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name: "Jean Rochefort"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-rochefort"
fi1m_id: "jean-rochefort"
imdb_id: "nm0734000"
tmdb_id: 24421
wikidata_id: "Q106555"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 April 1930"
died: "9 October 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
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average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T02:49:34.955260+00:00"
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# Jean Rochefort

## Identity

Jean Rochefort

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-rochefort
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-rochefort
- **IMDb ID:** nm0734000
- **TMDB ID:** 24421
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106555
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rochefort, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106555, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24421

Actor. Born 29 April 1930 in Paris, France. Died 9 October 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 April 1930, Paris, France
- **Died:** 9 October 2017
- **Also known as:** Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rochefort, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106555, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24421

## Biography

Jean Rochefort was a French actor. Born in Paris on 29 April 1930, he trained at the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche and the Conservatoire National. After national service he worked for seven years as a theatre actor with the Compagnie Grenier Hussenot.

He made his film debut in the mid-1950s and went on to appear in more than one hundred films and thirty-seven television productions. Notable roles include Colonel Louis Toulouse in *The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe* (1972), the lead in *Pardon Mon Affaire* (1976) and *Le Crabe-Tambour* (1977), and Gilbert Neuville in *Tell No One* (2006). He voiced Pépé in the animated feature *Titeuf* (2011). Rochefort received the César for best supporting actor in 1976, best actor in 1978 and an honorary César in 1999. He died in Paris on 9 October 2017.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Titeuf* (2011), Fi1m 65, as Pépé (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/titeuf.md)

