Jean Rochefort
Acting
Born: April 29, 1930 · Paris, France
Died: October 9, 2017 (aged 87)
Highest Rated
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
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
Tell No One
2006
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
The Closet
2001
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
Jappeloup
2013
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
April and the Extraordinary World
2015
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Photos (3)
Movies (135)
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Maître d'hôtel
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
François Desgrez
April and the Extraordinary World
Pops (voice)
Prêt-à-Porter
Inspector Tantpis
Femmes Fatales
Albert
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Méliès (voice)
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Lucius Fouinus
The Closet
Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Tell No One
Gilbert Neuville
RRRrrrr!!!
Lucie
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Jolly Jumper (voice)
Angelique
François Desgrez
The Phantom of Liberty
Mr. Legendre
The Hairdresser's Husband
Antoine
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Henri de Malassise
Sun in Your Eyes
1962
The Skirt Chaser
Edouard Choiseul
Agathe Cléry
Louis Guinard
Angelique and the King
François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Colonel Louis Toulouse
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Symphony for a Massacre
Jabeke
Cartouche
La Taupe
My Mother's Castle
Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
The Artist and the Model
Marc Cros
Death Rite
Edouard
Hell
Louis
Tango
Bellhop
French Postcards
Monsieur Tessier
The Time to Die
Hervé Breton
Man on the Train
Monsieur Manesquier
Titeuf
Pépé (voice)
Les bottes
Récitant (voice)
Captain Fracasse
Malartic
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Louis
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
August Grandvilliers
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Maitre Albert Legal
The Inheritor
Le nonce (André Berthier)
Up to His Ears
Leon
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Etienne Dorsay
Les Rats
Narrator (voice)
Ridicule
Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Pardon Mon Affaire
Étienne
The Sunday of Life
Captain Bordeille
The Conspiracy
Dominique Clavet
Courage fuyons
Martin Belhomme
My First 40 Years
Principe Riccio
The Devil by the Tail
Le comte Georges
Hail the Artist
Clément Chamfort
Frankenstein 90
Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Grégoire Pecque
Two Weeks in September
Philippe
The Iron Mask
Lastreaumont
The Car Keys
Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Commissioner Guilboud
La Nuit des rois
Sir André
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Barone Henri de Sarcey
Amoureux fou
Rudolph
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Charles-Philippe Bauman
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Le commissaire Pichard
Twice Upon a Time
Louis Ruinard
Wind with the Gone
Edgard Wexley
The Grand Dukes
Eddie Carpentier
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Henri Sauveur
Blanche
Mazarin
Grandison
Carl Grandison
Heureux ?
The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Wild Target
Victor Meynard
The Marriage of Figaro
Le comte Almaviva
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Foisnard
Never Ever
Gerard Panier
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Narrator (voice)
A Friend of Vincent
Vincent Lamar
From Time to Time
Louis XV
Tandem
Michel Mortez
Isabelle and Lust
M. Vaudois
The Dogs of Jerusalem
Nicodème
Akoibon
Chris Barnes
Tom est tout seul
Jean-Pierre
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Fernand
Beautiful Families
Marchese Osvaldo
Lost in Transit
Arturo Conti
Volley for a Black Buffalo
Lajos Ácsi, the count
Les Pieds nickelés
Croquignol
Florida
Claude Lherminier
I Sent a Letter to My Love
Gilles Martin
Outpost in Indo-china
Sergeant Hérange
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Abbot Dubois
Drummer-Crab
Captain, commander of the escort ship
Rembrandt
Nicolaes Tulp
The Great Restaurant
Un client du restaurant
Next Time the Fire
Amedeo
La Porteuse de pain
Ovide Soliveau
Céleste
Georges Cazenave
The Blockhead Fair
Didier's father
L'Indiscrétion
Alain Tescique
I'm the King of the Castle
Jean Bréaud
The Long Winter
Jordi Casals
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
The Big Brother
Charles-Henri Rossi
Le Misanthrope
Alceste
The Queen of Spades
Le compte Paul Tomsk
The Key
Joseph Arp
La Galette du roi
Arnold III of Corsalina
Un dimanche de flics
A. Rupert
The Egg
Victor Dugommier
Lovely Swine
The police inspector
L'Atlantide
Le Meige
I Hate Blondes
Donald Rose
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Louis Alban
L'Énigme blanche
Henri
Palace
Thomas Fausto
Hearth Fires
Alexandre Boursault
Don't Play with Martians
René Mastier
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Jean
Clara et son juge
Judge Larcher
La Liberté en croupe
Moss
... à la française !
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Un étrange voyage
Pierre
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un causeur dans le boudoir
Barracuda
Monsieur Clément
Le Moustachu
le capitaine Duroc
A Happy Divorce
Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
For a Distant Love
Guillaume
Trouble Among Widows
Inspecteur Laforêt
Once a Year, Every Year
Raffaele
Bien des choses
Sultan the dog (voice)
Honolulu Baby
Cri Cri
The Devil in the Box
Alain Brissot
Le Naïf amoureux
Paul Robignac, adult
Meeting in Paris
L'interne
The Other Woman
Farou
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Monsieur Moreau
Pierre et le Loup
Narrator (voice)
TV Shows (4)
Self / Appearances (31)
Spécial cinéma
Self · 2 eps
Vivement dimanche
Self · 5 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 5 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 2 eps
Le Grand Échiquier
Self · 1 eps
Numéro un
Self · 2 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Cérémonie des César
Self - President · 1 eps
Victoires de la musique
Self · 1 eps
Midi trente
Self · 1 eps
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Square
Self · 1 eps
30 millions d'amis
Self · 1 eps
Nulle part ailleurs
Self · 1 eps
Stars 90
Self · 1 eps
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
Jappeloup
Self (uncredited)
L'Œuvre invisible
Self
Lost in La Mancha
Self
Belmondo by Belmondo
Self
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
Archives secrètes
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self (archive) - actor
Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self (archive footage)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Self (archive footage)
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Self
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Self
