Jean-Pierre Coffe

Actor

March 24, 1938 (78 years)

† March 29, 2016

Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Biography

Jean-Pierre Coffe (24 March 1938 – 29 March 2016) was a French radio and television presenter, food critic, and author. Jean-Pierre Coffe spent a major part of his childhood in the town where he was born, Lunéville. He never knew his father, mobilized in 1937 and killed on the field of battle in 1940. He was raised by his mother, who took over the family hairdressing salon. His grandmother was a cook and his grandfather a market gardener. His mother left Lorraine for Paris where he studied at …

Filmography

6.8

Champs-Elysées

Self

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3.6

Vivement dimanche

Self

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8.5

Apostrophes

Self

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

5.7

Sacrée soirée

Self

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6.1

Nulle part ailleurs

Self

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8.5

The Unexpected Getaway

Self

In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.

5.6

Swann in Love

Aime

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.

5.3

Panique dans l'oreillette

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6.0

Les Thibault

Rumelles

Between 1905 and 1918, the opposing destinies of two brothers from a large Catholic bourgeois family.

7.0

Yummy Yummy!

Narrateur

Healthy eating reviewed in an alternative form, light hearted and funny, while getting across a clear, positive and constructive educational message and without using a heavy moralistic tone. The series is also designed to be ultimately distributed on various audiovisual mediums as part of themes like the promotion of quality nutrition and the development of healthy nutritional habits.

6.7

Violette Nozière

Doctor Déon

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

6.5

The Associate

L'employé du magasin de squelettes

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.

6.9

Mia and the Migoo

Nenesse

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

4.5

Make Room for Tomorrow

Brigitte's Husband

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.

5.3

All Mixed Up

Le commissaire de police

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

6.2

Follow My Gaze

A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.

6.0

Scrambled Eggs

The Mayor

Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.

4.7

These Kids Are Grown-Ups

Charles

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.

N/A

Trois jeunes filles nues

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10.0

The Battle of Hernani

Bewigged Theatergoer

Drama chronicling the premiere of Victor Hugo's 1830 drama Hernani, and the dramatic Romantics that rallied around it.