Jean Rochefort
Known for Acting · 173 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)
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
as Self
Numéro un
1975
as Self
Victoires de la musique
1985
as Self
Square
2012
as Self
Midi trente
1972
as Self
30 millions d'amis
1976
as Self
Stars 90
1990
as Self
On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest
Cérémonie des César
1976
as Self - Guest / Self - President
Dim Dam Dom
1965
as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
The Count of Monte Cristo
1998
as Fernand Mondego
Chez Maupassant
2007
as le père
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Les Bœuf-carottes
1995
as Venturi
Archives secrètes
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Les Boloss des belles lettres
2016
as Self - Narrator
Movies (152)
Femmes Fatales
1976
as Albert
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
as Maître d'hôtel
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965
as François Desgrez
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
as Lucius Fouinus
Death Rite
1975
as Edouard
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
as Méliès (voice)
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
Tell No One
2006
as Gilbert Neuville
The Skirt Chaser
1979
as Edouard Choiseul
The Conspiracy
1973
as Dominique Clavet
The Closet
2001
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
French Postcards
1979
as Monsieur Tessier
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
as Self
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
as Self
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
as Mr. Legendre
Sun in Your Eyes
1962
Agathe Cléry
2008
as Louis Guinard
The Time to Die
1970
as Hervé Breton
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
as Inspector Tantpis
Jappeloup
2013
as Self (uncredited)
Les bottes
2004
as Récitant (voice)
L'Œuvre invisible
2026
as Self
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Amoureux fou
1991
as Rudolph
My Mother's Castle
1990
as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
April and the Extraordinary World
2015
as Pops (voice)
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
as Antoine
Captain Fracasse
1961
as Malartic
Angelique
1964
as François Desgrez
My First 40 Years
1987
as Principe Riccio
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
Two Weeks in September
1967
as Philippe
Frankenstein 90
1984
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026
as Self (archive) - actor
The Artist and the Model
2012
as Marc Cros
Tango
1993
as Bellhop
Speaking of Buñuel
2000
as Self
Up to His Ears
1965
as Leon
Lovely Swine
1973
as The police inspector
Heureux ?
2004
as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
A Friend of Vincent
1983
as Vincent Lamar
Titeuf
2011
as Pépé (voice)
Angelique and the King
1966
as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
L'Énigme blanche
1985
as Henri
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
as Lucie
La Nuit des rois
1962
as Sir André
Hail the Artist
1973
as Clément Chamfort
The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Lost in La Mancha
2002
as Self
Cartouche
1962
as La Taupe
Les Rats
2015
as Narrator (voice)
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as August Grandvilliers
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Foisnard
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976
as Étienne
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as Abbot Dubois
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992
as Henri Sauveur
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003
as Henri de Malassise
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003
as Narrator (voice)
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973
as Louis
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
Clara et son juge
1997
as Judge Larcher
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
as Commissioner Guilboud
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
as Etienne Dorsay
The Inheritor
1973
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
Un étrange voyage
1981
as Pierre
The Dogs of Jerusalem
1984
as Nicodème
Drummer-Crab
1977
as Captain, commander of the escort ship
Meeting in Paris
1956
as L'interne
Wild Target
1993
as Victor Meynard
Man on the Train
2002
as Monsieur Manesquier
The Long Winter
1992
as Jordi Casals
Ridicule
1996
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Hell
2005
as Louis
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007
as Self
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
as Maitre Albert Legal
Wind with the Gone
1998
as Edgard Wexley
I'm the King of the Castle
1989
as Jean Bréaud
The Big Brother
1982
as Charles-Henri Rossi
The Iron Mask
1962
as Lastreaumont
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
as Grégoire Pecque
The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Le comte Georges
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Twice Upon a Time
2006
as Louis Ruinard
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980
as Gilles Martin
Symphony for a Massacre
1963
as Jabeke
La Porteuse de pain
1963
as Ovide Soliveau
Courage fuyons
1979
as Martin Belhomme
From Time to Time
1992
as Louis XV
The Blockhead Fair
1963
as Didier's father
Outpost in Indo-china
1963
as Sergeant Hérange
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976
as Le commissaire Pichard
Honolulu Baby
2001
as Cri Cri
Never Ever
1997
as Gerard Panier
... à la française !
2013
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Isabelle and Lust
1975
as M. Vaudois
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Blanche
2002
as Mazarin
Rembrandt
1999
as Nicolaes Tulp
Tandem
1987
as Michel Mortez
Next Time the Fire
1993
as Amedeo
Hearth Fires
1972
as Alexandre Boursault
Lost in Transit
1993
as Arturo Conti
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
The Great Restaurant
2010
as Un client du restaurant
Beautiful Families
1964
as Marchese Osvaldo
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Jean
I Hate Blondes
1980
as Donald Rose
The Devil in the Box
1977
as Alain Brissot
Le Moustachu
1987
as le capitaine Duroc
L'Atlantide
1992
as Le Meige
The Marriage of Figaro
1961
as Le comte Almaviva
Florida
2015
as Claude Lherminier
The Sunday of Life
1967
as Captain Bordeille
La Galette du roi
1986
as Arnold III of Corsalina
The Key
2007
as Joseph Arp
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 173 credits spanning from 1956 to 2026, Jean Rochefort has appeared in 152 films and 21 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jean Rochefort Movies
- Femmes Fatales (1976) — as Albert
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) — as Maître d'hôtel
- Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965) — as François Desgrez
- Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (2012) — as Lucius Fouinus
- Death Rite (1975) — as Edouard
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