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