Philippe Noiret
Gender: Male
Born: 1st October 1930
Died: 23rd November 2006
Nationality: France
Movies: Coup de Torchon, Il Postino, La Grande Bouffe, Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, The Clockmaker, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, Le vieux fusil, I Don’t Kiss, Life and Nothing But, Topaz, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Alexandre le bienheureux, The Judge and the Assassin, Amici miei, La famiglia, Three Brothers, Murphy's War, The Assassination Bureau, Que la fête commence, Balthus Through the Looking Glass, On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter, Masques, La Vie de Chateau, The Night of the Generals, Amici miei Atto II, Round Midnight, Les Côtelettes, Marianna Ucrìa, Let’s Hope It’s a Girl, Uranus, My New Partner, Heads or Tails, Mr. Freedom, Night Flight from Moscow, Grosse Fatigue, The Desert of the Tartars, Justine, On Guard, Hôtel des Amériques, Revenge of the Musketeers, The Return of the Musketeers, Don't Touch The White Woman!, Les Milles: The Train of Liberty, Fort Saganne, Clérambard, Zazie dans le Métro, La Pointe Courte, Masks, A Time for Loving, Chouans!, Un taxi mauve
Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930, Lille, France – died 23 November 2006, Paris, France) was a French film actor.
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, 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
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