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.
152 movies · 21 shows
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026·5.0
L'Œuvre invisible
2026·0.0
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022·8.2
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021·9.0
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020·7.5
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
2019·6.8
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017·6.3
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017·7.4
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017·7.0
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016·7.8
Les Rats
2015·0.0
April and the Extraordinary World
2015·7.1
Florida
2015·6.5
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014·7.2
Jappeloup
2013·7.1
... à la française !
2013·6.0
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012·5.1
The Artist and the Model
2012·6.1
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011·6.0
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011·7.7
Titeuf
2011·5.7
The Great Restaurant
2010·5.7
Agathe Cléry
2008·4.8
Bien des choses
2008·9.0
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008·7.3
The Key
2007·5.3
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007·6.0
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007·6.4
Twice Upon a Time
2006·5.9
Tell No One
2006·7.2
Hell
2005·6.1
Akoibon
2005·4.9
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004·3.6
Les bottes
2004·7.5
RRRrrrr!!!
2004·6.3
Heureux ?
2004·0.0
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003·7.0
The Car Keys
2003·5.2
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003·5.7
Pierre et le Loup
2002·0.0
Man on the Train
2002·6.7
Blanche
2002·4.2
Lost in La Mancha
2002·7.1
Honolulu Baby
2001·7.5
The Closet
2001·6.4
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000·7.5
Speaking of Buñuel
2000·6.0
Rembrandt
1999·6.1
Wind with the Gone
1998·7.4
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998·9.0
Barracuda
1997·6.5
Never Ever
1997·4.0
Clara et son juge
1997·8.0
Ridicule
1996·6.9
The Grand Dukes
1996·6.1
Palace
1996·5.9
Tom est tout seul
1995·4.7
Prêt-à-Porter
1994·5.2
Once a Year, Every Year
1994·9.0
Next Time the Fire
1993·10.0
Lost in Transit
1993·6.7
Wild Target
1993·6.6
Tango
1993·5.8
L'Atlantide
1992·6.7
From Time to Time
1992·8.0
The Long Winter
1992·5.4
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992·5.9
Amoureux fou
1991·4.3
My Mother's Castle
1990·7.2
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990·6.8
The Other Woman
1990·8.0
I'm the King of the Castle
1989·6.9
My First 40 Years
1987·3.4
Tandem
1987·7.1
Le Moustachu
1987·5.3
La Galette du roi
1986·4.5
L'Énigme blanche
1985·5.8
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985·6.3
New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984·6.2
Frankenstein 90
1984·5.8
The Dogs of Jerusalem
1984·7.0
Un dimanche de flics
1983·6.4
A Friend of Vincent
1983·6.2
The Big Brother
1982·6.1
L'Indiscrétion
1982·5.2
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981·6.4
Un étrange voyage
1981·6.8
I Hate Blondes
1980·4.6
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980·6.4
French Postcards
1979·5.1
Courage fuyons
1979·6.1
The Skirt Chaser
1979·5.6
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978·6.1
Grandison
1978·7.0
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977·6.8
Drummer-Crab
1977·6.5
The Devil in the Box
1977·6.0
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976·7.0
Femmes Fatales
1976·6.1
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976·5.2
Death Rite
1975·5.0
A Happy Divorce
1975·5.4
Isabelle and Lust
1975·5.0
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975·6.2
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975·6.4
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974·6.5
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974·5.7
The Phantom of Liberty
1974·7.5
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974·5.5
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974·6.9
Hail the Artist
1973·5.4
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973·4.6
Lovely Swine
1973·6.3
The Conspiracy
1973·5.7
The Inheritor
1973·6.4
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972·7.0
Hearth Fires
1972·6.3
The Egg
1972·6.8
Le Misanthrope
1971·10.0
Céleste
1970·7.0
La Liberté en croupe
1970·5.5
The Time to Die
1970·4.6
The Devil by the Tail
1969·6.1
For a Distant Love
1968·7.0
Don't Play with Martians
1968·2.0
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967·0.0
Two Weeks in September
1967·5.0
The Sunday of Life
1967·5.7
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966·6.5
Angelique and the King
1966·6.5
Up to His Ears
1965·7.0
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965·6.6
Le Naïf amoureux
1965·7.0
Beautiful Families
1964·6.7
Angelique
1964·6.7
Les Pieds nickelés
1964·6.2
Trouble Among Widows
1964·7.4
The Blockhead Fair
1963·8.0
La Porteuse de pain
1963·5.8
Symphony for a Massacre
1963·6.7
Outpost in Indo-china
1963·6.8
La Nuit des rois
1962·4.5
The Iron Mask
1962·5.8
Sun in Your Eyes
1962·6.5
Cartouche
1962·6.3
The Marriage of Figaro
1961·6.3
Captain Fracasse
1961·5.5
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1961·9.5
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
1961·0.0
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958·5.4
The Queen of Spades
1958·7.0
Meeting in Paris
1956·4.5