Jean Rochefort
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 29, 1930
- Died
- October 9, 2017 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
Biography
Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort (29 April 1930 – 9 October 2017) was a French actor. He received many accolades during his career, including an Honorary César in 1999. Rochefort was born on 29 April 1930 in Paris, France, to Breton parents. Jean Rochefort was not born in Dinan, but his parents were living there. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. Rochefort was nineteen years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National. After completing his national service in 1953, he worked with the Compagnie Grenier Hussenot as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noted for his ability to play both drama and comedy. He then became a television and cinema actor, and also worked as director. After some supporting roles in Cartouche, Captain Fracasse and in Marvelous Angelique, Rochefort played his first big role with Annie Girardot as his wife and Claude Jade as his daughter in Hearth Fires in 1972. In this drama, he starred as a man who leaves his family for ten years before returning. In this film he played at 41 years old a father of adult children (the young Claude Jade was already 23). To appear older, he grew a moustache, his trademark, which he later removed only once, in 1996 for Ridicule. Four years after Hearth Fires he was the leading star of the midlife crisis comedy Pardon Mon Affaire as a man who risks his married life with Danièle Delorme for an affair with Anny Duperey. Thanks to the success of this film, Rochefort became very popular. In 1972, he starred opposite Pierre Richard as Chief of Counter-Espionage, Louis Toulouse, in the Yves Robert comedy Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire, a role he reprised in the 1974 sequel Le Retour du grand blond, also directed by Robert. In 1998, he starred as "Fernand de Morcerf" opposite Gerard Depardieu in the mini-series Le Comte de Monte Cristo. In the eighties, he became the narrator of the French version of Welcome to Pooh Corner, replacing Laurie Main. This made him popular with children at the time and Disney hired him to record several audio versions of their classic movies. In the 1990s, he returned to comedy with Les Grands Ducs where he played alongside two other actors of his generation with a similar career, Philippe Noiret and Jean-Pierre Marielle. He was set to play the lead role in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, after being found as "the perfect Quixote" by director Terry Gilliam. Rochefort learned to speak English just for the part. Unfortunately, amongst other production problems, he began suffering from a herniated disc. Unable to film for months, production was cancelled. A documentary, Lost in La Mancha, was made about the failed production. In 1960, he married Alexandra Moscwa, with whom he had two children: Marie (1962) and Julien (1965). With actress-filmmaker Nicole Garcia, he also had a son Pierre. Through his second marriage with Françoise Vidal, he had two children, Louise (1990) and Clémence (1992). ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
L'Œuvre invisible
Movie · as Self
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Movie · as Self (archive) - actor
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Archives secrètes
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Movie · as Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Movie · as Self
Belmondo, le magnifique
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Belmondo by Belmondo
Movie · as Self
Les Boloss des belles lettres
TV · as Self - Narrator · 18 eps
April and the Extraordinary World
Movie · as Pops (voice)
Florida
Movie · as Claude Lherminier
Les Rats
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Movie · as Méliès (voice)
Jappeloup
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
... à la française !
Movie · as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Movie · as Lucius Fouinus
The Artist and the Model
Movie · as Marc Cros
Square
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Titeuf
Movie · as Pépé (voice)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Movie · as Self
The Great Restaurant
Movie · as Un client du restaurant
Agathe Cléry
Movie · as Louis Guinard
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Movie · as Jean
Bien des choses
Movie · as Sultan the dog (voice)
The Key
Movie · as Joseph Arp
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Movie · as Maître d'hôtel
Tell No One: The B-Side
Movie · as Self
Chez Maupassant
TV · as le père · 1 ep
Tell No One
Movie · as Gilbert Neuville
Twice Upon a Time
Movie · as Louis Ruinard
On n'est pas couché
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Akoibon
Movie · as Chris Barnes
Hell
Movie · as Louis
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Movie · as Jolly Jumper (voice)
RRRrrrr!!!
Movie · as Lucie
Heureux ?
