Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort (29 April 1930 – 9 October 2017) was a French actor, with a career that has spanned over six decades. Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National. After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the Compagnie Grenier Hussenot as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy. He then became a television and cinema actor. He has also worked as director. In his 30s during the shooting of Cartouche, he discovered his passion for horses and equestrianism. He has been a horse breeder since then and now owns Le Haras de Villequoy. His passion led him to become a horse consultant for French television in 2004. He has won two César Awards: In 1976, Best Supporting Actor for Que la fête commence; and in 1978, Best Actor for Le Crabe-tambour. He was to play the title character in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, after being found as "the perfect Quixote" by director Terry Gilliam. Rochefort learned 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. With recent news of the film's possible restart, Rochefort has been recast with Robert Duvall, due to his inability to ride a horse. In 1960 he married Alexandra Moscwa, with whom he fathered two children: a girl, Marie (1962), and a boy, Julien (1965). In 2007, he sang with the French band Dionysos a short verse in l'homme sans trucage: « Vas-y, saute, monte, grimpe à ton cœur, sauve-toi, n'aie pas peur, ouvre grand, mon petit, il est temps d'avaler une énorme bouffée d'air frais, andalucia, anda, anda, andalucia... » (Go ahead, jump, climbs to your heart, save yourself, don't be afraid, open wide, my boy, it's time to swallow a huge breath of fresh air, andalucia, anda, anda, andaluci...) Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · Archives secrètes as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde as Self
- 2017 · Belmondo ou le goût du risque as Self
- 2017 · Belmondo, le magnifique as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · À la recherche de... Pierre Richard as Self - Comédien (archive footage)
- 2016 · Belmondo by Belmondo as Self
- 2016 · Les Boloss des belles lettres as
- 2015 · April and the Extraordinary World as Pops (voice)
- 2015 · Florida as Claude Lherminier
- 2014 · Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart as Méliès (voice)
- 2013 · Jappeloup as Self (uncredited)
- 2013 · ... à la française ! as
- 2012 · Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia as Lucius Fouinus
- 2012 · The Artist and the Model as Marc Cros
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Belmondo, itinéraire... as Self
- 2011 · Titeuf as Pépé (voix)
- 2010 · The Great Restaurant as Un client du restaurant
- 2008 · Agathe Cléry as Louis Guinard
- 2008 · Bien des choses as Voix
- 2008 · I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster as Jean
- 2007 · The Key as Joseph Arp
- 2007 · Tell No One: The B-Side as Self
- 2007 · Mr. Bean's Holiday as Maître d'hôtel
- 2007 · Chez Maupassant as le père
- 2006 · Twice Upon a Time as Louis Ruinard
- 2006 · Tell No One as Gilbert Neuville
- 2005 · Hell as Louis
- 2005 · Akoibon as Chris Barnes
- 2004 · Lucky Luke and the Daltons as Jolly Jumper (voice)
- 2004 · RRRrrrr!!! as Lucie
- 2004 · Heureux ? as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
- 2003 · Saint-Germain ou La négociation as Henri de Malassise
- 2003 · The Car Keys as Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
- 2003 · J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Pierre et le Loup as
- 2002 · Man on the Train as Monsieur Manesquier
- 2002 · Blanche as Mazarin
- 2002 · Lost in La Mancha as Self
- 2001 · Honolulu Baby as Cri Cri
- 2001 · The Closet as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
- 2000 · Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète as Self
- 2000 · Speaking of Buñuel as Self
- 1999 · Rembrandt as Nicolaes Tulp
- 1998 · Wind with the Gone as Edgard Wexley
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · The Count of Monte Cristo as Fernand Mondego
- 1998 · Le Comte de Monte Christo as Fernand Mondego Comte de Morcerf
- 1998 · Le serpent a mangé la grenouille as
- 1998 · In and Out of Fashion as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Barracuda as Monsieur Clément
- 1997 · Never Ever as Gerard Panier
- 1997 · Clara et son juge as Judge Larcher
- 1996 · Ridicule as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
- 1996 · The Grand Dukes as Eddie Carpentier
- 1996 · Palace as Thomas Fausto
- 1995 · Les Bœuf-carottes as Venturi
- 1995 · Tom est tout seul as Jean-Pierre
- 1994 · Prêt-à-Porter as Inspector Tantpis
- 1994 · Once a Year, Every Year as Raffaele
- 1993 · Next Time the Fire as Amedeo
