | Marcel Pagnol | Francis Huster | |
| 2009 | Les Deux Canards | Tristan Bernard & Alfred dAthis | Alain Sachs | |
| 2010 | Boubouroche | Georges Courteline | Nicolas Briançon | |
| 2011 | Kingdom on Earth | Tennessee Williams | Bernard Murat | |
| 2011 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Avery Corman | Didier Caron | |
| 2012 | Le Dindon | Georges Feydeau | Bernard Murat | |
| 2012 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Nicolas Briançon | |
| 2013–14 | Thé à la menthe ou t'es citron ? | Patrick Haudecœur | Patrick Haudecœur | |
| 2015 | Le Système | Antoine Rault | Didier Long | Nominated - Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2016 | Peau de Vache | Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy | Michel Fau | |
| 2016 | Du vent dans les branches de Sassafras | René de Obaldia | Bernard Murat | |
| 2019–20 | Frou-Frou les Bains | Patrick Haudecœur | Patrick Haudecœur | |
| 2023 | La Présidente | Maurice Hennequin & Pierre Veber | Jeoffrey Bourdenet | |

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1984 | Jeans Tonic | A customer | Michel Patient | |
| 1984 | Quidam | | Gérard Marx | TV Movie |
| 1988–89 | Palace | Various characters | Jean-Michel Ribes | TV Series |
| 1989 | Le voisin de Paul | A passer | Jean-Marie Gigon | Short |
| 1989 | Comme d'habitude | | Bruno Herbulot | Short |
| 1991 | Pierre qui roule | The chief | Marion Vernoux | TV Movie |
| 1991 | Le gorille | | Jean-Claude Sussfeld | TV series (1 episode) |
| 1994 | La Vengeance d'une blonde | The delivery guy | Jeannot Szwarc | |
| 1995 | Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission | Barman | Robert Enrico | TV Movie |
| 1996 | Ridicule | Louis XVI | Patrice Leconte | |
| 1996 | Le bourgeois se rebiffe | Goubi | Jean-Pierre Alessandri | TV Movie |
| 1997 | On Guard | Argenson | Philippe de Broca | |
| 1997 | Tenue correcte exigée | Raoul Duchemin | Philippe Lioret | |
| 1998 | Riches, belles, etc. | | Bunny Godillot | |
| 1998 | Le monde d'Angelo | Judge | Pascal Kané | TV Movie |
| 1998 | La dame aux camélias | Saint Gaudens | Jean-Claude Brialy | TV Movie |
| 2000 | H | | Jean-Luc Moreau | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2000 | Chercheur d'héritiers | Marcel | Williams Crépin | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2001 | Amélie | Collignon | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| 2001 | L'emmerdeuse | Mr. Duringer | Michaël Perrotta | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2002 | Ma femme s'appelle Maurice | Poilard | Jean-Marie Poiré | |
| 2002 | Passage du bac | Chardon | Olivier Langlois | TV Movie |
| 2002 | La crim' | Xavier Danan | Denis Amar | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2002 | Femmes de loi | Deslandes | Denis Amar | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2003 | Les gaous | Police Chief | Igor Sekulic | |
| 2003 | L'adorable femme des neiges | Adrien | Jean-Marc Vervoort | TV Movie |
| 2003 | Josephine, Guardian Angel | | Stéphane Kurc | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2004 | Malabar Princess | Gaston | Gilles Legrand | |
| 2004 | Intimate Strangers | Chatel | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement | The monk | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| 2005 | 13 Tzameti | Train controller | Géla Babluani | |
| 2006 | Les aristos | Réginald Saumur Chantilly | Charlotte de Turckheim | |
| 2006 | Incontrôlable | The producer | Raffy Shart | |
| 2006 | Le phénomène Paul-Émile Raoul | Peter Zbrig | Audrey Najar & Frédéric Perrot | Short |
| 2006 | Passés troubles | Chardin | Serge Meynard | TV Movie |
| 2007 | The Red Inn | Philippe de Marcillac | Gérard Krawczyk | |
| 2007 | Mr. Bean's Holiday | Bus Driver | Steve Bendelack | |
| 2008 | A Day at the Museum | Bernard | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| 2008 | The Maiden and the Wolves | The doctor | Gilles Legrand | |
| 2008 | À droite toute | The doctor | Marcel Bluwal | TV Mini-series |
| 2009 | Micmacs | Urbain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| 2009 | Clara, une passion française | Émile | Sébastien Grall | TV Movie |
| 2011 | Voir la mer | The driver | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2011 | You Will Be My Son | Lacourt | Gilles Legrand | |
| 2011 | La pisseuse | Ignace | Ronan Denecé & Jean-Baptiste Legrand | Short |
| 2011 | Bas les coeurs | Barbier | Robin Davis | TV Movie |
| 2011 | Tout est bon dans le cochon | Mr. Paquet | David Delrieux | TV Movie |
| 2012 | The Suicide Shop | The gynecologist | Patrice Leconte | |
| 2012 | Bienvenue parmi nous | The butcher | Jean Becker | |
| 2012 | Les pirogues des hautes terres | René Barthes | Olivier Langlois | TV Movie |
| 2013 | Belle and Sebastian | The Mayor | Nicolas Vanier | |
| 2014 | La séance | Victor | Edouard de La Poëze | Short |
| 2015 | The Scent of Mandarin | Sergeant | Gilles Legrand | |
| 2015 | Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues | The Mayor | Christian Duguay | |
| 2016 | Raid dingue | President of France | Dany Boon | |
| 2016 | The Visitors: Bastille Day | The Prison Chief | Jean-Marie Poiré | |
| 2016 | Deux escargots s'en vont | Voice | Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Romain Segaud | Short |
| 2017 | L'école buissonnière | Lucien | Nicolas Vanier | |
| 2018 | Les bonnes intentions | The uncle | Gilles Legrand | |
| 2019 | La Belle Époque | Villemain | Nicolas Bedos | |
| 2019 | Le Mari au collège | Casimir | Alberic Saint Martin | Short |
| 2020 | Das Boot | Father Michel | Matthias Glasner | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2021 | Eugénie Grandet | The stone merchant | Marc Dugain | |
| 2021 | Simone Veil, A Woman of the Century | Secretary General Parquet | Olivier Dahan | |