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Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), and two films by Jacques Demy: Lola (1961) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). In both Demy films, he played the same role, Roland Cassard, a lovesick writer and jeweler. Source: Article "Marc Michel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Marc Michel was a French-Swiss actor best known for his career in European cinema, most notably his collaborations with director Jacques Demy.
He is recognized for his performance as Claude Gaspard in Jacques Becker's prison drama Le Trou (1960) and for playing the character Roland Cassard in the Jacques Demy films Lola (1961) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).
He portrayed the lovesick Roland Cassard in the films Lola (1961) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), and provided photos for the character in the 1969 film Model Shop.