Michel Drucker

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Michel Drucker
Salon Du Livre 2011 Michel Drucker 2.jpg
Drucker in 2011
Born (1942-09-12) 12 September 1942 (age 81)
Vire, France
Occupation(s)Television and radio host
Employer(s) France 2, Europe 1
Spouse Dany Saval
Relatives Jean Drucker (brother)
Marie Drucker (niece)
Léa Drucker (niece)

Michel Drucker, CQ (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that he was included in the price of their TV sets.

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Career

He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as sports reporter and commentator. Although he kept doing live coverage of major soccer matches until 1986, he soon turned to hosting variety shows, such as Champs-Élysées on Antenne 2 in the 1980s, then Stars 90 on TF1 in the 1990s, then finally Vivement dimanche on France 2 every Sunday afternoon since 1998.

Drucker is known for his polite, toned-down attitude towards show-business stars, and is best known outside France for the incident between Serge Gainsbourg and American singer Whitney Houston on the television programme, Champs-Élysées . [1]

Personal life

Drucker is Jewish. His father, Abraham Drucker, was a Jewish immigrant who arrived in France in 1925 to study medicine. Drucker's younger brother, Jacques, is a doctor, and his older brother, Jean, was a television executive.

Drucker is married to French actress Dany Saval and is an uncle of Léa Drucker, an actress, and Marie Drucker, a telejournalist on France 2.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
2005Un fil à la patteThe florist Francis Perrin TV movie
2006Trois jeunes filles nuesRichard ValverdeTV movie
2007Trois contes merveilleuxThe priestHélène GuétaryTV movie
2012Stars 80Himself Frédéric Forestier & Thomas Langmann
2013Y'a pas d'âgeMichel JockerJuly HygreckTV series (1 episode)
PlataneHimself Éric Judor & Denis ImbertTV series (1 episode)
La grande boucle (fr)Himself Laurent Tuel
2014 Number One Fan Himself Jeanne Herry
Avis de mistralHimselfRose Bosch
2015L'Hôtel du Libre-EchangeMonsieur François Goetghebeur TV movie
2016 Arrête ton cinéma Himself Diane Kurys
Un chapeau de paille d'ItalieThe client François Goetghebeur (2)TV movie
2017 Coexister HimselfFabrice Eboué
Call My Agent ! Himself Laurent Tirard TV series (1 episode)
2018 Guy Himself Alex Lutz

Honours

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Foreign honours

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