Philippe Noiret
Acting
Born: October 1, 1930 · Lille, Nord, France
Died: November 23, 2006 (aged 76)
Highest Rated
Biography
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Cinema Paradiso
1988
The Postman
1994
My Friends
1975
La Grande Bouffe
1973
Topaz
1969
My Friends Act II
1982
The Old Gun
1975
My New Partner
1984
Coup de Torchon
1981
On Guard
1997
Zazie dans le Métro
1960
The Night of the Generals
1967
Photos (2)
Movies (143)
Cinema Paradiso
Alfredo
The Postman
Pablo Neruda
The Night of the Generals
Inspector Morand
Dear Inspector
Antoine Lemercier
La Grande Bouffe
Philippe
My Friends
Il Perozzi
The Old Gun
Julien Dandieu
Topaz
Henri Jarre
The Assassination Bureau
Monsieur Lucoville
'Round Midnight
Redon
Dead Tired
Philippe Noiret
Tender Scoundrel
Bibi Dumonceaux
The Sparrow's Fluttering
Gabriele Battistini
Woman Times Seven
Victor
D'Artagnan's Daughter
D'Artagnan
The Return of the Musketeers
Cardinal Mazarin
Fort Saganne
Dubreuilh
The Assassination
Pierre Garcin
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Gaspard de Montfermeil
Murphy's War
Brezan
Coup de Torchon
Lucien Cordier
Playing with Fire
Georges de Saxe
Uranus
Watrin
Marianna Ucrìa
Duke Signoretto
Father and Sons
Léo
Father's Trip
Disgruntled traveler
Edy
Louis
Chouans !
Savinien de Kerfadec
La Pointe Courte
Him
My New Partner III
René Boirond
Tango
L'Elégant
Lady L
Ambroise Gérôme
Max & Jeremie
Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Gigi
Bit Part (uncredited)
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Récitant / Narrator
On Guard
Duke Philippe d'Orléans
The Witness
Robert Maurisson
The Family
Jean-Luc
Ghost with Driver
Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
Captain Fracasse
Hérode
My Friends Act II
Giorgio Perozzi
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Leonardo
My New Partner II
René Boirond
The Man Who Planted Trees
Narrator (voice)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Jean-Claude Moulineau
The Secret
Thomas Berthelot
All the Gold in the World
Victor Hardy
I Don't Kiss
Romain
My New Partner
René Boirond
The Serpent
Lucien Berthon
Rossini! Rossini!
Gioacchino Rossini
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
King Louis XIII
The Desert of the Tartars
General
Next Summer
Edouard
The Judge and the Assassin
Juge Rousseau
Les Rois du gag
In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
Zazie dans le Métro
Oncle Gabriel
Macbeth
Macduff
Ravishing
Maurice
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Brassy
Life and Nothing But
Commander Delaplane
Give Her the Moon
Gabriel
Widow's Walk
Inspector Molinat
The Fourth Power
Yves Dorget
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Clémentine chérie
Edgar Hoover
The North Star
Edouard Binet
Very Happy Alexander
Alexandre Gartempe
The Secret Wife
Pierre Franchin, the painter
Les Milles
Le Général
The Old Maid
Gabriel Marcassus
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Gen. Terry
The Purple Taxi
Philippe Marchal
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Michel Descombes
The Most Gentle Confessions
Inspecteur Muller
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Athanase
Mr. Freedom
Moujik Man
Rendezvous
Inspector Maillard
Famous Love Affairs
Louis XIV
Especially on Sunday
Amleto
Young Toscanini
Dom Pedro II.
Justine
Pombal
The African
Victor
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lignère
The Grand Dukes
Victor Vialat
The Two of Us
Toussaint
Twist Again in Moscow
Igor Tataïev
The Palermo Connection
Gianni Mucci
Heads or Tails
Inspecteur Louis Baroni
A Woman at Her Window
Raoul Malfosse
The Sultans
Michou
Monsieur
Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Dr. Athos Fadigati
Jupiter's Thigh
Antoine Lemercier
Le Grand Carnaval
Étienne Labrouche
Summer Frenzy
Jean
3 Friends
Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
The Lovers of the France
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Too Loud A Solitude
Haňťa
Olivia
Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
A Matter of Resistance
Jérôme
A Common Sense of Modesty
Giuseppe Costanzo
Crime Does Not Pay
Monseigneur Hughes
A Friend of Vincent
Albert Palm
The Masseuses
Bellini
Soleil
Joseph Lévy
Souvenirs souvenirs
Le proviseur
Three Brothers
Raffaele Giuranna
Looking for Paradise
Padre di Claudia
A Time for Loving
Marcel
Flore et Blancheflore
Le roi Félix
The Chops
Léonce
Matrimonial Agency
A passerby (uncredited)
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Philip of Orléans
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Narrateur
Fish Soup
Alberto
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garraud
The Buddies
Bénin
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Eugène Pottier
A Week's Vacation
Michel Descombes
The Tender Age
Pourtalain
Five Leaf Clover
Alfred
Monsieur Albert
Albert
Le Mal court
Parfait XVIII
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Judge Francesco Langellone
Masks
Christian Legagneur
Le Veilleur de nuit
Monsieur
Clerambard
Count Hector de Clérambard
Step by Step
Louis Chevalier
La Mandarine
Georges Lapierre
Aurora
André
Pierre and Marie
Professor Rodolphe Schutz
Two Pieces of Bread
Peppe Dorè
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Le Roi de Paris
Victor Derval
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Anatole Hirsch
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Narrator (voice)
Ballad for a Hoodlum
L'inspecteur Mathieu
Therese
Bernard Desqueyroux
A Cloud in the Teeth
Malisard
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Joseph Steg
De fil en aiguille
M. Van Dam
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Lucien Barlemont
Self / Appearances (28)
Ciné regards
Self · 2 eps
Apostrophes
Self · 2 eps
Sacrée soirée
Self · 2 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 6 eps
Vivement dimanche
Self · 6 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 7 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 4 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - President · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 2 eps
Discorama
Self - Host · 32 eps
Discorama
Self · 3 eps
30 millions d'amis
Self · 1 eps
Nulle part ailleurs
Self · 1 eps
Stars 90
Self · 1 eps
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
The Troubles We've Seen
Self
Lest We Forget
Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
L'école est finie
Self - Narrator(voice)
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Self
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Self