Jean Rochefort

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

Movies

152

Born: April 29, 1930 – October 9, 2017
From: Paris, France

Biography

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.

Works

152 films

Mr. Bean's Holiday

20076.4

Femmes Fatales

19766.1

Angelique: The Road to Versailles

19656.6

Prêt-à-Porter

19945.2

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

20125.1

Tell No One

20067.2

RRRrrrr!!!

20046.3

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

20147.2

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

20043.6

April and the Extraordinary World

20157.1

The Closet

20016.4

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19746.6

Angelique

19646.7

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19727.0

My Mother's Castle

19907.2

The Hairdresser's Husband

19906.8

Agathe Cléry

20084.8

Belmondo by Belmondo

20167.8

Les Rats

2015

The Phantom of Liberty

19747.5

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

Angelique and the King

19666.5

Death Rite

19755.0

The Skirt Chaser

19795.6

Sun in Your Eyes

19626.5

Jappeloup

20137.1

Pardon Mon Affaire

19766.9

Belmondo, itinéraire...

20117.7

Captain Fracasse

19615.5

Amoureux fou

19914.3

Up to His Ears

19657.0

The Conspiracy

19735.7

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

20037.0

French Postcards

19795.1

Heureux ?

2004

Les bottes

20047.5

Cartouche

19626.3

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

19734.6

The Time to Die

19704.6

Two Weeks in September

19675.0

L'Œuvre invisible

2026

Twice Upon a Time

20065.9

Belmondo, le magnifique

20177.4

Hail the Artist

19735.4

Titeuf

20115.7

The Artist and the Model

20126.1

We Will All Meet in Paradise

19776.8

Let Joy Reign Supreme

19756.4

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

20265.0

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

19786.1

Hell

20056.1

My First 40 Years

19873.4

Ridicule

19966.9

Man on the Train

20026.7

The Inheritor

19736.4

Drummer-Crab

19776.5

The Car Keys

20035.2

Till Marriage Do Us Part

19745.7

Volley for a Black Buffalo

19856.3

The Iron Mask

19625.8

Wild Target

19936.6

A Friend of Vincent

19836.2

Lost in La Mancha

20027.1

Tango

19935.8

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend

20035.7

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

20116.0

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Wind with the Gone

19987.4

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

19745.5

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

19746.9

The Devil by the Tail

19696.1

Tell No One: The B-Side

20076.0

La Nuit des rois

19624.5

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

19816.4

Innocents with Dirty Hands

19756.2

Florida

20156.5

Blanche

20024.2

Lovely Swine

19736.3

Speaking of Buñuel

20006.0

Trouble Among Widows

19647.4

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

19765.2

The Grand Dukes

19966.1

Outpost in Indo-china

19636.8

Isabelle and Lust

19755.0

L'Énigme blanche

19855.8

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

19666.5

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

20219.0

Tandem

19877.1

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

20087.3

Clara et son juge

19978.0

The Long Winter

19925.4

I'm the King of the Castle

19896.9

I Hate Blondes

19804.6

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

20207.5

Le Moustachu

19875.3

L'Atlantide

19926.7

Symphony for a Massacre

19636.7

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

20176.3

Courage fuyons

19796.1

Frankenstein 90

19845.8

The Great Restaurant

20105.7

Barracuda

19976.5

Le Bal des casse-pieds

19926.0

The Devil in the Box

19776.0

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

19619.5

Un dimanche de flics

19836.4

The Sunday of Life

19675.7

The Key

20075.3

Beautiful Families

19646.7

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

Grandison

19787.0

Akoibon

20054.9

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

20007.5

The Marriage of Figaro

19616.3

The Blockhead Fair

19638.0

The Dogs of Jerusalem

19847.0

Rembrandt

19996.1

Un étrange voyage

19816.8

From Time to Time

19928.0

Céleste

19707.0

La Galette du roi

19864.5

For a Distant Love

19687.0

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

19585.4

L'Indiscrétion

19825.2

A Happy Divorce

19755.4

Don't Play with Martians

19682.0

Once a Year, Every Year

19949.0

Hearth Fires

19726.3

Les Pieds nickelés

19646.2

Never Ever

19974.0

La Liberté en croupe

19705.5

New Year's Eve At Bob's

19846.2

Tom est tout seul

19954.7

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

19989.0

Palace

19965.9

The Big Brother

19826.1

Lost in Transit

19936.7

La Porteuse de pain

19635.8

The Egg

19726.8

Meeting in Paris

19564.5

... à la française !

20136.0

Bien des choses

20089.0

Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde

20196.8

I Sent a Letter to My Love

19806.4

Next Time the Fire

199310.0

Honolulu Baby

20016.2

Le Misanthrope

197110.0

Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre

1961

Le Naïf amoureux

19657.0

The Other Woman

19908.0

The Queen of Spades

19587.0

Pierre et le Loup

2002