Directing
Jean-Pierre Mocky
FR, EN, IT cinema · 133 credits
Born
6 July 1929
Died
8 August 2019 (aged 90)
Birthplace
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Also known as Jean-Paul Mokiejewski · J.P.M.
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.
Known for
Filmography
Rendez-vous
as Victor
Foutraque (!)
as himself
Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
as Various Roles (archive footage)
Tous flics !
as Alex, Screenplay, Director
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Aznavour by Charles
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
La parallèle Mocky
as himself
Godard Mon Amour
as Customer in the Restaurant
Vénéneuses
as Dick Grant, Director, Producer, Writer
Votez pour moi !
as Pascal, l'ermite, Director, Scenario Writer, Production Director
Rouges étaient les lilas
Director, Scenario Writer, Production Manager
Le Cabanon rose
Director, Production Manager, Scenario Writer
Tu es si jolie ce soir
as Agent Willy, Director, Scenario Writer
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
as L'ange Léonard, Director, Scenario Writer
Monsieur Cauchemar
as Valentin Esbirol, Director, Scenario Writer, Production Manager
Agafia
2015
Agafia
Adaptation, Director
Le Rustre et le Juge
2015
Le Rustre et le Juge
Director, Adaptation
Looping
2014
Looping
Actor, as archival material
Le mystère des jonquilles
as Tarling, Director
Calomnies
as Armand, Director, Scenario Writer
Dors mon lapin
Director, Writer
Le Mentor
as Ludovic, Director, Writer, Editor
À votre bon cœur, mesdames
as Christophe, Director
Le Renard jaune
Director, Writer
Americano
as Le père
Dossier Toroto
as Professor Lapine, Screenplay, Director
Les Insomniaques
as Boris, Scenario Writer, Director
Crédit pour tous
Director, Producer, Writer
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
as Self (archive footage)
Colère
2010
Colère
Director, Writer
Un risque à courir
as Self - Host (uncredited), Writer, Director, Editor
Les Ballets écarlates
as Mathieu, the gunsmith, Director, Writer
13 French Street
Writer, Director, Editor
Le Bénévole
Director, Editor
Touristes? Oh Yes!
Director, Editor, Writer
Le deal
Director
Grabuge!
Screenplay, Director, Producer, Editor
Le Furet
Screenplay, Director, Editor
Les araignées de la nuit
as Inspecteur Richard Gordone, Director, Writer, Producer
La bête de miséricorde
as Jean Mardet, Director, Writer
Le glandeur
as Bruno Bombec, Writer, Director
Tout est calme
as Lucas, Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Director
La Candide Madame Duff
as Jacob Duff, Producer, Director, Writer
Vidange
as Castellin, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenplay
Robin des mers
as Le père de Mathieu, Director, Writer
Alliance cherche doigt
Director, Writer
Black for Remembrance
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
Bonsoir
Producer, Screenplay, Director, Editor
Leon's Husband
as Boris Lossef, Director, Writer
Ville à vendre
as Shade, Director, Writer, Editor
The King of Ads
Director
La Méthode Barnol
Director, Writer, Editor
Il gèle en enfer
as Tim, Editor, Director, Writer
Divine enfant
as Aurélien Brada, Writer, Director
The Seasons of Pleasure
Director, Editor, Writer
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Director, Writer
Agent trouble
as L'agent de la DST (non crédité), Editor, Screenplay, Director
Miracle Healing
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
The Unsewing Machine
as Ralph Enger, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
as Jean Almereyda
Le Pactole
Director
Kill the Referee
as Inspector Granowski, Director, Editor, Writer
First Name: Carmen
as The Screaming Patient (uncredited)
Litan
as Jock, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
The Making of Litan
as Himself
Droit de Réponse
as Self
Le piège à cons
as Michel Rayan, Director, Writer
The Witness
Writer, Director
The Red Ibis
Director, Producer, Scenario Writer
No Pockets in a Shroud
as Michel Dolannes, Director, Producer, Writer
Shadow of a Chance
as Mathias Caral, Writer, Director
The Vertical Smile
as Franco, le prêtre borgne
Chut !
Director, Screenplay
The Albatross
as Stef Tassel, Director, Writer, Producer
Solo
as Vincent Cabral, Writer, Director, Producer
The Stud
Director, Writer, Producer, Story
The Big Wash
Director, Producer, Writer, Story
Order of the Daisy
Director, Story, Producer
Your Money or Your Life
Director, Idea, Producer
The Big Scare
Director, Screenplay
Light-Fingered George
as Tramp with pram (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
The Virgins
Director, Producer, Writer
Snobs!
as Horse dealer (uncredited), Director, Writer, Adaptation, Producer
A Couple
Director, Writer, Producer, Adaptation
Head Against the Wall
as François Gérane, Adaptation
The Chasers
Director, Writer, Adaptation
Speaking of Murder
as Pierre
Abandoned
as Andrea
Senso
as Un Soldato (uncredited), Second Assistant Director
The Big Flag
as Luc Dutoit, midshipman
The Count of Monte Cristo
as Albert de Morcerf
Graziella
as Alphonse de Lamartine
The Barefoot Contessa
Assistant Director Trainee
La Strada
Assistant Director Trainee
The Vanquished
as Pierre
Stain on the Snow
as Violinist
Illicit Motherhood
as La Fouine, un gars de la bande
Éternel espoir
as Violinist
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
as Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
Bibi Fricotin
as (non crédité)
Orpheus
as Band Leader (uncredited)
A Night at a Honeymoon
as Groomsman
God Needs Men
as Pierre
Keep an Eye on Amelia
as Joseph Strauss (uncredited)
At the Grand Balcony
as (uncredited)
Portrait of a Murderer
as (uncredited)
The Spice of Life
Actor, as Le postilloneur
Dreams of Love
as Extra
Long Live Liberty
as Militiaman
The Eternal Husband
as Groomsman (uncredited)
Queen's Necklace
as Page of the Queen (uncredited)