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Noël Godin

ActorBorn September 13, 1945 (79 years)
Noël Godin (born 13 September 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious pie thrower or entarteur. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with a pie. After bombarding Gates, Godin allegedly said, "My work is done here."

Godin insists he is non-violent and is careful to use only what he calls a "tarte classique", filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake. He says his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers and yippies like Abbie Hoffman.

Godin is inspired (for instance in his Anthologie de la subversion carabinée (1989)) by the works of the Utopian philosophers Tommaso Campanella (Civitas Solis) and Charles Fourier (La Phalange, Le Phalanstère). His ideal society is one where there is no struggle for power or money and where everybody can live in a state of perfect happiness. He is also an admirer of the anarchist Ravachol without approving his violence, sentiment which inspired him to his pie-attacks.

Godin has a particularly colourful way of expressing himself, using terms like "tempêtes patissières" (pastry storm) to describe his pieing.

Source: Article "Noël Godin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

  • Camping Cosmos
  • Les carnets de Monsieur Manatane
  • Meena
  • A Wonderful Love
  • La jouissance des hystériques
  • Wallonie 2084

Filmography

2022
2021
The Last Temptation of the Belgians · as Un Membre Du Jury
2013
Henri · as L'ami Colombophile
2012
Not Dead · as Le Marié
2011
2010
Mammuth · as La Tartobole
2008
Le prince de ce monde · as Monsignore 1
2005
Palais royal! · as Georges Le Gloupier
2005
2004
Aaltra · as Le Clochard Volubile
2004
2000
1999
A Wonderful Love · as Monsieur Fulci
1997
1996
Camping Cosmos · as Pierre Mertens
1994
The Sex Life of the Belgians · as Pierre Mertens
1991
Meena (TV Series) · as Cast
1984
Cinématon · as N°214
1966
Grand Prix · as Spectator (spa) (uncredited)

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