Jean-Pierre Mocky

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.

Known For

Pierre

I vinti

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Senso

Various Roles (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental

Self (archive footage)

Une histoire du cinéma fantastique français

Self

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)

Ralph Enger

La Machine à découdre

Michel Dolannes

Un linceul n'a pas de poches

Stef Tassel

L'Albatros

Jock

Litan

Self

Droit de Réponse

Vieux 2

Prends ta bible et tire-toi !

Luc Dutoit, midshipman

Le Grand Pavois

Inspector Granowski

À mort l'arbitre !

Militiaman

Vive la liberté

Groomsman (uncredited)

L'Homme au chapeau rond

Shade

Ville à vendre

Castellin

Vidange

Page of the Queen (uncredited)

L'Affaire du collier de la reine

Extra

Rêves d'amour

La Cabane aux souvenirs

Band Leader (uncredited)

Orphée

Les Casse-pieds

François Gérane

La Tête contre les murs

Denis

Le paradis des pilotes perdus

Joseph Strauss (uncredited)

Occupe-toi d'Amélie..!

(uncredited)

Au Grand Balcon

(uncredited)

Portrait d'un assassin

Groomsman

Une nuit de noces

Pierre

Le rouge est mis

L'éternel espoir

Un joueur de belote (uncredited)

Deux sous de violettes

Ludovic

Le Mentor

Andrea

Gli sbandati

Horse dealer (uncredited)

Snobs!

Vincent Cabral

Solo

Tramp with pram (uncredited)

Un drôle de paroissien

Tim

Il gèle en enfer

Self - Host (uncredited)

Un risque à courir

Albert de Morcerf

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Looping

archival material

Looping

Alphonse de Lamartine

Graziella

Bruno Bombec

Le glandeur

Self

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

Victor

Rendez-vous

Aurélien Brada

Divine enfant

Le Bridge

Mathias Caral

L'Ombre d'une chance

Boris Lossef

Le Mari de Léon

Le père

Americano

Self

Guillaume Depardieu, Itinéraire d'un enfant terrible

Lucas

Tout est calme

Professor Lapine

Dossier Toroto

Boris

Les Insomniaques

Jacob Duff

La Candide Madame Duff

Le postilloneur

Les Casse-pieds

Pierre

Dieu a besoin des hommes

Customer in the Restaurant

Le Redoutable

Self

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

Mathieu, the gunsmith

Les Ballets écarlates

Jean Almereyda

Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma

(uncredited)

Bibi Fricotin

Inspecteur Richard Gordone

Les araignées de la nuit

Sébut

Le Gorille vous salue bien

himself

La parallèle Mocky

Franco, le prêtre borgne

Le Sourire vertical

Violinist

La neige était sale

La loi de l'albatros

Christophe

À votre bon cœur, mesdames

Le parapluie de Cherbourg

Tarling

Le mystère des jonquilles

Agent Willy

Tu es si jolie ce soir

Alex

Tous flics !

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Le Regard de Charles

Mocky sans Mocky

Dick Grant

Vénéneuses

Self

Cocktail Morlock (ou Encore un Pernod, Yves!)

Pascal, l'ermite

Votez pour moi !

Valentin Esbirol

Monsieur Cauchemar

L'ange Léonard

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette

Armand

Calomnies

Jean Mardet

La bête de miséricorde

le père de Mathieu

Robin des mers

Michel Rayan

Le piège à cons

Self

Bourvil, un homme vrai

La Fouine, un gars de la bande

Maternité clandestine

Self (archive footage)

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Y a-t-il un Français dans la salle ?

Putain de lune

The Screaming Patient (uncredited)

Prénom Carmen