Editing Philippe Noiret

{{short description|French actor}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Noiret-1951-Harcourt.jpg
| caption = Noiret in 1951
| name = Philippe Noiret
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|10|1|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Lille]], France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|11|23|1930|10|1|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| burial_place = [[Montparnasse Cemetery]], Paris
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Monique Chaumette]]|1962}}
| awards = '''[[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|BAFTA Best Actor in a Leading Role]]''' <br> 1990 ''[[Nuovo cinema Paradiso]]''
'''[[César Award for Best Actor|César Best Actor]]''' <br> 1976 ''[[Le Vieux fusil]]'' <br> 1990 ''[[Life and Nothing But|La Vie et rien d'autre]]''
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1948–2006
}}

'''Philippe Noiret''' ({{IPA|fr|filip nwaʁɛ}}; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a [[French people|French]] [[film actor]].

==Life and career==

Noiret was born in [[Lille]], France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/20/Philippe-Noiret.html|title=Philippe Noiret Biography (1930–)|work=filmreference.com}}</ref> 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 (1949 film)|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 [[Bowl cut|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 (1962 film)|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."<ref name="movingpictureblog.blogspot.com">[http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/rip-philippe-noiret-1930-2006.html] MovingPictureBlog.com, 23 November 2006</ref>

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]]''. 

Noiret was a passionate horseman, and found solace on horseback. He often shared the passion with actor friends Jean Rochefort and Jean-Pierre Marielle.

[[File:Philippe_Noiret_2000_crop.jpg|thumb|Noiret in 2000]]
Noiret appeared in Hollywood-financed films by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] (''[[Topaz (1969 film)|Topaz]]''), [[George Cukor]] (''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine]]''), [[Ted Kotcheff]] (''[[Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]''), [[Peter Yates]] (''[[Murphy's War]]'') and Anatole Litvak (''[[The Night of the Generals]]''). But he may be best known for his roles as Alfredo in ''[[Cinema Paradiso]]'' (1988), [[Pablo Neruda]] in ''[[Il Postino]]'', and Major Dellaplane in [[Bertrand Tavernier]]'s ''[[Life and Nothing But]]''.<ref>[http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/11/philippe_noiret.html] EW.com, 27 November 2006</ref>

[[File:Philippe Noiret Cannes.jpg|thumb|150px|Noiret in 2003 at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].]]
By the time of his death from [[cancer]] in Paris in 2006, aged 76,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/25/guardianobituaries.france|title=Philippe Noiret|date=November 25, 2006|author=Ronald Bergan|website=The Guardian|access-date=January 17, 2022}}</ref> Noiret had more than 100 film roles to his credit. He often joked with interviewers about his virtually non-stop work schedule, telling [[Joe Leydon]] in 1989: "You never know what will be the success of a film. And it's always comfortable to be making another film when you're reading terrible notices for your last film. You can say, 'Well, that's a pity, but I'm already working on another job.' It helps in your living. You see, if you're only making one film a year, or one film every year and a half, it's hard. Because when it's a failure, what do you do? What do you become? You're dead."<ref name="movingpictureblog.blogspot.com"/>

[[File:Philippe Noiret tombe.jpg|thumb|Noiret’s grave at [[Montparnasse Cemetery]]]]

==Awards==
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role]]
** 1990 – [[Nuovo Cinema Paradiso]]
* [[César Award for Best Actor]]
** [[1976 in film|1976]] – ''Le Vieux Fusil''
** [[1990 in film|1990]] – ''La Vie et rien d'autre''

==Selected filmography==
{{Main|Philippe Noiret filmography}}
{| class="wikitable"
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Title
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Director
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Notes
|-
|1955
|''[[La Pointe courte]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Short Point'')
|Lui
|[[Agnès Varda]]
|
|-
|1960
|''[[Zazie dans le Métro]]'' 
|Uncle Gabriel
|[[Louis Malle]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1962
|''[[Le Crime ne paie pas]]''
|Clovis Hugues
|[[Gérard Oury]]
|(segment "L'affaire Hugues")
|-
|''[[Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962 film)|Thérèse Desqueyroux]]''
|Bernard Desqueyroux
|[[Georges Franju]]
|
|-
|1964
|''[[Cyrano and d'Artagnan]]''
|King Louis XIII
|[[Abel Gance]]
|
|-
|1966
|''[[Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?]]''
|Jean-Jacques Georges
|[[William Klein (photographer)|William Klein]]
|
|-
|1968
|''[[Alexandre le bienheureux]]''
|Alexandre
|[[Yves Robert]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1969
|''[[Justine (1969 film)|Justine]]''
|Pombal
|[[George Cukor]]
|
|-
|''[[Topaz (1969 film)|Topaz]]''
|Henri Jarré
|[[Alfred Hitchcock]]
|
|-
|1973
|''[[La Grande Bouffe]]''
|Philippe
|[[Marco Ferreri]]
|
|-
|1974
|''[[L'Horloger de Saint-Paul]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Clockmaker'')
|Michel Descombes
|[[Bertrand Tavernier]]
|
|-
|1976
|''[[Le Juge et l'Assassin]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Judge and the Assassin'')
|Judge Rousseau
|Bertrand Tavernier
|
|-
|1980
|''[[A Week's Vacation]]''
|Michel Descombes
|Bertrand Tavernier
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1981
|''[[Tre fratelli]]'' (a.k.a. ''Three Brothers'')
|Raffaele Giuranna
|[[Francesco Rosi]]
|
|-
|''[[Coup de Torchon]]''
|Lucien Cordier
|Bertrand Tavernier
|
|-
|1984
|''[[Les Ripoux]]'' (a.k.a. ''My New Partner'')
|René Boisrond
|[[Claude Zidi]]
|
|-
|1988
|''[[Nuovo Cinema Paradiso]]''
|Alfredo
|[[Giuseppe Tornatore]]
|
|-
|1989
|''[[Life and Nothing But|La Vie et Rien D'autre]]'' (a.k.a. ''Life and Nothing But'')
|Commander Dellaplane
|Bertrand Tavernier
|
|-
|1993
|''[[Tango (1993 film)|Tango]]''
|François d'Amour
|[[Patrice Leconte]]
|
|-
|1994
|''[[Il Postino: The Postman|The Postman]]''
|Pablo Neruda
|[Michael_Radford |[[Michael Radford]] – [[Massimo Troisi]]
|
|-
|2007
|''{{Interlanguage link multi|Trois amis|cy|Trois Amis|fr|Trois Amis}}''
|Serano
|[[Michel Boujenah]]
|(final film role)
|}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* {{IMDb name|0634159|Philippe Noiret}}
* [http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1956662,00.html ''Guardian'' obituary]
* [https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2470059,00.html ''Times'' obituary]

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