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Born: April 29, 1930 – Died: October 9, 2017
Jean Rochefort, a renowned French character star, was born in 1930 and exhibited a passion for acting from an early age. Although his studies at the Paris Conservatoire were interrupted due to military service, he soon made a name for himself in cabaret and stage plays in Paris. Alongside his work with the Grenier-Hussenot Company, Rochefort also ventured into television dramas. His career flourished in the late 1950s, wherein he captivated audiences with his charismatic performances in adventurous and roguish costume films, most notably those directed by . Despite his comedic prowess, Rochefort showcased his versatility by portraying characters of various depths, eliciting both laughter and pathos from viewers. His extensive filmography spans over 80 films, with his distinctive features leaving an indelible mark on the industry. A lifelong ambition to portray Don Quixote sadly went unfulfilled due to illness. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, Rochefort received a prestigious Cesar award in 1999. He passed away on October 9, 2017 in Paris, France.
Early Life and Career
Jean Rochefort was born on April 29, 1930, in Paris, France. He developed a passion for acting at a young age and embarked on his studies at the prestigious Paris Conservatoire. However, his education was interrupted due to military service. Despite this setback, Rochefort's talent and dedication allowed him to make a name for himself in the world of acting.
Rochefort began his career in the entertainment industry by performing in cabaret and stage plays in Paris. He also ventured into television dramas, showcasing his versatility and range as an actor. However, it was in the late 1950s that Rochefort's career took off. He gained recognition for his charismatic performances in adventurous and roguish costume films, particularly those directed by notable filmmakers.
Throughout his extensive filmography, spanning over 80 films, Rochefort demonstrated his ability to portray a wide range of characters. He seamlessly blended humor and pathos, captivating audiences with his nuanced performances. His distinctive features, including his sunken, weary expression, ever-searching eyes, mustache, and prominent nose, made him easily recognizable and contributed to his lasting impact on the industry.
One of Rochefort's lifelong dreams was to portray the iconic character Don Quixote on film. Unfortunately, due to his serious illness, this dream went unfulfilled as the project had to be shelved after only a few days of filming.
In recognition of his exceptional contributions to French cinema, Rochefort received a special life achievement Cesar award in 1999. The Cesar Awards are considered the French equivalent of the Oscars. He was also a recipient of numerous other accolades throughout his career.
Overall, Jean Rochefort's captivating performances, versatility as an actor, and distinct physical appearance have left an indelible mark on the world of cinema. His contributions to the industry have solidified his status as an iconic figure and a true legend in French film.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Rats (Short) | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Florida | Claude Lherminier |
| 2015 | April and the Extraordinary World | Pops (voice) |
| 2013 | L'oeil du tricycle (Short) | André Malraux |
| 2013 | Dionysos: Jack et la Mécanique du coeur (Music Video) | Georges Méliès |
| 2013 | Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart | Méliès (voice) |
| 2012 | Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia | Lucius Fouinus |
| 2012 | The Artist and the Model | Marc Cros |
| 2011 | Titeuf, le film | Pépé (voice) |
| 2010 | Le joueur de citernes (Short) | Le joueur de citernes |
| 2010 | Le grand restaurant (TV Series) | Un client du restaurant |
| 2009 | Dionysos - L'Homme Sans Trucage ft. Jean Rochefort (Music Video) | Georges Méliès |
| 2008 | Agathe Cléry | Louis Guinard - le PDG |
| 2007 | La clef | Joseph Arp |
| 2007 | Heureux? (TV Movie) | L'interprète des sketchs de Fernand Raynaud |
