Jean Rochefort
Acting • Born 1930-04-29 – Died 2017-10-09
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.
Filmography
171 credits
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Movie • 2017
Self
Belmondo, le magnifique
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Frankenstein 90
Movie • 1984
Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Hearth Fires
Movie • 1972
Alexandre Boursault
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Movie • 1975
Maitre Albert Legal
Pardon Mon Affaire
Movie • 1976
Étienne
Prêt-à-Porter
Movie • 1994
Inspector Tantpis
Tell No One
Movie • 2006
Gilbert Neuville
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie • 1974
Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Agathe Cléry
Movie • 2008
Louis Guinard
Captain Fracasse
Movie • 1961
Malartic
Lost in La Mancha
Movie • 2002
Self
The Phantom of Liberty
Movie • 1974
Mr. Legendre
Twice Upon a Time
Movie • 2006
Louis Ruinard
Man on the Train
Movie • 2002
Monsieur Manesquier
Angelique and the King
Movie • 1966
François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
The Closet
Movie • 2001
Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
The Hairdresser's Husband
Movie • 1990
Antoine
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Movie • 1974
Commissioner Guilboud
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Movie • 2008
Jean
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Movie • 1972
Colonel Louis Toulouse
Ridicule
Movie • 1996
Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Cartouche
Movie • 1962
La Taupe
Next Time the Fire
Movie • 1993
Amedeo
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Movie • 1977
Etienne Dorsay
I'm the King of the Castle
Movie • 1989
Jean Bréaud
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Movie • 1978
August Grandvilliers
Akoibon
Movie • 2005
Chris Barnes
Blanche
Movie • 2002
Mazarin
Titeuf
Movie • 2011
Pépé (voice)
Up to His Ears
Movie • 1965
Leon
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Movie • 1965
François Desgrez
Wild Target
Movie • 1993
Victor Meynard
Femmes Fatales
Movie • 1976
Albert
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Un étrange voyage
Movie • 1981
Pierre
Rembrandt
Movie • 1999
Nicolaes Tulp
The Grand Dukes
Movie • 1996
Eddie Carpentier
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Movie • 1966
Grégoire Pecque
Hell
Movie • 2005
Louis
Tango
Movie • 1993
Bellhop
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Movie • 1980
Gilles Martin
The Big Brother
Movie • 1982
Charles-Henri Rossi
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Movie • 1976
Le commissaire Pichard
The Key
Movie • 2007
Joseph Arp
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Movie • 1973
Louis
Two Weeks in September
Movie • 1967
Philippe
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Movie • 2003
Henri de Malassise
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Movie • 1974
Foisnard
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Movie • 1974
Barone Henri de Sarcey
Tandem
Movie • 1987
Michel Mortez
Palace
Movie • 1996
Thomas Fausto
The Skirt Chaser
Movie • 1979
Edouard Choiseul
Wind with the Gone
Movie • 1998
Edgard Wexley
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Movie • 1975
Abbot Dubois
The Inheritor
Movie • 1973
Le nonce (André Berthier)
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Movie • 1992
Henri Sauveur
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Movie • 2000
Self
Drummer-Crab
Movie • 1977
Captain, commander of the escort ship
Barracuda
Movie • 1997
Monsieur Clément
Le Moustachu
Movie • 1987
le capitaine Duroc
The Devil by the Tail
Movie • 1969
Le comte Georges
Les Pieds nickelés
Movie • 1964
Croquignol
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Movie • 2012
Lucius Fouinus
Le naïf amoureux
Movie • 1965
Paul Robignac, adult
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Movie • 1981
Charles-Philippe Bauman
For a Distant Love
Movie • 1968
Guillaume
Isabelle and Lust
Movie • 1975
M. Vaudois
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Movie • 1984
Louis Alban
The Artist and the Model
Movie • 2012
Marc Cros
La Galette du roi
Movie • 1986
Arnold III of Corsalina
Lost in Transit
Movie • 1993
Arturo Conti
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Movie • 2011
Self
Pierre et le Loup
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
French Postcards
Movie • 1979
Monsieur Tessier
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Movie • 2003
Narrator (voice)
The Conspiracy
Movie • 1973
Dominique Clavet
Beautiful Families
Movie • 1964
Marchese Osvaldo
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Movie • 2014
Méliès (voice)
Hail the Artist
Movie • 1973
Clément Chamfort
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Movie • 2004
Jolly Jumper (voice)
The Other Woman
Movie • 1990
Farou
A Friend of Vincent
Movie • 1983
Vincent Lamar
The Time to Die
Movie • 1970
Hervé Breton
My First 40 Years
Movie • 1987
Principe Riccio
Le Misanthrope
Movie • 1971
Alceste
Angelique
Movie • 1964
François Desgrez
Courage fuyons
Movie • 1979
Martin Belhomme
The Marriage of Figaro
Movie • 1961
Le comte Almaviva
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Movie • 2007
Maître d'hôtel
Death Rite
Movie • 1975
Edouard
RRRrrrr!!!
