Philippe Noiret
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 1, 1930
- Died
- November 23, 2006 (aged 76)
- Birthplace
- Lille, Nord, France
Biography
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Beaches of Agnès
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
3 Friends
Movie · as Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Movie · as Self
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Movie · as Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie · as Self
Edy
Movie · as Louis
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
Movie · as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
My New Partner III
Movie · as René Boirond
The Chops
Movie · as Léonce
Father and Sons
Movie · as Léo
Step by Step
Movie · as Louis Chevalier
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Movie · as Self
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Movie · as Joseph Steg
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Pierre and Marie
Movie · as Professor Rodolphe Schutz
Marianna Ucrìa
Movie · as Duke Signoretto
Soleil
Movie · as Joseph Lévy
On Guard
Movie · as Duke Philippe d'Orléans
The Grand Dukes
Movie · as Victor Vialat
Ghost with Driver
Movie · as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
Le Veilleur de nuit
Movie · as Monsieur
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Movie · as Récitant / Narrator
Looking for Paradise
Movie · as Padre di Claudia
Les Milles
Movie · as Le Général
Too Loud A Solitude
Movie · as Haňťa
Le Roi de Paris
Movie · as Victor Derval
The Troubles We've Seen
Movie · as Self
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Movie · as D'Artagnan
The Postman
Movie · as Pablo Neruda
Dead Tired
Movie · as Philippe Noiret
Tango
Movie · as L'Elégant
Max & Jeremie
Movie · as Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Fish Soup
Movie · as Alberto
The Two of Us
Movie · as Toussaint
I Don't Kiss
Movie · as Romain
Lest We Forget
Movie · as Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
Especially on Sunday
Movie · as Amleto
Rossini! Rossini!
Movie · as Gioacchino Rossini
My New Partner II
Movie · as René Boirond
Uranus
Movie · as Watrin
The Palermo Connection
Movie · as Gianni Mucci
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Movie · as Anatole Hirsch
Stars 90
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Life and Nothing But
Movie · as Commander Delaplane
The Return of the Musketeers
Movie · as Cardinal Mazarin
Cinema Paradiso
Movie · as Alfredo
Chouans !
Movie · as Savinien de Kerfadec
The Sparrow's Fluttering
Movie · as Gabriele Battistini
Young Toscanini
Movie · as Dom Pedro II.
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Movie · as Narrateur
The Family
Movie · as Jean-Luc
Masks
Movie · as Christian Legagneur
The Man Who Planted Trees
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Movie · as Dr. Athos Fadigati
Widow's Walk
Movie · as Inspector Molinat
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
'Round Midnight
Movie · as Redon
Twist Again in Moscow
Movie · as Igor Tataïev
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Movie · as Leonardo
The Secret Wife
Movie · as Pierre Franchin, the painter
Before Midnight
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Next Summer
Movie · as Edouard
Les Rois du gag
Movie · as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
The Fourth Power
Movie · as Yves Dorget
My New Partner
Movie · as René Boirond
Fort Saganne
Movie · as Dubreuilh
Souvenirs souvenirs
Movie · as Le proviseur
Aurora
Movie · as André
The African
Movie · as Victor
Le Grand Carnaval
Movie · as Étienne Labrouche
A Friend of Vincent
Movie · as Albert Palm
My Friends Act II
Movie · as Giorgio Perozzi
The North Star
Movie · as Edouard Binet
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 7 eps
Coup de Torchon
Movie · as Lucien Cordier
Three Brothers
Movie · as Raffaele Giuranna
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Movie · as Athanase
The Making of "Coup de Torchon"
Movie · as Self
Jupiter's Thigh
Movie · as Antoine Lemercier
Heads or Tails
Movie · as Inspecteur Louis Baroni
A Week's Vacation