| 2007 | I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster | Jean |
| 2007 | Mr. Bean's Holiday | Maitre'D |
| 2007 | Chez Maupassant (TV Series) | Baptiste Hautot |
| 2006 | Twice Upon a Time | Louis Ruinard |
| 2006 | Tell No One | Gilbert Neuville |
| 1995–2005 | Internal Affairs (TV Series) | Venturi | Commissaire Antoine Venturi | Antoine Venturi |
| 2005 | L'enfer | Louis |
| 2005 | Akoibon | Chris Barnes |
| 2004 | Lucky Luke and the Daltons | Jolly Jumper (voice) |
| 2004 | Frankenstein (TV Mini Series) | Old Blind Man |
| 2004 | Pride (TV Movie) | Eddie (French version) (voice) |
| 2004 | La dernière minute (Short) | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Les bottes (TV Movie) | Récitant | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | RRRrrrr!!! | Lucie |
| 2003 | Les clefs de bagnole | Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent |
| 2003 | Saint-Germain ou La négociation (TV Movie) | Henri de Malassise |
| 2003 | Il était une fois Jean-Sébastien Bach | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Fanfan | Récitant | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Nosferatu (TV Movie) | Nosferatu (voice) |
| 2002 | Blanche | Mazarin |
| 2002 | Man on the Train | Monsieur Manesquier |
| 2001 | La vie sans secret de Walter Nions (Short) | Walter Nions |
| 2001 | Honolulu Baby | Cri Cri |
| 2001 | The Closet | Kopel, the director |
| 1999 | Rembrandt | Nicolaes Tulp |
| 1998 | Wind with the Gone | Edgard Wexley |
| 1998 | The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Mini Series) | Fernand De Morcerf |
| 1998 | Le serpent a mangé la grenouille | Monsieur Moreau |
| 1997 | Barracuda | Monsieur Clément |
| 1997 | Clara et son juge (TV Movie) | Le juge Larcher |
| 1996 | Never Ever | Gerard Panier |
| 1996 | Ridicule | Bellegarde |
| 1996 | Les grands ducs | Eddie Carpentier |
| 1995 | Palace | Thomas Fausto |
| 1995 | Tom est tout seul | Jean-Pierre |
| 1994 | Ready to Wear | Inspector Tantpis |
| 1994 | Once a Year, Every Year | Raffaele |
| 1993 | Tombés du ciel | Arturo Conti |
| 1993 | La prossima volta il fuoco | Amedeo |
| 1993 | Wild Target | Victor Meynard |
| 1993 | Tango | Bellhop |
| 1992 | L'Atlantide | Le Meige |
| 1992 | The Timekeeper (Short) | Louis XV |
| 1992 | The Long Winter | Jordi Casals |
| 1992 | Le bal des casse-pieds | Henri Sauveur |
| 1991 | Amoureux fou | Rudolph |
| 1990 | My Mother's Castle | Loïs de Montmajour | Adolphe Cassignole |
| 1990 | The Hairdresser's Husband | Antoine |
| 1990 | La seconde (TV Movie) | Farou |
| 1989 | Guerra di spie (TV Mini Series) | Giovanni Sperelli |
| 1989 | I'm the King of the Castle | Monsieur Bréaud |
| 1988 | Sueurs froides (TV Series) | Arnaud Delamarre |
| 1987 | I miei primi 40 anni | Principe Riccio |
| 1987 | Tandem | Michel Marteau dit Michel Mortez |
| 1987 | Le moustachu | Le capitaine Duroc |
| 1986 | La galette du roi | Le prince Arnold III de Corsalina |
| 1985 | L'énigme blanche (TV Movie) | Henri |
| 1985 | Sortüz egy fekete bivalyért | Ácsi Lajos, a gróf |
| 1984 | Oedipus Rex (TV Movie) | Narrateur |
| 1984 | Réveillon chez Bob | Louis Alban |
| 1984 | Le scénario défendu (TV Movie) | Antoine Rossi |
| 1984 | Frankenstein 90 | Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie |
| 1984 | I cani di Gerusalemme (TV Movie) | Nicodème |
| 1983 | A Friend of Vincent | Vincent Lamar |
| 1983 | Un dimanche de flic | A. Rupert |
| 1982 | Le grand frère | Charles-Henri Rossi |
| 1982 | L'indiscrétion | Alain Tescique |
| 1981 | Le petit Mitchell illustré (TV Movie) | Unknown |
| 1981 | Birgitt Haas Must Be Killed | Charles-Philippe Bauman |
| 1981 | Un étrange voyage | Pierre |
| 1980 | I Hate Blondes | Donald Rose |
| 1980 | I Sent a Letter to My Love | Gilles Martin |
| 1979 | Courage fuyons | Martin Belhomme | Adrien Belhomme - son père |
| 1979 | French Postcards | Monsieur Tessier |
| 1979 | Grandison | Carl Grandison |
| 1979 | Practice Makes Perfect | Edouard Choiseul |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Grandvilliers |
| 1977 | Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! | Etienne Dorsay |