Movie • 2004
Lucie
L'Atlantide
Movie • 1992
Le Meige
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Movie • 1998
Monsieur Moreau
Clara et son juge
Movie • 1997
Judge Larcher
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Movie • 2017
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Never Ever
Movie • 1997
Gerard Panier
The Egg
Movie • 1972
Victor Dugommier
Once a Year, Every Year
Movie • 1994
Raffaele
My Mother's Castle
Movie • 1990
Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
L'Indiscrétion
Movie • 1982
Alain Tescique
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Movie • 1985
Lajos Ácsi, the count
Tom est tout seul
Movie • 1995
Jean-Pierre
The Long Winter
Movie • 1992
Jordi Casals
April and the Extraordinary World
Movie • 2015
Pops (voice)
Florida
Movie • 2015
Claude Lherminier
Trouble Among Widows
Movie • 1964
Inspecteur Laforêt
The Devil in the Box
Movie • 1977
Alain Brissot
Céleste
Movie • 1970
Georges Cazenave
Un dimanche de flics
Movie • 1983
A. Rupert
Jappeloup
Movie • 2013
Self (uncredited)
Lovely Swine
Movie • 1973
The police inspector
The Iron Mask
Movie • 1962
Lastreaumont
A Happy Divorce
Movie • 1975
Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Bien des choses
Movie • 2008
Sultan the dog (voice)
I Hate Blondes
Movie • 1980
Donald Rose
Outpost in Indo-china
Movie • 1963
Sergeant Hérange
La Porteuse de pain
Movie • 1963
Ovide Soliveau
Honolulu Baby
Movie • 2001
Cri Cri
The Blockhead Fair
Movie • 1963
Didier's father
Heureux ?
Movie • 2004
The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Meeting in Paris
Movie • 1956
L'interne
Symphony for a Massacre
Movie • 1963
Jabeke
L'Énigme blanche
Movie • 1985
Henri
La Liberté en croupe
Movie • 1970
Moss
The Sunday of Life
Movie • 1967
Captain Bordeille
Belmondo by Belmondo
Movie • 2016
Self
Grandison
Movie • 1978
Carl Grandison
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Movie • 1958
Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
Amoureux fou
Movie • 1991
Rudolph
The Great Restaurant
Movie • 2010
Un client du restaurant
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Movie • 1961
Fernand
Tell No One: The B-Side
Movie • 2007
Self
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Movie • 2019
Self
Sun in Your Eyes
Movie • 1962
The Car Keys
Movie • 2003
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Don't Play with Martians
Movie • 1968
René Mastier
... à la française !
Movie • 2013
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Speaking of Buñuel
Movie • 2000
Self
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Les Rats
Movie • 2015
Narrator (voice)
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
Movie • 1961
Fernand
The Queen of Spades
Movie • 1958
Le compte Paul Tomsk
From Time to Time
Movie • 1992
Louis XV
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
Movie • 2026
Self (archive footage)
La nuit des Rois
Movie • 1962
Sir André
Les bottes
Movie • 2004
Récitant (voice)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Movie • 2022
Dim Dam Dom
TV • 1965
Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
Victoires de la musique
TV • 1985
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
TV • 1987
Self
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1998
Fernand Mondego
Archives secrètes
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Chez Maupassant
TV • 2007
le père
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Les Boloss des belles lettres
TV • 2016
Self - Narrator
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Les Bœuf-carottes
TV • 1995
Venturi
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Numéro un
TV • 1975
Self
Square
TV • 2012
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self - Narrator (voice)
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
30 millions d'amis
TV • 1976
Self
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - Guest
Cérémonie des César
TV • 1976
Self - President