Jean-Laurent Cochet, actor, director and drama teacher died on the night of Monday to Tuesday at the age of 85, his entourage announced at Le Figaro . He was "the most erudite Master in our dramatic and lyrical repertoire," in the words of Pierre Gaxotte. But also "the theatrical memory of the past forty years, and he succeeds in this miracle of transmitting the essentials to himself".
Born in January 28, 1935 in Romainville, Very early on the stage, he became a boarder at the Comédie-Française in the early 1960s. He then founded his own school, the Cours Cochet in 1966 and trained generations of actors. From Gérard Depardieu to Maxime d'Aboville, including Richard Berry, Emmanuelle Béart, Isabelle Huppert, Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini ...
With Jean-Laurent Cochet, an entire section of the history of French theater disappears, he who had staged Jean Le Poulain, Suzy Delair, Danielle Darrieux, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Brasseur and many others. To the point that Jean d'Ormesson had greeted the theater master in laudatory words. “God needs men. Molière, Racine, and the others are very lucky to be served with so much loyalty, enthusiasm and intelligence by Jean-Laurent Cochet, who is their delegate among us, ” explained the academician.