Jean Rochefort

ActorDirectorWriter Apr 29 (died age 87) Paris, France 1956–2026 (70 year career)

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Biography

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 Na…

Known For

Film

Tell No One

Gilbert Neuville

Film

Mr. Bean's Holiday

Maître d'hôtel

Film

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Méliès (voice)

Film

RRRrrrr!!!

Lucie

Film

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Colonel Louis Toulouse

Film

The Phantom of Liberty

Mr. Legendre

Film

Jappeloup

Self (uncredited)

Film

April and the Extraordinary World

Pops (voice)

Filmography

Acting (169)

Movies (148)

L'Œuvre invisible

2026 Upcoming

as Self (archive footage)

Apr 8

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

2021

as Self (archive footage)

9.0

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde

2019

as Self

6.8

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

2017

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

7.0

Belmondo, le magnifique

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

Belmondo ou le goût du risque

as Self

Belmondo by Belmondo

as Self

Florida

as Claude Lherminier

April and the Extraordinary World

2015

as Pops (voice)

7.1

Les Rats

2015

as Narrator (voice)

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

as Méliès (voice)

Jappeloup

as Self (uncredited)

... à la française !

as Minister of Foreign Affairs

6.0

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia

2012

as Lucius Fouinus

5.1

The Artist and the Model

2012

as Marc Cros

6.1

Belmondo, itinéraire...

as Self

Titeuf

as Pépé (voice)

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

2011

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

The Great Restaurant

2010

as Un client du restaurant

Agathe Cléry

as Louis Guinard

Bien des choses

as Sultan the dog (voice)

9.0

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

as Jean

Mr. Bean's Holiday

as Maître d'hôtel

Tell No One: The B-Side

as Self

The Key

as Joseph Arp

Tell No One

as Gilbert Neuville

Twice Upon a Time

as Louis Ruinard

Hell

as Louis

Akoibon

as Chris Barnes

RRRrrrr!!!

as Lucie

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

2004

as Jolly Jumper (voice)

3.7

Heureux ?

2004

as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches

Les bottes

2004

as Récitant (voice)

6.7

J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend

2003

as Narrator (voice)

5.2

The Car Keys

2003

as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

5.1

Saint-Germain ou La négociation

2003

as Henri de Malassise

6.7

Pierre et le Loup

2002

as Narrator (voice)

