Jean-Pierre Mocky
- Born
- 6 July 1929
- Died
- 8 August 2019 (aged 90)
- Place of birth
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
- Birth name
- Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski
- Height
- 176 cm
- Known for
- Director
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.
