Philippe Noiret
Known for Acting · 173 credits
- Born
- 1930-10-01
- Died
- 2006-11-23
- Place of birth
- Lille, Nord, France
- Also known as
- Филипп Нуаре · Philippe Pierre Fernand Noiret
Biography
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. ...
Known For
TV Shows (13)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Sacrée soirée
1987
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Discorama
1959
as Self - Host
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Stars 90
1990
as Self
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - President
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Movies (160)
Cinema Paradiso
1988
as Alfredo
The Sparrow's Fluttering
1988
as Gabriele Battistini
The Old Gun
1975
as Julien Dandieu
My Friends
1975
as Il Perozzi
Les Milles
1995
as Le Général
La Grande Bouffe
1973
as Philippe
Topaz
1969
as Henri Jarre
The Postman
1994
as Pablo Neruda
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Inspector Morand
Playing with Fire
1975
as Georges de Saxe
The Return of the Musketeers
1989
as Cardinal Mazarin
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
as Self (archive footage)
The Assassination Bureau
1969
as Monsieur Lucoville
Chouans !
1988
as Savinien de Kerfadec
My New Partner
1984
as René Boirond
Murphy's War
1971
as Brezan
Dead Tired
1994
as Philippe Noiret
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as General
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Self
Justine
1969
as Pombal
A Week's Vacation
1980
as Michel Descombes
Very Happy Alexander
1968
as Alexandre Gartempe
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994
as D'Artagnan
Woman Times Seven
1967
as Victor
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981
as Athanase
Fort Saganne
1984
as Dubreuilh
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Jean-Claude Moulineau
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Philip of Orléans
The Assassination
1972
as Pierre Garcin
Lady L
1965
as Ambroise Gérôme
'Round Midnight
1986
as Redon
My New Partner III
2003
as René Boirond
Masques
1987
as Christian Legagneur
The Serpent
1973
as Lucien Berthon
Dear Inspector
1978
as Antoine Lemercier
A Woman at Her Window
1976
as Raoul Malfosse
The Family
1987
as Jean-Luc
Uranus
1990
as Watrin
Mr. Freedom
1969
as Moujik Man
Tango
1993
as L'Elégant
Zazie dans le Métro
1960
as Oncle Gabriel
My New Partner II
1990
as René Boirond
The Witness
1978
as Robert Maurisson
My Friends Act II
1982
as Giorgio Perozzi
La Pointe Courte
1956
as Him
The Man Who Planted Trees
1987
as Narrator (voice)
On Guard
1997
as Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
as Étienne Labrouche
Coup de Torchon
1981
as Lucien Cordier
Young Toscanini
1988
as Dom Pedro II.
La Mandarine
1972
as Georges Lapierre
Clerambard
1969
as Count Hector de Clérambard
Twist Again in Moscow
1986
as Igor Tataïev
The Palermo Connection
1990
as Gianni Mucci
The Sultans
1966
as Michou
Rossini! Rossini!
1991
as Gioacchino Rossini
Three Brothers
1981
as Raffaele Giuranna
I Don't Kiss
1991
as Romain
The Secret
1974
as Thomas Berthelot
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976
as Giuseppe Costanzo
Captain Fracasse
1961
as Hérode
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009
as Self (archive footage)
A Matter of Resistance
1966
as Jérôme
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
as Michel Descombes
The Most Gentle Confessions
1971
as Inspecteur Muller
Le Roi de Paris
1995
as Victor Derval
Looking for Paradise
1995
as Padre di Claudia
Olivia
1951
as Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
Heads or Tails
1980
as Inspecteur Louis Baroni
Gigi
1949
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986
as Leonardo
Summer Frenzy
1964
as Jean
The Purple Taxi
1977
as Philippe Marchal
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974
as Gaspard de Montfermeil
Max & Jeremie
1992
as Robert 'Max' Maxendre
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006
as Self
Ballad for a Hoodlum
1963
as L'inspecteur Mathieu
A Time for Loving
1972
as Marcel
The Old Maid
1972
as Gabriel Marcassus
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
as Dr. Athos Fadigati
Tender Scoundrel
1966
as Bibi Dumonceaux
Clémentine chérie
1964
as Edgar Hoover
Souvenirs souvenirs
1984
as Le proviseur
Les Rois du gag
1985
as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
All the Gold in the World
1961
as Victor Hardy
Especially on Sunday
1991
as Amleto
The Tender Age
1968
as Pourtalain
Widow's Walk
1987
as Inspector Molinat
Next Summer
1985
as Edouard
The African
1983
as Victor
Therese
1962
as Bernard Desqueyroux
The Judge and the Assassin
1976
as Juge Rousseau
Crime Does Not Pay
1962
as Monseigneur Hughes
The Fourth Power
1985
as Yves Dorget
Famous Love Affairs
1961
as Louis XIV
A Cloud in the Teeth
1974
as Malisard
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007
as Self
Before Midnight
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Edy
2005
as Louis
Matrimonial Agency
1952
as A passerby (uncredited)
Lest We Forget
1991
as Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
The North Star
1982
as Edouard Binet
The Masseuses
1962
as Bellini
Monsieur
1964
as Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974
as Gen. Terry
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Soleil
1997
as Joseph Lévy
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990
as Anatole Hirsch
Two Pieces of Bread
1979
as Peppe Dorè
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964
as King Louis XIII
Ghost with Driver
1996
as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
Cyrano de Bergerac
1960
as Lignère
Jupiter's Thigh
1980
as Antoine Lemercier
Marianna Ucrìa
1997
as Duke Signoretto
Rendezvous
1961
as Inspector Maillard
A Friend of Vincent
1983
as Albert Palm
Aurora
1984
as André
Life and Nothing But
1989
as Commander Delaplane
Monsieur Albert
1976
as Albert
About Philippe Noiret
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 mar… With 173 credits spanning from 1949 to 2022, Philippe Noiret has appeared in 160 films and 13 TV shows.
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- Cinema Paradiso (1988) — as Alfredo
- The Sparrow's Fluttering (1988) — as Gabriele Battistini
- The Old Gun (1975) — as Julien Dandieu
- My Friends (1975) — as Il Perozzi
- Les Milles (1995) — as Le Général
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