Philippe Noiret

Acting · 1.8 popularity

Age

Movies

160

Born: October 1, 1930 – November 23, 2006
From: Lille, Nord, France

Biography

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.

Works

160 films

The Sparrow's Fluttering

19884.2

Cinema Paradiso

19888.4

Dear Inspector

19785.9

The Man Who Planted Trees

19878.0

The Postman

19947.9

My Friends

19758.1

La Grande Bouffe

19737.1

The Old Gun

19757.5

Topaz

19696.0

The Night of the Generals

19676.8

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

19746.5

'Round Midnight

19867.1

Fish Soup

19924.7

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

Murphy's War

19716.2

Balthus through the Looking-Glass

1996

Tender Scoundrel

19665.2

The Desert of the Tartars

19766.8

Uranus

19906.7

The Serpent

19736.1

Let's Hope It's a Girl

19867.0

Playing with Fire

19755.5

Zazie dans le Métro

19606.6

Fort Saganne

19846.0

The Assassination

19726.6

My New Partner

19846.6

The Assassination Bureau

19696.7

Dead Tired

19946.0

Famous Love Affairs

19614.4

D'Artagnan's Daughter

19945.7

On Guard

19976.7

The Beaches of Agnès

20087.7

The Witness

19786.9

Father and Sons

20036.9

Chouans !

19885.8

Gigi

19496.1

Captain Fracasse

19615.5

The Troubles We've Seen

19945.8

My New Partner III

20035.3

The Secret Wife

19867.3

Next Summer

19856.4

Edy

20055.1

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

19786.1

Lady L

19655.8

Jupiter's Thigh

19806.2

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

19876.2

Death, Where Is Your Victory?

19647.0

Coup de Torchon

19817.0

Hitler, la folie d'un homme

2005

Justine

19694.4

Very Happy Alexander

19686.9

Macbeth

195910.0

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

20176.9

The Old Maid

19725.9

La Pointe Courte

19566.9

Mr. Freedom

19695.2

Marianna Ucrìa

19976.7

Tango

19935.8

Rossini! Rossini!

19916.2

The Family

19877.5

Don't Touch the White Woman!

19745.5

My Friends Act II

19827.6

Let Joy Reign Supreme

19756.4

The North Star

19826.3

The Judge and the Assassin

19766.8

All the Gold in the World

19616.5

The African

19836.3

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

19645.9

Ravishing

19605.5

Give Her the Moon

19705.8

Lest We Forget

19917.0

Le Grand Carnaval

19835.6

My New Partner II

19906.0

The Secret

19746.5

Clémentine chérie

19646.2

Summer Frenzy

19645.9

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

20027.0

Rendezvous

19616.3

Especially on Sunday

19916.2

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

19746.9

The Fourth Power

19856.4

Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back

1988

A Time for Loving

19725.3

A Woman at Her Window

19765.8

Les Rois du gag

19855.8

Souvenirs souvenirs

19845.4

Max & Jeremie

19926.2

The Purple Taxi

19775.8

I Don't Kiss

19916.2

A Cloud in the Teeth

19745.8

Heads or Tails

19806.6

A Common Sense of Modesty

19765.8

Too Loud A Solitude

19958.0

Young Toscanini

19886.3

A Friend of Vincent

19836.2

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

20207.5

The Sultans

19665.0

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

19666.5

Les Milles

19955.7

Rue du Pied de Grue

19797.0

Widow's Walk

19875.7

A Matter of Resistance

19666.8

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

20219.0

Marcello, una vita dolce

20065.2

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

19816.4

The Masseuses

19625.1

The Grand Dukes

19966.1

Life and Nothing But

19897.2

Three Brothers

19816.3

Therese

19626.7

The Lovers of the France

19649.0

Monsieur

19646.4

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

20004.5

La Fin de la nuit

196610.0

A Week's Vacation

19806.1

Le Roi de Paris

19957.8

The Two of Us

19929.5

Le Mal court

196210.0

Cyrano de Bergerac

19608.6

Twist Again in Moscow

19866.1

Flore et Blancheflore

1961

The Most Gentle Confessions

19716.2

The Palermo Connection

19906.2

Clerambard

19695.5

Step by Step

20026.8

Looking for Paradise

19955.8

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

20096.0

Olivia

19516.6

Masks

19876.8

Crime Does Not Pay

19625.5

Ghost with Driver

19965.0

3 Friends

20075.1

Aurora

19847.1

Father's Trip

19666.6

The Tender Age

19688.0

The Buddies

19655.3

La Porteuse de pain

19635.8

La Mandarine

19724.8

Soleil

19976.4

The Dog, the General, and the Birds

20036.4

Poil de carotte

19738.0

The Chops

20036.1

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

19717.0

Matrimonial Agency

19525.6

Pierre and Marie

19976.8

Before Midnight

19864.0

Two Pieces of Bread

19796.5

Five Leaf Clover

19726.5

De fil en aiguille

19606.5

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

197810.0

The Other One

19676.0

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

20076.8

L'école est finie

1975

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

19907.5

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

2006

Ballad for a Hoodlum

19636.5

Comme un poisson dans l'eau

19627.0

Monsieur Albert

19769.0

Le Veilleur de nuit

19967.0