Jean Rochefort
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 29, 1930
- Died
- Oct 9, 2017 (aged 87)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Credits
- 173
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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Known for
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007Movie
Maître d'hôtel
Tell No One
2006Movie
Gilbert Neuville
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012Movie
Lucius Fouinus
RRRrrrr!!!
2004Movie
Lucie
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014Movie
Méliès (voice)
The Closet
2001Movie
Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Filmography
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026Movie
Self (archive) - actor
L'Œuvre invisible
2026Movie
Self
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022Movie
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021Movie
Self (archive footage)
Archives secrètes
2021TV
Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
2019Movie
Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017Movie
Self
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017Movie
Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017Movie
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016Movie
Self
Les Boloss des belles lettres
2016TV
Self - Narrator
Les Rats
2015Movie
Narrator (voice)
April and the Extraordinary World
2015Movie
Pops (voice)
Florida
2015Movie
Claude Lherminier
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014Movie
Méliès (voice)
Jappeloup
2013Movie
Self (uncredited)
... à la française !
2013Movie
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012Movie
Lucius Fouinus
The Artist and the Model
2012Movie
Marc Cros
Square
2012TV
Self
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011Movie
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011Movie
Self
Titeuf
2011Movie
Pépé (voice)
The Great Restaurant
2010Movie
Un client du restaurant
Agathe Cléry
2008Movie
Louis Guinard
Bien des choses
2008Movie
Sultan the dog (voice)
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008Movie
Jean
The Key
2007Movie
Joseph Arp
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007Movie
Self
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007Movie
Maître d'hôtel
Chez Maupassant
2007TV
le père
Twice Upon a Time
2006Movie
Louis Ruinard
Tell No One
2006Movie
Gilbert Neuville
On n'est pas couché
2006TV
Self - Guest
Hell
2005Movie
Louis
Akoibon
2005Movie
Chris Barnes
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004Movie
Jolly Jumper (voice)
Les bottes
2004Movie
Récitant (voice)
RRRrrrr!!!
2004Movie
Lucie
Heureux ?
2004Movie
The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003Movie
Henri de Malassise
The Car Keys
2003Movie
Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003Movie
Narrator (voice)
Pierre et le Loup
2002Movie
Narrator (voice)
Man on the Train
2002Movie
Monsieur Manesquier
Blanche
2002Movie
Mazarin
Lost in La Mancha
2002Movie
Self
Honolulu Baby
2001Movie
Cri Cri
The Closet
2001Movie
Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000Movie
Self
Speaking of Buñuel
2000Movie
Self
Rembrandt
1999Movie
Nicolaes Tulp
Wind with the Gone
1998Movie
Edgard Wexley
Vivement dimanche
1998TV
Self
The Count of Monte Cristo
1998TV
Fernand Mondego
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998Movie
Monsieur Moreau
Barracuda
1997Movie
Monsieur Clément
Never Ever
1997Movie
Gerard Panier
Clara et son juge
1997Movie
Judge Larcher
Ridicule
1996Movie
Le Marquis de Bellegarde
The Grand Dukes
1996Movie
Eddie Carpentier
Palace
1996Movie
Thomas Fausto
Les Bœuf-carottes
1995TV
Venturi
Tom est tout seul
1995Movie
Jean-Pierre
Prêt-à-Porter
1994Movie
Inspector Tantpis
Once a Year, Every Year
1994Movie
Raffaele
Next Time the Fire
1993Movie
Amedeo
Lost in Transit
1993Movie
Arturo Conti
Wild Target
1993Movie
Victor Meynard
Tango
1993Movie
Bellhop
L'Atlantide
1992Movie
Le Meige
From Time to Time
1992Movie
Louis XV
The Long Winter
1992Movie
Jordi Casals
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992Movie
Henri Sauveur
Amoureux fou
1991Movie
Rudolph
My Mother's Castle
1990Movie
Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990Movie
Antoine
Stars 90
1990TV
Self
The Other Woman
1990Movie
Farou
I'm the King of the Castle
1989Movie
Jean Bréaud
My First 40 Years
1987Movie
Principe Riccio
Nulle part ailleurs
1987TV
Self
Tandem
1987Movie
Michel Mortez
Le Moustachu
1987Movie
le capitaine Duroc
La Galette du roi
1986Movie
Arnold III of Corsalina
L'Énigme blanche
