Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret
Born 1 October 1930
Lille, Nord, France
Died 23 November 2006(2006-11-23) (aged 76)
Paris, France
Spouse Monique Chaumette (1927)

Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930 in Lille – died 23 November 2006 in Paris) was a French film actor.

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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. There, 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 in 1967. After that he devoted himself entirely to movie roles.

"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."[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.

A true international star (helped by his fluency in English), 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 arguably is 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, 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

Filmography (partial)

Title Year Notes
Gigi 1949
Olivia 1950
Agence matrimoniale 1952
La Pointe courte 1956 Also known as The Short Point, with Agnès Varda
Zazie dans le métro 1960 Also known as Zazie in the Metro or Zazie, directed by Louis Malle
Le Capitaine Fracasse 1961
Comme un poisson dans l'eau 1962 English title: Like a Fish in the Water
Le Crime ne paie pas 1962
Thérèse Desqueyroux 1962
Les Copains 1964 English title: The Buddies
La Vie de château 1965 English title: Castle Life
Tendre voyou 1966
Alexandre le bienheureux 1967
Night of the Generals 1967
Topaz 1969 L'Étau, by Alfred Hitchcock
Clérambard 1969 Played as Hector de Clérambard
Mr. Freedom 1969
Murphy's War 1971
La Mandarine 1971
La Vieille Fille 1972
La Grande Bouffe 1973 Played as Philippe
Don't Touch the White Woman! 1974
The Clockmaker 1974
Amici miei 1975
Le vieux fusil 1975
Que la fête commence 1975 English title: Let Joy Reign Supreme
Une Femme à sa Fenêtre 1976 English title: A Woman With Her Window
Le juge et l'assassin 1976 English title: The Judge and the Assassin
Un taxi mauve 1977 English title: The Purple Taxi
Tendre Poulet 1977
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 1978
Le Témoin 1978 English title: The Witness
Pile ou face 1980
On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter 1980
Tre fratelli 1981 English title: Three Brothers
L'étoile du nord 1982 English title: North Star
Amici Miei, Atto II 1982
Coup de Torchon 1981
Souvenirs souvenirs 1984
Les Ripoux 1984 English title: My New Partner
Amici Miei, Atto III 1985
L'Eté prochain 1985 English title: The Next Summer
La Famille 1986 English title: The Family
Speriamo che sia femmina 1986 English title:Let's Hope It's a Girl
Masques 1987 English title:Masks
The Return of the Musketeers 1989
Ripoux contre ripoux 1989
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 1989
J'embrasse pas 1991 English title: I Do Not Kiss
Uranus 1991
Tango 1992
Il Postino 1994
Max et Jérémie English title: Max and Jérémie
La Fille de d'Artagnan 1994 English title: The Daughter of d'Artagnan
Marianna Ucria
Soleil 1997 English title: Sun
Les Palmes de M. Schutz 1997
Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz 1999 English title: The Picnic with Lulu Kreutz
Les Côtelettes 2002 English title: The Chops
Père et fils 2002
Ripoux 3 2003
Voie d'eau 2006 English title: Swimming Away

References

  1. ^ a b [1] MovingPictureBlog.com, 23 November 2006
  2. ^ [2] EW.com, 27 November 2006


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