Movie · as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Les bottes
Movie · as Récitant (voice)
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Movie · as Henri de Malassise
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Car Keys
Movie · as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
Lost in La Mancha
Movie · as Self
Man on the Train
Movie · as Monsieur Manesquier
Blanche
Movie · as Mazarin
Pierre et le Loup
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Closet
Movie · as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Honolulu Baby
Movie · as Cri Cri
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Movie · as Self
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie · as Self
Rembrandt
Movie · as Nicolaes Tulp
Wind with the Gone
Movie · as Edgard Wexley
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Movie · as Monsieur Moreau
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV · as Fernand Mondego · 4 eps
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Barracuda
Movie · as Monsieur Clément
Clara et son juge
Movie · as Judge Larcher
Never Ever
Movie · as Gerard Panier
Ridicule
Movie · as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
The Grand Dukes
Movie · as Eddie Carpentier
Palace
Movie · as Thomas Fausto
Tom est tout seul
Movie · as Jean-Pierre
Les Bœuf-carottes
TV · as Venturi · 9 eps
Prêt-à-Porter
Movie · as Inspector Tantpis
Once a Year, Every Year
Movie · as Raffaele
Next Time the Fire
Movie · as Amedeo
Wild Target
Movie · as Victor Meynard
Tango
Movie · as Bellhop
Lost in Transit
Movie · as Arturo Conti
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Movie · as Henri Sauveur
L'Atlantide
Movie · as Le Meige
The Long Winter
Movie · as Jordi Casals
From Time to Time
Movie · as Louis XV
Amoureux fou
Movie · as Rudolph
The Hairdresser's Husband
Movie · as Antoine
The Other Woman
Movie · as Farou
My Mother's Castle
Movie · as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
Stars 90
TV · as Self · 1 ep
I'm the King of the Castle
Movie · as Jean Bréaud
Tandem
Movie · as Michel Mortez
Le Moustachu
Movie · as le capitaine Duroc
My First 40 Years
Movie · as Principe Riccio
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
La Galette du roi
Movie · as Arnold III of Corsalina
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Movie · as Lajos Ácsi, the count
L'Énigme blanche
Movie · as Henri
Victoires de la musique
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Frankenstein 90
Movie · as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Movie · as Louis Alban
The Dogs of Jerusalem
Movie · as Nicodème
A Friend of Vincent
Movie · as Vincent Lamar
Un dimanche de flics
Movie · as A. Rupert
The Big Brother
Movie · as Charles-Henri Rossi
L'Indiscrétion
Movie · as Alain Tescique
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 5 eps
Un étrange voyage
Movie · as Pierre
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Movie · as Charles-Philippe Bauman
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Movie · as Gilles Martin
I Hate Blondes
Movie · as Donald Rose
The Skirt Chaser
Movie · as Edouard Choiseul
French Postcards
Movie · as Monsieur Tessier
Courage fuyons
Movie · as Martin Belhomme
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Movie · as August Grandvilliers
Grandison
Movie · as Carl Grandison
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 40 eps
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Movie · as Etienne Dorsay
Drummer-Crab
Movie · as Captain, commander of the escort ship
The Devil in the Box
Movie · as Alain Brissot
Pardon Mon Affaire
Movie · as Étienne
Femmes Fatales
Movie · as Albert
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Movie · as Le commissaire Pichard
30 millions d'amis
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cérémonie des César
TV · as Self - Guest, Self - President · 1 ep
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Movie · as Maitre Albert Legal
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie · as Abbot Dubois
Isabelle and Lust
Movie · as M. Vaudois
Death Rite
Movie · as Edouard
A Happy Divorce
Movie · as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Numéro un
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie · as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
The Phantom of Liberty
Movie · as Mr. Legendre
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie · as Commissioner Guilboud
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Movie · as Foisnard
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Movie · as Barone Henri de Sarcey
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Movie · as Louis
The Inheritor
Movie · as Le nonce (André Berthier)
The Conspiracy
Movie · as Dominique Clavet
Hail the Artist
Movie · as Clément Chamfort
Lovely Swine
Movie · as The police inspector
Hearth Fires
Movie · as Alexandre Boursault
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie · as Colonel Louis Toulouse
The Egg
Movie · as Victor Dugommier
Le Grand Échiquier
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Midi trente
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Le Misanthrope
Movie · as Alceste
The Time to Die
Movie · as Hervé Breton
Céleste
Movie · as Georges Cazenave
La Liberté en croupe
Movie · as Moss
The Devil by the Tail
Movie · as Le comte Georges
For a Distant Love
Movie · as Guillaume
Don't Play with Martians
Movie · as René Mastier
Two Weeks in September
Movie · as Philippe
The Sunday of Life
Movie · as Captain Bordeille
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Movie · as Un causeur dans le boudoir
Angelique and the King
Movie · as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Movie · as Grégoire Pecque
Up to His Ears
Movie · as Leon
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Movie · as François Desgrez
Le Naïf amoureux
Movie · as Paul Robignac, adult
Dim Dam Dom
TV · as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine · 1 ep
Les Pieds nickelés
Movie · as Croquignol
Beautiful Families
Movie · as Marchese Osvaldo
Angelique
Movie · as François Desgrez
Trouble Among Widows
Movie · as Inspecteur Laforêt
Outpost in Indo-china
Movie · as Sergeant Hérange
La Porteuse de pain
Movie · as Ovide Soliveau
The Blockhead Fair
Movie · as Didier's father
Symphony for a Massacre
Movie · as Jabeke
Cartouche
Movie · as La Taupe
The Iron Mask
Movie · as Lastreaumont
Sun in Your Eyes
Movie
La Nuit des rois
Movie · as Sir André
Captain Fracasse
Movie · as Malartic
The Marriage of Figaro
Movie · as Le comte Almaviva
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Movie · as Fernand
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
Movie · as Fernand
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Movie · as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
The Queen of Spades
Movie · as Le compte Paul Tomsk
Meeting in Paris
Movie · as L'interne