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