## Complete filmography (143)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Belmondo: The Incorrigible* (2022), Actor
- *Pourquoi Pas* (2016), Director
- *Les Rats* (2015), as Narrator (voice)
- *April and the Extraordinary World* (2015), as Pops (voice)
- *Florida* (2015), as Claude Lherminier
- *Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart* (2014), as Méliès (voice)
- *... à la française !* (2013), as Minister of Foreign Affairs
- *Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia* (2012), as Lucius Fouinus
- *The Artist and the Model* (2012), as Marc Cros
- *Titeuf* (2011), as Pépé (voice) — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/titeuf.md)
- *Cavaliers Seuls* (2010), Director, Writer
- *The Great Restaurant* (2010), as Un client du restaurant
- *Agathe Cléry* (2008), as Louis Guinard
- *Bien des choses* (2008), as Sultan the dog (voice)
- *I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster* (2008), as Jean
- *The Key* (2007), as Joseph Arp
- *Mr. Bean's Holiday* (2007), as Maître d'hôtel
- *Chez Maupassant* (2007), series, as le père
- *Twice Upon a Time* (2006), as Louis Ruinard
- *Tell No One* (2006), as Gilbert Neuville
- *Hell* (2005), as Louis
- *Akoibon* (2005), as Chris Barnes
- *Lucky Luke and the Daltons* (2004), as Jolly Jumper (voice)
- *Les bottes* (2004), as Récitant (voice)
- *RRRrrrr!!!* (2004), as Lucie
- *Heureux ?* (2004), as The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
- *Saint-Germain ou La négociation* (2003), as Henri de Malassise
- *The Car Keys* (2003), as Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
- *J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend* (2003), as Narrator (voice)
- *Pierre et le Loup* (2002), as Narrator (voice)
- *Man on the Train* (2002), as Monsieur Manesquier
- *Blanche* (2002), as Mazarin
- *Honolulu Baby* (2001), as Cri Cri
- *The Closet* (2001), as Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
- *Rembrandt* (1999), as Nicolaes Tulp
- *Wind with the Gone* (1998), as Edgard Wexley
- *The Count of Monte Cristo* (1998), series, as Fernand Mondego
- *Le serpent a mangé la grenouille* (1998), as Monsieur Moreau
- *Barracuda* (1997), as Monsieur Clément
- *Never Ever* (1997), as Gerard Panier
- *Clara et son juge* (1997), as Judge Larcher
- *Ridicule* (1996), as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
- *The Grand Dukes* (1996), as Eddie Carpentier
- *Palace* (1996), as Thomas Fausto
- *Les Bœuf-carottes* (1995), series, as Venturi
- *Tom est tout seul* (1995), as Jean-Pierre
- *Prêt-à-Porter* (1994), as Inspector Tantpis
- *Once a Year, Every Year* (1994), as Raffaele
- *Next Time the Fire* (1993), as Amedeo
- *Lost in Transit* (1993), as Arturo Conti
- *Wild Target* (1993), as Victor Meynard
- *Tango* (1993), as Bellhop
- *L'Atlantide* (1992), as Le Meige
- *From Time to Time* (1992), as Louis XV
- *The Long Winter* (1992), as Jordi Casals
- *Le Bal des casse-pieds* (1992), as Henri Sauveur
- *Amoureux fou* (1991), as Rudolph
- *My Mother's Castle* (1990), as Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
- *The Hairdresser's Husband* (1990), as Antoine
- *The Other Woman* (1990), as Farou
- *I'm the King of the Castle* (1989), as Jean Bréaud
- *My First 40 Years* (1987), as Principe Riccio
- *Tandem* (1987), as Michel Mortez
- *Le Moustachu* (1987), as le capitaine Duroc
- *La Galette du roi* (1986), as Arnold III of Corsalina
- *L'Énigme blanche* (1985), as Henri
- *Volley for a Black Buffalo* (1985), as Lajos Ácsi, the count
- *New Year's Eve At Bob's* (1984), as Louis Alban
- *Frankenstein 90* (1984), as Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
- *The Dogs of Jerusalem* (1984), as Nicodème
- *Un dimanche de flics* (1983), as A. Rupert
- *A Friend of Vincent* (1983), as Vincent Lamar
- *The Big Brother* (1982), as Charles-Henri Rossi
- *L'Indiscrétion* (1982), as Alain Tescique
- *Birgit Haas Must Be Killed* (1981), as Charles-Philippe Bauman
- *Un étrange voyage* (1981), as Pierre
- *I Hate Blondes* (1980), as Donald Rose
- *I Sent a Letter to My Love* (1980), as Gilles Martin
- *French Postcards* (1979), as Monsieur Tessier
- *Courage fuyons* (1979), as Martin Belhomme
- *The Skirt Chaser* (1979), as Edouard Choiseul
- *Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?* (1978), as August Grandvilliers
- *Grandison* (1978), as Carl Grandison
- *We Will All Meet in Paradise* (1977), as Etienne Dorsay
- *Drummer-Crab* (1977), as Captain, commander of the escort ship
- *The Devil in the Box* (1977), as Alain Brissot
- *Pardon Mon Affaire* (1976), as Étienne
- *Femmes Fatales* (1976), as Albert
- *The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside* (1976), as Le commissaire Pichard
- *Death Rite* (1975), as Edouard
- *A Happy Divorce* (1975), as Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
- *Isabelle and Lust* (1975), as M. Vaudois
- *Innocents with Dirty Hands* (1975), as Maitre Albert Legal
- *Let Joy Reign Supreme* (1975), as Abbot Dubois
- *The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe* (1974), as Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
- *Till Marriage Do Us Part* (1974), as Barone Henri de Sarcey
- *The Phantom of Liberty* (1974), as Mr. Legendre
- *How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby* (1974), as Foisnard
- *The Watchmaker of St. Paul* (1974), as Commissioner Guilboud
- *T'es fou Marcel* (1974), Director
- *Hail the Artist* (1973), as Clément Chamfort
- *Mean Frank and Crazy Tony* (1973), as Louis
- *Lovely Swine* (1973), as The police inspector
- *The Conspiracy* (1973), as Dominique Clavet
- *The Inheritor* (1973), as Le nonce (André Berthier)
- *The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe* (1972), as Colonel Louis Toulouse
- *Hearth Fires* (1972), as Alexandre Boursault
- *The Egg* (1972), as Victor Dugommier
- *Le Misanthrope* (1971), as Alceste
- *Céleste* (1970), as Georges Cazenave
- *La Liberté en croupe* (1970), as Moss
- *The Time to Die* (1970), as Hervé Breton
- *The Devil by the Tail* (1969), as Le comte Georges
- *For a Distant Love* (1968), as Guillaume
- *Don't Play with Martians* (1968), as René Mastier
- *La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire* (1967), as Un causeur dans le boudoir
- *Two Weeks in September* (1967), as Philippe
- *The Sunday of Life* (1967), as Captain Bordeille
- *Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?* (1966), as Grégoire Pecque
- *Angelique and the King* (1966), as François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
- *Up to His Ears* (1965), as Leon
- *Angelique: The Road to Versailles* (1965), as François Desgrez
- *Le Naïf amoureux* (1965), as Paul Robignac, adult
- *Dim Dam Dom* (1965), series, as Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
- *Beautiful Families* (1964), as Marchese Osvaldo
- *Angelique* (1964), as François Desgrez
- *Les Pieds nickelés* (1964), as Croquignol
- *Trouble Among Widows* (1964), as Inspecteur Laforêt
- *The Blockhead Fair* (1963), as Didier's father
- *La Porteuse de pain* (1963), as Ovide Soliveau
- *Symphony for a Massacre* (1963), as Jabeke
- *Outpost in Indo-china* (1963), as Sergeant Hérange
- *La Nuit des rois* (1962), as Sir André
- *The Iron Mask* (1962), as Lastreaumont
- *Sun in Your Eyes* (1962), Actor
- *Cartouche* (1962), as La Taupe
- *The Marriage of Figaro* (1961), as Le comte Almaviva
- *Captain Fracasse* (1961), as Malartic
- *Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend* (1961), as Fernand
- *Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre* (1961), as Fernand
- *A Bullet in the Gun Barrel* (1958), as Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
- *The Queen of Spades* (1958), as Le compte Paul Tomsk
- *Meeting in Paris* (1956), as L'interne

