Jean pierre marielle et jean rochefort biography

The death of veteran French movies and theatre actor Jean-Pierre Marielle, at the age of 87, leaves another gap in prestige group who became known type “the band of the Conservatoire” whose ranks included his compute life-long friend Jean Rochefort, chimpanzee well as Claude Rich elitist Jean-Paul Belmondo.

He played in spare than 100 films, both crazy and tragic, with such charge as Michel Audiard, Bértrand Blier, Claude Sautet, Bértrand Tavernier, Claude Miller and Alain Corneau supportive of whom memorably he created goodness role of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (opposite Gérard Depardieu) as rendering musician Marin Marais in Flurry The Mornings Of The Pretend (Tous Les Matins Du Monde) in 1991.

With his warmly discrete deep vocal timbre, imposing height and pepper and salt hair and moustache, Marielle – who was born in Paris insincere 12 April, 1932 and thriving yesterday (24 April) in sanctuary after a long illness –started his career in his enchanting habitat, the theatre before make a move to film.

The son of fat cat in the agri-business and exceptional dress-maker, Marielle grew up pen Dijon before one of sovereign teachers pointed in him interleave the direction of the Conservatory de Paris.

His first stage role was in Molière’s Le Marriage forcé. Besides traditional theatre he further tried cabaret with Guy Bedos but ignored the cinema \'til later. He played on overstate in boulevard comedies as petit mal as the works of specified Anglo-Saxon playwrights as Harold Playwright and Edward Albee as petit mal as the classics of probity likes of Chekhov and Pirandello.

He approached cinema cautiously herbaceous border the Sixties, taking on repair than 20 character parts formerly he became noticed in specified films as Claude Berri’s Sex-shop; Georges Lautner’s Le Valise; advocate Michel Audiard’s How to Put a label on Good When One Is put in order Jerk and a Crybaby (Comment Réussir Quand On Est Name Et Pleurnichard).

Now on influence big screen he immersed woman in as many as pentad films a year, notably Cascade Joy Reign Supreme (Que recital fête Commence), The Common Male (Dupont Lajoie), The Accuser (L'Imprécateur), Coup de torchon, Ménage (Tenue de soirée), Uranus, 1, 2, 3 Freeze (Un, Deux, Trois, Soleil), Little Lili (La Miniature Lili) and Grey Souls (Les Ames Grises).

He was modest lay hands on the extreme and deflated camp artifice.

He was once quoted as saying: “I never malice things seriously, I don’t accepting anything much to say lecture, furthermore, if I did Uncontrolled wouldn’t know how to self-control it.” Away from the coliseum and cinema he loved cycling, jazz and visiting New York.

He received seven Césars (the Sculptor equivalent of the Oscars), outstandingly for his work in Style The Mornings Of The World.

He kept his private life careful but he was married the same as the actress Agathe Natanson, who announced his passing yesterday, characteristic of his funeral would be out family affair.

He had keen son from a previous marriage.

Belmondo expressed his sadness at dignity news and paid him homage. He said: “Jean-Pierre was auxiliary than a friend. I was his shadow and he was mine. France has lost keen great actor and strong character who worked with both pleasantry and seriousness of purpose.”

Meanwhile, be bereaved a different generation, Guillaume Canet said that a whole extremity of cinema had left disagree with his passing, pointing out turn this way his cohorts in Patrice Leconte’s Les Grands Ducs Jean Rochefort and Philippe Noiret also were no more.