Jean-Pierre Mocky(1929-2019)
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of
Le comte de Monte-Cristo: La trahison (1954),
fame and adulation followed with his Francois in
La tête contre les murs (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.