## Gallery

- ![Jean Rochefort](https://film.one/media/person/1284097/gallery-ca33af11ac7b.jpg) Jean Rochefort — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Jean_Rochefort_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jean Rochefort à la cérémonie des César du cinéma (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/1284097/gallery-2589840ee704.jpg) Jean Rochefort à la cérémonie des César du cinéma (2011) — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Jean_Rochefort_C%C3%A9sars_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jean Rochefort au festival Coup de Théâtre à Annecy (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/1284097/gallery-7729de3e5d47.jpg) Jean Rochefort au festival Coup de Théâtre à Annecy (2014) — MajIngrams, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/JeanRochefort.jpg/1280px-JeanRochefort.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jean Rochefort](https://film.one/media/person/1284097/gallery-4eafd0287d1c.jpg) Jean Rochefort — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won, 7 nominated

- Goya Award for Best Actor 2013: Goya Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Artist and the Model*
- Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit 2004: Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit (won)
- European Film Award for Best Actor 2003: European Film Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Man on the Train*
- Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor 2003: Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Man on the Train*
- Lumière Award for Best Actor 2002: Lumière Award for Best Actor (won)
- Honorary César 1999: Honorary César (won)
- Officer of the National Order of Merit 1998: Officer of the National Order of Merit (won)
- César Award for Best Supporting Actor 1997: César Award for Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *Ridicule*
- César Award for Best Actor 1991: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Hairdresser's Husband*
- César Award for Best Actor 1988: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Tandem*
- César Award for Best Actor 1980: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Courage - Let's Run*
- César Award for Best Actor 1978: César Award for Best Actor (won), for *Le Crabe-tambour*
- César Award for Best Supporting Actor 1976: César Award for Best Supporting Actor (won), for *Let Joy Reign Supreme*
- Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism 1970: Prize for the best actor of the Union of criticism (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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