Jean Rochefort
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.
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
(Self (archive footage))
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
(Self)
Belmondo, le magnifique
(Self (archive footage))
Frankenstein 90
(Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie)
Hearth Fires
(Alexandre Boursault)
Innocents with Dirty Hands
(Maitre Albert Legal)
Pardon Mon Affaire
(Étienne)
Prêt-à-Porter
(Inspector Tantpis)
Tell No One
(Gilbert Neuville)
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
(Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse)
Agathe Cléry
(Louis Guinard)
Captain Fracasse
(Malartic)
The Phantom of Liberty
(Mr. Legendre)
Lost in La Mancha
(Self)
Twice Upon a Time
(Louis Ruinard)
Man on the Train
(Monsieur Manesquier)
Angelique and the King
(François Desgrez / Narrator (voice))
The Closet
(Kopel, le directeur de l'usine)
The Hairdresser's Husband
(Antoine)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
(Commissioner Guilboud)
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
(Jean)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
(Colonel Louis Toulouse)
Ridicule
(Le Marquis de Bellegarde)
Cartouche
(La Taupe)
Next Time the Fire
(Amedeo)
We Will All Meet in Paradise
(Etienne Dorsay)
I'm the King of the Castle
(Jean Bréaud)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
(August Grandvilliers)
Akoibon
(Chris Barnes)
Blanche
(Mazarin)
Titeuf
(Pépé (voice))
Up to His Ears
(Leon)
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
(François Desgrez)
Wild Target
(Victor Meynard)
Femmes Fatales
(Albert)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
(Self (archive footage))
Un étrange voyage
(Pierre)
Rembrandt
(Nicolaes Tulp)
The Grand Dukes
(Eddie Carpentier)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
(Grégoire Pecque)
Hell
(Louis)
Tango
(Bellhop)
I Sent a Letter to My Love
(Gilles Martin)
The Big Brother
(Charles-Henri Rossi)
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
(Le commissaire Pichard)
The Key
(Joseph Arp)
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
(Louis)
Two Weeks in September
(Philippe)
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
(Henri de Malassise)
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
(Foisnard)
Till Marriage Do Us Part
(Barone Henri de Sarcey)
Tandem
(Michel Mortez)
Palace
(Thomas Fausto)
The Skirt Chaser
(Edouard Choiseul)
Wind with the Gone
(Edgard Wexley)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
(Abbot Dubois)
The Inheritor
(Le nonce (André Berthier))
Le Bal des casse-pieds
(Henri Sauveur)
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
(Self)
Drummer-Crab
(Captain, commander of the escort ship)
Barracuda
(Monsieur Clément)
Le Moustachu
(le capitaine Duroc)
The Devil by the Tail
(Le comte Georges)
Les pieds nickelés
(Croquignol)
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
(Lucius Fouinus)
Le naïf amoureux
(Paul Robignac, adult)
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
(Charles-Philippe Bauman)
Isabelle and Lust
(M. Vaudois)
For a Distant Love
(Guillaume)
New Year's Eve At Bob's
(Louis Alban)
The Artist and the Model
(Marc Cros)
La Galette du roi
(Arnold III of Corsalina)
Lost in Transit
(Arturo Conti)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
(Self)
Pierre et le Loup
(Narrator (voice))
French Postcards
(Monsieur Tessier)
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
(Narrator (voice))
The Conspiracy
(Dominique Clavet)
Beautiful Families
(Marchese Osvaldo)
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
(Méliès (voice))
Hail the Artist
(Clément Chamfort)
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
(Jolly Jumper (voice))
The Other Woman
(Farou)
A Friend of Vincent
(Vincent Lamar)
The Time to Die
(Hervé Breton)
My First 40 Years
(Principe Riccio)
Le Misanthrope
(Alceste)
Angelique
(François Desgrez)
Courage fuyons
(Martin Belhomme)
The Marriage of Figaro
(Le comte Almaviva)
Mr. Bean's Holiday
(Maître d'hôtel)
Death Rite
(Edouard)
RRRrrrr!!!
(Lucie)
L'Atlantide
(Le Meige)
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
(Monsieur Moreau)
Clara et son juge
(Judge Larcher)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
(Self - Actor (archive footage))
Never Ever
(Gerard Panier)
The Egg
(Victor Dugommier)
Once a Year, Every Year
(Raffaele)
My Mother's Castle
(Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour)
L'Indiscrétion
(Alain Tescique)
Volley for a Black Buffalo
(Lajos Ácsi, the count)
Tom est tout seul
(Jean-Pierre)
The Long Winter
(Jordi Casals)
April and the Extraordinary World
(Pops (voice))
Florida
(Claude Lherminier)
Trouble Among Widows
(Inspecteur Laforêt)
The Devil in the Box
(Alain Brissot)
Céleste
(Georges Cazenave)
Un dimanche de flics
(A. Rupert)
Jappeloup
(Self (uncredited))
Lovely Swine
(The police inspector)
The Iron Mask
(Lastreaumont)
A Happy Divorce
(Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge)
Bien des choses
(Sultan the dog (voice))
I Hate Blondes
(Donald Rose)
Outpost in Indo-china
(Sergeant Hérange)
La Porteuse de pain
(Ovide Soliveau)
Honolulu Baby
(Cri Cri)
The Blockhead Fair
(Didier's father)
Heureux ?
(The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches)
Meeting in Paris
(L'interne)
Symphony for a Massacre
(Jabeke)
L'Énigme blanche
(Henri)
La Liberté en croupe
(Moss)
Belmondo by Belmondo
(Self)
The Sunday of Life
(Captain Bordeille)
Grandison
(Carl Grandison)
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
(Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap')
Amoureux fou
(Rudolph)
The Great Restaurant
(Un client du restaurant)
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
(Fernand)
Tell No One: The B-Side
(Self)
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
(Self)
Sun in Your Eyes
The Car Keys
(Actor who refuses to film with Laurent)
Don't Play with Martians
(René Mastier)
... à la française !
(Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Speaking of Buñuel
(Self)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
(Self (archive footage))
Les Rats
(Narrator (voice))
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
(Fernand)
The Queen of Spades
(Le compte Paul Tomsk)
From Time to Time
(Louis XV)
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
(Self (archive footage))
La nuit des Rois
Dim Dam Dom
(Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine)
Victoires de la musique
(Self)
Nulle part ailleurs
(Self)
The Count of Monte Cristo
(Fernand Mondego)
Archives secrètes
(Self (archive footage))
Chez Maupassant
(le père)
Spécial cinéma
(Self)
Le Grand Échiquier
(Self)
Les Boloss des belles lettres
(Self - Narrator)
Midi trente
(Self)
Les Bœuf-carottes
(Venturi)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
(Self)
Numéro un
(Self)
Square
(Self)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self - Narrator (voice))
Vivement dimanche
(Self)
Stars 90
(Self)
30 millions d'amis
(Self)
On n'est pas couché
(Self - Guest)
