Highest rated as cast or director
Cinema Paradiso
1988
The Postman
1994
My Friends
1975
Coup de Torchon
1981
The Old Gun
1975
Uranus
1990
Biography
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.
Acted in 141
2000s
- 2007
3 Friends
Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz
- 2005
55Edy
Louis
- 2003
My New Partner III
René Boirond
The Chops
Léonce
Father and Sons
Léo
The Dog, the General, and the Birds
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
- 2002
Step by Step
Louis Chevalier
- 2000
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Joseph Steg
1990s
- 1997
Marianna Ucrìa
Duke Signoretto
Soleil
Joseph Lévy
Pierre and Marie
Professor Rodolphe Schutz
- 1996
Le Veilleur de nuit
Monsieur
Ghost with Driver
Philippe Bruneau-Teissier
The Grand Dukes
Victor Vialat
Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Récitant / Narrator
- 1995
Looking for Paradise
Padre di Claudia
Les Milles
Le Général
Too Loud A Solitude
Haňťa
Le Roi de Paris
Victor Derval
- 1994
Dead Tired
Philippe Noiret
- 1993
Tango
L'Elégant
- 1992
Max & Jeremie
Robert 'Max' Maxendre
The Two of Us
Toussaint
Fish Soup
Alberto
- 1991
I Don't Kiss
Romain
Especially on Sunday
Amleto
Rossini! Rossini!
Gioacchino Rossini
- 1990
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Anatole Hirsch
My New Partner II
René Boirond
The Palermo Connection
Gianni Mucci
1980s
- 1989
- 1988
Young Toscanini
Dom Pedro II.
Chouans !
Savinien de Kerfadec
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Narrateur
- 1987
Widow's Walk
Inspector Molinat
Masks
Christian Legagneur
- 1986
Twist Again in Moscow
Igor Tataïev
'Round Midnight
Redon
Let's Hope It's a Girl
Leonardo
- 1985
The Fourth Power
Yves Dorget
Les Rois du gag
In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited)
Next Summer
Edouard
- 1984
My New Partner
René Boirond
Souvenirs souvenirs
Le proviseur
Fort Saganne
Dubreuilh
Aurora
André
- 1983
Le Grand Carnaval
Étienne Labrouche
The African
Victor
A Friend of Vincent
Albert Palm
- 1982
My Friends Act II
Giorgio Perozzi
The North Star
Edouard Binet
- 1981
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Athanase
Three Brothers
Raffaele Giuranna
- 1980
Heads or Tails
Inspecteur Louis Baroni
A Week's Vacation
Michel Descombes
Jupiter's Thigh
Antoine Lemercier
1970s
- 1979
Two Pieces of Bread
Peppe Dorè
- 1978
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
Eugène Pottier
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Jean-Claude Moulineau
- 1977
The Purple Taxi
Philippe Marchal
- 1976
A Woman at Her Window
Raoul Malfosse
The Desert of the Tartars
General
Monsieur Albert
Albert
The Judge and the Assassin
Juge Rousseau
A Common Sense of Modesty
Giuseppe Costanzo
- 1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Philip of Orléans
Playing with Fire
Georges de Saxe
- 1974
The Secret
Thomas Berthelot
A Cloud in the Teeth
Malisard
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Gen. Terry
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Michel Descombes
- 1973
- 1972
Five Leaf Clover
Alfred
A Time for Loving
Marcel
La Mandarine
Georges Lapierre
The Old Maid
Gabriel Marcassus
- 1971
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Judge Francesco Langellone
The Most Gentle Confessions
Inspecteur Muller
- 1970
Give Her the Moon
Gabriel
1960s
- 1969
Justine
Pombal
Clerambard
Count Hector de Clérambard
Mr. Freedom
Moujik Man
- 1968
The Tender Age
Pourtalain
Very Happy Alexander
Alexandre Gartempe
- 1967
Woman Times Seven
Victor
- 1966
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste
Father's Trip
Disgruntled traveler
The Sultans
Michou
A Matter of Resistance
Jérôme
- 1965
Lady L
Ambroise Gérôme
The Buddies
Bénin
- 1964
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
King Louis XIII
Clémentine chérie
Edgar Hoover
The Lovers of the France
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Monsieur
Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist
Summer Frenzy
Jean
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Brassy
- 1963
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garraud
Ballad for a Hoodlum
L'inspecteur Mathieu
- 1962
Therese
Bernard Desqueyroux
Crime Does Not Pay
Monseigneur Hughes
Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Lucien Barlemont
Le Mal court
Parfait XVIII
- 1961
Flore et Blancheflore
Le roi Félix
Rendezvous
Inspector Maillard
Famous Love Affairs
Louis XIV
All the Gold in the World
Victor Hardy
Captain Fracasse
Hérode
- 1960
Cyrano de Bergerac
Lignère
De fil en aiguille
M. Van Dam
1950s
- 1959
Macbeth
Macduff
- 1956
- 1952
Matrimonial Agency
A passerby (uncredited)
- 1951
Olivia
Béatrice's Lover (uncredited)
1940s
- 1949
Gigi
Bit Part (uncredited)
Appearances29
2020s
- 2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
- 2021
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Self (archive footage)
- 2020
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Self (archive footage)
2010s
- 2017
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Self - Actor (archive footage)
2000s
- 2009
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
- 2008
The Beaches of Agnès
Self (archive footage)
- 2007
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Self
- 2006
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
Self
- 2005
Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Narrator (voice)
- 2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Self
1990s
- 1998
- 1994
The Troubles We've Seen
Self
- 1991
Lest We Forget
Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")
- 1990
1980s
- 1987
- 1986
Before Midnight
Self (archive footage)
- 1982
1970s
- 1978
- 1976
- 1975
L'école est finie
Self - Narrator(voice)
- 1974
- 1972
