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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| 2021 | Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord as Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible as Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli as Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) as Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Agnes'in Plajları as Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Marco Ferreri - Il regista che venne dal futuro as Self |
| 2007 | 3 Amis as Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz |
| 2006 | A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise as Self |
| 2006 | Marcello, una vita dolce as Self |
| 2005 | Edy as Louis |
| 2005 | Hitler, la folie d'un homme as Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Ripoux 3 as René Boirond |
| 2003 | Les Côtelettes as Léonce |
| 2003 | Père et fils as Léo |
| 2003 | Le Chien, le général et les oiseaux as Récitant / Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Un Honnête commerçant as Louis Chevalier |
| 2002 | Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français as Self |
| 2000 | Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz as Joseph Steg |
| 1997 | Le Bossu as Duke Philippe d'Orléans |
| 1997 | Marianna Ucrìa as Duke Signoretto |
| 1997 | Soleil as Joseph Lévy |
| 1997 | Les Palmes de M. Schutz as Professor Rodolphe Schutz |
| 1996 | Le Veilleur de nuit as Monsieur |
| 1996 | Fantôme avec chauffeur as Philippe Bruneau-Teissier |
| 1996 | Les Grands Ducs as Victor Vialat |
| 1996 | Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir as Récitant / Narrator |
| 1995 | Facciamo paradiso as Padre di Claudia |
| 1995 | Les Milles as Le Général |
| 1995 | Příliš hlučná samota as Haňťa |
| 1995 | Le Roi de Paris as Victor Derval |
| 1994 | Veillées d'armes as Self |
| 1994 | Postacı as Pablo Neruda |
| 1994 | D'Artagnan'ın Kızı as D'Artagnan |
| 1994 | Grosse fatigue as Philippe Noiret |
| 1993 | Tango as L'Elégant |
| 1992 | Max et Jérémie as Robert 'Max' Maxendre |
| 1992 | Nous deux as Toussaint |
| 1992 | Zuppa di pesce as Alberto |
| 1991 | Contre l’oubli as Self |
| 1991 | J'embrasse pas as Romain |
| 1991 | La domenica specialmente as Amleto |
| 1991 | Rossini! Rossini! as Gioacchino Rossini |
| 1990 | Uranus as Watrin |
| 1990 | Faux et Usage de faux as Anatole Hirsch |
| 1990 | Ripoux contre Ripoux as René Boirond |
| 1990 | Dimenticare Palermo as Gianni Mucci |
| 1989 | La Vie et rien d'autre as Commander Delaplane |
| 1989 | Üç Silahşörlerin Geri Dönüşü as Cardinal Mazarin |
| 1988 | Cennet Sineması as Alfredo |
| 1988 | Il giovane Toscanini as Dom Pedro II. |
| 1988 | Chouans ! as Savinien de Kerfadec |
| 1988 | Il frullo del passero as Gabriele Battistini |
| 1988 | Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back as Narrateur |
| 1987 | Noyade interdite as Inspector Molinat |
| 1987 | La famiglia as Jean-Luc |
| 1987 | Gli occhiali d'oro as Dr. Athos Fadigati |
| 1987 | L'homme qui plantait des arbres as Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | Masques as Christian Legagneur |
| 1986 | Twist again à Moscou as Igor Tataïev |
| 1986 | Geceyarısına Doğru as Redon |
| 1986 | La Femme secrète as Pierre Franchin, the painter |
| 1986 | Speriamo che sia femmina as Leonardo |
| 1986 | Avant minuit as Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Le 4ème Pouvoir as Yves Dorget |
| 1985 | Les Rois du gag as In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited) |
| 1985 | L'Été prochain as Edouard |
| 1984 | Les Ripoux as René Boirond |
| 1984 | Souvenirs souvenirs as Le proviseur |
| 1984 | Fort Saganne as Dubreuilh |
| 1984 | Qualcosa di biondo as André |
| 1983 | Le Grand Carnaval as Étienne Labrouche |
| 1983 | L'africain as Victor |
| 1983 | L'Ami de Vincent as Albert Palm |
| 1982 | Amici miei - Atto II° as Giorgio Perozzi |
| 1982 | L'Étoile du Nord as Edouard Binet |
| 1981 | Sil Baştan as Lucien Cordier |
| 1981 | Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas as Athanase |
| 1981 | Tre fratelli as Raffaele Giuranna |
