Biography
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.
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Filmography
all 144
Movies 130
Director 56
self 27
TV Shows 14
Writer 1
Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here! (2023)
Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental (2023)
Tous flics ! (2022)
Mocky sans Mocky (2019)
Aznavour by Charles (2019)
Correspondances (2019)
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema (2019)
La parallèle Mocky (2018)
Maillan, Poiret, Serrault, drôles pour toujours (2018)
Votez pour moi ! (2017)
Godard Mon Amour (2017)
Vénéneuses (2017)
La loi de l'albatros (2017)
Bourvil, un homme vrai (2016)
Rouges étaient les lilas (2016)
Le cabanon rose (2016)
Agafia (2015)
Le Magicien et les Siamois (2015)
Le Rustre et le Juge (2015)
Monsieur Cauchemar (2015)
Les Compagnons de la pomponnette (2015)
Tu es si jolie ce soir (2015)
Looping (2014)
Calomnies (2014)
Le mystère des jonquilles (2014)
Louis de Funès, 100 ans de Rire (2014)
Dors mon lapin (2014)
À votre bon cœur, mesdames (2013)
Le Renard jaune (2013)
Le Mentor (2013)
Au-delà des grilles (2013)
Americano (2011)
Les Insomniaques (2011)
Dossier Toroto (2011)
Crédit pour tous (2011)
Colère (2010)
Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma (2010)
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là (2010)
C à vous (2009)
Un risque à courir (2009)
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju (2009)
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve) (2008)
13 French Street (2007)
Le Bénévole (2007)
Les Ballets écarlates (2007)
Touristes? Oh Yes! (2007)
Le deal (2007)
Grabuge! (2005)
Village départ (2005)
Le Furet (2003)
Les araignées de la nuit (2002)
L'Invité (2002)
La bête de miséricorde (2001)
Le glandeur (2000)
La Candide Madame Duff (2000)
Tout est calme (2000)
Vis-à-vis d'elle (2000)
Le parapluie de Cherbourg (2000)
Vidange (1998)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
Robin des mers (1998)
Alliance cherche doigt (1997)
Black for Remembrance (1995)
Bonsoir (1994)
Leon's Husband (1993)
Zone interdite (1993)
Ville à vendre (1992)
The King of Ads (1991)
Il gèle en enfer (1990)
Divine enfant (1989)
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale (1988)
The Seasons of Pleasure (1988)
Nice is nice (1988)
Nulle part ailleurs (1987)
Agent Trouble (1987)
Miracle Healing (1987)
Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)
The Unsewing Machine (1986)
Le pactole (1985)
Strip-Tease (1985)
Kill the Referee (1984)
Série noire (1984)
Is There a Frenchman in the House? (1982)
Litan (1982)
Cinéma cinémas (1982)
Droit de Réponse (1981)
Cocktail Morlock (1981)
Le piège à cons (1979)
The Witness (1978)
The Discord (1978)
Le Roi des bricoleurs (1977)
The Red Ibis (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Shadow of a Chance (1974)
The Vertical Smile (1973)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Chut ! (1972)
Love Hate (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
Solo (1970)
The Stud (1970)
The Big Wash (1968)
Les Compagnons de la marguerite (1967)
Your Money or Your Life (1966)
The Big Scare (1964)
Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
The Virgins (1963)
Snobs ! (1962)
A Couple (1960)
The Chasers (1959)
Head Against the Wall (1959)
The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
Speaking of Murder (1957)
Abandoned (1955)
Senso (1954)
Graziella (1954)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
The Big Flag (1954)
Stain on the Snow (1954)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
The Vanquished (1953)
Illicit Motherhood (1953)
L'éternel espoir (1952)
Two Pennies Worth of Violets (1951)
Bibi Fricotin (1951)
God Needs Men (1950)
Orpheus (1950)
A Night at a Honeymoon (1950)
Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
At the Grand Balcony (1949)
Portrait of a Murderer (1949)
The Hell of Lost Pilots (1949)
The Spice of Life (1948)
La Cabane aux souvenirs (1947)
Dreams of Love (1947)
Queen's Necklace (1946)
The Eternal Husband (1946)
Long Live Liberty (1946)
Strip-tease
Chut !
Rendez-vous
Myster Mocky présente
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1929-07-06
Deathday2019-08-08 (90 years old)
Birth NameJean Paul Adam Mokiejewski
Birth PlaceNice, France
ChildrenOlivia Mokiejewski, Stanislas Nordey
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJean-Paul Mokiejewski
AwardsSitges Film Festival Best Screenplay award, Henri-Langlois award, Alphonse Allais Award
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