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

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

20125.1

RRRrrrr!!!

20046.3

Prêt-à-Porter

19945.2

Tell No One

20067.2

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

20147.2

The Closet

20016.4

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19746.6

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

20043.6

April and the Extraordinary World

20157.1

Angelique

19646.7

My Mother's Castle

19907.2

The Phantom of Liberty

19747.5

Agathe Cléry

20084.8

Belmondo by Belmondo

20167.8

The Hairdresser's Husband

19906.8

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

19727.0

Death Rite

19755.0

The Skirt Chaser

19795.6

Les Rats

2015

Belmondo, itinéraire...

20117.7

Angelique and the King

19666.5

Pardon Mon Affaire

19766.9

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

20228.2

Sun in Your Eyes

19626.5

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

20037.0

Jappeloup

20137.1

The Conspiracy

19735.7

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

19734.6

Amoureux fou

19914.3

Up to His Ears

19657.0

Les bottes

20047.5

Twice Upon a Time

20065.9

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

20265.0

Belmondo, le magnifique

20177.4

Captain Fracasse

19615.5

The Artist and the Model

20126.1

French Postcards

19795.1

Volley for a Black Buffalo

19856.3

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

19786.1

Titeuf

20115.7

Hell

20056.1

Two Weeks in September

19675.0

Heureux ?

2004

We Will All Meet in Paradise

19776.8

Hail the Artist

19735.4

The Time to Die

19704.6

L'Œuvre invisible

2026

My First 40 Years

19873.4

Drummer-Crab

19776.5

Cartouche

19626.3

Tango

19935.8

Till Marriage Do Us Part

19745.7

Man on the Train

20026.7

The Inheritor

19736.4

Let Joy Reign Supreme

19756.4

The Iron Mask

19625.8

Wild Target

19936.6

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

20035.7

La Nuit des rois

19624.5

Wind with the Gone

19987.4

Lost in La Mancha

20027.1

Ridicule

19966.9

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

19745.5

Innocents with Dirty Hands

19756.2

Tell No One: The B-Side

20076.0

The Car Keys

20035.2

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

19746.9

Lovely Swine

19736.3

The Devil by the Tail

19696.1

Florida

20156.5

Trouble Among Widows

19647.4

I'm the King of the Castle

19896.9

A Friend of Vincent

19836.2

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

20207.5

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

20177.0

Le Moustachu

19875.3

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

19666.5

L'Énigme blanche

19855.8

Blanche

20024.2

Speaking of Buñuel

20006.0

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

19765.2

Isabelle and Lust

19755.0

Un étrange voyage

19816.8

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

20219.0

Clara et son juge

19978.0

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

19816.4

The Grand Dukes

19966.1

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

20116.0

Le Bal des casse-pieds

19926.0

Outpost in Indo-china

19636.8

Un dimanche de flics

19836.4

The Sunday of Life

19675.7

Symphony for a Massacre

19636.7

Never Ever

19974.0

Tandem

19877.1

From Time to Time

19928.0

The Great Restaurant

20105.7

Don't Play with Martians

19682.0

Hearth Fires

19726.3

The Dogs of Jerusalem

19847.0

I Hate Blondes

19804.6

The Long Winter

19925.4

Frankenstein 90

19845.8

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

19619.5

Courage fuyons

19796.1

The Key

20075.3

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

19585.4

Barracuda

19976.5

L'Indiscrétion

19825.2

L'Atlantide

19926.7

Rembrandt

19996.1

The Devil in the Box

19776.0

La Galette du roi

19864.5

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

20176.3

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

20087.3

Beautiful Families

19646.7

The Marriage of Figaro

19616.3

La Porteuse de pain

19635.8

A Happy Divorce

19755.4

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

20007.5

The Blockhead Fair

19638.0

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

19989.0

Céleste

19707.0

Palace

19965.9

Les Pieds nickelés

19646.2

Next Time the Fire

199310.0

Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde

20196.8

Once a Year, Every Year

19949.0

New Year's Eve At Bob's

19846.2

Meeting in Paris

19564.5

Akoibon

20054.9

... à la française !

20136.0

The Egg

19726.8

Bien des choses

20089.0

I Sent a Letter to My Love

19806.4

The Big Brother

19826.1

La Liberté en croupe

19705.5

Le Misanthrope

197110.0

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

1967

Grandison

19787.0

Tom est tout seul

19954.7

Lost in Transit

19936.7

Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre

1961

Pierre et le Loup

2002

Le Naïf amoureux

19657.0

Honolulu Baby

20016.2

For a Distant Love

19687.0

The Queen of Spades

19587.0

The Other Woman

19908.0