Philippe Noiret
born on 1/10/1930 in Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
died on 23/11/2006 in Paris, Île-de-France, France
Philippe Noiret
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Noiret in 2003.
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Born | 1 October 1930 Lille, Nord, France |
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Died | 23 November 2006 (aged 76) Paris, France |
Spouse(s) | Monique Chaumette (1927) |
Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930, Lille, France; died 23 November 2006, Paris, France) was a French film actor.
Biography
Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar 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 La Vie de château 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 generationall the men of 50 or 60 now in French moviesall 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."[1]
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. Noiret appeared in Hollywood-financed films by Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz), George Cukor (Justine), Ted Kotcheff (Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?), Peter Yates (Murphy's War) and Anatole Litvak (The Night of the Generals). But he may be best known for his roles as Alfredo in Cinema Paradiso, Pablo Neruda in Il Postino, and Major Dellaplane in Bertrand Tavernier's Life and Nothing But.[2]
By the time of his death from cancer in Paris in 2006, aged 76, Noiret had more than 100 film roles to his credit. He often joked with interviewers about his virtually non-stop work schedule, telling Joe Leydon in 1989: "You never know what will be the success of a film. And it's always comfortable to be making another film when you're reading terrible notices for your last film. You can say, 'Well, that's a pity, but I'm already working on another job.' It helps in your living. You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard. Because when it's a failure, what do you do? What do you become? You're dead.[1]
Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- 1990 - Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- César Award for Best Actor
- 1976 - Le Vieux Fusil
- 1990 - La Vie et rien d'autre
Selected Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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1949 | Gigi | uncredited | Jacqueline Audry |
1950 | Olivia | ||
1952 | Agence matrimoniale | uncredited | Jean-Paul Le Chanois |
1956 | La Pointe courte (aka The Short Point) | Lui | Agnès Varda |
1960 | Zazie dans le Métro | Uncle Gabriel | Louis Malle |
1961 | Le Capitaine Fracasse | Hérode | Pierre Gaspard-Huit |
1962 | Comme un poisson dans l'eau (aka Like a Fish in the Water) | Lucien Barlemont | André Michel |
Le Crime ne paie pas | Clovis Hugues | Gérard Oury | |
Thérèse Desqueyroux | Bernard Desqueyroux | Georges Franju | |
1964 | Les Copains (aka The Buddies ) | Bénin | Yves Robert |
1965 | La Vie de château (aka Castle Life) | Jérôme | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
1966 | Tendre voyou | Bibi Dumonceaux | Jean Becker |
1967 | Alexandre le bienheureux | Alexandre | Yves Robert |
Night of the Generals | Inspector Morand | Anatole Litvak | |
1969 | Topaz | Henri Jarré | Alfred Hitchcock |
Clérambard | Hector de Clérambard | Yves Robert | |
Mr. Freedom | Cameo appearance | William Klein | |
1971 | Murphy's War | Louis Brezon | Peter Yates |
La Mandarine | Georges | Édouard Molinaro | |
1972 | The Old Maid | Gabriel Marcassus | Jean-Pierre Blanc |
1973 | La Grande Bouffe | Philippe | Marco Ferreri |
1974 | Don't Touch the White Woman! | General Terry | Marco Ferreri |
The Clockmaker | Michel Descombes | Bertrand Tavernier | |
1975 | Amici miei | Giorgio Perozzi | Mario Monicelli |
Le vieux fusil | Julien Dandieu | Robert Enrico | |
Que la fête commence (English title: Let Joy Reign Supreme) | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans | Bertrand Tavernier | |
1976 | Une Femme à sa Fenêtre (English title: A Woman With Her Window) | Raoul Malfosse | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
The Judge and the Assassin | Judge Rousseau | Bertrand Tavernier | |
1977 | The Purple Taxi | Philippe Marcal | Yves Boisset |
Tendre Poulet | Antoine Lemercier | Philippe de Broca | |
1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Moulineau | Ted Kotcheff |
Le Témoin (aka The Witness) | Robert Maurisson | Jean-Pierre Mocky | |
1980 | Pile ou face | Louis Baroni | Robert Enrico |
On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter | Antoine Lemercier | Philippe de Broca | |
1981 | Tre fratelli (aka Three Brothers) | Raffaele Giuranna | Francesco Rosi |
Coup de Torchon | Lucien Cordier | Bertrand Tavernier | |
1982 | L'étoile du nord (aka North Star ) | Edouard Binet | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
All My Friends Part 2 | Giorgio Perozzi | Mario Monicelli | |
1984 | Les Ripoux (aka My New Partner) | René Boisrond | Claude Zidi |
1985 | L'Eté prochain (aka The Next Summer) | Edouard | Nadine Trintignant |
1986 | Speriamo che sia femmina (aka Let's Hope It's a Girl) | Count Leonardo | Mario Monicelli |
1987 | Masques (aka Masks) | Christian Legagneur | Claude Chabrol |
1989 | The Return of the Musketeers | Cardinal Mazarin | Richard Lester |
Ripoux contre ripoux | René Boisrond | Claude Zidi | |
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Alfredo | Giuseppe Tornatore | |
La Vie et Rien D'autre (aka Life and Nothing But) | Commander Dellaplane | Bertrand Tavernier | |
1991 | J'embrasse pas (aka I Do Not Kiss) | Romain | André Téchiné |
Uranus | Watrin | Claude Berri | |
1992 | Tango | François d'Amour | Patrice Leconte |
1994 | Il Postino | Pablo Neruda | Michael Radford |
La Fille de d'Artagnan (aka Revenge of the Musketeers) | d'Artagnan | Bertrand Tavernier | |
Grosse Fatigue | as himself | Michel Blanc | |
1997 | Soleil (akaSun) | Joseph Lévy | Roger Hanin |
Les Palmes de M. Schutz | Monsieur Schutz | Claude Pinoteau | |
Le Bossu (aka On Guard) | Philippe d'Orléans | Philippe de Broca | |
2002 | Les Côtelettes (aka The Chops) | Léonce Grison | Bertrand Blier |
Père et fils | Léo | Michel Boujenah | |
2003 | Ripoux 3 | René Boisrond / Jean Morzini | Claude Zidi |
2007 | Trois amis | Serano | Michel Boujenah |
References
External links
- Philippe Noiret at the Internet Movie Database
- Guardian obituary
- Times obituary
- Philippe Noiret. Find a Grave.
César Award for Best Actor | |
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1976 : Philippe Noiret 1977 : Michel Galabru 1978 : Jean Rochefort 1979 : Michel Serrault 1980 : Claude Brasseur 1981 : Gérard Depardieu 1982 : Michel Serrault 1983 : Philippe Léotard 1984 : Coluche 1985 : Alain Delon 1986 : Christophe Lambert 1987 : Daniel Auteuil 1988 : Richard Bohringer 1989 : Jean-Paul Belmondo 1990 : Philippe Noiret 1991 : Gérard Depardieu 1992 : Jacques Dutronc 1993 : Claude Rich 1994 : Pierre Arditi 1995 : Gérard Lanvin 1996 : Michel Serrault 1997 : Philippe Torreton 1998 : André Dussollier 1999 : Jacques Villeret 2000 : Daniel Auteuil 2001 : Sergi López 2002 : Michel Bouquet 2003 : Adrien Brody 2004 : Omar Sharif 2005 : Mathieu Amalric 2006 : Michel Bouquet 2007 : François Cluzet 2008 : Mathieu Amalric 2009 : Vincent Cassel |
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