Philippe Noiret
Known for Acting · 174 credits
- Born
- 1930-10-01
- Died
- 2006-11-23
- Place of birth
- Lille, Nord, France
- Also known as
- ЀОлОпп ĐŃĐ°ŃĐ” · Philippe Pierre Fernand Noiret
Biography
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 â 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 Théùtre 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 AgnĂšs 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 SĂšte. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the partâI am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le MĂ©tro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's ThĂ©rĂšse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from ThĂ©ophile 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 generationâall the men of 50 or 60 now in French moviesâall 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. ...
Known For
TV Shows (14)
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Sacrée soirée
1987
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Discorama
1959
as Self - Host
Ciné regards
1978
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Stars 90
1990
as Self
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - President
Il Ă©tait une fois Champs-ĂlysĂ©es
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Movies (160)
The Sparrow's Fluttering
1988
as Gabriele Battistini
Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Alfredo
My Friends
1975
as Il Perozzi
Tender Scoundrel
1966
as Bibi Dumonceaux
Dear Inspector
1978
as Antoine Lemercier
Woman Times Seven
1967
as Victor
Dead Tired
1994
as Philippe Noiret
Chouans !
1988
as Savinien de Kerfadec
The Assassination
1972
as Pierre Garcin
Fish Soup
1992
as Alberto
The Witness
1978
as Robert Maurisson
The Old Maid
1972
as Gabriel Marcassus
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
as Ătienne Labrouche
Topaz
1969
as Henri Jarre
The Old Gun
1975
as Julien Dandieu
Gigi
1949
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Clémentine chérie
1964
as Edgar Hoover
The Postman
1994
as Pablo Neruda
Marianna UcrĂŹa
1997
as Duke Signoretto
'Round Midnight
1986
as Redon
Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986
as Leonardo
La Grande Bouffe
1973
as Philippe
All the Gold in the World
1961
as Victor Hardy
Father and Sons
2003
as LĂ©o
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
as Gaspard de Montfermeil
Playing with Fire
1975
as Georges de Saxe
The Man Who Planted Trees
1987
as Narrator (voice)
Young Toscanini
1988
as Dom Pedro II.
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964
as Brassy
The North Star
1982
as Edouard Binet
The Assassination Bureau
1969
as Monsieur Lucoville
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Gioacchino Rossini
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
2005
as Narrator (voice)
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
as Dr. Athos Fadigati
Monsieur Albert
1976
as Albert
Les Rois du gag
1985
as In person at the CĂ©sar Awards ceremony (uncredited)
Coup de Torchon
1981
as Lucien Cordier
Tango
1993
as L'Elégant
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
as Gen. Terry
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Troubles We've Seen
1994
as Self
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Inspector Morand
Rendezvous
1961
as Inspector Maillard
Max & Jeremie
1992
as Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Especially on Sunday
1991
as Amleto
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Next Summer
1985
as Edouard
Edy
2005
as Louis
Step by Step
2002
as Louis Chevalier
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964
as King Louis XIII
Too Loud A Solitude
1995
as HaĆĆ„a
Souvenirs souvenirs
1984
as Le proviseur
Captain Fracasse
1961
as HĂ©rode
The Secret Wife
1986
as Pierre Franchin, the painter
A Friend of Vincent
1983
as Albert Palm
La Pointe Courte
1956
as Him
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Philip of Orléans
My Friends Act II
1982
as Giorgio Perozzi
Macbeth
1959
as Macduff
Le Mal court
1962
as Parfait XVIII
The Palermo Connection
1990
as Gianni Mucci
The Purple Taxi
1977
as Philippe Marchal
Uranus
1990
as Watrin
Twist Again in Moscow
1986
as Igor TataĂŻev
The Beaches of AgnĂšs
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Flore et Blancheflore
1961
as Le roi FĂ©lix
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Cardinal Mazarin
Summer Frenzy
1964
as Jean
My New Partner III
2003
as René Boirond
Aurora
1984
as André
Murphy's War
1971
as Brezan
Lady L
1965
as Ambroise GĂ©rĂŽme
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as General
Zazie dans le MĂ©tro
1960
as Oncle Gabriel
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Monseigneur Hughes
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994
as D'Artagnan
La Fin de la nuit
1966
as Bernard Desqueyroux
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
The Lovers of the France
1964
as RĂ©citant / Narrator (voice)
Cyrano de Bergerac
1960
as LignĂšre
Jupiter's Thigh
1980
as Antoine Lemercier
Very Happy Alexander
1968
as Alexandre Gartempe
Famous Love Affairs
1961
as Louis XIV
The Masseuses
1962
as Bellini
Give Her the Moon
1970
as Gabriel
The Family
1987
as Jean-Luc
Soleil
1997
as Joseph LĂ©vy
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
as Michel Descombes
Rue du Pied de Grue
1979
as Le pĂšre
Fort Saganne
1984
as Dubreuilh
Heads or Tails
1980
as Inspecteur Louis Baroni
Ghost with Driver
1996
as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
A Week's Vacation
1980
as Michel Descombes
On Guard
1997
as Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Olivia
1951
as BĂ©atrice's Lover (uncredited)
A Time for Loving
1972
as Marcel
The Sultans
1966
as Michou
The Fourth Power
1985
as Yves Dorget
The Two of Us
1992
as Toussaint
Clerambard
1969
as Count Hector de Clérambard
La Mandarine
1972
as Georges Lapierre
Life and Nothing But
1989
as Commander Delaplane
Les Ćuvres de FrĂ©dĂ©ric Back
1988
as Narrateur
Ravishing
1960
as Maurice
My New Partner
1984
as René Boirond
The African
1983
as Victor
Masks
1987
as Christian Legagneur
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Jean-Claude Moulineau
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
as Juge Rousseau
The Chops
2003
as LĂ©once
The Serpent
1973
as Lucien Berthon
Les Milles
1995
as Le Général
La Porteuse de pain
1963
as Jacques Garraud
Pierre and Marie
1997
as Professor Rodolphe Schutz
Widow's Walk
1987
as Inspector Molinat
Three Brothers
1981
as Raffaele Giuranna
Poil de carotte
1973
as François Lepic
Therese
1962
as Bernard Desqueyroux
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976
as Giuseppe Costanzo
Looking for Paradise
1995
as Padre di Claudia
About Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 â 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 LycĂ©e Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalaurĂ©at exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the ThĂ©Ăątre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he mar⊠With 174 credits spanning from 1949 to 2022, Philippe Noiret has appeared in 160 films and 14 TV shows.
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- Cinema Paradiso (1988) â as Alfredo
- My Friends (1975) â as Il Perozzi
- Tender Scoundrel (1966) â as Bibi Dumonceaux
- Dear Inspector (1978) â as Antoine Lemercier
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