Jean Rochefort

Jean Rochefort (29 April 1930 – 9 October 2017) was a French actor, with a career that has spanned over six decades. Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National. After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the Compagnie Grenier Hussenot as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy. He then became a television and cinema actor. He has also worked as director. In his 30s during the shooting of Cartouche, he discovered his passion for horses and equestrianism. He has been a horse breeder since then and now owns Le Haras de Villequoy. His passion led him to become a horse consultant for French television in 2004. He has won two César Awards: In 1976, Best Supporting Actor for Que la fête commence; and in 1978, Best Actor for Le Crabe-tambour. He was to play the title character in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, after being found as "the perfect Quixote" by director Terry Gilliam. Rochefort learned 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. With recent news of the film's possible restart, Rochefort has been recast with Robert Duvall, due to his inability to ride a horse. In 1960 he married Alexandra Moscwa, with whom he fathered two children: a girl, Marie (1962), and a boy, Julien (1965). In 2007, he sang with the French band Dionysos a short verse in l'homme sans trucage: « Vas-y, saute, monte, grimpe à ton cœur, sauve-toi, n'aie pas peur, ouvre grand, mon petit, il est temps d'avaler une énorme bouffée d'air frais, andalucia, anda, anda, andalucia... » (Go ahead, jump, climbs to your heart, save yourself, don't be afraid, open wide, my boy, it's time to swallow a huge breath of fresh air, andalucia, anda, anda, andaluci...) Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rochefort, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1930-04-29

