Jean Rochefort
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
166
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
Vivement dimanche
Midi trente
Spécial cinéma
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Numéro un
Le Grand Échiquier
30 millions d'amis
Square
Nulle part ailleurs
Stars 90
Tell No One
Femmes Fatales
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Victoires de la musique
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Trouble Among Widows
Dim Dam Dom
Angelique and the King
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Florida
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
The Other Woman
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Long Winter
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Pardon Mon Affaire
RRRrrrr!!!
The Phantom of Liberty
La Liberté en croupe
From Time to Time
On n'est pas couché
Lost in Transit
Lost in La Mancha
Don't Play with Martians
Les pieds nickelés
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
I Hate Blondes
Beautiful Families
The Hairdresser's Husband
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Barracuda
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Hearth Fires
Chez Maupassant
The Queen of Spades
Sun in Your Eyes
Angelique
My Mother's Castle
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Two Weeks in September
Never Ever
Up to His Ears
Cartouche
The Artist and the Model
Tom est tout seul
Hell
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
La Porteuse de pain
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
L'Atlantide
Hail the Artist
The Skirt Chaser
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Akoibon
Jappeloup
Blanche
Man on the Train
La Galette du roi
Let Joy Reign Supreme
The Car Keys
Courage fuyons
We Will All Meet in Paradise
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Twice Upon a Time
The Inheritor
I'm the King of the Castle
The Blockhead Fair
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Drummer-Crab
Le naïf amoureux
Céleste
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Symphony for a Massacre
Prêt-à-Porter
The Time to Die
Ridicule
Frankenstein 90
Le Misanthrope
Titeuf
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Bien des choses
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
The Closet
Captain Fracasse
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Un étrange voyage
Archives secrètes
Palace
Agathe Cléry
I Sent a Letter to My Love
The Big Brother
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Tandem
Speaking of Buñuel
The Iron Mask
Meeting in Paris
Grandison
My First 40 Years
... à la française !
April and the Extraordinary World
Belmondo by Belmondo
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
The Key
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Les Bœuf-carottes
The Marriage of Figaro
L'Indiscrétion
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
A Happy Divorce
Wind with the Gone
Heureux ?
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
A Friend of Vincent
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Clara et son juge
Belmondo, itinéraire...
French Postcards
The Conspiracy
Un dimanche de flics
Isabelle and Lust
Le Moustachu
Tango
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
Death Rite
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Pierre et le Loup
Next Time the Fire
Amoureux fou
Les Boloss des belles lettres
The Great Restaurant
Outpost in Indo-china
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Les Rats
Once a Year, Every Year
The Sunday of Life
The Devil by the Tail
Tell No One: The B-Side
Rembrandt
Belmondo, le magnifique
Wild Target
For a Distant Love
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Lovely Swine
The Grand Dukes
The Devil in the Box
The Egg
L'Énigme blanche
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Honolulu Baby