1985Movie
Henri
Victoires de la musique
1985TV
Self
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985Movie
Lajos Ácsi, the count
New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984Movie
Louis Alban
Frankenstein 90
1984Movie
Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
The Dogs of Jerusalem
1984Movie
Nicodème
Un dimanche de flics
1983Movie
A. Rupert
A Friend of Vincent
1983Movie
Vincent Lamar
The Big Brother
1982Movie
Charles-Henri Rossi
L'Indiscrétion
1982Movie
Alain Tescique
Champs-Elysées
1982TV
Self
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981Movie
Charles-Philippe Bauman
Un étrange voyage
1981Movie
Pierre
I Hate Blondes
1980Movie
Donald Rose
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980Movie
Gilles Martin
French Postcards
1979Movie
Monsieur Tessier
Courage fuyons
1979Movie
Martin Belhomme
The Skirt Chaser
1979Movie
Edouard Choiseul
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978Movie
August Grandvilliers
Grandison
1978Movie
Carl Grandison
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977Movie
Etienne Dorsay
Drummer-Crab
1977Movie
Captain, commander of the escort ship
The Devil in the Box
1977Movie
Alain Brissot
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976Movie
Étienne
Cérémonie des César
1976TV
Self - Guest, Self - President
Femmes Fatales
1976Movie
Albert
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976Movie
Le commissaire Pichard
30 millions d'amis
1976TV
Self
Death Rite
1975Movie
Edouard
A Happy Divorce
1975Movie
Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Isabelle and Lust
1975Movie
M. Vaudois
Numéro un
1975TV
Self
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975Movie
Maitre Albert Legal
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975Movie
Abbot Dubois
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975TV
Self
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974Movie
Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974Movie
Barone Henri de Sarcey
Spécial cinéma
1974TV
Self
The Phantom of Liberty
1974Movie
Mr. Legendre
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974Movie
Foisnard
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974Movie
Commissioner Guilboud
Hail the Artist
1973Movie
Clément Chamfort
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973Movie
Louis
Lovely Swine
1973Movie
The police inspector
The Conspiracy
1973Movie
Dominique Clavet
The Inheritor
1973Movie
Le nonce (André Berthier)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972Movie
Colonel Louis Toulouse
Hearth Fires
1972Movie
Alexandre Boursault
The Egg
1972Movie
Victor Dugommier
Midi trente
1972TV
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972TV
Self
Le Misanthrope
1971Movie
Alceste
Céleste
1970Movie
Georges Cazenave
La Liberté en croupe
1970Movie
Moss
The Time to Die
1970Movie
Hervé Breton
The Devil by the Tail
1969Movie
Le comte Georges
For a Distant Love
1968Movie
Guillaume
Don't Play with Martians
1968Movie
René Mastier
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967Movie
Un causeur dans le boudoir
Two Weeks in September
1967Movie
Philippe
The Sunday of Life
1967Movie
Captain Bordeille
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966Movie
Grégoire Pecque
Angelique and the King
1966Movie
François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
Up to His Ears
1965Movie
Leon
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965Movie
François Desgrez
Le Naïf amoureux
1965Movie
Paul Robignac, adult
Dim Dam Dom
1965TV
Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
Beautiful Families
1964Movie
Marchese Osvaldo
Angelique
1964Movie
François Desgrez
Les Pieds nickelés
1964Movie
Croquignol
Trouble Among Widows
1964Movie
Inspecteur Laforêt
The Blockhead Fair
1963Movie
Didier's father
La Porteuse de pain
1963Movie
Ovide Soliveau
Symphony for a Massacre
1963Movie
Jabeke
Outpost in Indo-china
1963Movie
Sergeant Hérange
La Nuit des rois
1962Movie
Sir André
The Iron Mask
1962Movie
Lastreaumont
Sun in Your Eyes
1962Movie
Cartouche
1962Movie
La Taupe
The Marriage of Figaro
1961Movie
Le comte Almaviva
Captain Fracasse
1961Movie
Malartic
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1961Movie
Fernand
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
1961Movie
Fernand
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958Movie
Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
The Queen of Spades
1958Movie
Le compte Paul Tomsk
Meeting in Paris
1956Movie
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