Biography
Jean-Pierre Marielle (born April 12, 1932) is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred movies in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen (Les Galettes de Pont-Aven), to the serial killer (Sans mobile apparent), to the World War II hero (Les Milles), to the compromised spy (La Valise), to the has-been actor (Les Grands Ducs), acting always with the same excellence whatever the quality of the movie in itself. He is well known for his outspokenne...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
2020
Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Comedian buddies. Actors who dreamed of the Conservat...

Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020
as Self (archive footage)
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and c...

Two Snails Set Off
2017
as (voice)
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...

FantastiCozzi
2016
as (archive footage)
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Belmondo by Belmondo
2016
as Self
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s m...

Phantom Boy
2015
as The Man with the Broken Face (voice)
At a hospital in New York, Alex, a police officer, meets Leo, a boy who has the ability to get out of his body and pass through the walls like a ghost...
Valse à trois
2014
A pregnant young woman is listening the conversation of her table neighbours involuntary. On the first sight its seems to be the banalities of an old ...

Do Not Disturb
2014
as Michel's Father
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have con...

Sex, Love & Therapy
2014
as Lui-même
Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring a...

Des roses en hiver
2014
as Jean

Indiscrétions
2013
as Bernard Lefort
A piano teacher suspects her entourage of being responsible for the disappearance of a former pupil she was putting up. She starts to grow suspicious ...

Je vous salue Marielle
2013
as Himself

La Fleur de l'âge
2013
as Hubert Dassonville
Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half h...

Max
2013
as Nick
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the stree...

The Dream Team
2012
as Titouan Leguennec
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.

Rondo
2012
as Abraham
Description : Belgium, 1943. The situation is becoming unbearable for the Field family : antisemitic persecutions become common and violent. Joseph Fi...

Second Chances
2012
as The psychoanalyst

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
2011
as Self (archive footage)

Bouquet final
2011
as Jean-Pierre

Belmondo, itinéraire...
2011
as Self
Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Santa's Apprentice
2010
as Contrary Santa (voice)
Santa doesn't want to retire, but rules are rules and he must train someone to replace him. The lucky winner, to be chosen from among millions of chil...

The Skin of Sorrow
2010
as Oswald
It's 1832, 22-year-old Raphaël's gambling has driven him to the brink of suicide. As he is about to throw himself in the Seine, a shopkeeper offers h...

The Wedding Cake
2010
as Victor
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, a...

Darwin (R)évolution
2009
as Charles Darwin

Micmacs
2009
as Placard
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a...

Bulles de Vian
2009
as Self
"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatural phenomenon crosses all of France: in the stree...
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
2008
as Self

The Vanishing Point
2007
as Jean Dussart
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be foun...

Let's Dance
2007
as Salomon Bellinsky
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance...

The Great Meaulnes
2006
as M. de Galais
A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural se...

The Da Vinci Code
2006
as Jacques Saunière
A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. ...

Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu
2006
as Le Pape Barberini
Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Grey Souls
2005
as Pierre-Ange Destinat
In 1917, the old rivalry between a prosecutor and a judge resurfaces during a police investigation into the murder of a child.

The Return of James Battle
2004
as Bosco
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a ...

Tomorrow We Move
2004
as Popernick
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.

Little Lili
2003
as Simon
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overl...

Claude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003
as Self
Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Throu...

Madame De...
2001
as Le général
The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family j...

Actors
2000
as Jean-Pierre Marielle
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...

One 4 All
1999
as Comissaire Bayard
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the ...

Le Nouveau Testament
1999
as Le docteur Jean Marcellin

The Pupil
1996
as Armand
Morgan, a sensitive 12-year-old, growing up in richness and royalty, finds a true friend in Julien, a young man hired to tutor him.

The Grand Dukes
1996
as Georges Cox
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of cour...

Les Milles
1995
as Commandant Perrochon
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Le...

