
Philippe Noiret
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. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
173 acting credits
Acting · 173

Champs-Elysées
1982

Sacrée soirée
1987

Vivement dimanche
1998

Apostrophes
1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Spécial cinéma
1974

Cinema Paradiso
1988
Midi trente
1972

Discorama
1959

Nulle part ailleurs
1987

Cérémonie des César
1976

Stars 90
1990

30 millions d'amis
1976

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022

The Sparrow's Fluttering
1988

The Old Gun
1975

The Night of the Generals
1967

Dear Inspector
1978

Topaz
1969

The Postman
1994

My Friends
1975

La Grande Bouffe
1973

The Desert of the Tartars
1976

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978

Playing with Fire
1975

The Assassination Bureau
1969

The Serpent
1973

The Return of the Musketeers
1989

A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002

Justine
1969

Woman Times Seven
1967

A Woman at Her Window
1976

The Beaches of Agnès
2008

'Round Midnight
1986

My New Partner
1984

Fort Saganne
1984

D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994

The Family
1987

A Week's Vacation
1980

Coup de Torchon
1981

Very Happy Alexander
1968

Dead Tired
1994

Uranus
1990

I Don't Kiss
1991

Murphy's War
1971

Masques
1987

Zazie dans le Métro
1960

My New Partner II
1990

Marcello, una vita dolce
2006

My Friends Act II
1982

Twist Again in Moscow
1986

The Assassination
1972

Lady L
1965

The Secret
1974

On Guard
1997

Young Toscanini
1988

Chouans !
1988

Tango
1993

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975

Ghost with Driver
1996

Mr. Freedom
1969

Les Milles
1995

Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966

Jupiter's Thigh
1980

Let's Hope It's a Girl
1986

Clerambard
1969

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
1981

Famous Love Affairs
1961

Captain Fracasse
1961

Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974

The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974

The Man Who Planted Trees
1987

Looking for Paradise
1995

Next Summer
1985

Three Brothers
1981

Crime Does Not Pay
1962

Therese
1962

Lest We Forget
1991

Monsieur
1964

Max & Jeremie
1992

Heads or Tails
1980

Soleil
1997

La Pointe Courte
1956

The Sultans
1966

Gigi
1949

A Common Sense of Modesty
1976

Summer Frenzy
1964

The Masseuses
1962

The Witness
1978

The Old Maid
1972

Les Rois du gag
1985

The Purple Taxi
1977

Rendezvous
1961

Matrimonial Agency
1952

The Judge and the Assassin
1976

Tender Scoundrel
1966

The North Star
1982

Before Midnight
1986

Life and Nothing But
1989

Olivia
1951

A Matter of Resistance
1966

Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1964

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1974

Widow's Walk
1987

Edy
2005

Le Grand Carnaval
1983

Marianna Ucrìa
1997

My New Partner III
2003

La Mandarine
1972

The Palermo Connection
1990

A Friend of Vincent
1983

Ballad for a Hoodlum
1963

A Cloud in the Teeth
1974

Rossini! Rossini!
1991

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
2009

The African
1983

The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017

Cyrano de Bergerac
1960

3 Friends
2007

The Chops
2003

The Most Gentle Confessions
1971

Give Her the Moon
1970

All the Gold in the World
1961

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
2000

Clémentine chérie
1964

Father's Trip
1966
Rue du Pied de Grue
1979

Especially on Sunday
1991

Father and Sons
2003

The Grand Dukes
1996

A Time for Loving
1972

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020

Souvenirs souvenirs
1984

The Tender Age
1968

The Fourth Power
1985

The Lovers of the France
1964

Aurora
1984

Pierre and Marie
1997

Two Pieces of Bread
1979

We Are All in Temporary Liberty
1971

Le Roi de Paris
1995

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2021

The Troubles We've Seen
1994

La Porteuse de pain
1963

Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
1990

Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964

Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
1988

Monsieur Albert
1976

The Secret Wife
1986

The Dog, the General, and the Birds
2003

Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962

De fil en aiguille
1960
La Fin de la nuit
1966

The Buddies
1965
Poil de carotte
1973

Five Leaf Clover
1972
The Other One
1967

The Two of Us
1992

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006

Too Loud A Solitude
1995

Fish Soup
1992

Macbeth
1959

L'école est finie
1975

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978

Le Veilleur de nuit
1996

Flore et Blancheflore
1961

Le Mal court
1962

Ravishing
1960

Balthus through the Looking-Glass
1996

Step by Step
2002

Hitler, la folie d'un homme
2005