Jean Rochefort
Known for
French actor born in Paris in 1930, whose long moustache and dry, wounded voice became a signature of postwar French cinema. He drew a devoted audience with Un elephant ca trompe enormement (1976), Pierre Schoendoerffer’s Le crabe-tambour (1977) and Patrice Leconte’s Le mari de la coiffeuse (1990). He deepened his range in Ridicule (1996) and L’homme du train (2002), specialising in melancholic gentlemen who hide feeling behind irony. Nominated ten times for the Cesar and winning three, he remained one of the most beloved figures of French screen acting until his death in 2017.
Jean Rochefort
121 Movies
3 Series
French actor born in Paris in 1930, whose long moustache and dry, wounded voice became a signature of postwar French cinema. He drew a devoted audience with Un elephant ca trompe enormement (1976), Pierre Schoendoerffer’s Le crabe-tambour (1977) and Patrice Leconte’s Le mari de la coiffeuse (1990). He deepened his range in Ridicule (1996) and L’homme du train (2002), specialising in melancholic gentlemen who hide feeling behind irony. Nominated ten times for the Cesar and winning three, he remained one of the most beloved figures of French screen acting until his death in 2017.
Movies
Plays Maître d'hôtel
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
Plays François Desgrez
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965
Plays Albert
Femmes Fatales
1976
Plays Lucie
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
Plays Méliès (voice)
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014
Plays Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
The Closet
2001
Plays Jolly Jumper (voice)
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
Plays Gilbert Neuville
Tell No One
2006
Plays Lucius Fouinus
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012
Plays Inspector Tantpis
Prêt-à-Porter
1994
Plays Antoine
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
Plays Mr. Legendre
The Phantom of Liberty
1974
Plays Louis Guinard
Agathe Cléry
2008
Plays François Desgrez
Angelique
1964
Plays Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
My Mother's Castle
1990
Plays Dominique Clavet
The Conspiracy
1973
Plays Edouard
Death Rite
1975
Plays Colonel Louis Toulouse
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
Plays Louis
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973
Plays Rudolph
Amoureux fou
1991
Plays Monsieur Tessier
French Postcards
1979
Plays Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
The Car Keys
2003
Plays Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974
Plays Edouard Choiseul
The Skirt Chaser
1979
Plays Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Ridicule
1996
Plays Etienne Dorsay
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977
Plays Étienne
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976
Plays Bellhop
Tango
1993
Plays August Grandvilliers
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
Plays Leon
Up to His Ears
1965
Plays Barone Henri de Sarcey
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
Plays Monsieur Manesquier
Man on the Train
2002
Plays Marc Cros
The Artist and the Model
2012
Plays Malartic
Captain Fracasse
1961
Plays Maitre Albert Legal
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975
Plays Lajos Ácsi, the count
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985
Plays Louis
Hell
2005
Plays La Taupe
Cartouche
1962
Plays Pépé (voice)
Titeuf
2011
Plays Louis Ruinard
Twice Upon a Time
2006
Plays Grégoire Pecque
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966
Plays Edgard Wexley
Wind with the Gone
1998
Plays Principe Riccio
My First 40 Years
1987
Plays Jean Bréaud
I'm the King of the Castle
1989
Plays Hervé Breton
The Time to Die
1970
Plays Clément Chamfort
Hail the Artist
1973
Plays Vincent Lamar
A Friend of Vincent
1983
Plays Foisnard
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
Plays Charles-Philippe Bauman
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981
Plays Abbot Dubois
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
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Les Rats
Narrator (voice)
2015
Film
Florida
Claude Lherminier
2015
Film
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Méliès (voice)
2014
Film
... à la française !
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2013
Film
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Lucius Fouinus
2012
Film
The Artist and the Model
Marc Cros
2012
Film
Titeuf
Pépé (voice)
2011
Film
Agathe Cléry
Louis Guinard
2008
Film
Bien des choses
Sultan the dog (voice)
2008
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Frequently Asked Questions
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 118 movies and 3 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 Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde, which premiered on October 23, 2019.
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.