Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret | |
|---|---|
 Noiret in 2000 | |
| Born | 1 October 1930 |
| Died | 23 November 2006 (aged 76) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1948–2006 |
| Spouse |
Nuovo cinema Paradiso
Le Vieux fusil 1990 La Vie et rien d'autre |
Philippe Noiret (French pronunciation: [filip nwaʁɛ]; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor.
Life and career
Noiret was born in
Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in
"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."[2]
Noiret was cast primarily as the
Noiret appeared in Hollywood-financed films by
By the time of his death from cancer in Paris in 2006, aged 76,[4] 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."[2]
Awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- 1990 – Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- 1990 –
- César Award for Best Actor
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | La Pointe courte (a.k.a. The Short Point)
|
Lui | Agnès Varda | |
| 1960 | Zazie dans le Métro
|
Uncle Gabriel | Louis Malle | |
| 1962 | Le Crime ne paie pas | Clovis Hugues | Gérard Oury | (segment "L'affaire Hugues") |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux | Bernard Desqueyroux | Georges Franju | ||
| 1964 | Cyrano and d'Artagnan | King Louis XIII | Abel Gance | |
| 1966 | Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? | Jean-Jacques Georges | William Klein | |
| 1968 | Alexandre le bienheureux
|
Alexandre | Yves Robert | |
| 1969 | Justine | Pombal | George Cukor | |
| Topaz | Henri Jarré | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 1973 | La Grande Bouffe | Philippe | Marco Ferreri | |
| 1974 | L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (a.k.a. The Clockmaker) | Michel Descombes | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1976 | Le Juge et l'Assassin (a.k.a. The Judge and the Assassin) | Judge Rousseau | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1980 | A Week's Vacation | Michel Descombes | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1981 | Tre fratelli (a.k.a. Three Brothers) | Raffaele Giuranna | Francesco Rosi | |
| Coup de Torchon | Lucien Cordier | Bertrand Tavernier | ||
| 1984 | Les Ripoux (a.k.a. My New Partner)
|
René Boisrond | Claude Zidi | |
| 1988 | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
|
Alfredo | Giuseppe Tornatore | |
| 1989 | La Vie et Rien D'autre (a.k.a. Life and Nothing But) | Commander Dellaplane | Bertrand Tavernier | |
| 1993 | Tango | François d'Amour | Patrice Leconte | |
| 1994 | The Postman | Pablo Neruda | Michael Radford - Massimo Troisi | |
| 2007 | Trois amis | Serano | Michel Boujenah | (final film role) |
References
- ^ "Philippe Noiret Biography (1930-)". filmreference.com.
- ^ a b [1] MovingPictureBlog.com, 23 November 2006
- ^ [2] EW.com, 27 November 2006
- ^ Ronald Bergan (November 25, 2006). "Philippe Noiret". The Guardian. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
