Lionel Rocheman

Acting

Lionel Rocheman

Born 1928-06-18 · Paris, France

Lionel Rocheman (18 June 1928 – 30 July 2020) was a French musician, actor, and writer. Rocheman was born on 18 June 1928 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to a Jewish family of Polish origin. At the age of 16, Rocheman became one of the youngest maquisards in the Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action. Rocheman studied at the Lycée Voltaire in Paris, where he obtained a baccalaureate in philosophy in 1946. He also studied musicology and subsequently became a musician of old French songs, the first of which was originally performed by Georges Brassens. He was the father of pianist Manuel Rocheman, and was a member of the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France. He was also a part of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, and the Société des gens de lettres. Lionel Rocheman died in Bagnolet on 30 July 2020 at the age of 92. Source: Article "Lionel Rocheman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Chanel Solitaire poster
5.0

The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.

Chanel Solitaire

1981

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ poster
6.0

In ancient Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the locals who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

1982

The Big Pardon poster
6.2

The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.

The Big Pardon

1982

Paroles et musique poster
5.0

When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?

Paroles et musique

1984

My Other Husband poster
6.0

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

My Other Husband

1983