Jean Rochefort(1930-2017)

Was cast as Don Quixote, but became seriously ill during the ill-fated making of a failed movie that was going to be called "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". That and other circumstances led to the production being halted and the abandoning of director Terry Gilliam's film. A documentary was made about these occurrences, called Lost in La Mancha (2002) .

[on working with Luis Buñuel in Il fantasma della libertà (1974)] The police commissioner called. "Your sister is on the phone." "But she's dead!" Cut. We go to the next scene, the family tomb. Don Luis says, "Camera!" Then he says "Cut!" "Go get me a phone." His assistant goes and gets a phone. On a stack of coffins, Buñuel pushes one of the coffins and puts the phone on the coffin beneath it. So, we can immediately imagine an arm coming out to call the brother. I said, "That, Don Luis, is a great idea." He answered: "Yes, Rochefort, and it's cheap."