Jean-Pierre Mocky

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 07/06/1929

Date of death : 08/08/2019

City of birth : Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), fame and adulation followed with his Francois in Head Against the Wall (1959). As a director he became famous with anarcho-pictures, brilliant cynic comedies. His preferred actors in all decades were Michel Serrault and Jean Poiret - till the late 80s they were his leading stars. When Jeanne Moreau appeared in Le miraculé (1987), many other leading French screen-stars followed.