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