Jean Rochefort

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Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort (born April 29, 1930 in Paris ; † October 9, 2017 there ) was a French actor . He starred in 160 films, mostly in comedies and dramas.

life and career

After Rochefort had worked in theater and cabaret as an actor and director without much success, he began his career as a film actor in the mid-1950s. In the early 1960s, Rochefort established himself in French film as a much sought-after comedian and character actor. He worked as a film and TV actor from 1956 to 2015, taking on more than 160 roles.

Rochefort was often seen in comical films, for example at the side of Pierre Richard , next to whom he appeared in The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe as a scheming head of the secret service. From 1964 he also played in the Angélique series. Several times came Rochefort next to Jean-Paul Belmondo on ( Cartouche, the bandit ) , with whom he collaborated the Paris Conservatoire had visited.

In the dramatic field he established himself in 1972 as the husband of Annie Girardot and father of Claude Jade in Serge Korber's candlelight , who has left the family. At the age of just 41, he impressed as the father of the 23-year-old Claude Jade, who wants to reconcile the parents. But his film son Bernard Le Coq wants to prevent this and the mother dies before he returns. Candlelight also ensured his distinctive mustache. In order to credibly play the father of Jade and Le Coq, the Mustache let him age - and Rochefort only parted with his trademark once, in 1996 for Ridicule . Shortly after candlelight , his secret service chief made him popular in The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe .

From then on, Rochefort also played leading serious roles in films such as The Watchmaker of St. Paul as an inspector alongside watchmaker Philippe Noiret . With the lead role in one of the most successful French comedies of the 1970s, An Elefant is mistaken , in which he tries to cheat his wife ( Danièle Delorme ) with a photo model ( Anny Duperey ) as Étienne , he finally played himself in the front row the French actor. In 1979, he played an accused with his wife ( Marlène Jobert ) in the German film Grandison , who took his own life. His later successes include the title roles in The Hairdresser's Man (1989), The Killer and the Girl (1993) and The Second Life of Monsieur Manesquier (2002). Rochefort was an integral part of French cinema for five decades. Three times he led himself directed .

In 1976 and 1978 he was awarded a César for best male supporting or leading role .

Jean Rochefort died in his hometown of Paris in October 2017 at the age of 87. Since January 1989, Jean Rochefort was married to Françoise Vidal for the second time. The couple had two children. He also had two children from his first marriage and a son from a relationship with the French actress Nicole Garcia .

Filmography (selection)

Rochefort at the 2011 César Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other information in Dinan
  2. ^ L'acteur Jean Rochefort est mort à 87 ans. In: Le Monde (online). October 9, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 (French).
  3. ^ Jean Rochefort. In: http://www.steffi-line.de/ . Retrieved April 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Rochefort, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rochefort, Jean Raoul Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2017
Place of death Paris