Jean Rochefort
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1930-04-29
Deathday 2017-10-09 (87 years old)
Place of Birth Paris, France
Also Known As Жан Рошфор, جان روشفور, ジャン・ロシュフォール, 장 로슈포르
Jean Rochefort
Biography
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
Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Comédien (archive footage)
as Self
as Pops (voice)
as Claude Lherminier
as Méliès (voice)
as Self (uncredited)
as Lucius Fouinus
as Marc Cros
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Pépé (voice)
as Un client du restaurant
as Louis Guinard
as Voix
as Jean
as Joseph Arp
as Self
as Maître d'hôtel
as le père
as Louis Ruinard
as Gilbert Neuville
as Louis
as Chris Barnes
as Jolly Jumper (voice)
as Lucie
as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
as Henri de Malassise
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
as Narrator (voice)
as Monsieur Manesquier
as Mazarin
as Self
as Cri Cri
as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
as Self
as Nicolaes Tulp
as Edgard Wexley
as Fernand Mondego Comte de Morcerf
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Fernand Mondego
as Monsieur Clément
as Gerard Panier
as Judge Larcher
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
as Eddie Carpentier
as Thomas Fausto
as Jean-Pierre
as Venturi
as Inspector Tantpis
as Raffaele
as Amedeo
as Arturo Conti
as Victor Meynard
as Bellhop
as Le Meige
as Jordi Casals
as Henri Sauveur
as Rudolph
as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
as Antoine
as Farou
as Self
as Jean Breaud
as Principe Riccio
as Michel Mortez
as le capitaine Duroc
as Self
as Arnold III of Corsalina
as Henri
as Lajos Ácsi, the count
as Self
as Louis Alban
as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
as A. Rupert
as Vincent Lamar
as Charles-Henri Rossi
as Alain Tescique
as Self
as Charles-Philippe Bauman
as Pierre
as Donald Rose
as Gilles Martin
as Monsieur Tessier
as Martin Belhomme
as Edouard Choiseul
as August Grandvilliers
as Carl Grandison
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Etienne Dorsay
as Captain, le Commandant
as Alain Brissot
as Étienne
as Albert
as Le commissaire Pichard
as Self
as Edouard
as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
as M. Vaudois
as Maitre Albert Legal
as Father Dubois
as Self
as Self
as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
as Barone Henri de Sarcey
as M. Legendre
as Commissioner Guilboud
as Self
as Clément Chamfort
as Louis
as The police inspector
as Dominique
as Le nonce (André Berthier)
as Colonel Louis Toulouse
as Alexandre Boursault
as Victor Dugommier
as Self
as Self
as Alceste
as Moss
as Hervé Breton
as Le comte Georges
as René Mastier
as Philippe
as Captain Bordeille
as Grégoire Pecque
as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
as Leon
as François Desgrez
as Paul Robignac, adult
as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
as Marchese Osvaldo
as François Desgrez
as Croquignol
as Inspecteur Laforêt
as Sigoules
as Ovide Soliveau
as Jabeke
as Sergeant Hérange
as Lastreaumont
as La Taupe
as Le comte Almaviva
as Malartic
as Fernand
as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
as L'interne
Director
Writer
as Writer