2023-05-06 13:59:20
The actor was found dead by firearm on May 5 at his home in Grabels, Hérault. The tributes, which have multiplied since the announcement of his death, testify to the affection that the public and his peers had for him.
The brutal disappearance of Michel Cordes, who played Roland Marci – the owner of the bar “Le Mistral” -, in the emblematic series More beautiful life”, is a shock for the fans and his partners in the cult series of France 2 who greeted with emotion the memory of the actor. Michel Cordes was found dead at his home on the afternoon of Friday May 5. The trail of suicide is preferred, said the prosecution of Montpellier.
“A dad for all of us”
Non“, writes the actor Jérôme Bertin, his colleague on the set of More beautiful life, on his Instagram page remembering a man he refers to as “daddy for all of us”. “I don’t want to believe you’re already gone. I don’t want to mourn you. I don’t want to! I feel like tonight everyone who has known, done, watched, loved More beautiful life are orphans. Michel, our national Roland, is like a dad to all of us”.
Just like Jérôme Bertin, Fabienne Carat, another of its partners, expressed its amazement at the microphone of RTL. “I have shivers in all my bodies. It’sIt isbe our rock to all!“, she confided. On their Instagram accounts, actors Cecilia Hornus (Blanche Marci) and Laurent Kerusore (Thomas Marci), her on-screen daughter-in-law and son respectively, expressed their grief by posting a black background eliciting sympathetic responses from fans of the series. Rebecca Hampton, just as sober, wishes him a “have a good trip”. “It’s the full moon tonight…”she wrote in the evening of Friday. “I hope she can enlighten you”.
“So Loved”
Pierre Martot, alias Commissioner Léo Castelli, considers him on the same social network as he was “the living embodiment of something very deep in this country – that’s why people (l)‘loved so much’. A text that he accompanied with a snapshot taken in 2004, “their first joint photo”.
Like the message posted on the official account of the series More beautiful life, fans salute a father figure, posting, among other things, pictures of them with the actor.
“I’m upset, sad”, writes one of them, respectfully addressing the late Michel Cordes. “More beautiful life”, broadcast on France 3 and now available on YouTube, was able to attract up to six million spectators per evening. Michael Cordes had not appeared on the show since his character’s death in October 2022, a month before the definitive cessation of this.
René Revol, the mayor of the town of Grabels, where the actor lived also saluted the memory of “the actordirector and Grabellois”. “I had the pleasure of meeting him several times, a discreet and sincere man”, he underlines, presenting his condolences to his relatives.
Michel Cordes, born October 20, 1945 in the Hérault, for 18 years played Roland, the boss of the Mistral where many stories of More beautiful life before his fictional death in the series. He had also played secondary roles in films like The hussar is on the roof by Jean-Paul Rappenau, alongside Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez (1995), or in A Matter of Taste (2000) alongside Bernard Giraudeau. And led a long career in the theater.
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