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