Philippe Noiret
Acting
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor.
Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux.
Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux.
"When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood."
Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ...
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Filmography of
Philippe Noiret
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Self (archive footage)
... 2020
Self - Actor (archive footage)
... 2017
Self (archive footage)
... 2009
Self (archive footage)
... 2008
... 2007
Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
... 2007
... 2006
... 2006
Louis
... 2005
Narrator (voice)
... 2005
René Boirond
... 2003
Léonce
... 2003
Léo
... 2003
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
... 2003
Louis Chevalier
... 2002
... 2002
Joseph Steg
... 2000
Duke Philippe d'Orléans
... 1997
Duke Signoretto
... 1997
Joseph Lévy
... 1997
Professor Rodolphe Schutz
... 1997
Monsieur
... 1996
Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
... 1996
Victor Vialat
... 1996
Récitant / Narrator
... 1996
Padre di Claudia
... 1995
Le Général
... 1995
Haňťa
... 1995
Victor Derval
... 1995
... 1994
Pablo Neruda
... 1994
D'Artagnan
... 1994
Philippe Noiret
... 1994
L'Elégant
... 1993
Robert 'Max' Maxendre
... 1992
Toussaint
... 1992
Alberto
... 1992
Self
... 1991
Romain
... 1991
Amleto
... 1991
Gioacchino Rossini
... 1991
Watrin
... 1990
Anatole Hirsch
... 1990
René Boirond
... 1990
Gianni Mucci
... 1990
Commander Delaplane
... 1989
Cardinal Mazarin
... 1989
Alfredo
... 1988
Dom Pedro II.
... 1988
Savinien de Kerfadec
... 1988
Gabriele Battistini
... 1988
Narrateur
... 1988
Inspector Molinat
... 1987
Jean-Luc
... 1987
Dr. Athos Fadigati
... 1987
Narrator (voice)
... 1987
Christian Legagneur
... 1987
Igor Tataïev
... 1986
Redon
... 1986
Pierre Franchin, the painter
... 1986
Leonardo
... 1986
Self (archive footage)
... 1986
Yves Dorget
... 1985
In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
... 1985
Edouard
... 1985
René Boirond
... 1984
Le proviseur
... 1984
Dubreuilh
... 1984
André
... 1984
Étienne Labrouche
... 1983
Victor
... 1983
Albert Palm
... 1983
Giorgio Perozzi
... 1982
Edouard Binet
... 1982
Lucien Cordier
... 1981
Athanase
... 1981
Raffaele Giuranna
... 1981
Inspecteur Louis Baroni
... 1980
Michel Descombes
... 1980
Antoine Lemercier
... 1980
Le père
... 1979
Peppe Dorè
... 1979
Eugène Pottier
... 1978
Robert Maurisson
... 1978
Jean-Claude Moulineau
... 1978
Antoine Lemercier
... 1978
Philippe Marchal
... 1977
Raoul Malfosse
... 1976
General
... 1976
Albert
... 1976
Juge Rousseau
... 1976
Giuseppe Costanzo
... 1976
Il Perozzi
... 1975
Julien Dandieu
... 1975
Philip of Orléans
... 1975
Georges de Saxe
... 1975
Self - Narrator(voice)
... 1975
Thomas Berthelot
... 1974
Malisard
... 1974
Gaspard de Montfermeil
... 1974
Gen. Terry
... 1974
Michel Descombes
... 1974
François Lepic
... 1973
Philippe
... 1973
Lucien Berthon
... 1973
Pierre Garcin
... 1972
Alfred
... 1972
Marcel
... 1972
Georges Lapierre
... 1972
Gabriel Marcassus
... 1972
Judge Francesco Langellone
... 1971
Inspecteur Muller
... 1971
Brezan
... 1971
Gabriel
... 1970
Henri Jarre
... 1969
Pombal
... 1969
Monsieur Lucoville
... 1969
Count Hector de Clérambard
... 1969
Moujik Man
... 1969
Pourtalain
... 1968
Alexandre Gartempe
... 1968
André
... 1967
Victor
... 1967
Inspector Morand
... 1967
Bibi Dumonceaux
... 1966
Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
... 1966
Disgruntled traveler
... 1966
Bernard Desqueyroux
... 1966
Michou
... 1966
Jérôme
... 1966
Ambroise Gérôme
... 1965
Bénin
... 1965
King Louis XIII
... 1964
Edgar Hoover
... 1964
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
... 1964
Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
... 1964
Jean
... 1964
... 1964
Jacques Garraud
... 1963
L'inspecteur Mathieu
... 1963
Bernard Desqueyroux
... 1962
Bellini
... 1962
Monseigneur Hughes
... 1962
Lucien Barlemont
... 1962
Parfait XVIII
... 1962
King Félix
... 1961
Inspector Maillard
... 1961
Louis XIV
... 1961
Victor Hardy
... 1961
Hérode
... 1961
Lignère
... 1960
Maurice
... 1960
M. Van Dam
... 1960
Oncle Gabriel
... 1960
Macduff
... 1959
Him
... 1956
A passerby (uncredited)
... 1952
Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
... 1951
Bit Part (uncredited)
... 1949