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