Jean Rochefort
Jean Raoul Robert Rochefort ( born April 29, 1930 in Dinan, France) is a French actor. Occasionally he also works as a director.
Life
After Jean Rochefort had worked without much success in the theater and cabaret as an actor and director, he began in the mid -1950s, his career as a film actor. In the early 1960s, Roche Fort established in the French film a much sought after comedian and character actor. He is continuously active today as a film actor and has now played more than 150 television or film roles.
Rochefort was often seen in comic movies, for example, on the side of Louis de Funès and Pierre Richard, alongside whom he appeared in The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe as the scheming intelligence chief. From 1964 he also played in the Angélique series. Several times Rochefort occurred ( Cartouche, the Bandit ), with whom he had attended the Paris Conservatoire next to Jean- Paul Belmondo.
In dramatic roles, he established himself in 1972 as the husband of Annie Girardot and father of Claude Jade in Serge Korbers candlelight, who has left the family. With the lead role in one of the most successful French comedies of the 1970s, An elephant is mistaken, he played himself up in the first row of the French actor. Not only humorous, but also in many serious roles he has for five decades integral part of French cinema. Three times he led himself directing.
1976 and 1978 he was awarded a César for best male supporting or lead role. In the recent time he was in comedies such as Mr. Bean's Holiday as a fine head waiter and Asterix & Obelix - On behalf of Her Majesty to see.