Jean Rochefort
Known for Acting · 171 credits
- Born
- 1930-04-29
- Died
- 2017-10-09
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- Also known as
- Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (21)
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Numéro un
1975
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Victoires de la musique
1985
as Self
Stars 90
1990
as Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
Square
2012
as Self
On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - Guest / Self - President
The Count of Monte Cristo
1998
as Fernand Mondego
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Chez Maupassant
2007
as le père
Les Bœuf-carottes
1995
as Venturi
Archives secrètes
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Les Boloss des belles lettres
2016
as Self - Narrator
Movies (150)
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
as Maître d'hôtel
Femmes Fatales
1976
as Albert
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
as Lucie
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965
as François Desgrez
Tell No One
2006
as Gilbert Neuville
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Lucius Fouinus
Ridicule
1996
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
as Méliès (voice)
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Inspector Tantpis
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
as Antoine
Angelique
1964
as François Desgrez
The Closet
2001
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as Mr. Legendre
Cartouche
1962
as La Taupe
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
The Skirt Chaser
1979
as Edouard Choiseul
April and the Extraordinary World
2015
as Pops (voice)
Jappeloup
2013
as Self (uncredited)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
French Postcards
1979
as Monsieur Tessier
Rembrandt
1999
as Nicolaes Tulp
Courage fuyons
1979
as Martin Belhomme
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
The Conspiracy
1973
as Dominique Clavet
L'Œuvre invisible
2026
as Self
Up to His Ears
1965
as Leon
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
Florida
2015
as Claude Lherminier
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as August Grandvilliers
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
as Self
Lost in La Mancha
2002
as Self
Captain Fracasse
1961
as Malartic
The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Two Weeks in September
1967
as Philippe
Hell
2005
as Louis
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973
as Louis
The Key
2007
as Joseph Arp
Tango
1993
as Bellhop
Le Moustachu
1987
as le capitaine Duroc
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
Symphony for a Massacre
1963
as Jabeke
Frankenstein 90
1984
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Abbot Dubois
Akoibon
2005
as Chris Barnes
Grandison
1978
as Carl Grandison
The Artist and the Model
2012
as Marc Cros
The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Le comte Georges
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Jean
The Inheritor
1973
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
My First 40 Years
1987
as Principe Riccio
Man on the Train
2002
as Monsieur Manesquier
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Agathe Cléry
2008
as Louis Guinard
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
I'm the King of the Castle
1989
as Jean Bréaud
Wild Target
1993
as Victor Meynard
La Galette du roi
1986
as Arnold III of Corsalina
Beautiful Families
1964
as Marchese Osvaldo
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
as Self
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Foisnard
Death Rite
1975
as Edouard
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
as Grégoire Pecque
Amoureux fou
1991
as Rudolph
Titeuf
2011
as Pépé (voice)
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
as Maitre Albert Legal
Blanche
2002
as Mazarin
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
as Commissioner Guilboud
Tandem
1987
as Michel Mortez
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as Henri de Malassise
L'Énigme blanche
1985
as Henri
Lovely Swine
1973
as The police inspector
The Time to Die
1970
as Hervé Breton
Hail the Artist
1973
as Clément Chamfort
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Lost in Transit
1993
as Arturo Conti
Palace
1996
as Thomas Fausto
A Friend of Vincent
1983
as Vincent Lamar
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980
as Gilles Martin
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007
as Self
I Hate Blondes
1980
as Donald Rose
The Long Winter
1992
as Jordi Casals
Twice Upon a Time
2006
as Louis Ruinard
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003
as Narrator (voice)
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
La Liberté en croupe
1970
as Moss
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976
as Le commissaire Pichard
The Devil in the Box
1977
as Alain Brissot
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
1961
as Fernand
The Marriage of Figaro
1961
as Le comte Almaviva
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1961
as Fernand
Hearth Fires
1972
as Alexandre Boursault
Tom est tout seul
1995
as Jean-Pierre
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992
as Henri Sauveur
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Un étrange voyage
1981
as Pierre
Le Misanthrope
1971
as Alceste
Isabelle and Lust
1975
as M. Vaudois
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Great Restaurant
2010
as Un client du restaurant
Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Raffaele
The Iron Mask
1962
as Lastreaumont
Les Rats
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Barracuda
1997
as Monsieur Clément
Les bottes
2004
as Récitant (voice)
Les Pieds nickelés
1964
as Croquignol
La Porteuse de pain
1963
as Ovide Soliveau
From Time to Time
1992
as Louis XV
Outpost in Indo-china
1963
as Sergeant Hérange
L'Atlantide
1992
as Le Meige
Drummer-Crab
1977
as Captain, commander of the escort ship
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
as Self (archive footage)
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
as Etienne Dorsay
Bien des choses
2008
as Sultan the dog (voice)
New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984
as Louis Alban
Never Ever
1997
as Gerard Panier
About Jean Rochefort
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 19… With 171 credits spanning from 1956 to 2026, Jean Rochefort has appeared in 150 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jean Rochefort Movies
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) — as Maître d'hôtel
- Femmes Fatales (1976) — as Albert
- RRRrrrr!!! (2004) — as Lucie
- Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965) — as François Desgrez
- Tell No One (2006) — as Gilbert Neuville
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