Philippe Noiret
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. ...
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Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009 · Self (archive footage)
The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007 · Self
3 Friends
2007 · Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006 · Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006 · Self
Edy
2005 · Louis
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
2005 · Narrator (voice)
My New Partner III
2003 · René Boirond
The Chops
2003 · Léonce
Father and Sons
2003 · Léo
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
2003 · Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Step by Step
2002 · Louis Chevalier
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Self
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000 · Joseph Steg
On Guard
1997 · Duke Philippe d'Orléans
Marianna Ucrìa
1997 · Duke Signoretto
Soleil
1997 · Joseph Lévy
Pierre and Marie
1997 · Professor Rodolphe Schutz
Le Veilleur de nuit
1996 · Monsieur
Ghost with Driver
1996 · Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
The Grand Dukes
1996 · Victor Vialat
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
1996 · Récitant / Narrator
Looking for Paradise
1995 · Padre di Claudia
Les Milles
1995 · Le Général
Too Loud A Solitude
1995 · Haňťa
Le Roi de Paris
1995 · Victor Derval
The Troubles We've Seen
1994 · Self
The Postman
1994 · Pablo Neruda
D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994 · D'Artagnan
Dead Tired
1994 · Philippe Noiret
Tango
1993 · L'Elégant
Max & Jeremie
1992 · Robert 'Max' Maxendre
The Two of Us
1992 · Toussaint
Fish Soup
1992 · Alberto
Lest We Forget
1991 · Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
I Don't Kiss
1991 · Romain
Especially on Sunday
1991 · Amleto
Rossini! Rossini!
1991 · Gioacchino Rossini
Uranus
1990 · Watrin
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990 · Anatole Hirsch
My New Partner II
1990 · René Boirond
The Palermo Connection
1990 · Gianni Mucci
Life and Nothing But
1989 · Commander Delaplane
The Return of the Musketeers
1989 · Cardinal Mazarin
Cinema Paradiso
1988 · Alfredo
Young Toscanini
1988 · Dom Pedro II.
Chouans !
1988 · Savinien de Kerfadec
The Sparrow's Fluttering
1988 · Gabriele Battistini
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
1988 · Narrateur
Widow's Walk
1987 · Inspector Molinat
The Family
1987 · Jean-Luc
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987 · Dr. Athos Fadigati
The Man Who Planted Trees
1987 · Narrator (voice)
Masks
1987 · Christian Legagneur
Twist Again in Moscow
1986 · Igor Tataïev
'Round Midnight
1986 · Redon
The Secret Wife
1986 · Pierre Franchin, the painter
Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986 · Leonardo
Before Midnight
1986 · Self (archive footage)
The Fourth Power
1985 · Yves Dorget
Les Rois du gag
1985 · In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
Next Summer
1985 · Edouard
My New Partner
1984 · René Boirond
Souvenirs souvenirs
1984 · Le proviseur
Fort Saganne
1984 · Dubreuilh
Aurora
1984 · André
Le Grand Carnaval
1983 · Étienne Labrouche
The African
1983 · Victor
A Friend of Vincent
1983 · Albert Palm
My Friends Act II
1982 · Giorgio Perozzi
The North Star
1982 · Edouard Binet
Coup de Torchon
1981 · Lucien Cordier
The Making of "Coup de Torchon"
1981 · Self
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981 · Athanase
Three Brothers
1981 · Raffaele Giuranna
Heads or Tails
1980 · Inspecteur Louis Baroni
A Week's Vacation
1980 · Michel Descombes
Jupiter's Thigh
1980 · Antoine Lemercier
Rue du Pied de Grue
1979 · Le père
Two Pieces of Bread
1979 · Peppe Dorè
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978 · Eugène Pottier
The Witness
1978 · Robert Maurisson
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · Jean-Claude Moulineau
Dear Inspector
1978 · Antoine Lemercier
The Purple Taxi
1977 · Philippe Marchal
A Woman at Her Window
1976 · Raoul Malfosse
The Desert of the Tartars
1976 · General
Monsieur Albert
1976 · Albert
The Judge and the Assassin
1976 · Juge Rousseau
A Common Sense of Modesty
1976 · Giuseppe Costanzo
My Friends
1975 · Il Perozzi
The Old Gun
1975 · Julien Dandieu
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 · Philip of Orléans
Playing with Fire
1975 · Georges de Saxe
L'école est finie
1975 · Self - Narrator(voice)
The Secret
1974 · Thomas Berthelot
A Cloud in the Teeth
1974 · Malisard
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974 · Gaspard de Montfermeil
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974 · Gen. Terry
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974 · Michel Descombes
Poil de carotte
1973 · François Lepic
La Grande Bouffe
1973 · Philippe
The Serpent
1973 · Lucien Berthon
The Assassination
1972 · Pierre Garcin
Five Leaf Clover
1972 · Alfred
A Time for Loving
1972 · Marcel
La Mandarine
1972 · Georges Lapierre
The Old Maid
1972 · Gabriel Marcassus
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971 · Judge Francesco Langellone
The Most Gentle Confessions
1971 · Inspecteur Muller
Murphy's War
1971 · Brezan
Give Her the Moon
1970 · Gabriel
Topaz
1969 · Henri Jarre
Justine
1969 · Pombal
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Monsieur Lucoville
Clerambard
1969 · Count Hector de Clérambard
Mr. Freedom
1969 · Moujik Man
The Tender Age
1968 · Pourtalain
Very Happy Alexander
1968 · Alexandre Gartempe
The Other One
1967 · André
Woman Times Seven
1967 · Victor
The Night of the Generals
1967 · Inspector Morand
Tender Scoundrel
1966 · Bibi Dumonceaux
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966 · Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Father's Trip
1966 · Disgruntled traveler
La Fin de la nuit
1966 · Bernard Desqueyroux
The Sultans
1966 · Michou
A Matter of Resistance
1966 · Jérôme
Lady L
1965 · Ambroise Gérôme
The Buddies
1965 · Bénin
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964 · King Louis XIII
Clémentine chérie
1964 · Edgar Hoover
The Lovers of the France
1964 · Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Monsieur
1964 · Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
Summer Frenzy
1964 · Jean
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964 · Brassy
La Porteuse de pain
1963 · Jacques Garraud
Ballad for a Hoodlum
1963 · L'inspecteur Mathieu
Therese
1962 · Bernard Desqueyroux
The Masseuses
1962 · Bellini
Crime Does Not Pay
1962 · Monseigneur Hughes
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962 · Lucien Barlemont
Le Mal court
1962 · Parfait XVIII
Flore et Blancheflore
1961 · Le roi Félix
Rendezvous
1961 · Inspector Maillard
Famous Love Affairs
1961 · Louis XIV
All the Gold in the World
1961 · Victor Hardy
Captain Fracasse
1961 · Hérode
Cyrano de Bergerac
1960 · Lignère
Ravishing
1960 · Maurice
De fil en aiguille
1960 · M. Van Dam
Zazie dans le Métro
1960 · Oncle Gabriel
Macbeth
1959 · Macduff
La Pointe Courte
1956 · Him
Matrimonial Agency
1952 · A passerby (uncredited)
Olivia
1951 · Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
Gigi
1949 · Bit Part (uncredited)
TV shows (14)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
Stars 90
1990 · Self
Sacrée soirée
1987 · Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Cérémonie des César
1976 · Self - President
30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Apostrophes
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Midi trente
1972 · Self
Discorama
1959 · Self - Host, Self