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Something wrong?A face that defined French cinema for half a century - not through beauty or bravado, but through something rarer: the ability to carry an entire film's gravity in a glance, a shrug, the way he held a silence.
A life in dates
Vivement dimancheSeries1997
On GuardFilm, Duke Philippe d'Orléans1991BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleAward1990César Award for Best ActorAwardDavid di Donatello for Best Foreign ActorAwardLondon Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the YearAward
Stars 90Series, 1990
My New Partner IIFilm, 1990René Boirond1989European Film Award for Best ActorAward1988
Chouans !Film, Savinien de Kerfadec1987
Nulle part ailleursSeries
The FamilyFilm, 1987Jean-Luc1984
My New PartnerFilm, René Boirond1982
Champs-ElyséesSeries1981
Coup de TorchonFilm, Lucien Cordier1978
Dear InspectorFilm, Antoine Lemercier1976César Award for Best ActorAwardDavid di Donatello for Best Foreign ActorAward
30 millions d'amisSeries, 19761975
ApostrophesSeries
My FriendsFilm, 1975Il Perozzi1974
Spécial cinémaSeries1973
La Grande BouffeFilm, Philippe1972
Midi trenteSeries1971
Murphy's WarFilm, Brezan1968
Very Happy AlexanderFilm, Alexandre Gartempe1965
Lady LFilm, Ambroise Gérôme1959
DiscoramaSeries1956
La Pointe CourteFilm, Him1930Born1 October 1930Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
Filmography 40
TAThe Beaches of Agnès
MIMy New Partner IIIOGOn Guard
TPThe Postman
DDD'Artagnan's Daughter
DTDead TiredMIMy New Partner II
URUranus
TMThe Return of the Musketeers
LBLife and Nothing But
CPCinema ParadisoCHChouans !
TTThe Man Who Planted TreesTFThe Family
RM'Round Midnight
LGLet's Hope It's a Girl
TMTwist Again in MoscowMPMy New Partner
MIMy Friends Act II
TSThe North StarCTCoup de Torchon
JTJupiter's ThighDIDear Inspector
WEWho Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
TAThe Judge and the Assassin
TTThe Desert of the Tartars
AWA Woman at Her WindowMFMy Friends
TGThe Old Gun
TPThe Watchmaker of St. PaulLBLa Grande BouffeMWMurphy's War
TOTopaz
TBThe Assassination BureauVAVery Happy Alexander
TGThe Night of the Generals
WSWoman Times SevenLLLady L
ZMZazie dans le MétroLCLa Pointe Courte175 credits on file
Television 14
IÉIl était une fois Champs-ÉlyséesVDVivement dimancheSTStars 90
SSSacrée soiréeNANulle part ailleursCEChamps-Elysées
CRCiné regardsMA30 millions d'amis
CCCérémonie des CésarAPApostrophes
LDLes Rendez-vous du dimancheSCSpécial cinémaMTMidi trenteDIDiscoramaAwards
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Spouse: Monique ChaumetteAbout this person
Philippe Noiret was born on 1 October 1930 in France and spent decades becoming the kind of screen presence directors built their films around. He worked steadily through the second half of the twentieth century, inhabiting roles that asked for weight rather than flash - the sort of actor whose name on a marquee promised intelligence, melancholy, and a performance that wouldn't announce itself. By the time he died on 23 November 2006, he'd become one of those figures whose absence left French cinema feeling emptier, the reliable center suddenly gone.
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