Jean Rochefort
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
167
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-04-29
Day of death
2017-10-09 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Jean Rochefort
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.
Known For
Champs-Elysées
RRRrrrr!!!
Vivement dimanche
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le Grand Échiquier
Numéro un
30 millions d'amis
Midi trente
Femmes Fatales
The Other Woman
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Florida
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Le Misanthrope
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Céleste
Wind with the Gone
Nulle part ailleurs
Palace
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Blanche
Angelique and the King
Hell
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Grandison
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Victoires de la musique
The Inheritor
Cartouche
Pardon Mon Affaire
The Count of Monte Cristo
Tell No One
Twice Upon a Time
Angelique
The Skirt Chaser
Stars 90
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Akoibon
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Ridicule
Up to His Ears
Dim Dam Dom
Frankenstein 90
Death Rite
Barracuda
Courage fuyons
The Key
Never Ever
Tandem
Next Time the Fire
Square
The Phantom of Liberty
Agathe Cléry
The Long Winter
Tango
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
L'Indiscrétion
Drummer-Crab
The Marriage of Figaro
The Hairdresser's Husband
Heureux ?
Symphony for a Massacre
The Conspiracy
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
My Mother's Castle
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Lovely Swine
Trouble Among Widows
Amoureux fou
Les Rats
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
On n'est pas couché
Tom est tout seul
I Hate Blondes
Lost in La Mancha
Man on the Train
We Will All Meet in Paradise
La Porteuse de pain
The Iron Mask
The Closet
Prêt-à-Porter
Jappeloup
The Great Restaurant
Captain Fracasse
Le Moustachu
Hearth Fires
Chez Maupassant
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Don't Play with Martians
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Meeting in Paris
The Blockhead Fair
The Car Keys
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Let Joy Reign Supreme
April and the Extraordinary World
Titeuf
Two Weeks in September
Hail the Artist
I'm the King of the Castle
The Devil by the Tail
La Liberté en croupe
Beautiful Families
The Queen of Spades
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Once a Year, Every Year
The Artist and the Model
Les pieds nickelés
The Time to Die
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
The Big Brother
Le naïf amoureux
Speaking of Buñuel
Lost in Transit
Sun in Your Eyes
A Friend of Vincent
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Belmondo by Belmondo
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Bien des choses
Un étrange voyage
For a Distant Love
French Postcards
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
La Galette du roi
Archives secrètes
From Time to Time
My First 40 Years
La nuit des Rois
... à la française !
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
The Sunday of Life
A Happy Divorce
Clara et son juge
Un dimanche de flics
Isabelle and Lust
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Pierre et le Loup
L'Énigme blanche
Outpost in Indo-china
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Les Bœuf-carottes
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Tell No One: The B-Side
Belmondo, le magnifique
L'Atlantide
The Egg
Wild Target
Rembrandt
The Grand Dukes
Les Boloss des belles lettres
The Devil in the Box
Honolulu Baby
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
