Philippe Noiret
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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.
Known for
Credits
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
as Alfredo
The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988)
as Gabriele Battistini
The Night of the Generals (1967)
as Inspector Morand
The Postman (1994)
as Pablo Neruda
Dear Inspector (1978)
as Antoine Lemercier
My Friends (1975)
as Il Perozzi
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
as Philippe
The Old Gun (1975)
as Julien Dandieu
Topaz (1969)
as Henri Jarre
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
as Monsieur Lucoville
'Round Midnight (1986)
as Redon
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
as Cardinal Mazarin
D'Artagnan's Daughter (1994)
as D'Artagnan
The Assassination (1972)
as Pierre Garcin
Murphy's War (1971)
as Brezan
Dead Tired (1994)
as Philippe Noiret
Coup de Torchon (1981)
as Lucien Cordier
Uranus (1990)
as Watrin
Edy (2005)
as Louis
Woman Times Seven (1967)
as Victor
La Pointe Courte (1956)
as Him
Captain Fracasse (1961)
as Hérode
My Friends Act II (1982)
as Giorgio Perozzi
The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
On Guard (1997)
as Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Playing with Fire (1975)
as Georges de Saxe
Chouans ! (1988)
as Savinien de Kerfadec
Tender Scoundrel (1966)
as Bibi Dumonceaux
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (1974)
as Gaspard de Montfermeil
Lady L (1965)
as Ambroise Gérôme
Max & Jeremie (1992)
as Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Fort Saganne (1984)
as Dubreuilh
My New Partner (1984)
as René Boirond
The Witness (1978)
as Robert Maurisson
Very Happy Alexander (1968)
as Alexandre Gartempe
Father and Sons (2003)
as Léo
Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)
as Leonardo
The Serpent (1973)
as Lucien Berthon
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
as Oncle Gabriel
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
as Michel Descombes
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
as Jean-Claude Moulineau
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
as General
My New Partner II (1990)
as René Boirond
Rossini! Rossini! (1991)
as Gioacchino Rossini
The Old Maid (1972)
as Gabriel Marcassus
The Family (1987)
as Jean-Luc
Tango (1993)
as L'Elégant
Macbeth (1959)
as Macduff
My New Partner III (2003)
as René Boirond
All the Gold in the World (1961)
as Victor Hardy
Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964)
as King Louis XIII
Balthus through the Looking-Glass (1996)
as Récitant / Narrator
The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
as Narrator (voice)
The North Star (1982)
as Edouard Binet
I Don't Kiss (1991)
as Romain
The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
as Juge Rousseau
Ravishing (1960)
as Maurice
Gigi (1949)
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Marianna Ucrìa (1997)
as Duke Signoretto
Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
as Gen. Terry
Clémentine chérie (1964)
as Edgar Hoover
Famous Love Affairs (1961)
as Louis XIV
Twist Again in Moscow (1986)
as Igor Tataïev
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed (1981)
as Athanase
The Palermo Connection (1990)
as Gianni Mucci
Young Toscanini (1988)
as Dom Pedro II.
Olivia (1951)
as Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
Lest We Forget (1991)
as Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
Jupiter's Thigh (1980)
as Antoine Lemercier
The Secret (1974)
as Thomas Berthelot
Next Summer (1985)
as Edouard
Give Her the Moon (1970)
as Gabriel
Rendezvous (1961)
as Inspector Maillard
Especially on Sunday (1991)
as Amleto
Souvenirs souvenirs (1984)
as Le proviseur
Father's Trip (1966)
as Disgruntled traveler
Les Rois du gag (1985)
as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)
as Self
The African (1983)
as Victor
The Purple Taxi (1977)
as Philippe Marchal
Widow's Walk (1987)
as Inspector Molinat
Justine (1969)
as Pombal
The Grand Dukes (1996)
as Victor Vialat
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Life and Nothing But (1989)
as Commander Delaplane
The Sultans (1966)
as Michou
Three Brothers (1981)
as Raffaele Giuranna
The Masseuses (1962)
as Bellini
Before Midnight (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
The Chops (2003)
as Léonce
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli (2017)
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Le Grand Carnaval (1983)
as Étienne Labrouche
Ghost with Driver (1996)
as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
A Matter of Resistance (1966)
as Jérôme
The Troubles We've Seen (1994)
as Self
Les Milles (1995)
as Le Général
A Woman at Her Window (1976)
as Raoul Malfosse
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
as Philip of Orléans
Summer Frenzy (1964)
as Jean
Monsieur (1964)
as Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
as Monseigneur Hughes
The Fourth Power (1985)
as Yves Dorget
Fish Soup (1992)
as Alberto
The Lovers of the France (1964)
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Death, Where Is Your Victory? (1964)
as Brassy
Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)
as Self
The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
as Dr. Athos Fadigati
Cyrano de Bergerac (1960)
as Lignère
Monsieur Albert (1976)
as Albert
Heads or Tails (1980)
as Inspecteur Louis Baroni
A Friend of Vincent (1983)
as Albert Palm
A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)
as Giuseppe Costanzo
Mr. Freedom (1969)
as Moujik Man
Too Loud A Solitude (1995)
as Haňťa
Rue du Pied de Grue (1979)
as Le père
Aurora (1984)
as André
La Mandarine (1972)
as Georges Lapierre
Soleil (1997)
as Joseph Lévy
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Buddies (1965)
as Bénin
Therese (1962)
as Bernard Desqueyroux
La Porteuse de pain (1963)
as Jacques Garraud
The Tender Age (1968)
as Pourtalain
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
We Are All in Temporary Liberty (1971)
as Judge Francesco Langellone
A Time for Loving (1972)
as Marcel
The Two of Us (1992)
as Toussaint
Masks (1987)
as Christian Legagneur
A Week's Vacation (1980)
as Michel Descombes
Flore et Blancheflore (1961)
as Le roi Félix
The Secret Wife (1986)
as Pierre Franchin, the painter
Le Mal court (1962)
as Parfait XVIII
The Dog, the General, and the Birds (2003)
as Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Looking for Paradise (1995)
as Padre di Claudia
Le Roi de Paris (1995)
as Victor Derval
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic (2000)
as Joseph Steg
3 Friends (2007)
as Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
La Fin de la nuit (1966)
as Bernard Desqueyroux
L'école est finie (1975)
as Self - Narrator(voice)
Pierre and Marie (1997)
as Professor Rodolphe Schutz
Matrimonial Agency (1952)
as A passerby (uncredited)
The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
as Inspecteur Muller
Two Pieces of Bread (1979)
as Peppe Dorè
Step by Step (2002)
as Louis Chevalier
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)
as Self
A Cloud in the Teeth (1974)
as Malisard
Clerambard (1969)
as Count Hector de Clérambard
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back (1988)
as Narrateur
Five Leaf Clover (1972)
as Alfred
Le Veilleur de nuit (1996)
as Monsieur
The Other One (1967)
as André
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour (1978)
as Eugène Pottier
Hitler, la folie d'un homme (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
De fil en aiguille (1960)
as M. Van Dam
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries (1990)
as Anatole Hirsch
Poil de carotte (1973)
as François Lepic
Ballad for a Hoodlum (1963)
as L'inspecteur Mathieu
Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962)
as Lucien Barlemont
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise (2006)
as Self