Jean Rochefort
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). ...
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Movies (155)
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 · Self (archive) - actor
L'Œuvre invisible
2026 · Self
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
2019 · Self
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2017 · Self
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017 · Self (archive footage)
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017 · Self - Actor (archive footage)
Belmondo by Belmondo
2016 · Self
Pourquoi Pas
2016 · Director
Les Rats
2015 · Narrator (voice)
April and the Extraordinary World
2015 · Pops (voice)
Florida
2015 · Claude Lherminier
Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
2014 · Méliès (voice)
Jappeloup
2013 · Self (uncredited)
... à la française !
2013 · Minister of Foreign Affairs
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
2012 · Lucius Fouinus
The Artist and the Model
2012 · Marc Cros
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011 · Self
Titeuf
2011 · Pépé (voice)
Cavaliers Seuls
2010 · Director, Writer
The Great Restaurant
2010 · Un client du restaurant
Agathe Cléry
2008 · Louis Guinard
Bien des choses
2008 · Sultan the dog (voice)
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008 · Jean
The Key
2007 · Joseph Arp
Tell No One: The B-Side
2007 · Self
Las vacaciones de Mr. Bean
2007 · Maître d'hôtel
Twice Upon a Time
2006 · Louis Ruinard
Tell No One
2006 · Gilbert Neuville
Hell
2005 · Louis
Akoibon
2005 · Chris Barnes
Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004 · Jolly Jumper (voice)
Les bottes
2004 · Récitant (voice)
RRRrrrr!!!
2004 · Lucie
Heureux ?
2004 · The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Saint-Germain ou La négociation
2003 · Henri de Malassise
The Car Keys
2003 · Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Pierre et le Loup
2002 · Narrator (voice)
Man on the Train
2002 · Monsieur Manesquier
Blanche
2002 · Mazarin
Lost in La Mancha
2002 · Self
Honolulu Baby
2001 · Cri Cri
The Closet
2001 · Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000 · Self
Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · Self
Rembrandt
1999 · Nicolaes Tulp
Wind with the Gone
1998 · Edgard Wexley
Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
1998 · Monsieur Moreau
Barracuda
1997 · Monsieur Clément
Never Ever
1997 · Gerard Panier
Clara et son juge
1997 · Judge Larcher
Ridicule
1996 · Le Marquis de Bellegarde
The Grand Dukes
1996 · Eddie Carpentier
Palace
1996 · Thomas Fausto
Tom est tout seul
1995 · Jean-Pierre
Prêt-à-Porter
1994 · Inspector Tantpis
Once a Year, Every Year
1994 · Raffaele
Next Time the Fire
1993 · Amedeo
Lost in Transit
1993 · Arturo Conti
Wild Target
1993 · Victor Meynard
Tango
1993 · Bellhop
L'Atlantide
1992 · Le Meige
From Time to Time
1992 · Louis XV
The Long Winter
1992 · Jordi Casals
Le Bal des casse-pieds
1992 · Henri Sauveur
Amoureux fou
1991 · Rudolph
My Mother's Castle
1990 · Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990 · Antoine
The Other Woman
1990 · Farou
I'm the King of the Castle
1989 · Jean Bréaud
My First 40 Years
1987 · Principe Riccio
Tandem
1987 · Michel Mortez
Le Moustachu
1987 · le capitaine Duroc
La Galette du roi
1986 · Arnold III of Corsalina
L'Énigme blanche
1985 · Henri
Volley for a Black Buffalo
1985 · Lajos Ácsi, the count
New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984 · Louis Alban
Frankenstein 90
1984 · Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
The Dogs of Jerusalem
1984 · Nicodème
Un dimanche de flics
1983 · A. Rupert
A Friend of Vincent
1983 · Vincent Lamar
The Big Brother
1982 · Charles-Henri Rossi
L'Indiscrétion
1982 · Alain Tescique
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981 · Charles-Philippe Bauman
Un étrange voyage
1981 · Pierre
I Hate Blondes
1980 · Donald Rose
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980 · Gilles Martin
French Postcards
1979 · Monsieur Tessier
Courage fuyons
1979 · Martin Belhomme
The Skirt Chaser
1979 · Edouard Choiseul
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978 · August Grandvilliers
Grandison
1978 · Carl Grandison
We Will All Meet in Paradise
1977 · Etienne Dorsay
Drummer-Crab
1977 · Captain, commander of the escort ship
The Devil in the Box
1977 · Alain Brissot
Pardon Mon Affaire
1976 · Étienne
Femmes Fatales
1976 · Albert
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976 · Le commissaire Pichard
Death Rite
1975 · Edouard
A Happy Divorce
1975 · Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Isabelle and Lust
1975 · M. Vaudois
Innocents with Dirty Hands
1975 · Maitre Albert Legal
Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975 · Abbot Dubois
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974 · Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974 · Barone Henri de Sarcey
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Mr. Legendre
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974 · Foisnard
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974 · Commissioner Guilboud
T'es fou Marcel
1974 · Director
Hail the Artist
1973 · Clément Chamfort
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
1973 · Louis
Lovely Swine
1973 · The police inspector
The Conspiracy
1973 · Dominique Clavet
The Inheritor
1973 · Le nonce (André Berthier)
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972 · Colonel Louis Toulouse
Hearth Fires
1972 · Alexandre Boursault
The Egg
1972 · Victor Dugommier
Le Misanthrope
1971 · Alceste
Céleste
1970 · Georges Cazenave
La Liberté en croupe
1970 · Moss
The Time to Die
1970 · Hervé Breton
The Devil by the Tail
1969 · Le comte Georges
For a Distant Love
1968 · Guillaume
Don't Play with Martians
1968 · René Mastier
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967 · Un causeur dans le boudoir
Two Weeks in September
1967 · Philippe
The Sunday of Life
1967 · Captain Bordeille
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966 · Grégoire Pecque
Angelique and the King
1966 · François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
Up to His Ears
1965 · Leon
Angelique: The Road to Versailles
1965 · François Desgrez
Le Naïf amoureux
1965 · Paul Robignac, adult
Beautiful Families
1964 · Marchese Osvaldo
Angelique
1964 · François Desgrez
Les Pieds nickelés
1964 · Croquignol
Trouble Among Widows
1964 · Inspecteur Laforêt
The Blockhead Fair
1963 · Didier's father
La Porteuse de pain
1963 · Ovide Soliveau
Symphony for a Massacre
1963 · Jabeke
Outpost in Indo-china
1963 · Sergeant Hérange
La Nuit des rois
1962 · Sir André
The Iron Mask
1962 · Lastreaumont
Sun in Your Eyes
1962
Cartouche
1962 · La Taupe
The Marriage of Figaro
1961 · Le comte Almaviva
Captain Fracasse
1961 · Malartic
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
1961 · Fernand
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
1961 · Fernand
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1958 · Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
The Queen of Spades
1958 · Le compte Paul Tomsk
Meeting in Paris
1956 · L'interne
TV shows (21)
Archives secrètes
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Les Boloss des belles lettres
2016 · Self - Narrator
Square
2012 · Self
Chez Maupassant
2007 · le père
On n'est pas couché
2006 · Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Self
The Count of Monte Cristo
1998 · Fernand Mondego
Les Bœuf-carottes
1995 · Venturi
Stars 90
1990 · Self
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
Victoires de la musique
1985 · Self
Champs-Elysées
1982 · Self
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Cérémonie des César
1976 · Self - Guest, Self - President
30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
Numéro un
1975 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
Midi trente
1972 · Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine