2023-05-06 21:23:00
“According to the information we have, Mr. Cordes would have voluntarily killed himself by firearm at his home in Grabels”, a small town near Montpellier, explained Jean-Christophe Tixier, deputy prosecutor.
“An autopsy will take place at the beginning of the week” and the investigation into the causes of death, which is systematically opened in the event of the discovery of a corpse “should make it possible to confirm or invalidate this hypothesis”, he said. added.
The actor, who played the boss of Le Mistral café in the cult television soap opera in France, which ended at the end of 2022, was found dead at his home on Friday afternoon.
In a press release on Saturday evening, President Emmanuel Macron hailed “the memory of a comedian from the heart who marked the history of our popular television”.
“Every evening at 8:10 p.m., and for eighteen years, his Marseille counter was the nerve center of intrigues and passions” where “the character of Roland represented with accent, good-naturedness and humanity an art of living and a conviviality in which million viewers recognized each other”, continues the Elysée.
Actors of the series have expressed their sadness and their incomprehension, like Jérôme Bertin who remembers on Instagram his “mischievous gaze” as his “jovial wisdom” and his voice.
“Farewell my dear, my tender Michel, fake grumpy and real nice. Laugh in peace”, adds the actor who played Patrick Nebout in “Plus belle la vie”.
Pierre Martot, alias Commissioner Léo Castelli, believes for his part on the same social network that he was “the living embodiment of something very deep in this country – it is for this reason that people (l)’ loved it so much.”
“Plus belle la vie” is the longest soap opera ever produced in France, originally broadcast on France 3 and now rebroadcast on YouTube. The series, shot in the fictional Marseille district of Mistral, was stopped by France Télévisions at the end of 2022. It was able to attract up to six million spectators per evening.
Michel Cordes, born on October 20, 1945 in the Hérault, for 18 years played Roland, the boss of the Mistral where many stories of Plus belle la vie were tied before his fictional death in the series.
He had also played secondary roles in films such as Jean-Paul Rappenau’s “The Hussar is on the Roof”, alongside Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez (1995), or in A Matter of Taste (2000) alongside by Bernard Giraudeau. And led a long career in the theater.
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