Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021·9.0
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020·7.5
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017·6.9
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009·6.0
The Beaches of Agnès
2008·7.7
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007·6.8
3 Friends
2007·5.1
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006·0.0
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006·5.2
Edy
2005·5.1
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
2005·0.0
My New Partner III
2003·5.3
The Chops
2003·6.1
Father and Sons
2003·6.9
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
2003·6.4
Step by Step
2002·6.8
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002·7.0
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000·4.5
On Guard
1997·6.7
Marianna Ucrìa
1997·6.7
Soleil
1997·6.4
Pierre and Marie
1997·6.8
Le Veilleur de nuit
1996·7.0
Ghost with Driver
1996·5.0
The Grand Dukes
1996·6.1
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
1996·0.0
Looking for Paradise
1995·5.8
Les Milles
1995·5.7
Too Loud A Solitude
1995·8.0
Le Roi de Paris
1995·7.8
The Troubles We've Seen
1994·5.8
The Postman
1994·7.9
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994·5.7
Dead Tired
1994·6.0
Tango
1993·5.8
Max & Jeremie
1992·6.2
The Two of Us
1992·9.5
Fish Soup
1992·4.7
Lest We Forget
1991·7.0
I Don't Kiss
1991·6.3
Especially on Sunday
1991·6.2
Rossini! Rossini!
1991·6.2
Uranus
1990·6.7
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990·7.5
My New Partner II
1990·6.0
The Palermo Connection
1990·6.2
Life and Nothing But
1989·7.2
The Return of the Musketeers
1989·6.2
Cinema Paradiso
1988·8.4
Young Toscanini
1988·6.3
Chouans !
1988·5.8
The Sparrow's Fluttering
1988·4.2
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
1988·0.0
Widow's Walk
1987·5.7
The Family
1987·7.5
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987·6.2
The Man Who Planted Trees
1987·8.0
Masks
1987·6.8
Twist Again in Moscow
1986·6.1
'Round Midnight
1986·7.1
The Secret Wife
1986·7.3
Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986·7.0
Before Midnight
1986·4.0
The Fourth Power
1985·6.4
Les Rois du gag
1985·5.8
Next Summer
1985·6.4
My New Partner
1984·6.6
Souvenirs souvenirs
1984·5.4
Fort Saganne
1984·6.0
Aurora
1984·7.1
Le Grand Carnaval
1983·5.6
The African
1983·6.3
A Friend of Vincent
1983·6.2
My Friends Act II
1982·7.6
The North Star
1982·6.3
Coup de Torchon
1981·7.0
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981·6.4
Three Brothers
1981·6.3
Heads or Tails
1980·6.6
A Week's Vacation
1980·6.2
Jupiter's Thigh
1980·6.2
Rue du Pied de Grue
1979·7.0
Two Pieces of Bread
1979·6.5
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978·10.0
The Witness
1978·6.9
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978·6.1
Dear Inspector
1978·5.9
The Purple Taxi
1977·5.8
A Woman at Her Window
1976·5.8
The Desert of the Tartars
1976·6.8
Monsieur Albert
1976·9.0
The Judge and the Assassin
1976·6.8
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976·5.8
My Friends
1975·8.1
The Old Gun
1975·7.5
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975·6.4
Playing with Fire
1975·5.5
L'école est finie
1975·0.0
The Secret
1974·6.5
A Cloud in the Teeth
1974·5.8
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974·6.5
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974·5.5
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974·6.9
Poil de carotte
1973·8.0
La Grande Bouffe
1973·7.1
The Serpent
1973·6.1
The Assassination
1972·6.6
Five Leaf Clover
1972·6.5
A Time for Loving
1972·5.3
La Mandarine
1972·4.7
The Old Maid
1972·5.9
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971·7.0
The Most Gentle Confessions
1971·6.2
Murphy's War
1971·6.2
Give Her the Moon
1970·5.7
Topaz
1969·6.0
Justine
1969·4.4
The Assassination Bureau
1969·6.7
Clerambard
1969·5.5
Mr. Freedom
1969·5.2
The Tender Age
1968·8.0
Very Happy Alexander
1968·6.9
The Other One
1967·6.0
Woman Times Seven
1967·6.3
The Night of the Generals
1967·6.8
Tender Scoundrel
1966·5.2
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966·6.5
Father's Trip
1966·6.6
La Fin de la nuit
1966·10.0
The Sultans
1966·5.0
A Matter of Resistance
1966·6.8
Lady L
1965·5.8
The Buddies
1965·5.3
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964·5.9
Clémentine chérie
1964·6.2
The Lovers of the France
1964·9.0
Monsieur
1964·6.4
Summer Frenzy
1964·5.9
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964·7.0
La Porteuse de pain
1963·5.8
Ballad for a Hoodlum
1963·6.5
Therese
1962·6.7
The Masseuses
1962·5.1
Crime Does Not Pay
1962·5.5
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962·7.0
Le Mal court
1962·10.0
Flore et Blancheflore
1961·0.0
Rendezvous
1961·6.3
Famous Love Affairs
1961·4.4
All the Gold in the World
1961·6.5
Captain Fracasse
1961·5.5
Cyrano de Bergerac
1960·8.6
Ravishing
1960·5.5
De fil en aiguille
1960·6.5
Zazie dans le Métro
1960·6.6
Macbeth
1959·10.0
La Pointe Courte
1956·6.9
Matrimonial Agency
1952·5.6
Olivia
1951·6.6
Gigi
1949·6.1