Philippe Noiret
Actor

Philippe Noiret Net Worth

Philippe Noiret was a renowned French actor who appeared in over 140 films in a career spanning more than half a century. Born in Lille, France, he attended the College Janson-of-Sally in Paris and studied acting at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest. He made his big screen debut in 1949 and his first leading role in 1955. He became a star in France with the title role in Alexandre le bienheureux (1968). He shot to international fame with the supporting role in Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988) and won two Cesar Awards for his performances in Le vieux fusil (1975) and La vie et rien d'autre (1989). He worked with many of France's top directors and was decorated with the Knight of the Legion of Honor. Outside of acting, he was an avid dog lover, art enthusiast, horse rider, gourmet chef, and cigar smoker. He passed away in 2006 due to cancer complications.
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Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack, Miscellaneous Crew
Birth Day October 01, 1930
Birth Place  Lille, Nord, France, France
Age 90 YEARS OLD
Died On 23 November 2006(2006-11-23) (aged 76)\nParis, France
Birth Sign Scorpio
Occupation Actor
Years active 1948–2006
Spouse(s) Monique Chaumette (1958–2006; his death)
Awards Best Actor in a Leading Role 1990 Nuovo cinema Paradiso Best Actor 1976 Le Vieux fusil 1990 La Vie et rien d'autre'

💰 Net worth: $700,000 (2024)

Philippe Noiret, a renowned French actor, is estimated to have a net worth of $700,000 in 2024. Throughout his illustrious career, Noiret has made notable contributions as an actor, soundtrack artist, and miscellaneous crew member. With his exceptional talent and versatility, he has captivated audiences worldwide, earning critical acclaim and numerous accolades. Noiret's significant wealth is a testament to his exceptional career, dedication, and immense artistic abilities, which have solidified his position as one of the most respected actors in France.

Biography/Timeline

1930

Philippe Noiret (French pronunciation: ​[filip nwaʁɛ]; 1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor.

1949

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 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 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

1962

Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He 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.

1973

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.

1988

Noiret appeared in Hollywood-financed films by Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz), George Cukor (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.

1989

"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."

2006

By the time of his death from cancer in Paris in 2006, aged 76, 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.”

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