Le Sourire
1994
as Pierre-François Le Clainche
An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes det...

The Perfume of Yvonne
1994
as Dr. René Meinthe
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye o...

One, Two, Three, Freeze
1993
as L'homme seul / The lonely man
A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. ...

Max & Jeremie
1992
as Almeida
Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters...

Dispute in Valladolid
1992
as Bartolomé de las Casas
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they ...

All the Mornings of the World
1991
as Monsieur de Sainte Colombe
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life change...

Uranus
1990
as Archambaud
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The...

Bouvard et Pécuchet
1990
as François Bouvard
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

Six crimes sans assassins
1990
as Darnoncourt
A legendary police commissioner is at the edge of writing his memoirs when he asked to help out with solving a locked room mystery where two people ar...

A Few Days with Me
1988
as Monsieur Fonfrin
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpe...

The Two Crocodiles
1987
as René Boutancard
A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in troub...

The Murderous Months of April
1987
as Fred
When an informer is executed, his dismembered remains found in several bin bags, Fred, a resilient police inspector, leads the murder investigation wi...

Ménage
1986
as The Rich and Depressed Man
Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a bar. With husband and wife in need of cash, Bob teach...

Hold-up
1985
as Simon Labrosse
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police...

Love on the Quiet
1985
as Antoine Garnier, industrialist and companion of Jeanne
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-b...
Partenaires
1984
as Gabriel Gallien
Most of the action takes place in two dressing rooms of a Parisian theater during the performance of a successful play. Marion, 40, beautiful and famo...

Les Capricieux
1984
as Simon
In post-revolutionary France, two neighbouring aristocrats embark on a dangerous game when they agree to help a Polish agent.

Outward Signs of Wealth
1983
as Jérôme Bouvier, accounting expert
Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society an...

Jamais avant le mariage
1982
as Patrick Le Kermadec
Bernard accompanies his friend Roger on a circuit. They witness a serious accident. Roger rushes in and saves the pilot's life. In the explosion that ...

L'Indiscrétion
1982
as Daniel
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their ki...

Coup de Torchon
1981
as Le Peron
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Asphalt
1981
as Albert Pourrat
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that...

Pétrole ! Pétrole !
1981
as Jean-Marie Tardel
Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent dont la femme n'est autre que la fille de so...

Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel ?
1980
as Victor Delacroix
Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies.

L'entourloupe
1980
as Castelard
Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in the Poitou as representatives of musical encyclopedi...

Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
1979
as François Perrin
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun...

One Wild Moment
1977
as Pierre
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. ...

The Accuser
1977
as Roustev
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundate...

As the Moon
1977
as Pouplard
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard, an unemployed heating engineer working in his girlfriend's butcher shop, deci...

Plus ça va, moins ça va
1977
as Inspecteur Pignon

Stormtroopers
1976
as il Milite Ignoto
A handful of recruits prepares for a war that nobody knows about the purpose or the motive. The field commander is a general who plays with a Marx pup...

Run After Me Until I Catch You
1976
as Paul
A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history.

The Bottom Line
1976
as Morlock
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine...

Femmes Fatales
1976
as Paul Dufour
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émi...

Cookies
1975
as Henri Serin, umbrella representative and painter
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his man...

The Track
1975
as Albert Danville
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of...

Let Joy Reign Supreme
1975
as The Marquis de Pontcallec
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

The Common Man
1975
as Léo Tartaffione
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where th...

Tell Me You Love Me
1974
as Richard le Royer
Two couples, undermined by frequent scenes, fall apart: the men, Richard and Bertrand, directors of an advertising agency, move into their office; soo...

No Pockets in a Shroud
1974
as Doctor Carlille
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exp...

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Gérard Malempin
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and i...
T'es fou Marcel
1974
as Self

Charlie and His Two Chicks
1973
as Tony
Charlie, a forty-something looking for a job, meets two twenty-something girls, Ghislaine and Josiane, who are similarly unemployed. All three decide ...

