“Michel Cordes, beloved actor of Plus Belle La Vie, remembered after tragic passing”

This Friday, May 5, Michael Cordesthe leading actor in the series More beautiful the vie, was found dead, in his home rue des Lavandes, in the district of La Valsières, in Grabels. Died by firearm, the hypothesis of a suicide was retained by the parquet floor of Montpellier. The news aroused great emotion among a large number of people. The day after his announcement, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macronreacted through a press release in tribute towards the one who has accompanied, for years, millions of viewers. They “salute the memory of a comedian at heartwhich marked the history of our popular television” and address their ” heartfelt condolences to his loved ones and all those who loved him.

“A smile, a face, a role”

For no less than 18 years, Plus belle la vie and its actors have been part of the daily life of many French people, for whom Michel Cordes was “a smile, a face, a role”, as the services of the presidency remind us. Michel Cordes embodied there Roland Marcicartridge you carried The Mistral. But “behind this incarnation and this eloquence, was hidden a sensitive and secretive man ».

Before fame, as a child, the actor grew up in Destroy, in Hérault, with farming parents. It was here that he forged two intelligible passions: “The south – that of Minervois then Montpellier and Lattes – his perpetual refuge, and sculpture as ambition and aspiration. So Michel Cordes tried to enter the Beaux-Arts to, he said, ”do something with his hands”. But this hyperactive finally headed for the theater. Author, director, actor, the troupe life was his for many years. He also made a few forays into the cinema, in The Horseman on the Roof by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1995, ”details the Elysée.

A caring man

In 2004, Michel Cordes was revealed to the general public through the series. “Every evening at 8:10 p.m., and for eighteen years, his trading post in Marseilles was the nerve center of intrigues and passions. Because the character of Roland appeared with accent, bonhomie and humanity an art of living and a conviviality in which millions of television viewers recognized themselves. In 2014, for the tenth anniversary of the series, Internet users of “La Provence” designated this ideal grandfather as their favorite character “, adds the presidency of the republic.

It was on October 3, 2022 that Roland left Plus belle la vie, struck down by a heart attack, signing the end clap of Michel Cordes in the adventure. “The characters, on the screen, like their interpreters, in life, praised with one voice a man attentive to others, lavishing advice, warmth and friendship”, conclude the services of the Élysée.

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