Jean-Pierre Mocky
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Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known for
Credits
Ville à vendre (1992)
as Shade
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma (2010)
as Self
First Name: Carmen (1983)
as The Screaming Patient (uncredited)
Orpheus (1950)
as Band Leader (uncredited)
The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
as Sébut
The Albatross (1971)
as Stef Tassel
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
as Albert de Morcerf
Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
as Tramp with pram (uncredited)
À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)
as Christophe
Monsieur Cauchemar (2015)
as Valentin Esbirol
Illicit Motherhood (1953)
as La Fouine, un gars de la bande
Le Bridge (1986)
Actor
Godard Mon Amour (2017)
as Customer in the Restaurant
Foutraque (!) (—)
as himself
Kill the Referee (1984)
as Inspector Granowski
A Night at a Honeymoon (1950)
as Groomsman
Vénéneuses (2017)
as Dick Grant
Le glandeur (2000)
as Bruno Bombec
Stain on the Snow (1953)
as Violinist
Senso (1954)
as Un Soldato (uncredited)
Tout est calme (2000)
as Lucas
Looping (2014)
Actor
Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
Actor
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju (2009)
as Self
Leon's Husband (1993)
as Boris Lossef
Les Ballets écarlates (2007)
as Mathieu, the gunsmith
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
as Michel Dolannes
Bourvil, un homme vrai (2016)
as Self
Le mystère des jonquilles (2014)
as Tarling
Americano (2011)
as Le père
Calomnies (2014)
as Armand
La bête de miséricorde (2001)
as Jean Mardet
Droit de Réponse (1981)
as Self
Robin des mers (1998)
as Le père de Mathieu
The Vanquished (1953)
as Pierre
Dreams of Love (1947)
as Extra
Head Against the Wall (1959)
as François Gérane
Speaking of Murder (1957)
as Pierre
The Making of Litan (1982)
as Himself
Agent trouble (1987)
as L'agent de la DST (non crédité)
At the Grand Balcony (1949)
as (uncredited)
Solo (1970)
as Vincent Cabral
Aznavour by Charles (2019)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Le piège à cons (1979)
as Michel Rayan
The Vertical Smile (1973)
as Franco, le prêtre borgne
La parallèle Mocky (2018)
as himself
Mocky sans Mocky (2019)
Actor
Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental (2023)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Litan (1982)
as Jock
La loi de l'albatros (2017)
Actor
Is There a Frenchman in the House? (1982)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
as Joseph Strauss (uncredited)
Queen's Necklace (1946)
as Page of the Queen (uncredited)
Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
as Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
The Eternal Husband (1946)
as Groomsman (uncredited)
The Unsewing Machine (1986)
as Ralph Enger
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Abandoned (1955)
as Andrea
God Needs Men (1950)
as Pierre
La Candide Madame Duff (2000)
as Jacob Duff
Portrait of a Murderer (1949)
as (uncredited)
Snobs! (1962)
as Horse dealer (uncredited)
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) (2008)
as Self
Vidange (1998)
as Castellin
Tu es si jolie ce soir (2015)
as Agent Willy
Un risque à courir (2009)
as Self - Host (uncredited)
Les Insomniaques (2011)
as Boris
Éternel espoir (1952)
as Violinist
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)
as Jean Almereyda
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible (2017)
as Self
Le Mentor (2013)
as Ludovic
The Spice of Life (1948)
Actor
La Cabane aux souvenirs (1947)
Actor
Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here! (2023)
as Vieux 2
Divine enfant (1989)
as Aurélien Brada
Tous flics ! (2023)
as Alex
Il gèle en enfer (1990)
as Tim
The Big Flag (1954)
as Luc Dutoit, midshipman
Votez pour moi ! (2017)
as Pascal, l'ermite
Dossier Toroto (2011)
as Professor Lapine
Shadow of a Chance (1974)
as Mathias Caral
Graziella (1954)
as Alphonse de Lamartine
Bibi Fricotin (1951)
as (non crédité)
Les araignées de la nuit (2002)
as Inspecteur Richard Gordone
The Hell of Lost Pilots (1949)
as Denis
Putain de lune (2013)
Actor
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette (2015)
as L'ange Léonard
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Long Live Liberty (1946)
as Militiaman
Rendez-vous (—)
as Victor
Cocktail Morlock (1981)
as Self