Philippe Noiret
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.
The Troubles We've Seen
(Self)
My New Partner
(René Boirond)
Topaz
(Henri Jarre)
The Old Gun
(Julien Dandieu)
La Grande Bouffe
(Philippe)
The Tender Age
(Pourtalain)
Zazie dans le Métro
(Oncle Gabriel)
D'Artagnan's Daughter
(D'Artagnan)
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
(Gaspard de Montfermeil)
A Matter of Resistance
(Jérôme)
Fort Saganne
(Dubreuilh)
The Most Gentle Confessions
(Inspecteur Muller)
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
(Eugène Pottier)
Captain Fracasse
(Hérode)
Ballad for a Hoodlum
(L'inspecteur Mathieu)
The Postman
(Pablo Neruda)
My Friends
(Il Perozzi)
A Woman at Her Window
(Raoul Malfosse)
Cinema Paradiso
(Alfredo)
The Secret
(Thomas Berthelot)
My New Partner II
(René Boirond)
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
(Récitant / Narrator (voice))
My Friends Act II
(Giorgio Perozzi)
My New Partner III
(René Boirond)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
(Michel Descombes)
Dear Inspector
(Antoine Lemercier)
Monsieur
(Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist)
Mr. Freedom
(Moujik Man)
Murphy's War
(Brezan)
Coup de Torchon
(Lucien Cordier)
Three Brothers
(Raffaele Giuranna)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
(Jean-Claude Moulineau)
Uranus
(Watrin)
Life and Nothing But
(Commander Delaplane)
The Return of the Musketeers
(Cardinal Mazarin)
The Family
(Jean-Luc)
Justine
(Pombal)
Looking for Paradise
(Padre di Claudia)
'Round Midnight
(Redon)
The Night of the Generals
(Inspector Morand)
Edy
(Louis)
Woman Times Seven
(Victor)
Masques
(Christian Legagneur)
Jupiter's Thigh
(Antoine Lemercier)
The Judge and the Assassin
(Juge Rousseau)
The Serpent
(Lucien Berthon)
Heads or Tails
(Inspecteur Louis Baroni)
Playing with Fire
(Georges de Saxe)
Dead Tired
(Philippe Noiret)
La Mandarine
(Georges Lapierre)
The Grand Dukes
(Victor Vialat)
Souvenirs souvenirs
(Le proviseur)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
(Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste)
Tango
(L'Elégant)
The Desert of the Tartars
(General)
I Don't Kiss
(Romain)
The Other One
(André)
Against Oblivion
(Self)
Very Happy Alexander
(Alexandre Gartempe)
Famous Love Affairs
(Louis XIV)
The Man Who Planted Trees
(Narrator (voice))
The Chops
(Léonce)
Chouans!
(Savinien de Kerfadec)
Twist Again in Moscow
(Igor Tataïev)
The Witness
(Robert Maurisson)
Ghost with Driver
(Philippe Bruneau-Teissier)
Therese
(Bernard Desqueyroux)
Father and Sons
(Léo)
A Week's Vacation
(Michel Descombes)
The Assassination Bureau
(Monsieur Lucoville)
Pierre and Marie
(Professor Rodolphe Schutz)
The African
(Victor)
Don't Touch the White Woman!
(Gen. Terry)
La Pointe Courte
(Him)
A Common Sense of Modesty
(Giuseppe Costanzo)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
(Philip of Orléans)
The Buddies
(Bénin)
Let's Hope It's a Girl
(Leonardo)
All the Gold in the World
(Victor Hardy)
The North Star
(Edouard Binet)
Max & Jeremie
(Robert 'Max' Maxendre)
Matrimonial Agency
(A passerby (uncredited))
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
(Joseph Steg)
Step by Step
(Louis Chevalier)
Cyrano de Bergerac
(Lignère)
Tender Scoundrel
(Bibi Dumonceaux)
The Purple Taxi
(Philippe Marchal)
The Old Maid
(Gabriel Marcassus)
Father's Trip
(Disgruntled traveler)
The Masseuses
(Bellini)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
(Self (archive footage))
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
(Athanase)
Especially on Sunday
(Amleto)
Marianna Ucrìa
(Duke Signoretto)
The Assassination
(Pierre Garcin)
Fish Soup
(Alberto)
A Cloud in the Teeth
(Malisard)
Le Grand Carnaval
(Étienne Labrouche)
Clerambard
(Count Hector de Clérambard)
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
(King Louis XIII)
Les Milles
(Le Général)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
(Dr. Athos Fadigati)
The Sparrow's Fluttering
(Gabriele Battistini)
Rossini! Rossini!
(Gioacchino Rossini)
The Sultans
(Michou)
A Friend of Vincent
(Albert Palm)
Summer Frenzy
(Jean)
Soleil
(Joseph Lévy)
Widow's Walk
(Inspector Molinat)
Too Loud A Solitude
(Haňťa)
L'école est finie
(Self - Narrator(voice))
Aurora
(André)
La Fin de la nuit
(Bernard Desqueyroux)
Young Toscanini
(Dom Pedro II.)
Crime Does Not Pay
(Monseigneur Hughes)
Le Veilleur de nuit
(Monsieur)
Poil de carotte
(François Lepic)
Next Summer
(Edouard)
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
(Récitant / Narrator)
Give Her the Moon
(Gabriel)
Rue du Pied de Grue
(Le père)
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
(Lucien Barlemont)
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
(Judge Francesco Langellone)
Les Rois du gag
(In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited))
A Time for Loving
(Marcel)
The Beaches of Agnès
(Self (archive footage))
Clémentine chérie
(Edgar Hoover)
La Porteuse de pain
(Jacques Garraud)
The Palermo Connection
(Gianni Mucci)
Five Leaf Clover
(Alfred)
Rendezvous
(Inspector Maillard)
Monsieur Albert
(Albert)
Two Pieces of Bread
(Peppe Dorè)
The Secret Wife
(Pierre Franchin, the painter)
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
(Narrateur)
On Guard
(Duke Philippe d'Orléans)
Ravishing
(Maurice)
Le Roi de Paris
(Victor Derval)
The Lovers of the France
(Récitant / Narrator (voice))
The Two of Us
(Toussaint)
The Fourth Power
(Yves Dorget)
Olivia
(Béatrice's Lover (uncredited))
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
(Self (archive footage))
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
(Self - Actor (archive footage))
3 Friends
(Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz)
Lady L
(Ambroise Gérôme)
Gigi
(Bit Part (uncredited))
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
(Anatole Hirsch)
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
(Self)
Marcello, una vita dolce
(Self)
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
(Brassy)
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
(Narrator (voice))
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
(Self)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
(Self (archive footage))
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
(Self)
Macbeth
(Macduff)
Le Mal court
(Parfait XVIII)
De fil en aiguille
(M. Van Dam)
Before Midnight
(Self (archive footage))
Flore et Blancheflore
(King Félix)
Nulle part ailleurs
(Self)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Midi trente
(Self)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Discorama
(Self - Host)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
(Self (archive footage))
Apostrophes
(Self)
Discorama
(Self)
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
Stars 90
(Self)
30 millions d'amis
(Self)
Sacrée Soirée
(Self)