Jean Rochefort

Acting

Born April 29, 1930 — Died October 9, 2017 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.

Movies(149)

L'Œuvre invisible

Self

2026

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

2022

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

Self (archive footage)

2021

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

Self (archive footage)

2020

Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde

Self

2019

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

Self

2017

Belmondo, le magnifique

Self (archive footage)

2017

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Self - Actor (archive footage)

2017

Belmondo by Belmondo

Self

2016

Les Rats

Narrator (voice)

2015

April and the Extraordinary World

Pops (voice)

2015

Florida

Claude Lherminier

2015

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Méliès (voice)

2014

Jappeloup

Self (uncredited)

2013

... à la française !

Minister of Foreign Affairs

2013

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

Lucius Fouinus

2012

The Artist and the Model

Marc Cros

2012

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Self (archive footage)

2011

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Self

2011

Titeuf

Pépé (voice)

2011

The Great Restaurant

Un client du restaurant

2010

Agathe Cléry

Louis Guinard

2008

Bien des choses

Sultan the dog (voice)

2008

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Jean

2008

The Key

Joseph Arp

2007

Tell No One: The B-Side

Self

2007

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Maître d'hôtel

2007

Twice Upon a Time

Louis Ruinard

2006

Tell No One

Gilbert Neuville

2006

Hell

Louis

2005

Akoibon

Chris Barnes

2005

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

Jolly Jumper (voice)

2004

Les bottes

Récitant (voice)

2004

RRRrrrr!!!

Lucie

2004

Heureux ?

The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches

2004

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

Henri de Malassise

2003

The Car Keys

Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

2003

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

Narrator (voice)

2003

Pierre et le Loup

Narrator (voice)

2002

Man on the Train

Monsieur Manesquier

2002

Blanche

Mazarin

2002

Lost in La Mancha

Self

2002

Honolulu Baby

Cri Cri

2001

The Closet

Kopel, le directeur de l'usine

2001

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Self

2000

Speaking of Buñuel

Self

2000

Rembrandt

Nicolaes Tulp

1999

Wind with the Gone

Edgard Wexley

1998

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

Monsieur Moreau

1998

Barracuda

Monsieur Clément

1997

Never Ever

Gerard Panier

1997

Clara et son juge

Judge Larcher

1997

Ridicule

Le Marquis de Bellegarde

1996

The Grand Dukes

Eddie Carpentier

1996

Palace

Thomas Fausto

1996

Tom est tout seul

Jean-Pierre

1995

Prêt-à-Porter

Inspector Tantpis

1994

Once a Year, Every Year

Raffaele

1994

Next Time the Fire

Amedeo

1993

Lost in Transit

Arturo Conti

1993

Wild Target

Victor Meynard

1993

Tango

Bellhop

1993

L'Atlantide

Le Meige

1992

From Time to Time

Louis XV

1992

The Long Winter

Jordi Casals

1992

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Henri Sauveur

1992

Amoureux fou

Rudolph

1991

My Mother's Castle

Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour

1990

The Hairdresser's Husband

Antoine

1990

The Other Woman

Farou

1990

I'm the King of the Castle

Jean Bréaud

1989

My First 40 Years

Principe Riccio

1987

Tandem

Michel Mortez

1987

Le Moustachu

le capitaine Duroc

1987

La Galette du roi

Arnold III of Corsalina

1986

L'Énigme blanche

Henri

1985

Volley for a Black Buffalo

Lajos Ácsi, the count

1985

New Year's Eve At Bob's

Louis Alban

1984

Frankenstein 90

Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie

1984

Un dimanche de flics

A. Rupert

1983

A Friend of Vincent

Vincent Lamar

1983

The Big Brother

Charles-Henri Rossi

1982

L'Indiscrétion

Alain Tescique

1982

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

Charles-Philippe Bauman

1981

Un étrange voyage

Pierre

1981

I Hate Blondes

Donald Rose

1980

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Gilles Martin

1980

French Postcards

Monsieur Tessier

1979

Courage fuyons

Martin Belhomme

1979

The Skirt Chaser

Edouard Choiseul

1979

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

August Grandvilliers

1978

Grandison

Carl Grandison

1978

We Will All Meet in Paradise

Etienne Dorsay

1977

Drummer-Crab

Captain, commander of the escort ship

1977

The Devil in the Box

Alain Brissot

1977

Pardon Mon Affaire

Étienne

1976

Femmes Fatales

Albert

1976

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

Le commissaire Pichard

1976

Death Rite

Edouard

1975

A Happy Divorce

Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge

1975

Isabelle and Lust

M. Vaudois

1975

Innocents with Dirty Hands

Maitre Albert Legal

1975

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Abbot Dubois

1975

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse

1974

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Barone Henri de Sarcey

1974

The Phantom of Liberty

Mr. Legendre

1974

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

Foisnard

1974

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Commissioner Guilboud

1974

Hail the Artist

Clément Chamfort

1973

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

Louis

1973

Lovely Swine

The police inspector

1973

The Conspiracy

Dominique Clavet

1973

The Inheritor

Le nonce (André Berthier)

1973

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Colonel Louis Toulouse

1972

Hearth Fires

Alexandre Boursault

1972

The Egg

Victor Dugommier

1972

Le Misanthrope

Alceste

1971

Céleste

Georges Cazenave

1970

La Liberté en croupe

Moss

1970

The Time to Die

Hervé Breton

1970

The Devil by the Tail

Le comte Georges

1969

For a Distant Love

Guillaume

1968

Don't Play with Martians

René Mastier

1968

Two Weeks in September

Philippe

1967

The Sunday of Life

Captain Bordeille

1967

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Grégoire Pecque

1966

Angelique and the King

François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)

1966

Up to His Ears

Leon

1965

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

François Desgrez

1965

Le naïf amoureux

Paul Robignac, adult

1965

Beautiful Families

Marchese Osvaldo

1964

Angelique

François Desgrez

1964

Les Pieds nickelés

Croquignol

1964

Trouble Among Widows

Inspecteur Laforêt

1964

The Blockhead Fair

Didier's father

1963

La Porteuse de pain

Ovide Soliveau

1963

Symphony for a Massacre

Jabeke

1963

Outpost in Indo-china

Sergeant Hérange

1963

La Nuit des rois

Sir André

1962

The Iron Mask

Lastreaumont

1962

Sun in Your Eyes

1962

Cartouche

La Taupe

1962

The Marriage of Figaro

Le comte Almaviva

1961

Captain Fracasse

Malartic

1961

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Fernand

1961

Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre

Fernand

1961

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'

1958

The Queen of Spades

Le compte Paul Tomsk

1958

Meeting in Paris

L'interne

1956

Jean Rochefort

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