Acting
Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Series · 2022
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Film · 2021
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Film · 2020
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Film · 2017
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Film · 2009
The Beaches of Agnès
Film · 2008
3 Friends
Film · 2007
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Film · 2007
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Film · 2006
Marcello, una vita dolce
Film · 2006
Edy
Film · 2005
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Film · 2005
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
Film · 2003
My New Partner III
Film · 2003
The Chops
Film · 2003
Father and Sons
Film · 2003
Step by Step
Film · 2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Film · 2002
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Film · 2000
Vivement dimanche
Series · 1998
Pierre and Marie
Film · 1997
Marianna Ucrìa
Film · 1997
Soleil
Film · 1997
On Guard
Film · 1997
The Grand Dukes
Film · 1996
Ghost with Driver
Film · 1996
Le Veilleur de nuit
Film · 1996
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Film · 1996
Looking for Paradise
Film · 1995
Les Milles
Film · 1995
Too Loud A Solitude
Film · 1995
Le Roi de Paris
Film · 1995
The Troubles We've Seen
Film · 1994
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Film · 1994
The Postman
Film · 1994
Dead Tired
Film · 1994
Tango
Film · 1993
Max & Jeremie
Film · 1992
Fish Soup
Film · 1992
The Two of Us
Film · 1992
I Don't Kiss
Film · 1991
Lest We Forget
Film · 1991
Especially on Sunday
Film · 1991
Rossini! Rossini!
Film · 1991
My New Partner II
Film · 1990
Uranus
Film · 1990
The Palermo Connection
Film · 1990
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Film · 1990
Stars 90
Series · 1990
Life and Nothing But
Film · 1989
The Return of the Musketeers
Film · 1989
Cinema Paradiso
Film · 1988
Chouans !
Film · 1988
The Sparrow's Fluttering
Film · 1988
Young Toscanini
Film · 1988
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Film · 1988
The Family
Film · 1987
Masks
Film · 1987
The Man Who Planted Trees
Film · 1987
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Film · 1987
Widow's Walk
Film · 1987
Nulle part ailleurs
Series · 1987
Sacrée soirée
Series · 1987
'Round Midnight
Film · 1986
Twist Again in Moscow
Film · 1986
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Film · 1986
The Secret Wife
Film · 1986
Before Midnight
Film · 1986
Next Summer
Film · 1985
Les Rois du gag
Film · 1985
The Fourth Power
Film · 1985
My New Partner
Film · 1984
Fort Saganne
Film · 1984
Souvenirs souvenirs
Film · 1984
Aurora
Film · 1984
The African
Film · 1983
Le Grand Carnaval
Film · 1983
A Friend of Vincent
Film · 1983
My Friends Act II
Film · 1982
The North Star
Film · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Coup de Torchon
Film · 1981
Three Brothers
Film · 1981
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Film · 1981
Jupiter's Thigh
Film · 1980
Heads or Tails
Film · 1980
A Week's Vacation
Film · 1980
Rue du Pied de Grue
Film · 1979
Two Pieces of Bread
Film · 1979
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Film · 1978
Dear Inspector
Film · 1978
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Film · 1978
The Witness
Film · 1978
Ciné regards
Series · 1978
The Purple Taxi
Film · 1977
A Woman at Her Window
Film · 1976
The Judge and the Assassin
Film · 1976
The Desert of the Tartars
Film · 1976
A Common Sense of Modesty
Film · 1976
Monsieur Albert
Film · 1976
30 millions d'amis
Series · 1976
Cérémonie des César
Series · 1976
The Old Gun
Film · 1975
My Friends
Film · 1975
Playing with Fire
Film · 1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Film · 1975
L'école est finie
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
Apostrophes
Series · 1975
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Film · 1974
The Secret
Film · 1974
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Film · 1974
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Film · 1974
A Cloud in the Teeth
Film · 1974
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
La Grande Bouffe
Film · 1973
The Serpent
Film · 1973
Poil de carotte
Film · 1973
La Mandarine
Film · 1972
The Old Maid
Film · 1972
The Assassination
Film · 1972
A Time for Loving
Film · 1972
Five Leaf Clover
Film · 1972
Midi trente
Series · 1972
The Most Gentle Confessions
Film · 1971
Murphy's War
Film · 1971
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Film · 1971
Give Her the Moon
Film · 1970
Topaz
Film · 1969
Mr. Freedom
Film · 1969
Justine
Film · 1969
The Assassination Bureau
Film · 1969
Clerambard
Film · 1969
The Tender Age
Film · 1968
Very Happy Alexander
Film · 1968
The Night of the Generals
Film · 1967
Woman Times Seven
Film · 1967
The Other One
Film · 1967
A Matter of Resistance
Film · 1966
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Film · 1966
Tender Scoundrel
Film · 1966
Father's Trip
Film · 1966
The Sultans
Film · 1966
La Fin de la nuit
Film · 1966
The Buddies
Film · 1965
Lady L
Film · 1965
Monsieur
Film · 1964
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Film · 1964
Summer Frenzy
Film · 1964
Clémentine chérie
Film · 1964
The Lovers of the France
Film · 1964
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Film · 1964
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Film · 1963
La Porteuse de pain
Film · 1963
Therese
Film · 1962
The Masseuses
Film · 1962
Crime Does Not Pay
Film · 1962
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Film · 1962
Le Mal court
Film · 1962
Captain Fracasse
Film · 1961
Famous Love Affairs
Film · 1961
All the Gold in the World
Film · 1961
Rendezvous
Film · 1961
Flore et Blancheflore
Film · 1961
Zazie dans le Métro
Film · 1960
Cyrano de Bergerac
Film · 1960
Ravishing
Film · 1960
De fil en aiguille
Film · 1960
Macbeth
Film · 1959
Discorama
Series · 1959
Discorama
Series · 1959
La Pointe Courte
Film · 1956
Matrimonial Agency
Film · 1952
Olivia
Film · 1951
Gigi
Film · 1949