Blanche

as Mazarin

Lost in La Mancha

as Self

Man on the Train

as Monsieur Manesquier

6.7

The Closet

2001

as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine

6.4

Honolulu Baby

2001

as Cri Cri

5.0

Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète

as Self

Speaking of Buñuel

as Self

Rembrandt

as Nicolaes Tulp

Le serpent a mangé la grenouille

1998

as Monsieur Moreau

Wind with the Gone

1998

as Edgard Wexley

7.2

Clara et son juge

1997

as Judge Larcher

Never Ever

as Gerard Panier

Barracuda

as Monsieur Clément

Ridicule

as Le Marquis de Bellegarde

Palace

as Thomas Fausto

The Grand Dukes

as Eddie Carpentier

Tom est tout seul

as Jean-Pierre

Prêt-à-Porter

as Inspector Tantpis

Once a Year, Every Year

1994

as Raffaele

Tango

as Bellhop

Wild Target

as Victor Meynard

Lost in Transit

as Arturo Conti

Next Time the Fire

as Amedeo

From Time to Time

1992

as Louis XV

The Long Winter

1992

as Jordi Casals

4.7

Le Bal des casse-pieds

as Henri Sauveur

L'Atlantide

as Le Meige

Amoureux fou

as Rudolph

The Hairdresser's Husband

1990

as Antoine

6.8

My Mother's Castle

1990

as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour

7.2

The Other Woman

1990

as Farou

I'm the King of the Castle

as Jean Bréaud

My First 40 Years

as Principe Riccio

Tandem

as Michel Mortez

Le Moustachu

as le capitaine Duroc

4.4

La Galette du roi

1986

as Arnold III of Corsalina

4.2

L'Énigme blanche

1985

as Henri

5.5

Volley for a Black Buffalo

1985

as Lajos Ácsi, the count

5.7

New Year's Eve At Bob's

1984

as Louis Alban

6.3

Frankenstein 90

1984

as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie

A Friend of Vincent

as Vincent Lamar

Un dimanche de flics

as A. Rupert

The Big Brother

as Charles-Henri Rossi

5.8

L'Indiscrétion

1982

as Alain Tescique

4.8

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

1981

as Charles-Philippe Bauman

Un étrange voyage

as Pierre

I Hate Blondes

as Donald Rose

I Sent a Letter to My Love

as Gilles Martin

French Postcards

as Monsieur Tessier

The Skirt Chaser

as Edouard Choiseul

Courage fuyons

as Martin Belhomme

Grandison

as Carl Grandison

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

as August Grandvilliers

6.1

Drummer-Crab

1977

as Captain, commander of the escort ship

6.6

We Will All Meet in Paradise

as Etienne Dorsay

The Devil in the Box

as Alain Brissot

Femmes Fatales

as Albert

Pardon Mon Affaire

as Étienne

The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

1976

as Le commissaire Pichard

5.2

A Happy Divorce

1975

as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge

Isabelle and Lust

as M. Vaudois

Death Rite

as Edouard

Let Joy Reign Supreme

1975

as Abbot Dubois

6.4

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975

as Maitre Albert Legal

6.1

The Phantom of Liberty

1974

as Mr. Legendre

7.4

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

as Commissioner Guilboud

6.9

The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1974

as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse

6.5

Till Marriage Do Us Part

1974

as Barone Henri de Sarcey

5.6

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

as Foisnard

The Conspiracy

as Dominique Clavet

Hail the Artist

as Clément Chamfort

Lovely Swine

as The police inspector

6.0

The Inheritor

1973

as Le nonce (André Berthier)

6.3

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

as Louis

The Egg

as Victor Dugommier

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

as Colonel Louis Toulouse

7.0

Hearth Fires

1972

as Alexandre Boursault

6.0

Le Misanthrope

1971

as Alceste

Céleste

1970

as Georges Cazenave

The Time to Die

as Hervé Breton

La Liberté en croupe

as Moss

The Devil by the Tail

1969

as Le comte Georges

6.1

Don't Play with Martians

1968

as René Mastier

2.0

For a Distant Love

1968

as Guillaume

The Sunday of Life

1967

as Captain Bordeille

5.3

Two Weeks in September

1967

as Philippe

4.7

Angelique and the King

1966

as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)

6.5

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

as Grégoire Pecque

Up to His Ears

as Leon

Angelique: The Road To Versailles

1965

as François Desgrez

6.6

Le naïf amoureux

1965

as Paul Robignac, adult

Angelique

as François Desgrez

Les pieds nickelés

as Croquignol

Beautiful Families

as Marchese Osvaldo

Trouble Among Widows

as Inspecteur Laforêt

6.8

Outpost in Indo-china

1963

as Sergeant Hérange

6.3

Symphony for a Massacre

as Jabeke

La Porteuse de pain

as Ovide Soliveau

The Blockhead Fair

as Didier's father

Cartouche

as La Taupe

La Nuit des rois

as Sir André

Sun in Your Eyes

The Iron Mask

as Lastreaumont

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

as Fernand

Captain Fracasse

as Malartic

The Marriage of Figaro

1961

as Le comte Almaviva

5.6

Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre

1961

as Fernand

The Queen of Spades

1958

as Le compte Paul Tomsk

A Bullet in the Gun Barrel

1958

as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'

5.2

Meeting in Paris

1956

as L'interne

1.0

Television (21)

Archives secrètes

2021

as Self (archive footage)

Les Boloss des belles lettres

2016

as Self - Narrator

Square

2012

as Self

Chez Maupassant

as le père

On n'est pas couché

as Self - Guest

Vivement dimanche

as Self

The Count of Monte Cristo

as Fernand Mondego

Les Bœuf-carottes

as Venturi

Stars 90

as Self

Nulle part ailleurs

as Self

Victoires de la musique

as Self

Champs-Elysées

as Self

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978

as Self - Narrator (voice)

30 millions d'amis

as Self

Cérémonie des César

as Self - Guest

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self

Numéro un

as Self

Spécial cinéma

as Self

Le Grand Échiquier

as Self

Midi trente

as Self

Dim Dam Dom

as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine

6.0

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Pourquoi Pas

2016

Director

Cavaliers Seuls

Director

Cavaliers Seuls

Writer

T'es fou Marcel

Director