Philippe Noiret
Known for: Acting
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
Apostrophes
Self
1975
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Series
Midi trente
Self
1972
Series
Discorama
Self - Host
1959
Series
Discorama
Self
1959
Series
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
1987
Series
30 millions d'amis
Self
1976
Series
Cérémonie des César
Self - President
1976
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Film
Cinema Paradiso
Alfredo
1988
Series
Stars 90
Self
1990
Series
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Dear Inspector
Antoine Lemercier
1978
Film
The Postman
Pablo Neruda
1994
Film
La Grande Bouffe
Philippe
1973
Film
The Night of the Generals
Inspector Morand
1967
Film
Tender Scoundrel
Bibi Dumonceaux
1966
Film
Topaz
Henri Jarre
1969
Film
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
'Round Midnight
Redon
1986
Film
My Friends
Il Perozzi
1975
Film
The Old Gun
Julien Dandieu
1975
Film
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Jean-Claude Moulineau
1978
Film
Woman Times Seven
Victor
1967
Film
The Return of the Musketeers
Cardinal Mazarin
1989
Film
The Family
Jean-Luc
1987
Film
Zazie dans le Métro
Oncle Gabriel
1960
Film
Dead Tired
Philippe Noiret
1994
Film
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Leonardo
1986
Film
Playing with Fire
Georges de Saxe
1975
Film
My Friends Act II
Giorgio Perozzi
1982
Film
The Assassination Bureau
Monsieur Lucoville
1969
Film
Murphy's War
Brezan
1971
Film
The Man Who Planted Trees
Narrator (voice)
1987
Film
D'Artagnan's Daughter
D'Artagnan
1994
Film
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Gaspard de Montfermeil
1974
Film
All the Gold in the World
Victor Hardy
1961
Film
Coup de Torchon
Lucien Cordier
1981
Film
The Desert of the Tartars
General
1976
Film
My New Partner
René Boirond
1984
Film
A Woman at Her Window
Raoul Malfosse
1976
Film
Marcello, una vita dolce
Self
2006
Film
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Athanase
1981
Film
The Judge and the Assassin
Juge Rousseau
1976
Film
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Philip of Orléans
1975
Film
The Serpent
Lucien Berthon
1973
Film
The Assassination
Pierre Garcin
1972
Film
Edy
Louis
2005
Film
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
1966
Film
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Gen. Terry
1974
Film
A Matter of Resistance
Jérôme
1966
Film
Jupiter's Thigh
Antoine Lemercier
1980
Film
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
Film
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Michel Descombes
1974
Film
Famous Love Affairs
Louis XIV
1961
Film
Les Rois du gag
In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
1985
Film
La Pointe Courte
Him
1956
Film
Give Her the Moon
Gabriel
1970
Film
A Friend of Vincent
Albert Palm
1983
Film
Uranus
Watrin
1990
Film
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
2002
Film
Fort Saganne
Dubreuilh
1984
Film
My New Partner II
René Boirond
1990
Film
A Common Sense of Modesty
Giuseppe Costanzo
1976
Film
Twist Again in Moscow
Igor Tataïev
1986
Film
Father and Sons
Léo
2003
Film
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Judge Francesco Langellone
1971
Film
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
King Louis XIII
1964
Film
The Purple Taxi
Philippe Marchal
1977
Film
On Guard
Duke Philippe d'Orléans
1997
Film
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
Dr. Athos Fadigati
1987
Film
A Week's Vacation
Michel Descombes
1980
Film
Captain Fracasse
Hérode
1961
Film
The African
Victor
1983
Film
Lady L
Ambroise Gérôme
1965
Film
Chouans !
