Jean Rochefort

Acting

Born Apr 29, 1930

From Paris, France

Died Oct 09, 2017

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.

Jean Rochefort

Known For

RRRrrrr!!!

Mr. Bean's Holiday

My First 40 Years

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

Tell No One

L'Œuvre invisible

Prêt-à-Porter

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Pardon Mon Affaire

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Filmography — Acting

RRRrrrr!!!

Mr. Bean's Holiday

My First 40 Years

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

Tell No One

L'Œuvre invisible

Prêt-à-Porter

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Pardon Mon Affaire

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Femmes Fatales

Angelique

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

The Long Winter

April and the Extraordinary World

The Hairdresser's Husband

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

The Phantom of Liberty

My Mother's Castle

The Closet

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Jappeloup

Ridicule

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Man on the Train

Angelique and the King

Cartouche

The Inheritor

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

Titeuf

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Frankenstein 90

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Up to His Ears

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Lost in La Mancha

French Postcards

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Hell

The Devil by the Tail

Innocents with Dirty Hands

Agathe Cléry

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

The Artist and the Model

Tango

Palace

The Devil in the Box

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

The Car Keys

Belmondo by Belmondo

Blanche

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

Never Ever

Les bottes

Hearth Fires

A Friend of Vincent

The Key

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

The Skirt Chaser

I Hate Blondes

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

The Grand Dukes

Florida

Captain Fracasse

The Conspiracy

Death Rite