Died: 2017-10-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Meeting in Paris	L'interne	10
2	1958	The Queen of Spades	Le compte Paul Tomsk	0
3	1958	A Bullet in the Gun Barrel	Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'	52
4	1961	Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre	Fernand	0
5	1961	Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend	Fernand	100
6	1961	Captain Fracasse	Malartic	56
7	1961	The Marriage of Figaro	Le comte Almaviva	56
8	1962	Cartouche	La Taupe	64
9	1962	Sun in Your Eyes		60
10	1962	The Iron Mask	Lastreaumont	58
11	1963	Outpost in Indo-china	Sergeant Hérange	63
12	1963	Symphony for a Massacre	Jabeke	68
13	1963	La Porteuse de pain	Ovide Soliveau	53
14	1963	The Blockhead Fair	Sigoules	70
15	1964	Trouble Among Widows	Inspector Laforêt	68
16	1964	Les pieds nickelés	Croquignol	58
17	1964	Angelique	François Desgrez	67
18	1964	Beautiful Families	Marchese Osvaldo	67
19	1965	Le naïf amoureux	Paul Robignac, adult	0
20	1965	Angelique: The Road To Versailles	François Desgrez	67
21	1965	Up to His Ears	Leon	72
22	1966	Angelique and the King	François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)	65
23	1966	Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?	Grégoire Pecque	64
24	1967	The Sunday of Life	Captain Bordeille	53
25	1967	Two Weeks in September	Philippe	50
26	1968	Don't Play with Martians	René Mastier	20
27	1968	For a Distant Love		0
28	1969	The Devil by the Tail	Le comte Georges	60
29	1970	The Time to Die	Hervé Breton	44
30	1970	La Liberté en croupe	Moss	43
31	1970	Céleste	Georges Cazenave	0
32	1971	Le Misanthrope	Alceste	0
33	1972	The Egg	Victor Dugommier	57
34	1972	Hearth Fires	Alexandre Boursault	60
35	1972	The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe	Colonel Louis Toulouse	70
36	1973	The Inheritor	Le nonce (André Berthier)	63
37	1973	The Conspiracy	Dominique Clavet	53
38	1973	Lovely Swine	The police inspector	60
39	1973	Mean Frank and Crazy Tony	Louis	44
40	1973	Hail the Artist	Clément Chamfort	55
41	1974	The Watchmaker of St. Paul	Commissioner Guilboud	69
42	1974	How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby	Foisnard	55
43	1974	The Phantom of Liberty	Mr. Legendre	74
44	1974	Till Marriage Do Us Part	Barone Henri de Sarcey	58
45	1974	The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe	Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse	65
46	1975	Let Joy Reign Supreme	Abbot Dubois	64
47	1975	Innocents with Dirty Hands	Maitre Albert Legal	61
48	1975	Isabelle and Lust	M. Vaudois	43
49	1975	A Happy Divorce	Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge	50
50	1975	Death Rite	Edouard	42
51	1976	The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside	Le commissaire Pichard	53
52	1976	Femmes Fatales	Albert	61
53	1976	Pardon Mon Affaire	Étienne	70
54	1977	The Devil in the Box	Alain Brissot	45
55	1977	We Will All Meet in Paradise	Etienne Dorsay	68
56	1977	Drummer-Crab	Captain, commander of the escort ship	66
57	1978	Grandison	Carl Grandison	0
58	1978	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	August Grandvilliers	60
59	1979	The Skirt Chaser	Edouard Choiseul	58
60	1979	Courage fuyons	Martin Belhomme	61
61	1979	French Postcards	Monsieur Tessier	49
62	1980	I Sent a Letter to My Love	Gilles Martin	61
63	1980	I Hate Blondes	Donald Rose	46
64	1981	Un étrange voyage	Pierre	67
65	1981	Birgit Haas Must Be Killed	Charles-Philippe Bauman	62
66	1982	L'Indiscrétion	Alain Tescique	48
67	1982	The Big Brother	Charles-Henri Rossi	58
68	1983	A Friend of Vincent	Vincent Lamar	59
69	1983	Un dimanche de flics	A. Rupert	60
70	1984	Frankenstein 90	Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie	58
71	1984	New Year's Eve At Bob's	Louis Alban	62
72	1985	Volley for a Black Buffalo	Lajos Ácsi, the count	57
73	1985	L'Énigme blanche	Henri	55
74	1986	La Galette du roi	Arnold III of Corsalina	45
75	1987	Le Moustachu	le capitaine Duroc	44
76	1987	Tandem	Michel Mortez	71
77	1987	My First 40 Years	Principe Riccio	31
78	1989	I'm the King of the Castle	Jean Bréaud	68
79	1990	The Other Woman	Farou	0
80	1990	The Hairdresser's Husband	Antoine	68
81	1990	My Mother's Castle	Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour	72
82	1991	Amoureux fou	Rudolph	35
83	1992	Le Bal des casse-pieds	Henri Sauveur	58
84	1992	The Long Winter	Jordi Casals	52
85	1992	L'Atlantide	Le Meige	50
86	1993	Tango	Bellhop	58
87	1993	Wild Target	Victor Meynard	65
88	1993	Lost in Transit	Arturo Conti	64
89	1993	Next Time the Fire	Amedeo	0
90	1994	Once a Year, Every Year	Raffaele	0
91	1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Inspector Tantpis	52
92	1995	Tom est tout seul	Jean-Pierre	47
93	1996	Palace	Thomas Fausto	58
94	1996	The Grand Dukes	Eddie Carpentier	60
95	1996	Ridicule	Le Marquis de Bellegarde	70
96	1997	Clara et son juge	Judge Larcher	0
97	1997	Never Ever	Gerard Panier	20
98	1997	Barracuda	Monsieur Clément	65
99	1998	In and Out of Fashion	Self (archive footage)	60
100	1998	Le serpent a mangé la grenouille		0
101	1998	Wind with the Gone	Edgard Wexley	72
102	1999	Rembrandt	Nicolaes Tulp	57
103	2000	Speaking of Buñuel	Self	59
104	2000	Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète	Self	0
105	2001	The Closet	Kopel, le directeur de l'usine	64
106	2001	Honolulu Baby	Cri Cri	50
107	2002	Lost in La Mancha	Self	70
108	2002	Blanche	Mazarin	41
109	2002	Man on the Train	Monsieur Manesquier	67
110	2002	Pierre et le Loup		0
111	2003	J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend	Narrator (voice)	52
112	2003	The Car Keys	Actor who refuses to film with Laurent	51
113	2003	Saint-Germain ou La négociation	Henri de Malassise	67
114	2004	Heureux ?	The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches	0
115	2004	RRRrrrr!!!	Lucie	63
116	2004	Lucky Luke and the Daltons	Jolly Jumper (voice)	37
117	2005	Akoibon	Chris Barnes	50
118	2005	Hell	Louis	61
119	2006	Tell No One	Gilbert Neuville	72
120	2006	Twice Upon a Time	Louis Ruinard	59
121	2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday	Maître d'hôtel	64
122	2007	Tell No One: The B-Side	Self	60
123	2007	The Key	Joseph Arp	54
124	2008	I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster	Jean	73
125	2008	Bien des choses	Voix	90
126	2008	Agathe Cléry	Louis Guinard	48
127	2010	The Great Restaurant	Un client du restaurant	58
128	2011	Titeuf	Pépé (voice)	58
129	2011	Belmondo, itinéraire...	Self	77
130	2011	Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde	Self (archive footage)	60
131	2012	The Artist and the Model	Marc Cros	62
132	2012	Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia	Lucius Fouinus	51
133	2013	... à la française !		60
134	2013	Jappeloup	Self (uncredited)	71
135	2014	Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart	Méliès (voice)	72
136	2015	Florida	Claude Lherminier	64
137	2015	April and the Extraordinary World	Pops (voice)	70
138	2015	Les Rats	Narrator (voice)	0
139	2016	Belmondo by Belmondo	Self	78
140	2017	À la recherche de... Pierre Richard	Self - Actor (archive footage)	70
141	2017	Belmondo, le magnifique	Self (archive footage)	77
142	2017	Belmondo ou le goût du risque	Self	63
143	2019	Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde	Self	68
144	2020	Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible	Self (archive footage)	75
145	2020	Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord		87

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine	60
2	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
3	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
4	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
5	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
6	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
7	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
8	1978	Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
9	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
10	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
11	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
12	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
13	1995	Les Bœuf-carottes	Venturi	66
14	1998	The Count of Monte Cristo	Fernand Mondego	72
15	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
16	2006	On n'est pas couché	Self - Guest	52
17	2007	Chez Maupassant	le père	75
18	2012	Square	Self	0
19	2016	Les Boloss des belles lettres		0
20	2021	Archives secrètes	Self (archive footage)	0

Jean Rochefort

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