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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 29, 1930
Died
October 9, 2017
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also Known As
- Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort
Jean Rochefort
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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. 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). ... Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
2025
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Self (archive footage)
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021
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Self (archive footage)
Archives secrètes
2021
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
6.8
Self
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
2019
6.3
Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
7.0
Self - Actor (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017
7.8
Self
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
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Self - Narrator
Les Boloss des belles lettres
2016
Credits
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
as Self (archive footage)
2021
9.0
Archives secrètes
as Self (archive footage)
2021
0.0
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.5
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
as Self
2019
6.8
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
as Self
2017
6.3
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.7
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2017
7.0
Belmondo by Belmondo
as Self
2016
7.8
🎬
Les Boloss des belles lettres
as Self - Narrator
2016
0.0
Les Rats
as Narrator (voice)
2015
0.0
April and the Extraordinary World
as Pops (voice)
2015
7.1
Florida
as Claude Lherminier
2015
6.4
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
as Méliès (voice)
2014
7.2
Jappeloup
as Self (uncredited)
2013
7.1
... à la française !
as Minister of Foreign Affairs
2013
6.0
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
as Lucius Fouinus
2012
5.1
The Artist and the Model
as Marc Cros
2012
6.1
Square
as Self
2012
0.0
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
as Self (archive footage)
2011
6.0
Belmondo, itinéraire...
as Self
2011
7.7
Titeuf
as Pépé (voice)
2011
5.7
The Great Restaurant
as Un client du restaurant
2010
5.8
Agathe Cléry
as Louis Guinard
2008
4.8
Bien des choses
as Sultan the dog (voice)
2008
9.0
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
as Jean
2008
7.3
The Key
as Joseph Arp
2007
5.3
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Tell No One: The B-Side
as Self
2007
6.0
Mr. Bean's Holiday
as Maître d'hôtel
2007
6.4
Chez Maupassant
as le père
2007
7.5
Twice Upon a Time
as Louis Ruinard
2006
5.9
Tell No One
as Gilbert Neuville
2006
7.2
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
2006
5.1
Hell
as Louis
2005
6.0
Akoibon
as Chris Barnes
2005
4.7
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
2004
3.7
RRRrrrr!!!
as Lucie
2004
6.3
Heureux ?
as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
2004
0.0
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
as Henri de Malassise
2003
6.7
The Car Keys
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
2003
5.2
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
as Narrator (voice)
2003
5.2
Pierre et le Loup
as Narrator (voice)
2002
0.0
Man on the Train
as Monsieur Manesquier
2002
6.7
Blanche
as Mazarin
2002
4.1
Lost in La Mancha
as Self
2002
7.0
Honolulu Baby
as Cri Cri
2001
5.0
The Closet
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
2001
6.4
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as Self
2000
8.0
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
5.9
Rembrandt
as Nicolaes Tulp
1999
5.7
Wind with the Gone
as Edgard Wexley
1998
7.2
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Fernand Mondego
1998
7.2
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
as Monsieur Moreau
1998
0.0
Barracuda
as Monsieur Clément
1997
6.4
Never Ever
as Gerard Panier
1997
2.0
Clara et son juge
as Judge Larcher
1997
0.0
Ridicule
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
1996
6.9
The Grand Dukes
as Eddie Carpentier
1996
6.0
Palace
as Thomas Fausto
1996
5.8
Les Bœuf-carottes
as Venturi
1995
6.6
Tom est tout seul
as Jean-Pierre
1995
4.0
Prêt-à-Porter
as Inspector Tantpis
1994
5.2
Once a Year, Every Year
as Raffaele
1994
0.0
Next Time the Fire
as Amedeo
1993
0.0
Lost in Transit
as Arturo Conti
1993
6.3
Wild Target
as Victor Meynard
1993
6.4
Tango
as Bellhop
1993
5.9
L'Atlantide
as Le Meige
1992
5.0
From Time to Time
as Louis XV
1992
0.0
The Long Winter
as Jordi Casals
1992
4.7
Le Bal des casse-pieds
as Henri Sauveur
1992
5.8
Amoureux fou
as Rudolph
1991
3.0
My Mother's Castle
