Actor Michel Aumont died Wednesday at age 82

Paris (AFP)

Comedian Michel Aumont, an honorary member of the Comédie-Française who also excelled in supporting roles in the cinema, died Wednesday at the age of 82, announced his family Thursday at AFP.

The actor, who played marvelously for 20 years the role of Harpagon in the "House of Molière", also played in films by Bertrand Tavernier ("Spoiled children", 1977) and Claude Lelouch (" Edith and Marcel ", 1983) or more recently in" Palais Royal "(2005) by Valérie Lemercier.

Former Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob has hailed a "great comedian, theater and cinema, classic and modern".

"The sustain, the intonation, the phrasing, the accuracy, the discrete irony never very far and this kind of human thickness that serves the major roles.One of his titles suits him well: The eye of the master", has he reacted on Twitter.

Awarded by several Molières, this discreet, modest and humorous Parisian born October 15, 1936 had followed his mother actress from an early age at the Festival d'Avignon. He was 18 at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and two years later won a first prize in modern comedy.

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