Biography
Maurice Bénichou was a French actor. He was born on 23 January 1943 in Tlemcen, French Algeria, and died on 14 June 2019 in Paris.
Bénichou appeared in three films directed by Michael Haneke: Code Unknown (2000), Time of the Wolf (2003) and Caché (2005). He played Dominique Bretodeau in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (2001) and featured in Peter Brook's 1989 film version of The Mahabharata. He was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur in 2013.
