Charles Millot

Charles Millot — Biography

Charles Millot was a Yugoslav-born actor who built his career in France and appeared in a great many films across roughly thirty-five years. Veljko Milojević was his real name; on screen he used Charles Millot. Among his better-known pictures are The Train (1964), The Night of the Generals (1967), French Connection II (1975) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), and he was mostly seen in supporting and character parts.

In the early 1960s he joined the casts of spy and crime stories, playing Commissaire Matlov in The Eye of the Monocle (1962), Pesquet in The Train and Franck in Trans-Europ-Express (1966). Later in the decade he also appeared in The Night of the Generals and Mayerling (1968). In 1970 he played the Marquis de Grouchy in Waterloo and the head of the Bulgarian delegation in La nuit bulgare. In the following years he was Slavio in L'affaire Crazy Capo (1973), Miletto in French Connection II and a kidnapper in Playing with Fire (1975). In the 1980s he took on characters named Mister Teufminn and Werner in Balles perdues (1983) and Lien de parenté (1986).

He kept working in productions such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Eye of the Widow (1991) at the end of the 1980s and the start of the 1990s. Millot died in Paris on 6 October 2003, aged 81.