| 1977 | Le Crabe-Tambour | Captain |
| 1977 | Le diable dans la boîte | Alain Brissot |
| 1976 | Pardon Mon Affaire | Étienne |
| 1976 | Femmes Fatales | Albert |
| 1976 | Les vécés étaient fermés de l'intérieur | Le commissaire Pichard (as Rochefort) |
| 1975 | Death Rite | Edouard |
| 1975 | A Happy Divorce | Jean-Baptiste Morin |
| 1975 | Dirty Hands | Maître Albert Légal |
| 1975 | Let Joy Reign Supreme | L'abbé Dubois |
| 1975 | Isabelle and Lust | Monsieur Vaudois |
| 1974 | The Return of the Tall Blond Man | Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse |
| 1974 | Till Marriage Do Us Part | Barone Henri de Sarcey |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Liberty | Legendre | Mr. Legendre |
| 1974 | Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard | Foisnard |
| 1974 | The Clockmaker | Commissaire Guilboud |
| 1973 | Salut l'artiste | Clément Chamfort |
| 1973 | Mean Frank and Crazy Tony | Louis Annunziata |
| 1973 | Bel ordure | L'inspecteur de police |
| 1973 | Le complot | Dominique Clavet |
| 1973 | The Inheritor | Le nonce (André Berthier) |
| 1972 | The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe | Le colonel Louis Marie Alphonse Toulouse |
| 1972 | Hearth Fires | Maître Alexandre Boursault |
| 1972 | L'oeuf | Dugommier |
| 1972 | The Troubles of Alfred | Voice only (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Le misanthrope (TV Movie) | Alceste |
| 1970 | Céleste | Georges Cazenave |
| 1970 | La liberté en croupe | Moss |
| 1970 | Le temps de mourir | Hervé Breton |
| 1969 | The Devil by the Tail | Le comte Georges |
| 1968 | Le pain de ménage (TV Movie) | Pierre |
| 1968 | Don Juan revient de guerre (TV Movie) | Don Juan |
| 1968 | Pour un amour lointain | Guillaume |
| 1968 | Ne jouez pas avec les Martiens | René Mastier |
| 1967 | La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (TV Movie) | Un causeur dans le boudoir |
| 1967 | Two Weeks in September | Philippe |
| 1967 | The Sunday of Life | Le capitaine Bordeille |
| 1966 | Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? | Grégoire Pecque |
| 1966 | Angelique and the King | Desgrez |
| 1965 | Up to His Ears | Leon |
| 1965 | Les noces de papier (Short) | Narrator (voice) |
| 1965 | Le naïf amoureux (TV Movie) | Paul Robignac adulte |
| 1965 | Merveilleuse Angélique | Desgrez |
| 1965 | Genousie (TV Movie) | Philippe Hassingor |
| 1964 | Beautiful Families | Il marchese Osvaldo (segment "Amare è un po' morire") |
| 1964 | Angélique | L'avocat François Desgrez |
| 1964 | Les pieds nickelés | Croquignol |
| 1964 | Du grabuge chez les veuves | Inspecteur Laforêt |
| 1963 | Le scieur de long (TV Movie) | Jean-Marie Bonnefoit |
| 1963 | La foire aux cancres (Chronique d'une année scolaire) | Le père de Didier |
| 1963 | The Bread Peddler | Ovide Soliveau |
| 1963 | Symphonie pour un massacre | Jabeke |
| 1963 | Outpost in Indo-china | Le sergent Hérange |
| 1962 | Le lâche qui bat les femmes (TV Short) | Monsieur |
| 1962 | La lettre dans un taxi (TV Movie) | Paul |
| 1962 | La nuit des rois (TV Movie) | Messire André |
| 1962 | Le masque de fer | Lastreaumont |
| 1962 | Le soleil dans l'oeil | Unknown |
| 1962 | Cartouche | La Taupe |
| 1961 | Le mariage de Figaro (TV Movie) | Le comte Almaviva |
| 1961 | Loin de Rueil (TV Movie) | Jacques L'Aumône |
| 1958–1961 | La caméra explore le temps (TV Series) | Guillaume de Plaissians | Chauveau-Lagarde |
| 1961 | Le capitaine Fracasse | Malartic |
| 1961 | Leon Garros ishchet druga | Fernand |
| 1960 | Le théâtre de la jeunesse (TV Series) | Unknown |
| 1960 | Arden de Faversham (TV Movie) | Unknown |
| 1960 | Le Sire de Vergy (TV Movie) | Gontran de Coucy |
| 1958 | A Bullet in the Gun Barrel | Léopold - le barman du 'Tip Tap' |
| 1958 | En votre âme et conscience (TV Series) | Clémendot |
| 1958 | La dame de pique (TV Movie) | Le compte Paul Tomsk) |
| 1958 | Monsieur de Saint-Germain (TV Movie) | L'inspecteur |
| 1957 | L'extravagant Capitaine Smith (TV Movie) | Docteur Hall |
| 1957 | Les fiancés du paradis (TV Movie) | Le serpent |
| 1956 | Rencontre à Paris | L'interne (uncredited) |
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