Jean Rochefort
Acting
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.
Born: April 29, 1930
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Pops (voice)
as Claude Lherminier
as Méliès (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
as Lucius Fouinus
as Marc Cros
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Pépé (voice)
as Un client du restaurant
as Louis Guinard
as Sultan the dog (voice)
as Joseph Arp
as Maître d'hôtel
as le père
as Louis Ruinard
as Gilbert Neuville
as Self - Guest
as Louis
as Chris Barnes
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
as Lucie
as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
as Henri de Malassise
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Monsieur Manesquier
as Mazarin
as Self
as Cri Cri
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
as Self
as Nicolaes Tulp
as Edgard Wexley
as Self
as Fernand Mondego
as Monsieur Moreau
as Monsieur Clément
as Gerard Panier
as Judge Larcher
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
as Eddie Carpentier
as Thomas Fausto
as Venturi
as Jean-Pierre
as Inspector Tantpis
as Raffaele
as Amedeo
as Arturo Conti
as Victor Meynard
as Bellhop
as Le Meige
as Louis XV
as Jordi Casals
as Henri Sauveur
as Rudolph
as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
as Antoine
as Self
as Farou
as Jean Bréaud
as Principe Riccio
as Self
as Michel Mortez
as le capitaine Duroc
as Arnold III of Corsalina
as Henri
as Self
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
as Louis Alban
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
as A. Rupert
as Vincent Lamar
as Charles-Henri Rossi
as Alain Tescique
as Self
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
as Pierre
as Donald Rose
as Gilles Martin
as Monsieur Tessier
as Martin Belhomme
as Edouard Choiseul
as August Grandvilliers
as Carl Grandison
as Etienne Dorsay
as Captain, commander of the escort ship
as Alain Brissot
as Étienne
as Albert
as Le commissaire Pichard
as Self
as Edouard
as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
as M. Vaudois
as Self
as Maitre Albert Legal
as Abbot Dubois
as Self
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
as Self
as Mr. Legendre
as Commissioner Guilboud
as Clément Chamfort
as Louis
as The police inspector
as Dominique Clavet
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
as Alexandre Boursault
as Victor Dugommier
as Self
as Alceste
as Georges Cazenave
as Moss
as Hervé Breton
as Le comte Georges
as Guillaume
as René Mastier
as Philippe
as Captain Bordeille
as Grégoire Pecque
as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
as Leon
as François Desgrez
as Paul Robignac, adult
as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
as Marchese Osvaldo
as François Desgrez
as Croquignol
as Inspector Laforêt
as Didier's father
as Ovide Soliveau
as Jabeke
as Sergeant Hérange
as Lastreaumont
as La Taupe
as Le comte Almaviva
as Malartic
as Fernand
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
as Le compte Paul Tomsk
as L'interne