Jean-Pierre Mocky
Directing • Born 1929-07-06 – Died 2019-08-08
Biography
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
107 credits
The Vanquished
Movie • 1953
Pierre
Senso
Movie • 1954
Un Soldato (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
Movie • 2023
Various Roles (archive footage)
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Movie • 2008
Self
The Unsewing Machine
Movie • 1986
Ralph Enger
No Pockets in a Shroud
Movie • 1974
Michel Dolannes
The Albatross
Movie • 1971
Stef Tassel
Litan
Movie • 1982
Jock
Droit de Réponse
Movie • 1981
Self
Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
Movie • 2023
Vieux 2
The Big Flag
Movie • 1954
Luc Dutoit, midshipman
Kill the Referee
Movie • 1984
Inspector Granowski
Long Live Liberty
Movie • 1946
Militiaman
The Eternal Husband
Movie • 1946
Groomsman (uncredited)
Vidange
Movie • 1998
Castellin
Ville à vendre
Movie • 1992
Shade
Queen's Necklace
Movie • 1946
Page of the Queen (uncredited)
Dreams of Love
Movie • 1947
Extra
La Cabane aux souvenirs
Movie • 1947
Orpheus
Movie • 1950
Band Leader (uncredited)
The Spice of Life
Movie • 1948
Head Against the Wall
Movie • 1959
François Gérane
The Hell of Lost Pilots
Movie • 1949
Denis
Keep an Eye on Amelia
Movie • 1949
Joseph Strauss (uncredited)
At the Grand Balcony
Movie • 1949
(uncredited)
Portrait of a Murderer
Movie • 1949
(uncredited)
A Night at a Honeymoon
Movie • 1950
Groomsman
Speaking of Murder
Movie • 1957
Pierre
Éternel espoir
Movie • 1952
Violinist
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Movie • 1951
Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
Le Mentor
Movie • 2013
Ludovic
Abandoned
Movie • 1955
Andrea
Snobs!
Movie • 1962
Horse dealer (uncredited)
Solo
Movie • 1970
Vincent Cabral
Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Movie • 1963
Tramp with pram (uncredited)
Il gèle en enfer
Movie • 1990
Tim
Un risque à courir
Movie • 2009
Self - Host (uncredited)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1954
Albert de Morcerf
Looping
Movie • 2014
archival material
Looping
Movie • 2014
Graziella
Movie • 1954
Alphonse de Lamartine
Le glandeur
Movie • 2000
Bruno Bombec
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
Movie • 2010
Self
Rendez-vous
Movie
Victor
Divine enfant
Movie • 1989
Aurélien Brada
Le Bridge
Movie • 1986
Shadow of a Chance
Movie • 1974
Mathias Caral
Leon's Husband
Movie • 1993
Boris Lossef
Americano
Movie • 2011
Le père
Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
Movie • 2017
Self
Tout est calme
Movie • 2000
Lucas
Dossier Toroto
Movie • 2011
Professor Lapine
Les Insomniaques
Movie • 2011
Boris
La Candide Madame Duff
Movie • 2000
Jacob Duff
The Spice of Life
Movie • 1948
Le postilloneur
God Needs Men
Movie • 1950
Pierre
Godard Mon Amour
Movie • 2017
Customer in the Restaurant
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Movie • 2009
Self
Les Ballets écarlates
Movie • 2007
Mathieu, the gunsmith
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Movie • 1986
Jean Almereyda
Bibi Fricotin
Movie • 1951
(non crédité)
Les araignées de la nuit
Movie • 2002
Inspecteur Richard Gordone
The Mask of the Gorilla
Movie • 1958
Sébut
La parallèle Mocky
Movie • 2018
himself
The Vertical Smile
Movie • 1973
Franco, le prêtre borgne
Stain on the Snow
Movie • 1954
Violinist
La loi de l'albatros
Movie • 2017
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Movie • 2013
Christophe
Le parapluie de Cherbourg
Movie • 2000
Le mystère des jonquilles
Movie • 2014
Tarling
Tu es si jolie ce soir
Movie • 2015
Agent Willy
Tous flics !
Movie • 2023
Alex
Aznavour by Charles
Movie • 2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Mocky sans Mocky
Movie • 2019
Vénéneuses
Movie • 2017
Dick Grant
Cocktail Morlock
Movie • 1981
Self
Votez pour moi !
Movie • 2017
Pascal, l'ermite
Monsieur Cauchemar
Movie • 2015
Valentin Esbirol
Calomnies
Movie • 2014
Armand
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
Movie • 2015
L'ange Léonard
La bête de miséricorde
Movie • 2001
Jean Mardet
Robin des mers
Movie • 1998
le père de Mathieu
Le piège à cons
Movie • 1979
Michel Rayan
Bourvil, un homme vrai
Movie • 2016
Self
Illicit Motherhood
Movie • 1953
La Fouine, un gars de la bande
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Movie • 1982
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Putain de lune
Movie • 2013
First Name: Carmen
Movie • 1983
The Screaming Patient (uncredited)
Agent trouble
Movie • 1987
L'agent de la DST (non crédité)
L'Invité
TV • 2002
Self
C à vous
TV • 2009
Self
Village départ
TV • 2005
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
TV • 1987
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Série noire
TV • 1984
Jean Almereyda
Zone interdite
TV • 1993
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Matin Bonheur
TV • 1987
Self
Samedi soir
TV • 1971
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Open Bar
TV • 2014
Self
Quarks
TV • 2013
Self