Jean Rochefort
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.
Known For
Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique
Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Frankenstein 90
Alexandre Boursault
Les Feux de la Chandeleur
Maitre Albert Legal
Les innocents aux mains sales
Étienne
Un éléphant ça trompe énormément
Inspector Tantpis
Prêt-à-Porter
Gilbert Neuville
Ne le dis à personne
Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Le Retour du Grand Blond
Louis Guinard
Agathe Cléry
Malartic
Le Capitaine Fracasse
Mr. Legendre
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Self
Lost in La Mancha
Louis Ruinard
Désaccord Parfait
Monsieur Manesquier
L'Homme du train
François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
Angélique et le Roy
Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Le Placard
Antoine
Le Mari de la coiffeuse
Commissioner Guilboud
L'Horloger de Saint-Paul
Jean
J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster
Colonel Louis Toulouse
Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire
Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Ridicule
La Taupe
Cartouche
Amedeo
La prossima volta il fuoco
Etienne Dorsay
Nous irons tous au paradis
Jean Bréaud
Je suis le seigneur du château
August Grandvilliers
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Chris Barnes
Akoibon
Mazarin
Blanche
Pépé (voice)
Titeuf (Le Film)
Leon
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine
François Desgrez
Merveilleuse Angélique
Victor Meynard
Cible émouvante
Albert
Calmos
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Pierre
Un étrange voyage
Nicolaes Tulp
Rembrandt
Eddie Carpentier
Les Grands Ducs
Grégoire Pecque
Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo ?
Louis
L'Enfer
Bellhop
Tango
Gilles Martin
Chère inconnue
Charles-Henri Rossi
Le Grand Frère
Le commissaire Pichard
Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur
Joseph Arp
La Clef
Louis
Dio, sei proprio un padreterno!
Philippe
À cœur joie
Henri de Malassise
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Foisnard
Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard
Barone Henri de Sarcey
Mio Dio, come sono caduta in basso!
Michel Mortez
Tandem
Thomas Fausto
Palace
Edouard Choiseul
Le Cavaleur
Edgard Wexley
El viento se llevó lo qué
Abbot Dubois
Que la fête commence !
Le nonce (André Berthier)
L'Héritier
Henri Sauveur
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Self
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Captain, commander of the escort ship
Le Crabe-Tambour
Monsieur Clément
Barracuda
le capitaine Duroc
Le Moustachu
Le comte Georges
Le diable par la queue
Croquignol
Les pieds nickelés
Lucius Fouinus
Astérix & Obélix : Au service de Sa Majesté
Paul Robignac, adult
Le naïf amoureux
Charles-Philippe Bauman
Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas
M. Vaudois
Isabelle devant le désir
Guillaume
Pour un amour lointain
Louis Alban
Réveillon chez Bob
Marc Cros
El artista y la modelo
Arnold III of Corsalina
La Galette du roi
Arturo Conti
Tombés du ciel
Self
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Narrator (voice)
Pierre et le Loup
Monsieur Tessier
French Postcards
Narrator (voice)
Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach
Dominique Clavet
Le Complot
Marchese Osvaldo
Le Belle Famiglie
Méliès (voice)
Jack et la mécanique du cœur
Clément Chamfort
Salut l'artiste
Jolly Jumper (voice)
Les Dalton
Farou
La Seconde
Vincent Lamar
L'Ami de Vincent
Hervé Breton
Le Temps de mourir
Principe Riccio
I miei primi 40 anni
Alceste
Le Misanthrope
François Desgrez
Angélique, marquise des anges
Martin Belhomme
Courage fuyons
Le comte Almaviva
Le Mariage de Figaro ou La Folle Journée
Maître d'hôtel
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Edouard
Les Magiciens
Lucie
RRRrrrr!!!
Le Meige
L'Atlantide
Monsieur Moreau
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Judge Larcher
Clara et son juge
Self - Actor (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Gerard Panier
Never Ever
Victor Dugommier
L'oeuf
Raffaele
Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno
Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
Le Château de ma mère
Alain Tescique
L'Indiscrétion
Lajos Ácsi, the count
Sortűz egy fekete bivalyért
Jean-Pierre
Tom est tout seul
Jordi Casals
El largo invierno
Pops (voice)
Avril et le monde truqué
Claude Lherminier
Floride
Inspecteur Laforêt
Du grabuge chez les veuves
Alain Brissot
Le Diable dans la boîte
Georges Cazenave
Céleste
A. Rupert
Un dimanche de flics
Self (uncredited)
Jappeloup
The police inspector
Bel ordure
Lastreaumont
Le Masque de fer
Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Un divorce heureux
Sultan the dog (voice)
Bien des choses
Donald Rose
Odio le bionde
Sergeant Hérange
Fort du Fou
Ovide Soliveau
La Porteuse de pain
Cri Cri
Honolulu Baby
Didier's father
La Foire aux cancres
The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Heureux ?
L'interne
Rencontre à Paris
Jabeke
Symphonie pour un massacre
Henri
L'Énigme blanche
Moss
La Liberté en croupe
Self
Belmondo par Belmondo
Captain Bordeille
Le Dimanche de la vie
Carl Grandison
Grandison
Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
Une balle dans le canon
Rudolph
Amoureux fou
Un client du restaurant
Le Grand Restaurant
Fernand
Леон Гаррос ищет друга
Self
Ne le dis à personne: La face B
Self
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Le Soleil dans l’œil
Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Les Clefs de bagnole
René Mastier
Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens
Minister of Foreign Affairs
... à la française !
Self
A propósito de Buñuel
Self (archive footage)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Narrator (voice)
Les Rats
Fernand
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
Le compte Paul Tomsk
La dame de pique
Louis XV
Un Voyage dans le Temps
Self (archive footage)
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
La nuit des Rois
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
147
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-04-29
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort