Jean Rochefort
🎂 Apr 29, 1930 — 🕯️ Oct 9, 2017 (87 years)
Paris, France
Jean Rochefort is an actor whose career stretches back to the 1950s. They are internationally recognised for their role in Mr. Bean's Holiday as Maître d'hôtel. Their work further includes Tell No One and Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia. Over more than 70 years they have gathered close to 150 films and 22 TV productions, working mainly across genres like comedy, adventure, drama.
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Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
Femmes Fatales
1976
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
Tell No One
2006
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965
Angelique
1964
The Closet
2001
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976
Up to His Ears
1965
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
My Mother's Castle
1990
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
Ridicule
1996
Hell
2005
Le Moustachu
1987
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
Wild Target
1993
The Inheritor
1973
Man on the Train
2002
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974
Rembrandt
1999
Cartouche
1962
The Car Keys
2003
The Devil by the Tail
1969
French Postcards
1979
The Egg
1972
Florida
2015
Titeuf
2011
The Skirt Chaser
1979
The Conspiracy
1973
I'm the King of the Castle
1989
Agathe Cléry
2008
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976
I Hate Blondes
1980
Two Weeks in September
1967
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
The Artist and the Model
2012
Blanche
2002
Palace
1996
Tango
1993
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980
Beautiful Families
1964
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Claude Lherminier
2015
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Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Méliès (voice)
2014
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... à la française !
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2013
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Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Lucius Fouinus
2012
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The Artist and the Model
Marc Cros
2012
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Titeuf
Pépé (voice)
2011
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Agathe Cléry
Louis Guinard
2008
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Bien des choses
Sultan the dog (voice)
2008
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Jean
2008
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Is Jean Rochefort still alive?
Jean Rochefort passed away on October 9, 2017 at age 87.
What are the most famous roles of Jean Rochefort?
Jean Rochefort is best known for roles in Mr. Bean's Holiday, Tell No One, Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia.
How many movies has Jean Rochefort been in?
Over a 61-year career (since 1956), Jean Rochefort has appeared in 150 movies and 21 TV shows.
What was Jean Rochefort's first movie?
The career of Jean Rochefort began with Meeting in Paris (1956).
What is Jean Rochefort's most recent movie or series?
Jean Rochefort's most recent release is Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français, which premiered on May 17, 2026.
What TV shows has Jean Rochefort appeared in?
On television, Jean Rochefort has appeared in The Count of Monte Cristo, Nulle part ailleurs, Champs-Elysées, Vivement dimanche.
Jean Rochefort
1930-04-29 · Paris, France
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). ...Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.