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

Topaz

19696.0

The Night of the Generals

19676.8

La Grande Bouffe

19737.1

The Old Gun

19757.5

'Round Midnight

19867.1

Fish Soup

19924.7

Let's Hope It's a Girl

19867.0

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

Tender Scoundrel

19665.2

Woman Times Seven

19676.3

Balthus through the Looking-Glass

1996

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

19746.5

The Beaches of Agnès

20087.7

Dead Tired

19946.0

The Desert of the Tartars

19766.8

Uranus

19906.7

Fort Saganne

19846.0

Murphy's War

19716.2

The Assassination

19726.6

D'Artagnan's Daughter

19945.7

Playing with Fire

19755.5

The Witness

19786.9

Captain Fracasse

19615.5

Rossini! Rossini!

19916.2

The Serpent

19736.1

On Guard

19976.7

Chouans !

19885.8

Zazie dans le Métro

19606.6

Gigi

19496.1

The Assassination Bureau

19696.7

Father and Sons

20036.9

My New Partner III

20035.3

My New Partner

19846.6

Edy

20055.1

Coup de Torchon

19817.0

Tango

19935.8

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

20176.9

Next Summer

19856.4

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

19786.1

Marianna Ucrìa

19976.7

La Pointe Courte

19566.9

Lady L

19655.8

Famous Love Affairs

19614.4

Macbeth

195910.0

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

19876.2

Don't Touch the White Woman!

19745.5

Clémentine chérie

19646.2

The Secret Wife

19867.3

Let Joy Reign Supreme

19756.4

Death, Where Is Your Victory?

19647.0

The Family

19877.5

Give Her the Moon

19705.8

All the Gold in the World

19616.5

Very Happy Alexander

19686.9

Jupiter's Thigh

19806.2

Mr. Freedom

19695.2

The North Star

19826.3

My Friends Act II

19827.6

Hitler, la folie d'un homme

2005

Souvenirs souvenirs

19845.4

The Old Maid

19725.9

The African

19836.3

Ravishing

19605.5

Max & Jeremie

19926.2

The Fourth Power

19856.4

Le Grand Carnaval

19835.6

The Secret

19746.5

Cyrano de Bergerac

19608.6

Especially on Sunday

19916.2

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

19645.9

A Woman at Her Window

19765.8

The Troubles We've Seen

19945.8

A Friend of Vincent

19836.2

Les Rois du gag

19855.8

A Common Sense of Modesty

19765.8

Justine

19694.4

The Judge and the Assassin

19766.8

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

19746.9

Summer Frenzy

19645.9

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

20207.5

Too Loud A Solitude

19958.0

A Cloud in the Teeth

19745.8

Rendezvous

19616.3

Heads or Tails

19806.6

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

19666.5

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

20027.0

Les Milles

19955.7

The Lovers of the France

19649.0

Twist Again in Moscow

19866.1

Lest We Forget

19917.0

A Matter of Resistance

19666.8

The Grand Dukes

19966.1

Young Toscanini

19886.3

I Don't Kiss

19916.2

The Sultans

19665.0

The Two of Us

19929.5

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

20004.5

Flore et Blancheflore

1961

The Purple Taxi

19775.8

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

19816.4

The Palermo Connection

19906.2

Looking for Paradise

19955.8

My New Partner II

19906.0

A Week's Vacation

19806.1

Life and Nothing But

19897.2

Three Brothers

19816.3

Olivia

19516.6

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

2006

Rue du Pied de Grue

19797.0

La Fin de la nuit

196610.0

Le Mal court

196210.0

Soleil

19976.4

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

20096.0

Therese

19626.7

Widow's Walk

19875.7

A Time for Loving

19725.3

The Dog, the General, and the Birds

20036.4

Monsieur

19646.4

Clerambard

19695.5

Masks

19876.8

Marcello, una vita dolce

20065.2

Ghost with Driver

19965.0

Step by Step

20026.8

The Masseuses

19625.1

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

20219.0

Matrimonial Agency

19525.6

Father's Trip

19666.6

Pierre and Marie

19976.8

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

197810.0

The Tender Age

19688.0

Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back

1988

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

19717.0

Poil de carotte

19738.0

The Buddies

19655.3

Le Roi de Paris

19957.8

La Porteuse de pain

19635.8

3 Friends

20075.1

La Mandarine

19724.8

Two Pieces of Bread

19796.5

The Chops

20036.1

Before Midnight

19864.0

Crime Does Not Pay

19625.5

Aurora

19847.1

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

20076.8

Five Leaf Clover

19726.5

The Most Gentle Confessions

19716.2

Comme un poisson dans l'eau

19627.0

L'école est finie

1975

The Other One

19676.0

Ballad for a Hoodlum

19636.5

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

19907.5

Monsieur Albert

19769.0

De fil en aiguille

19606.5

Le Veilleur de nuit

19967.0