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