Jean Rochefort
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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.
Known for
Credits
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
as Maître d'hôtel
Femmes Fatales (1976)
as Albert
Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)
as François Desgrez
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012)
as Lucius Fouinus
Tell No One (2006)
as Gilbert Neuville
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014)
as Méliès (voice)
The Closet (2001)
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Lucky Luke and the Daltons (2004)
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
RRRrrrr!!! (2004)
as Lucie
My Mother's Castle (1990)
as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
Death Rite (1975)
as Edouard
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
as Inspector Tantpis
The Skirt Chaser (1979)
as Edouard Choiseul
Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011)
as Self
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
The Conspiracy (1973)
as Dominique Clavet
Angelique (1964)
as François Desgrez
Jappeloup (2013)
as Self (uncredited)
Les bottes (2004)
as Récitant (voice)
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
as Antoine
Angelique and the King (1966)
as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
L'Œuvre invisible (2026)
as Self
Belmondo by Belmondo (2016)
as Self
Agathe Cléry (2008)
as Louis Guinard
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974)
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
as Pops (voice)
French Postcards (1979)
as Monsieur Tessier
Amoureux fou (1991)
as Rudolph
Two Weeks in September (1967)
as Philippe
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
The Time to Die (1970)
as Hervé Breton
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
as Mr. Legendre
Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
Sun in Your Eyes (1962)
Actor
My First 40 Years (1987)
as Principe Riccio
Captain Fracasse (1961)
as Malartic
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français (2026)
as Self (archive) - actor
Frankenstein 90 (1984)
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
as Commissioner Guilboud
The Artist and the Model (2012)
as Marc Cros
Titeuf (2011)
as Pépé (voice)
Heureux ? (2004)
as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003)
as Henri de Malassise
We Will All Meet in Paradise (1977)
as Etienne Dorsay
Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
as Étienne
Hail the Artist (1973)
as Clément Chamfort
Cartouche (1962)
as La Taupe
Clara et son juge (1997)
as Judge Larcher
Man on the Train (2002)
as Monsieur Manesquier
Tango (1993)
as Bellhop
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby (1974)
as Foisnard
Twice Upon a Time (2006)
as Louis Ruinard
Un étrange voyage (1981)
as Pierre
Wind with the Gone (1998)
as Edgard Wexley
Ridicule (1996)
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
The Devil by the Tail (1969)
as Le comte Georges
Speaking of Buñuel (2000)
as Self
Lovely Swine (1973)
as The police inspector
Tell No One: The B-Side (2007)
as Self
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
as Grégoire Pecque
The Iron Mask (1962)
as Lastreaumont
Blanche (2002)
as Mazarin
The Dogs of Jerusalem (1984)
as Nicodème
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
as Louis
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Lost in La Mancha (2002)
as Self
The Inheritor (1973)
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981)
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
Hell (2005)
as Louis
Drummer-Crab (1977)
as Captain, commander of the escort ship
Up to His Ears (1965)
as Leon
Les Rats (2015)
as Narrator (voice)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
as Maitre Albert Legal
Wild Target (1993)
as Victor Meynard
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside (1976)
as Le commissaire Pichard
L'Énigme blanche (1985)
as Henri
The Big Brother (1982)
as Charles-Henri Rossi
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
La Nuit des rois (1962)
as Sir André
The Car Keys (2003)
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Rembrandt (1999)
as Nicolaes Tulp
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2008)
as Jean
Volley for a Black Buffalo (1985)
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
A Friend of Vincent (1983)
as Vincent Lamar
La Galette du roi (1986)
as Arnold III of Corsalina
Le Moustachu (1987)
as le capitaine Duroc
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel (1958)
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
as August Grandvilliers
Le Bal des casse-pieds (1992)
as Henri Sauveur
I'm the King of the Castle (1989)
as Jean Bréaud
Tandem (1987)
as Michel Mortez
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
as Abbot Dubois
Isabelle and Lust (1975)
as M. Vaudois
Un dimanche de flics (1983)
as A. Rupert
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
The Key (2007)
as Joseph Arp
Lost in Transit (1993)
as Arturo Conti
The Blockhead Fair (1963)
as Didier's father
Hearth Fires (1972)
as Alexandre Boursault
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille (1998)
as Monsieur Moreau
The Sunday of Life (1967)
as Captain Bordeille
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
as Gilles Martin
The Long Winter (1992)
as Jordi Casals
The Devil in the Box (1977)
as Alain Brissot
Barracuda (1997)
as Monsieur Clément
Meeting in Paris (1956)
as L'interne
Palace (1996)
as Thomas Fausto
For a Distant Love (1968)
as Guillaume
L'Atlantide (1992)
as Le Meige
New Year's Eve At Bob's (1984)
as Louis Alban
From Time to Time (1992)
as Louis XV
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Symphony for a Massacre (1963)
as Jabeke
Courage fuyons (1979)
as Martin Belhomme
L'Indiscrétion (1982)
as Alain Tescique
The Great Restaurant (2010)
as Un client du restaurant
Beautiful Families (1964)
as Marchese Osvaldo
The Grand Dukes (1996)
as Eddie Carpentier
... à la française ! (2013)
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Once a Year, Every Year (1994)
as Raffaele
Outpost in Indo-china (1963)
as Sergeant Hérange
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète (2000)
as Self
The Marriage of Figaro (1961)
as Le comte Almaviva
Honolulu Baby (2001)
as Cri Cri
Akoibon (2005)
as Chris Barnes
La Porteuse de pain (1963)
as Ovide Soliveau
La Liberté en croupe (1970)
as Moss
Belmondo ou le goût du risque (2017)
as Self
Don't Play with Martians (1968)
as René Mastier
Florida (2015)
as Claude Lherminier
Grandison (1978)
as Carl Grandison
Never Ever (1997)
as Gerard Panier
Next Time the Fire (1993)
as Amedeo
Pierre et le Loup (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
Trouble Among Widows (1964)
as Inspecteur Laforêt
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde (2019)
as Self
I Hate Blondes (1980)
as Donald Rose
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend (1961)
as Fernand
Céleste (1970)
as Georges Cazenave
Bien des choses (2008)
as Sultan the dog (voice)
Tom est tout seul (1995)
as Jean-Pierre
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire (1967)
as Un causeur dans le boudoir
A Happy Divorce (1975)
as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
The Egg (1972)
as Victor Dugommier
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Other Woman (1990)
as Farou
Le Naïf amoureux (1965)
as Paul Robignac, adult
The Queen of Spades (1958)
as Le compte Paul Tomsk
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre (1961)
as Fernand
Les Pieds nickelés (1964)
as Croquignol
Le Misanthrope (1971)
as Alceste