Savinien de Kerfadec
1988
Film
Life and Nothing But
Commander Delaplane
1989
Film
The North Star
Edouard Binet
1982
Film
Crime Does Not Pay
Monseigneur Hughes
1962
Film
Lest We Forget
Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
1991
Film
A Cloud in the Teeth
Malisard
1974
Rue du Pied de Grue
Le père
1979
Film
A Time for Loving
Marcel
1972
Film
Two Pieces of Bread
Peppe Dorè
1979
Film
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
2009
Film
Marianna Ucrìa
Duke Signoretto
1997
Film
My New Partner III
René Boirond
2003
Film
The Buddies
Bénin
1965
Film
The Lovers of the France
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1964
Film
The Old Maid
Gabriel Marcassus
1972
Film
Next Summer
Edouard
1985
Film
Macbeth
Macduff
1959
Film
Mr. Freedom
Moujik Man
1969
Film
Gigi
Bit Part (uncredited)
1949
Film
Le Roi de Paris
Victor Derval
1995
Film
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Brassy
1964
Film
Tango
L'Elégant
1993
Film
I Don't Kiss
Romain
1991
Film
Heads or Tails
Inspecteur Louis Baroni
1980
Film
Especially on Sunday
Amleto
1991
Film
The Witness
Robert Maurisson
1978
Film
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Anatole Hirsch
1990
Film
Rossini! Rossini!
Gioacchino Rossini
1991
Film
The Grand Dukes
Victor Vialat
1996
Film
Ballad for a Hoodlum
L'inspecteur Mathieu
1963
Film
Justine
Pombal
1969
Film
Souvenirs souvenirs
Le proviseur
1984
Film
Father's Trip
Disgruntled traveler
1966
Film
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Self
2007
Film
Les Milles
Le Général
1995
Film
Clémentine chérie
Edgar Hoover
1964
Film
The Palermo Connection
Gianni Mucci
1990
Film
Widow's Walk
Inspector Molinat
1987
Film
Rendezvous
Inspector Maillard
1961
Film
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
2003
Film
Ravishing
Maurice
1960
Film
Very Happy Alexander
Alexandre Gartempe
1968
Film
Three Brothers
Raffaele Giuranna
1981
Film
The Tender Age
Pourtalain
1968
Film
The Most Gentle Confessions
Inspecteur Muller
1971
Film
Le Veilleur de nuit
Monsieur
1996
Film
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garraud
1963
Film
Olivia
Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
1951
Film
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Joseph Steg
2000
Film
The Secret
Thomas Berthelot
1974
Film
Monsieur
Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
1964
Film
The Masseuses
Bellini
1962
Film
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Eugène Pottier
1978
Film
Five Leaf Clover
Alfred
1972
Film
Ghost with Driver
Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
1996
La Fin de la nuit
Bernard Desqueyroux
1966
Film
The Two of Us
Toussaint
1992
Film
Pierre and Marie
Professor Rodolphe Schutz
1997
Film
Young Toscanini
Dom Pedro II.
1988
Film
Therese
Bernard Desqueyroux
1962
Film
Max & Jeremie
Robert 'Max' Maxendre
1992
Film
Summer Frenzy
Jean
1964
Film
Le Grand Carnaval
Étienne Labrouche
1983
The Other One
André
1967
Film
The Sultans
Michou
1966
Film
De fil en aiguille
M. Van Dam
1960
Film
The Fourth Power
Yves Dorget
1985
Film
Too Loud A Solitude
Haňťa
1995
Film
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Récitant / Narrator
1996
Film
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Fish Soup
Alberto
1992
Film
Soleil
Joseph Lévy
1997
Film
The Chops
Léonce
2003
Film
Le Mal court
Parfait XVIII
1962
Film
La Mandarine
Georges Lapierre
1972
Film
Masks
Christian Legagneur
1987
Film
3 Friends
Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
2007
Film
Matrimonial Agency
A passerby (uncredited)
1952
Film
The Secret Wife
Pierre Franchin, the painter
1986
Film
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Lucien Barlemont
1962
Film
Aurora
André
1984
Film
Clerambard
Count Hector de Clérambard
1969
Film
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Self
2006
Film
The Troubles We've Seen
Self
1994
Film
Looking for Paradise
Padre di Claudia
1995
Film
Monsieur Albert
Albert
1976
Film
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lignère
1960
Poil de carotte
François Lepic
1973
Film
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Narrateur
1988
Film
L'école est finie
Self - Narrator(voice)
1975
Film
Step by Step
Louis Chevalier
2002
Film
The Sparrow's Fluttering
Gabriele Battistini
1988
Film
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Narrator (voice)
2005
Film
Flore et Blancheflore
Le roi Félix
1961