as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
1990
7.2
The Hairdresser's Husband
as Antoine
1990
6.8
Stars 90
as Self
1990
6.2
The Other Woman
as Farou
1990
0.0
I'm the King of the Castle
as Jean Bréaud
1989
6.8
My First 40 Years
as Principe Riccio
1987
3.1
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
Tandem
as Michel Mortez
1987
7.1
Le Moustachu
as le capitaine Duroc
1987
4.4
La Galette du roi
as Arnold III of Corsalina
1986
4.3
L'Énigme blanche
as Henri
1985
5.5
Victoires de la musique
as Self
1985
1.5
Volley for a Black Buffalo
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
1985
5.7
New Year's Eve At Bob's
as Louis Alban
1984
6.3
Frankenstein 90
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
1984
5.5
Un dimanche de flics
as A. Rupert
1983
6.0
A Friend of Vincent
as Vincent Lamar
1983
5.9
The Big Brother
as Charles-Henri Rossi
1982
5.8
L'Indiscrétion
as Alain Tescique
1982
4.8
Champs-Elysées
as Self
1982
6.3
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
1981
6.2
Un étrange voyage
as Pierre
1981
6.7
I Hate Blondes
as Donald Rose
1980
4.2
I Sent a Letter to My Love
as Gilles Martin
1980
6.1
French Postcards
as Monsieur Tessier
1979
4.6
Courage fuyons
as Martin Belhomme
1979
6.0
The Skirt Chaser
as Edouard Choiseul
1979
5.6
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1978
0.0
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
as August Grandvilliers
1978
6.1
Grandison
as Carl Grandison
1978
0.0
We Will All Meet in Paradise
as Etienne Dorsay
1977
6.7
Drummer-Crab
as Captain, commander of the escort ship
1977
6.6
The Devil in the Box
as Alain Brissot
1977
4.5
Pardon Mon Affaire
as Étienne
1976
7.0
Femmes Fatales
as Albert
1976
6.1
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
as Le commissaire Pichard
1976
5.2
30 millions d'amis
as Self
1976
5.8
Death Rite
as Edouard
1975
4.2
A Happy Divorce
as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
1975
5.0
Isabelle and Lust
as M. Vaudois
1975
3.8
Numéro un
as Self
1975
6.0
Innocents with Dirty Hands
as Maitre Albert Legal
1975
6.1
Let Joy Reign Supreme
as Abbot Dubois
1975
6.4
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
1974
6.5
Till Marriage Do Us Part
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
1974
5.6
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1974
0.0
The Phantom of Liberty
as Mr. Legendre
1974
7.4
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
as Foisnard
1974
5.4
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
as Commissioner Guilboud
1974
6.9
Hail the Artist
as Clément Chamfort
1973
5.3
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
as Louis
1973
4.1
Lovely Swine
as The police inspector
1973
6.0
The Conspiracy
as Dominique Clavet
1973
5.3
The Inheritor
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
1973
6.3
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
1972
7.0
Hearth Fires
as Alexandre Boursault
1972
6.0
The Egg
as Victor Dugommier
1972
5.7
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Midi trente
as Self
1972
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Le Misanthrope
as Alceste
1971
0.0
Céleste
as Georges Cazenave
1970
0.0
La Liberté en croupe
as Moss
1970
4.3
The Time to Die
as Hervé Breton
1970
4.4
The Devil by the Tail
as Le comte Georges
1969
6.1
For a Distant Love
as Guillaume
1968
0.0
Don't Play with Martians
as René Mastier
1968
2.0
Two Weeks in September
as Philippe
1967
4.7
The Sunday of Life
as Captain Bordeille
1967
5.3
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
as Grégoire Pecque
1966
6.4
Angelique and the King
as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
1966
6.5
Up to His Ears
as Leon
1965
7.1
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
as François Desgrez
1965
6.6
Le naïf amoureux
as Paul Robignac, adult
1965
0.0
Dim Dam Dom
as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
1965
6.0
Beautiful Families
as Marchese Osvaldo
1964
6.7
Angelique
as François Desgrez
1964
6.7
Les pieds nickelés
as Croquignol
1964
5.8
Trouble Among Widows
as Inspecteur Laforêt
1964
6.8
The Blockhead Fair
as Didier's father
1963
7.0
La Porteuse de pain
as Ovide Soliveau
1963
5.3
Symphony for a Massacre
as Jabeke
1963
6.6
Outpost in Indo-china
as Sergeant Hérange
1963
6.3
La nuit des Rois
as Sir André
1962
0.0
The Iron Mask
as Lastreaumont
1962
5.7
Sun in Your Eyes
1962
6.0
Cartouche
as La Taupe
1962
6.3
The Marriage of Figaro
as Le comte Almaviva
1961
5.6
Captain Fracasse
as Malartic
1961
5.3
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
as Fernand
1961
10.0
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Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
as Fernand
1961
0.0
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
1958
5.2
The Queen of Spades
as Le compte Paul Tomsk
1958
0.0
Meeting in Paris
as L'interne
1956
1.0