Man in the Trunk
1973
as Major Bloch
Bloch, an Israeli secret agent, seeks refuge in the French embassy in Libya to escape being killed. Augier, his French opposite number, has to get him...

The Crazy Capo Affair
1973
as Commissaire Martin
Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, do...

Tom Thumb
1972
as L'Ogre
Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his ...

Sex Shop
1972
as Lucien
On the advice of a friend, Claude, married to the charming Isabelle and father of two, decided to transform his library, hardly flourishing, into a se...
La chavalanthrope
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Essay film on the darker side of cartoonist and filmmaker Chaval, aka Yvan Francis Le Louarn.
P'pa je serai serrurier
1972
as (voice)

Four Flies on Grey Velvet
1971
as Gianni Arrosio
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his...

Without Apparent Motive
1971
as Perry Rupert-Foote
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all thes...

One Is Always Too Good to Women
1971
as Mac Cormack
This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have tak...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
1971
as Maxime
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the ot...

The Man with Connections
1970
as Lieutenant Casanova
Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he rec...

Give Her the Moon
1970
as Léopold Panneton
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.

The Vixen
1969
as l'éditeur
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.

48 Hours of Love
1969
as Mazoillac
Ingmar, a young Swedish architect, is engaged to Monika but, marriage being paradoxically a serious thing in Sweden, he wants to put his future wife t...

The Devil by the Tail
1969
as Jean-Jacques Leroy-Martin, le "play-boy"
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of th...

The Man in the Buick
1968
as Le Marquis
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who woul...

All Mad About Him
1967
as Le Révérend-Père Fouquet
Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits ...
L'Emploi du temps
1967
as Le narrateur

Tender Scoundrel
1966
as Bob
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes...

Trap for the Assassin
1966
as Lucien de Noirville
An industrialist is falsely accused of murdering one of his creditors and, because he cannot reveal that it was his mistress who gave him the money ne...

Funny Money
1966
as Raymond Vernet
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a ...

How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965
as Justin
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.

The Real Bargain
1965
as Landrut
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac w...

Weekend at Dunkirk
1964
as Pierson
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Brit...

Male Companion
1964
as Balthazar
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Backfire
1964
as Van Houde
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.

Relax Yourself Darling
1964
as David Kouglov
Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and h...

Que personne ne sorte
1964
as Jo Adams
Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur ...

Let's Rob the Bank
1964
as André Durand-Mareuil
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is national...

The Animals
1963
as Récitant (voice)
Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine parts, from the creation of the world to the rediscove...

Sweet and Sour
1963
as Monsieur Rakanowsky
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with c...

Banana Peel
1963
as Paul Reynaldo
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.

Climates of Love
1962
as Philippe Marcenat
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe...

Pete the Tender
1960
as Emile
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty crimina...

Sheep
1960
as Le chef de la préfecture de police
Fernand, a simple employee at the Prefecture of Police, must serve as a "sheep" to extract confessions from a leader of organized crime, who has recen...

Les Trois Sœurs
1960
as Toujenbach
A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life destro...

Les Joueurs
1960
as Outiechitelny
Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new ...

Notre petite ville
1959
as Morgan
When Grover's Corner, a small, uneventful American town, becomes a mirror to an entire society. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American theate...

There Is the Brunette
1958
as Cauteret - l'inconnu
Germain Vignon is a used car dealer whose eloquence is such that he could sell the lousiest banger to a guy that does not even have a driver's license...

Too Many Lovers
1957
as Reception manager at the Deauville hotel
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young in...

Anyone Can Kill Me
1957
as Lucien, le détenu bavard
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place t...

Fernand the Tramp
1957
The tramp Fernand and his dog Brigadier discover some extraordinary jewels in a bag lost in a ditch. Brigadier, who doesn't like being mistaken for a ...

The Big Bluff
1957
as Me Philippe Norbert
A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast invest...