
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.
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Acting (85 movies)

The Vanquished
1953

Senso
1954

Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
2023

The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
2019

Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
2008

The Unsewing Machine
1986

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

The Albatross
1971

Litan
1982

Droit de Réponse
1981

Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
2023

The Big Flag
1954

Kill the Referee
1984

Long Live Liberty
1946

The Eternal Husband
1946

Ville à vendre
1992

Vidange
1998

Queen's Necklace
1946

Dreams of Love
1947

La Cabane aux souvenirs
1947

Orpheus
1950

The Spice of Life
1948

Head Against the Wall
1959

The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949

Keep an Eye on Amelia
1949

At the Grand Balcony
1949

Portrait of a Murderer
1949

A Night at a Honeymoon
1950

Speaking of Murder
1957

Éternel espoir
1952

Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1951

Abandoned
1955

Snobs!
1962

Solo
1970

Thank Heaven for Small Favors
1963

Il gèle en enfer
1990

Un risque à courir
2009

The Count of Monte Cristo
1954

Graziella
1954

Le glandeur
2000

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
2010

Divine enfant
1989

Shadow of a Chance
1974

Leon's Husband
1993

Americano
2011

Guillaume Depardieu, The Story Of An Enfant Terrible
2017

Tout est calme
2000

Dossier Toroto
2011

Les Insomniaques
2011

La Candide Madame Duff
2000

The Spice of Life
1948

God Needs Men
1950

Godard Mon Amour
2017

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
2009

Les Ballets écarlates
2007

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
1986

Bibi Fricotin
1951

Les araignées de la nuit
2002

The Mask of the Gorilla
1958

La parallèle Mocky
2018

The Vertical Smile
1973

Stain on the Snow
1954

La loi de l'albatros
2017

À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014

Le parapluie de Cherbourg
2000

Tu es si jolie ce soir
2015

Tous flics !
2023

Aznavour by Charles
2019

Vénéneuses
2017

Cocktail Morlock
1981

Votez pour moi !
2017

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
2015

Monsieur Cauchemar
2015

Calomnies
2014

La bête de miséricorde
2001

Le piège à cons
1979

Robin des mers
1998

Bourvil, un homme vrai
2016

Illicit Motherhood
1953

Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
2010

Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982

Putain de lune
2013

First Name: Carmen
1983

Agent Trouble
1987
Directing (75 movies)

Agent Trouble
1987

Bonsoir
1994

The Red Ibis
1975

Thank Heaven for Small Favors
1963

The Big Wash
1968

The Unsewing Machine
1986

A Couple
1960

Is There a Frenchman in the House?
1982

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974

Miracle Healing
1987

Litan
1982

The Virgins
1963

The Chasers
1959

The Seasons of Pleasure
1988

The Albatross
1971

Le Furet
2003

The Witness
1978

Kill the Referee
1984

Vidange
1998

Ville à vendre
1992

Black for Remembrance
1995

Grabuge!
2005

The Stud
1970

Your Money or Your Life
1966

The Big Scare
1964

Snobs!
1962

Order of the Daisy
1967

Solo
1970
Le Mentor
2013

Le Renard jaune
2013

13 French Street
2007

Le Pactole
1985

Il gèle en enfer
1990

Calomnies
2014

Le Bénévole
2007

Le glandeur
2000

Un risque à courir
2009

Divine enfant
1989
Vis-à-vis d'elle
2000

Alliance cherche doigt
1997

Shadow of a Chance
1974

Leon's Husband
1993

Crédit pour tous
2011

Tout est calme
2000

Dossier Toroto
2011

Le Roi des bricoleurs
1977

Touristes? Oh Yes!
2007

La Candide Madame Duff
2000

Les Insomniaques
2011

Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
1988
Colère
2010

Le Magicien et les Siamois
2015
Le Rustre et le Juge
2015
Agafia
2015

Chut !
1972

Les Ballets écarlates
2007

Les araignées de la nuit
2002

Dors mon lapin
2014
Au-delà des grilles
2013

La bête de miséricorde
2001

Le deal
2007

Vénéneuses
2017

Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
2015

Rouges étaient les lilas
2016

Votez pour moi !
2017

Le piège à cons
1979

Le Cabanon rose
2016

Robin des mers
1998

Monsieur Cauchemar
2015

À votre bon cœur, mesdames
2013

Le mystère des jonquilles
2014

Tu es si jolie ce soir
2015

Tous flics !
2023
Nice is nice
1988

The King of Ads
1991