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