Philippe Noiret
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988)
as Gabriele Battistini
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
as Alfredo
My Friends (1975)
as Il Perozzi
Dear Inspector (1978)
as Antoine Lemercier
The Postman (1994)
as Pablo Neruda
The Secret (1974)
as Thomas Berthelot
The Old Gun (1975)
as Julien Dandieu
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
as Narrator (voice)
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
as Philippe
The Night of the Generals (1967)
as Inspector Morand
Tender Scoundrel (1966)
as Bibi Dumonceaux
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Victor
Topaz (1969)
as Henri Jarre
Dead Tired (1994)
as Philippe Noiret
Chouans ! (1988)
as Savinien de Kerfadec
'Round Midnight (1986)
as Redon
Macbeth (1959)
as Macduff
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974)
as Gaspard de Montfermeil
The Witness (1978)
as Robert Maurisson
Gigi (1949)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Playing with Fire (1975)
as Georges de Saxe
Fish Soup (1992)
as Alberto
Edy (2005)
as Louis
Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)
as Leonardo
The Old Maid (1972)
as Gabriel Marcassus
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
as Oncle Gabriel
Le Grand Carnaval (1983)
as Étienne Labrouche
Uranus (1990)
as Watrin
My New Partner III (2003)
as René Boirond
Very Happy Alexander (1968)
as Alexandre Gartempe
Clémentine chérie (1964)
as Edgar Hoover
Captain Fracasse (1961)
as Hérode
Father and Sons (2003)
as Léo
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
as Monsieur Lucoville
The Assassination (1972)
as Pierre Garcin
Coup de Torchon (1981)
as Lucien Cordier
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
as D'Artagnan
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
as Michel Descombes
La Pointe Courte (1956)
as Him
Death, Where Is Your Victory? (1964)
as Brassy
All the Gold in the World (1961)
as Victor Hardy
Murphy's War (1971)
as Brezan
Souvenirs souvenirs (1984)
as Le proviseur
On Guard (1997)
as Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Le Mal court (1962)
as Parfait XVIII
Marianna Ucrìa (1997)
as Duke Signoretto
The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
as Juge Rousseau
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
as Gen. Terry
A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)
as Self
Fort Saganne (1984)
as Dubreuilh
Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
as Igor Tataïev
Lady L (1965)
as Ambroise Gérôme
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli (2017)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Gioacchino Rossini
My New Partner (1984)
as René Boirond
Rendezvous (1961)
as Inspector Maillard
Especially on Sunday (1991)
as Amleto
My Friends Act II (1982)
as Giorgio Perozzi
The Troubles We've Seen (1994)
as Self
The Secret Wife (1986)
as Pierre Franchin, the painter
Tango (1993)
as L'Elégant
Step by Step (2002)
as Louis Chevalier
The Serpent (1973)
as Lucien Berthon
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Gianni Mucci
The Family (1987)
as Jean-Luc
Give Her the Moon (1970)
as Gabriel
Next Summer (1985)
as Edouard
Famous Love Affairs (1961)
as Louis XIV
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
as Dr. Athos Fadigati
Young Toscanini (1988)
as Dom Pedro II.
Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964)
as King Louis XIII
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
La Fin de la nuit (1966)
as Bernard Desqueyroux
The African (1983)
as Victor
The Sultans (1966)
as Michou
Masks (1987)
as Christian Legagneur
Life and Nothing But (1989)
as Commander Delaplane
The Purple Taxi (1977)
as Philippe Marchal
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
as Cardinal Mazarin
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981)
as Athanase
Les Rois du gag (1985)
as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
The Tender Age (1968)
as Pourtalain
Heads or Tails (1980)
as Inspecteur Louis Baroni
The North Star (1982)
as Edouard Binet
Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
as Antoine Lemercier
Pierre and Marie (1997)
as Professor Rodolphe Schutz
The Fourth Power (1985)
as Yves Dorget
Monsieur Albert (1976)
as Albert
I Don't Kiss (1991)
as Romain
Three Brothers (1981)
as Raffaele Giuranna
Cyrano de Bergerac (1960)
as Lignère
Flore et Blancheflore (1961)
as Le roi Félix
Rue du Pied de Grue (1979)
as Le père
The Lovers of the France (1964)
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Justine (1969)
as Pombal
My New Partner II (1990)
as René Boirond
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Jean
Too Loud A Solitude (1995)
as Haňťa
A Matter of Resistance (1966)
as Jérôme
A Woman at Her Window (1976)
as Raoul Malfosse
Lest We Forget (1991)
as Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Masseuses (1962)
as Bellini
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour (1978)
as Eugène Pottier
Therese (1962)
as Bernard Desqueyroux
Soleil (1997)
as Joseph Lévy
Clerambard (1969)
as Count Hector de Clérambard
A Week's Vacation (1980)
as Michel Descombes
Hitler, la folie d'un homme (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
A Friend of Vincent (1983)
as Albert Palm
A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
as Giuseppe Costanzo
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as General
Max & Jeremie (1992)
as Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
as Monseigneur Hughes
Olivia (1951)
as Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
L'école est finie (1975)
as Self - Narrator(voice)
Monsieur (1964)
as Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
La Mandarine (1972)
as Georges Lapierre
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
as Jean-Claude Moulineau
Ballad for a Hoodlum (1963)
as L'inspecteur Mathieu
Ghost with Driver (1996)
as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
3 Friends (2007)
as Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
as Philip of Orléans
Ravishing (1960)
as Maurice
Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)
as Self
The Two of Us (1992)
as Toussaint
Aurora (1984)
as André
Widow's Walk (1987)
as Inspector Molinat
The Chops (2003)
as Léonce
Matrimonial Agency (1952)
as A passerby (uncredited)
Father's Trip (1966)
as Disgruntled traveler
Les Milles (1995)
as Le Général
The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
as Inspecteur Muller
Balthus through the Looking-Glass (1996)
as Récitant / Narrator
Poil de carotte (1973)
as François Lepic
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back (1988)
as Narrateur
Before Midnight (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
The Buddies (1965)
as Bénin
Looking for Paradise (1995)
as Padre di Claudia
A Time for Loving (1972)
as Marcel
Mr. Freedom (1969)
as Moujik Man
The Grand Dukes (1996)
as Victor Vialat
Five Leaf Clover (1972)
as Alfred
We Are All in Temporary Liberty (1971)
as Judge Francesco Langellone
The Other One (1967)
as André
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
La Porteuse de pain (1963)
as Jacques Garraud
A Cloud in the Teeth (1974)
as Malisard
The Dog, the General, and the Birds (2003)
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Le Veilleur de nuit (1996)
as Monsieur
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries (1990)
as Anatole Hirsch
Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962)
as Lucien Barlemont
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic (2000)
as Joseph Steg
De fil en aiguille (1960)
as M. Van Dam
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Peppe Dorè
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise (2006)
as Self
Le Roi de Paris (1995)
as Victor Derval
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)
as Self