- 1993 · Lost in Transit as Arturo Conti
- 1993 · Wild Target as Victor Meynard
- 1993 · Tango as Bellhop
- 1992 · L'Atlantide as Le Meige
- 1992 · The Long Winter as Jordi Casals
- 1992 · Le bal des Casse-pieds as Henri Sauveur
- 1991 · Amoureux fou as Rudolph
- 1990 · My Mother's Castle as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
- 1990 · The Hairdresser's Husband as Antoine
- 1990 · Stars 90 as Self
- 1990 · The Other Woman as Farou
- 1989 · I'm the King of the Castle as Jean Breaud
- 1987 · My First 40 Years as Principe Riccio
- 1987 · Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- 1987 · Tandem as Michel Mortez
- 1987 · Le Moustachu as le capitaine Duroc
- 1986 · La Galette du roi as Arnold III of Corsalina
- 1985 · L'Énigme blanche as Henri
- 1985 · Victoires de la musique as (Album of the Year for Children)
- 1985 · Volley for a Black Buffalo as Lajos Ácsi, the count
- 1984 · New Year's Eve At Bob's as Louis Alban
- 1984 · Frankenstein 90 as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
- 1983 · Un dimanche de flics as A. Rupert
- 1983 · A Friend of Vincent as Vincent Lamar
- 1982 · The Big Brother as Charles-Henri Rossi
- 1982 · L'Indiscrétion as Alain Tescique
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · Birgit Haas Must Be Killed as Charles-Philippe Bauman
- 1981 · Un étrange voyage as Pierre
- 1980 · I Hate Blondes as Donald Rose
- 1980 · I Sent a Letter to My Love as Gilles Martin
- 1979 · French Postcards as Monsieur Tessier
- 1979 · Courage fuyons as Martin Belhomme
- 1979 · The Skirt Chaser as Edouard Choiseul
- 1978 · Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1978 · Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as August Grandvilliers
- 1978 · Grandison as Carl Grandison
- 1977 · We Will All Meet in Paradise as Etienne Dorsay
- 1977 · Drummer-Crab as Captain, le Commandant
- 1977 · The Devil in the Box as Alain Brissot
- 1976 · Pardon Mon Affaire as Étienne
- 1976 · Femmes Fatales as Albert
- 1976 · The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside as Le commissaire Pichard
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · Death Rite as Edouard
- 1975 · A Happy Divorce as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
- 1975 · Isabelle and Lust as M. Vaudois
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Innocents with Dirty Hands as Maitre Albert Legal
- 1975 · Let Joy Reign Supreme as Father Dubois
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
- 1974 · Till Marriage Do Us Part as Barone Henri de Sarcey
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1974 · The Phantom of Liberty as M. Legendre
- 1974 · How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby as Foisnard
- 1974 · The Watchmaker of St. Paul as Commissioner Guilboud
- 1973 · Hail the Artist as Clément Chamfort
- 1973 · Mean Frank and Crazy Tony as Louis
- 1973 · Lovely Swine as The police inspector
- 1973 · The Conspiracy as Dominique
- 1973 · The Inheritor as Le nonce (André Berthier)
- 1972 · The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as Colonel Louis Toulouse
- 1972 · Hearth Fires as Alexandre Boursault
- 1972 · The Egg as Victor Dugommier
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Le Misanthrope as Alceste
- 1970 · Céleste as
- 1970 · La Liberté en croupe as Moss
- 1970 · The Time to Die as Hervé Breton
- 1969 · The Devil by the Tail as Le comte Georges
- 1968 · For a Distant Love as
- 1968 · Don't Play with Martians as René Mastier
- 1967 · Two Weeks in September as Philippe
- 1967 · The Sunday of Life as Captain Bordeille
- 1966 · Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? as Grégoire Pecque
- 1966 · Angelique and the King as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
- 1965 · Up to His Ears as Leon
- 1965 · Angelique: The Road To Versailles as François Desgrez
- 1965 · Le naïf amoureux as Paul Robignac, adult
- 1965 · Dim Dam Dom as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
- 1964 · Beautiful Families as Marchese Osvaldo
- 1964 · Angelique as François Desgrez
- 1964 · Les pieds nickelés as Croquignol
- 1964 · Trouble Among Widows as Inspecteur Laforêt
- 1963 · The Blockhead Fair as Sigoules
- 1963 · La Porteuse de pain as Ovide Soliveau
- 1963 · Symphony for a Massacre as Jabeke
- 1963 · Outpost in Indo-china as Sergeant Hérange
- 1962 · The Iron Mask as Lastreaumont
- 1962 · Sun in Your Eyes as
- 1962 · Cartouche as La Taupe
- 1961 · The Marriage of Figaro as Le comte Almaviva
- 1961 · Captain Fracasse as Malartic
- 1961 · Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend as Fernand
- 1958 · A Bullet in the Gun Barrel as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
- 1956 · Meeting in Paris as L'interne