Acting
Jean Rochefort
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
L'Œuvre invisible
Film · 2026
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Film · 2026
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Film · 2022
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Film · 2021
Archives secrètes
Series · 2021
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Film · 2020
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Film · 2019
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Film · 2017
Belmondo, le magnifique
Film · 2017
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Film · 2017
Belmondo by Belmondo
Film · 2016
Les Boloss des belles lettres
Series · 2016
April and the Extraordinary World
Film · 2015
Florida
Film · 2015
Les Rats
Film · 2015
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Film · 2014
Jappeloup
Film · 2013
... à la française !
Film · 2013
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Film · 2012
The Artist and the Model
Film · 2012
Square
Series · 2012
Titeuf
Film · 2011
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Film · 2011
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Film · 2011
The Great Restaurant
Film · 2010
Agathe Cléry
Film · 2008
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Film · 2008
Bien des choses
Film · 2008
The Key
Film · 2007
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Film · 2007
Tell No One: The B-Side
Film · 2007
Chez Maupassant
Series · 2007
Tell No One
Film · 2006
Twice Upon a Time
Film · 2006
On n'est pas couché
Series · 2006
Akoibon
Film · 2005
Hell
Film · 2005
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Film · 2004
RRRrrrr!!!
Film · 2004
Heureux ?
Film · 2004
Les bottes
Film · 2004
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Film · 2003
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Film · 2003
The Car Keys
Film · 2003
Lost in La Mancha
Film · 2002
Man on the Train
Film · 2002
Blanche
Film · 2002
Pierre et le Loup
Film · 2002
The Closet
Film · 2001
Honolulu Baby
Film · 2001
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Film · 2000
Speaking of Buñuel
Film · 2000
Rembrandt
Film · 1999
Wind with the Gone
Film · 1998
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Film · 1998
The Count of Monte Cristo
Series · 1998
Vivement dimanche
Series · 1998
Barracuda
Film · 1997
Clara et son juge
Film · 1997
Never Ever
Film · 1997
Ridicule
Film · 1996
The Grand Dukes
Film · 1996
Palace
Film · 1996
Tom est tout seul
Film · 1995
Les Bœuf-carottes
Series · 1995
Prêt-à-Porter
Film · 1994
Once a Year, Every Year
Film · 1994
Next Time the Fire
Film · 1993
Wild Target
Film · 1993
Tango
Film · 1993
Lost in Transit
Film · 1993
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Film · 1992
L'Atlantide
Film · 1992
The Long Winter
Film · 1992
From Time to Time
Film · 1992
Amoureux fou
Film · 1991
The Hairdresser's Husband
Film · 1990
The Other Woman
Film · 1990
My Mother's Castle
Film · 1990
Stars 90
Series · 1990
I'm the King of the Castle
Film · 1989
Tandem
Film · 1987
Le Moustachu
Film · 1987
My First 40 Years
Film · 1987
Nulle part ailleurs
Series · 1987
La Galette du roi
Film · 1986
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Film · 1985
L'Énigme blanche
Film · 1985
Victoires de la musique
Series · 1985
Frankenstein 90
Film · 1984
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Film · 1984
The Dogs of Jerusalem
Film · 1984
A Friend of Vincent
Film · 1983
Un dimanche de flics
Film · 1983
The Big Brother
Film · 1982
L'Indiscrétion
Film · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Un étrange voyage
Film · 1981
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Film · 1981
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Film · 1980
I Hate Blondes
Film · 1980
The Skirt Chaser
Film · 1979
French Postcards
Film · 1979
Courage fuyons
Film · 1979
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Film · 1978
Grandison
Film · 1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Series · 1978
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Film · 1977
Drummer-Crab
Film · 1977
The Devil in the Box
Film · 1977
Pardon Mon Affaire
Film · 1976
Femmes Fatales
Film · 1976
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Film · 1976
30 millions d'amis
Series · 1976
Cérémonie des César
Series · 1976
Cérémonie des César
Series · 1976
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Film · 1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Film · 1975
Isabelle and Lust
Film · 1975
Death Rite
Film · 1975
A Happy Divorce
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
Numéro un
Series · 1975
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Film · 1974
The Phantom of Liberty
Film · 1974
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Film · 1974
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Film · 1974
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Film · 1974
Spécial cinéma
Series · 1974
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Film · 1973
The Inheritor
Film · 1973
The Conspiracy
Film · 1973
Hail the Artist
Film · 1973
Lovely Swine
Film · 1973
Hearth Fires
Film · 1972
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Film · 1972
The Egg
Film · 1972
Le Grand Échiquier
Series · 1972
Midi trente
Series · 1972
Le Misanthrope
Film · 1971
The Time to Die
Film · 1970
Céleste
Film · 1970
La Liberté en croupe
Film · 1970
The Devil by the Tail
Film · 1969
For a Distant Love
Film · 1968
Don't Play with Martians
Film · 1968
Two Weeks in September
Film · 1967
The Sunday of Life
Film · 1967
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Film · 1967
Angelique and the King
Film · 1966
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Film · 1966
Up to His Ears
Film · 1965
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
Film · 1965
Le Naïf amoureux
Film · 1965
Dim Dam Dom
Series · 1965
Les Pieds nickelés
Film · 1964
Beautiful Families
Film · 1964
Angelique
Film · 1964
Trouble Among Widows
Film · 1964
Outpost in Indo-china
Film · 1963
La Porteuse de pain
Film · 1963
The Blockhead Fair
Film · 1963
Symphony for a Massacre
Film · 1963
Cartouche
Film · 1962
The Iron Mask
Film · 1962
Sun in Your Eyes
Film · 1962
La Nuit des rois
Film · 1962
Captain Fracasse
Film · 1961
The Marriage of Figaro
Film · 1961
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Film · 1961
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
Film · 1961
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Film · 1958
The Queen of Spades
Film · 1958
Meeting in Paris
Film · 1956