| 1980 | Pile ou face as Inspecteur Louis Baroni |
| 1980 | Une semaine de vacances as Michel Descombes |
| 1980 | On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter as Antoine Lemercier |
| 1979 | Rue du Pied de Grue as Le père |
| 1979 | Due pezzi di pane as Peppe Dorè |
| 1978 | La Barricade du Point-du-Jour as Eugène Pottier |
| 1978 | Le Témoin as Robert Maurisson |
| 1978 | Büyük Şefi Kim Öldürdü? as Jean-Claude Moulineau |
| 1978 | Tendre Poulet as Antoine Lemercier |
| 1977 | Un taxi mauve as Philippe Marchal |
| 1976 | Une femme à sa fenêtre as Raoul Malfosse |
| 1976 | Tatar Çölü as General |
| 1976 | Monsieur Albert as Albert |
| 1976 | Le Juge et l'Assassin as Juge Rousseau |
| 1976 | Il comune senso del pudore as Giuseppe Costanzo |
| 1975 | Arkadaşlarım as Il Perozzi |
| 1975 | Savaş Kurbanları as Julien Dandieu |
| 1975 | Que la fête commence ! as Philip of Orléans |
| 1975 | Le Jeu avec le feu as Georges de Saxe |
| 1975 | L'école est finie as Self - Narrator(voice) |
| 1974 | Le Secret as Thomas Berthelot |
| 1974 | Un nuage entre les dents as Malisard |
| 1974 | Les Gaspards as Gaspard de Montfermeil |
| 1974 | Touche pas à la femme blanche as Gen. Terry |
| 1974 | L'Horloger de Saint-Paul as Michel Descombes |
| 1973 | Poil de carotte as François Lepic |
| 1973 | La Grande Bouffe as Philippe |
| 1973 | Le Serpent as Lucien Berthon |
| 1972 | L'Attentat as Pierre Garcin |
| 1972 | Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles as Alfred |
| 1972 | A Time for Loving as Marcel |
| 1972 | La Mandarine as Georges Lapierre |
| 1972 | La Vieille Fille as Gabriel Marcassus |
| 1971 | Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria as Judge Francesco Langellone |
| 1971 | Les Aveux les plus doux as Inspecteur Muller |
| 1971 | Murphy's War as Brezan |
| 1970 | Les Caprices de Marie as Gabriel |
| 1969 | Topaz as Henri Jarre |
| 1969 | Justine as Pombal |
| 1969 | The Assassination Bureau as Monsieur Lucoville |
| 1969 | Clérambard as Count Hector de Clérambard |
| 1969 | Mr. Freedom as Moujik Man |
| 1968 | Adolphe ou l'âge tendre as Pourtalain |
| 1968 | Alexandre le bienheureux as Alexandre Gartempe |
| 1967 | L'Une et l'Autre as André |
| 1967 | Yedi Kere Kadın as Victor |
| 1967 | Generallerin Gecesi as Inspector Morand |
| 1966 | Tendre voyou as Bibi Dumonceaux |
| 1966 | Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo ? as Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste |
| 1966 | Le Voyage du père as Disgruntled traveler |
| 1966 | La Fin de la nuit as Bernard Desqueyroux |
| 1966 | Les Sultans as Michou |
| 1966 | La Vie de château as Jérôme |
| 1965 | Lady L as Ambroise Gérôme |
| 1965 | Les Copains as Bénin |
| 1964 | Cyrano et d'Artagnan as King Louis XIII |
| 1964 | Clémentine chérie as Edgar Hoover |
| 1964 | Les Amoureux du France as Récitant / Narrator (voice) |
| 1964 | Monsieur as Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist |
| 1964 | Frenesia dell'estate as Jean |
| 1964 | Mort, où est ta victoire ? as Brassy |
| 1963 | La Porteuse de pain as Jacques Garraud |
| 1963 | Ballade pour un voyou as L'inspecteur Mathieu |
| 1962 | Thérèse Desqueyroux as Bernard Desqueyroux |
| 1962 | Le massaggiatrici as Bellini |
| 1962 | Le crime ne paie pas as Monseigneur Hughes |
| 1962 | Comme un poisson dans l'eau as Lucien Barlemont |
| 1962 | Le Mal court as Parfait XVIII |
| 1961 | Flore et Blancheflore as King Félix |
| 1961 | Le Rendez-vous as Inspector Maillard |
| 1961 | Amours célèbres as Louis XIV |
| 1961 | Tout l'or du monde as Victor Hardy |
| 1961 | Le Capitaine Fracasse as Hérode |
| 1960 | Cyrano de Bergerac as Lignère |
| 1960 | Ravissante as Maurice |
| 1960 | De fil en aiguille as M. Van Dam |
| 1960 | Zazie dans le métro as Oncle Gabriel |
| 1959 | Macbeth as Macduff |
| 1956 | La Pointe courte as Him |
| 1952 | Agence Matrimoniale as A passerby (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Olivia as Béatrice's Lover (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Gigi as Bit Part (uncredited) |
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