Emerging from the town of Wassy in Haute-Marne, France, Michel Creton built a versatile career across cinema, television and the stage. He first attracted international notice in 1967 with Costa-Gavras’s war drama Un homme de trop (Shock Troops) and subsequently appeared in a string of notable films, including Luis Buñuel’s La Voie lactée (1969), Claude Sautet’s Max et les ferrailleurs (1971), the…