- Stage actor and stage producer.
- He was cast in small roles at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the pseudonym of Paul Berley.
- Giving up on pursuing his studies after obtaining his baccalaureate , he worked briefly as an insurance broker in Paris.
- He failed the entrance exam to the Conservatoire in 1906 and 1907.
- In 1908, he produced, wrote the script for and played the lead role in his first silent film, Le Tango rouge, in which he also cast his friend and roommate, the poster artist Gaston Girbal.
- In 1943 he wrote the book Le Film de Mes Souvenirs (Secrets de Vedettes).
- He is credited under the shortened name of Charles de Roche in the credits of the films shot during his American career from 1923 to 1925. This change was an artistic and commercial decision of Jesse L. Lasky , the head of the Paramount Pictures firm who hired the French actor under contract.
- In 1936, Rochefort converted to the stage by taking over the management of the "Théâtre Albert-Ier" in Paris, located at 64, rue du Rocher, which he renamed after himself, Théâtre Charles-de-Rochefort. He had many detective and suspense plays performed there, including Allô, Police-secours , which he wrote under the Americanized pseudonym of Chas D. Strongstone. Mobilized in 1939 and promoted to reserve captain, he was wounded and taken prisoner in the Vosges Vosges in 1940; his wife Mary Grant then took over the management of the hall, which she would run until 1972 with her son Jean Dejoux .
- Adopting the pseudonym of "Jean Misère", he performed in Parisian cabarets as a realist singer .
- Missing during the attack on Vermandovillers on September 5th ,following the Battle of the Somme, he was taken prisoner of war and interned in the Gütersloh camp. He repatriated for medical reasons via Switzerland in 1918, and he was demobilized in March 1919.
- Among the films he directed was the French-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930), and Magie moderne (1931), a French film about television released as Televisione in Italy, along with five other versions in five different languages. This latter film was produced at the Joinville Studios of Paramount Pictures at Joinville-le-Pont in Paris.
- Rochefort also performed music hall numbers, including at the Folies Bergère and the Salle de l'Alhambra .
- In 1913, he was recruited by Pathé as artistic director of an ingenious process of lyrical representation in which the artists mimed on stage a recorded musical show that was broadcast by an acoustic amplification device developed by the firm.
- He portrayed Pharaoh Rameses II in the biblical prologue of Cecil B. DeMille's silent film The Ten Commandments (1923).
- Irresistibly drawn to acting, he left this material security and broke with his family, who were scandalized by his vocation for the stage, which was considered dishonourable by his background.
- A great athlete, he was also the stand-in for the great comedian for dangerous stunts, despite their clear height difference.
- Recruited as a narrator in a show of the works of the bard Théodore Botrel , Rochefort took part in the tours of this programme for two years under the name of Armand Vassy. In between, he took part in fairground shows.
- Charles de Rochefort was a French film actor, principally of the silent era. He appeared in 34 films between 1911 and 1932.
- A regular sidekick of Max Linder, he also played under the direction of Abel Gance, Léonce Perret and Victor Fleming .
- During the Second World War he was interned by the German occupiers but was released due to the influence of his friend, the actress Michèle Alfa.
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