Philippe Noiret

Acting · Born 1930-10-01 in Lille, Nord, France

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…

Filmography

• The Old Gun as Julien Dandieu
• La Grande Bouffe as Philippe
• The Postman as Pablo Neruda
• My Friends as Il Perozzi
• Cinema Paradiso as Alfredo
• My Friends Act II as Giorgio Perozzi
• Coup de Torchon as Lucien Cordier
• The Troubles We've Seen as Self
• My New Partner as René Boirond
• Topaz as Henri Jarre

TV

• Nulle part ailleurs as Self
• Midi trente as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
• Champs-Elysées as Self
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
• Apostrophes as Self
• Vivement dimanche as Self
• Stars 90 as Self
• 30 millions d'amis as Self
• Sacrée Soirée as Self