Movie · as Michel Descombes
Rue du Pied de Grue
Movie · as Le père
Two Pieces of Bread
Movie · as Peppe Dorè
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Movie · as Eugène Pottier
Dear Inspector
Movie · as Antoine Lemercier
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Movie · as Jean-Claude Moulineau
The Witness
Movie · as Robert Maurisson
Ciné regards
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Purple Taxi
Movie · as Philippe Marchal
A Woman at Her Window
Movie · as Raoul Malfosse
The Judge and the Assassin
Movie · as Juge Rousseau
The Desert of the Tartars
Movie · as General
A Common Sense of Modesty
Movie · as Giuseppe Costanzo
Monsieur Albert
Movie · as Albert
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cérémonie des César
TV · as Self - President · 1 ep
The Old Gun
Movie · as Julien Dandieu
My Friends
Movie · as Il Perozzi
Playing with Fire
Movie · as Georges de Saxe
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie · as Philip of Orléans
L'école est finie
Movie · as Self - Narrator(voice)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Apostrophes
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Movie · as Gaspard de Montfermeil
The Secret
Movie · as Thomas Berthelot
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie · as Michel Descombes
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Movie · as Gen. Terry
A Cloud in the Teeth
Movie · as Malisard
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 6 eps
La Grande Bouffe
Movie · as Philippe
The Serpent
Movie · as Lucien Berthon
Poil de carotte
Movie · as François Lepic
La Mandarine
Movie · as Georges Lapierre
The Old Maid
Movie · as Gabriel Marcassus
The Assassination
Movie · as Pierre Garcin
A Time for Loving
Movie · as Marcel
Five Leaf Clover
Movie · as Alfred
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Most Gentle Confessions
Movie · as Inspecteur Muller
Murphy's War
Movie · as Brezan
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Movie · as Judge Francesco Langellone
Give Her the Moon
Movie · as Gabriel
Topaz
Movie · as Henri Jarre
Mr. Freedom
Movie · as Moujik Man
Justine
Movie · as Pombal
The Assassination Bureau
Movie · as Monsieur Lucoville
Clerambard
Movie · as Count Hector de Clérambard
The Tender Age
Movie · as Pourtalain
Very Happy Alexander
Movie · as Alexandre Gartempe
The Night of the Generals
Movie · as Inspector Morand
Woman Times Seven
Movie · as Victor
The Other One
Movie · as André
A Matter of Resistance
Movie · as Jérôme
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Movie · as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Tender Scoundrel
Movie · as Bibi Dumonceaux
Father's Trip
Movie · as Disgruntled traveler
The Sultans
Movie · as Michou
La Fin de la nuit
Movie · as Bernard Desqueyroux
The Buddies
Movie · as Bénin
Lady L
Movie · as Ambroise Gérôme
Monsieur
Movie · as Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Movie · as King Louis XIII
Summer Frenzy
Movie · as Jean
Clémentine chérie
Movie · as Edgar Hoover
The Lovers of the France
Movie · as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Movie · as Brassy
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Movie · as L'inspecteur Mathieu
La Porteuse de pain
Movie · as Jacques Garraud
Therese
Movie · as Bernard Desqueyroux
The Masseuses
Movie · as Bellini
Crime Does Not Pay
Movie · as Monseigneur Hughes
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Movie · as Lucien Barlemont
Le Mal court
Movie · as Parfait XVIII
Captain Fracasse
Movie · as Hérode
Famous Love Affairs
Movie · as Louis XIV
All the Gold in the World
Movie · as Victor Hardy
Rendezvous
Movie · as Inspector Maillard
Flore et Blancheflore
Movie · as Le roi Félix
Zazie dans le Métro
Movie · as Oncle Gabriel
Cyrano de Bergerac
Movie · as Lignère
Ravishing
Movie · as Maurice
De fil en aiguille
Movie · as M. Van Dam
Macbeth
Movie · as Macduff
Discorama
TV · as Self - Host · 32 eps
La Pointe Courte
Movie · as Him
Matrimonial Agency
Movie · as A passerby (uncredited)
Olivia
Movie · as Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
Gigi
Movie · as Bit Part (uncredited)