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Born · July 6, 1929
Died · August 8, 2019 (90 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival. He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni. After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting. As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians. In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm. In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives. Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure). In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him. He died on 8 August 2019. Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Vieux 2
4.5
2023
Various Roles (archive footage)
6.8
2023
Self (archive footage)
6.0
2019
archival material
0.0
2014
0.0
2014
Ludovic
2.0
2013
Le père
5.2
2011
Self
0.0
2010
Self - Host (uncredited)
6.0
2009
Self
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2008
Bruno Bombec
0.0
2000
Castellin
2.0
1998
Boris Lossef
0.0
1993
Shade
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1992
Tim
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1990
Aurélien Brada
0.0
1989
Ralph Enger
4.2
1986
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1986
Inspector Granowski
5.5
1984
Jock
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1982
Self
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1981
Michel Dolannes
5.3
1974
Mathias Caral
2.0
1974
Stef Tassel
7.1
1971
Vincent Cabral
6.1
1970
Tramp with pram (uncredited)
6.5
1963
Horse dealer (uncredited)
5.7
1962
François Gérane
6.8
1959
Pierre
6.3
1957
Andrea
6.8
1955
Un Soldato (uncredited)
7.2
1954
Alphonse de Lamartine
6.0
1954
Luc Dutoit - a midshipman
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1954
Albert de Morcerf
6.9
1954
Pierre
6.4
1953
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1952
Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
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1951
Band Leader (uncredited)
7.6
1950
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1950
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1949
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1949
5.7
1949
Denis
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1949
6.0
1948
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1947
Extra
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1947
Page of the Queen (uncredited)
1.0
1946
Groomsman (uncredited)
7.7
1946
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1946
Victor
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Alex
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2023
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2019
Self - Actor (archive footage)
6.9
2019
himself
6.0
2018
Pascal, l'ermite
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2017
Customer in the Restaurant
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2017
Dick Grant
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2017
Self
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2017
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2017
Self
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2016
Valentin Esbirol
4.0
2015
Agent Willy
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2015
L'ange Léonard
6.0
2015
Armand
5.0
2014
Tarling
4.0
2014
Christophe
5.0
2013
Professor Lapine
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2011
Boris
6.0
2011
Self (archive footage)
7.3
2010
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2009
Self
7.0
2009
Mathieu, the gunsmith
2.7
2007
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2005
Inspecteur Richard Gordone
0.0
2002
Self · (1 episode)
4.5
2002
Jean Mardet
5.2
2001
Jacob Duff
3.0
2000
Lucas
2.0
2000
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2000
Self · (1 episode)
3.2
1998
le père de Mathieu
2.0
1998
Self · (1 episode)
5.0
1993
Self · (1 episode)
5.6
1987
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1987
Jean Almereyda
6.2
1986
Jean Almereyda · (1 episode)
7.0
1984
Récitant (voice) (uncredited)
5.4
1982
Self
0.0
1981
Michel Rayan
4.0
1979
Self · (2 episodes)
6.0
1975
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1974
Franco, le prêtre borgne
0.0
1973
Self · (2 episodes)
8.0
1972
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1971
Sébut
6.0
1958
Violinist
5.4
1954
La Fouine, un gars de la bande
1.5
1953
5.0
1951
Pierre
6.2
1950
Le postilloneur
6.0
1948