
Jean Rochefort
Born April 29, 1930 · Paris, France
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Femmes Fatales

Angelique: The Road to Versailles

Prêt-à-Porter

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

Tell No One

RRRrrrr!!!

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

April and the Extraordinary World

The Closet

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Angelique

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

My Mother's Castle
More Movies

The Hairdresser's Husband

Agathe Cléry

Belmondo by Belmondo

Les Rats

The Phantom of Liberty

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

Angelique and the King

Death Rite

The Skirt Chaser

Sun in Your Eyes

Jappeloup

Pardon Mon Affaire

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Captain Fracasse

Amoureux fou

Up to His Ears

The Conspiracy

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

French Postcards

Heureux ?

Les bottes

Cartouche

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

The Time to Die

Two Weeks in September

L'Œuvre invisible

Twice Upon a Time

Belmondo, le magnifique

Hail the Artist

Titeuf

The Artist and the Model

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Hell

My First 40 Years

Ridicule

Man on the Train

The Inheritor

Drummer-Crab

The Car Keys

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Volley for a Black Buffalo

The Iron Mask

Wild Target

A Friend of Vincent

Lost in La Mancha

Tango

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Wind with the Gone

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

The Devil by the Tail

La Nuit des rois

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

Innocents with Dirty Hands

Florida

Blanche

Lovely Swine

Speaking of Buñuel

Trouble Among Widows

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

The Grand Dukes

Outpost in Indo-china

Isabelle and Lust

L'Énigme blanche

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

Tandem

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Clara et son juge

The Long Winter

I'm the King of the Castle

I Hate Blondes

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

Le Moustachu

L'Atlantide

Symphony for a Massacre

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

Courage fuyons

Frankenstein 90

The Great Restaurant

Barracuda

Le Bal des casse-pieds

The Devil in the Box

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Un dimanche de flics

The Sunday of Life

The Key

Beautiful Families

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

Grandison

Akoibon

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

The Marriage of Figaro

The Blockhead Fair

The Dogs of Jerusalem

Rembrandt

Un étrange voyage

From Time to Time

Céleste

La Galette du roi

For a Distant Love

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

L'Indiscrétion

A Happy Divorce

Don't Play with Martians

Once a Year, Every Year

Hearth Fires

Les Pieds nickelés

Never Ever

La Liberté en croupe

New Year's Eve At Bob's

Tom est tout seul

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

Palace

The Big Brother

Lost in Transit

La Porteuse de pain

The Egg

Meeting in Paris

... à la française !

Bien des choses

Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Next Time the Fire

Honolulu Baby

Le Misanthrope

Le Naïf amoureux

The Other Woman

The Queen of Spades



















