
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). ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord as Self (archive footage)
- 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 - Actor (archive footage)
- 2016 · Belmondo by Belmondo as Self
- 2016 · Les Boloss des belles lettres as Self - Narrator
- 2015 · Les Rats as Narrator (voice)
- 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 Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 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 (voice)
- 2010 · The Great Restaurant as Un client du restaurant
- 2008 · Agathe Cléry as Louis Guinard
- 2008 · Bien des choses as Sultan the dog (voice)
- 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
- 2006 · On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
- 2005 · Hell as Louis
- 2005 · Akoibon as Chris Barnes
- 2005 · Robots as (voice) (uncredited)
- 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 Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
- 2003 · J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Pierre et le Loup as Narrator (voice)
- 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 serpent a mangé la grenouille as Monsieur Moreau
- 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 Bréaud
- 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 Self
- 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 · Drummer-Crab as Captain, commander of the escort ship
- 1977 · We Will All Meet in Paradise as Etienne Dorsay
- 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 Abbot 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 Mr. 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 Clavet
- 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 Georges Cazenave
- 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 Guillaume
- 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 Inspector Laforêt
- 1963 · The Blockhead Fair as Didier's father
- 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
- 1961 · Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre as Fernand
- 1958 · A Bullet in the Gun Barrel as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
- 1958 · The Queen of Spades as Le compte Paul Tomsk
- 1956 · Meeting in Paris as L'interne