Jean Rochefort

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	Acting
Most Rating	0.5191
Birthday	1930-04-29
Place of Birth	Paris, France
Also Known As	Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort,

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

Belmondo, le magnifique

Frankenstein 90

Hearth Fires

Innocents with Dirty Hands

Pardon Mon Affaire

Prêt-à-Porter

Tell No One

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Agathe Cléry

Captain Fracasse

The Phantom of Liberty

Lost in La Mancha

Twice Upon a Time

Man on the Train

Angelique and the King

The Closet

The Hairdresser's Husband

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Ridicule

Cartouche

Next Time the Fire

We Will All Meet in Paradise

I'm the King of the Castle

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Akoibon

Blanche

Titeuf

Up to His Ears

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

Wild Target

Femmes Fatales

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Un étrange voyage

Rembrandt

The Grand Dukes

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Hell

Tango

I Sent a Letter to My Love

The Big Brother

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

The Key

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

Two Weeks in September

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

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

Till Marriage Do Us Part

Tandem

Palace

The Skirt Chaser

Wind with the Gone

Let Joy Reign Supreme

The Inheritor

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

Drummer-Crab

Barracuda

Le Moustachu

The Devil by the Tail

Les Pieds nickelés

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

Le naïf amoureux

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

Isabelle and Lust

For a Distant Love

New Year's Eve At Bob's

The Artist and the Model

La Galette du roi

Lost in Transit

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Pierre et le Loup

French Postcards

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

The Conspiracy

Beautiful Families

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart