
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). ...
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Acting (144 movies)

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020

Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017

Belmondo, le magnifique
2017

Frankenstein 90
1984

Hearth Fires
1972

Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975

Pardon Mon Affaire
1976

Prêt-à-Porter
1994

Tell No One
2006

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974

Agathe Cléry
2008

Captain Fracasse
1961

The Phantom of Liberty
1974

Lost in La Mancha
2002

Twice Upon a Time
2006

Man on the Train
2002

Angelique and the King
1966

The Closet
2001

The Hairdresser's Husband
1990

The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972

Ridicule
1996

Cartouche
1962

Next Time the Fire
1993

We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977

I'm the King of the Castle
1989

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978

Akoibon
2005

Blanche
2002

Titeuf
2011

Up to His Ears
1965

Angelique: The Road To Versailles
1965

Wild Target
1993

Femmes Fatales
1976

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011

Un étrange voyage
1981

Rembrandt
1999

The Grand Dukes
1996

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966

Hell
2005

Tango
1993

I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980

The Big Brother
1982

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976

The Key
2007

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973

Two Weeks in September
1967

Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974

Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974

Tandem
1987

Palace
1996

The Skirt Chaser
1979

Wind with the Gone
1998

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975

The Inheritor
1973

Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000

Drummer-Crab
1977

Barracuda
1997

Le Moustachu
1987

The Devil by the Tail
1969

Les pieds nickelés
1964

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012

Le naïf amoureux
1965

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981

Isabelle and Lust
1975

For a Distant Love
1968

New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984

The Artist and the Model
2012

La Galette du roi
1986

Lost in Transit
1993

Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011

Pierre et le Loup
2002

French Postcards
1979

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003

The Conspiracy
1973

Beautiful Families
1964

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014

Hail the Artist
1973

Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004

The Other Woman
1990

A Friend of Vincent
1983

The Time to Die
1970

My First 40 Years
1987

Le Misanthrope
1971

Angelique
1964

Courage fuyons
1979

The Marriage of Figaro
1961

Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007

Death Rite
1975

RRRrrrr!!!
2004

L'Atlantide
1992

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998

Clara et son juge
1997

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017

Never Ever
1997

The Egg
1972

Once a Year, Every Year
1994
Directing (3 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Cavaliers Seuls | 2010 | Writer |
