In Film
In film Rochefort has been played by:
- Ian Keith in both the 1935 and 1948 versions of The Three Musketeers
- Christopher Lee in the 1973 movie The Three Musketeers, as well as the sequels The Four Musketeers and The Return of the Musketeers.
- Michael Wincott in the 1993 movie The Three Musketeers.
- David Schofield in the 2001 movie The Musketeer.
- Mads Mikkelsen in the 2011 movie The Three Musketeers.
Film incarnations tend to depict Rochefort as a far darker character than in the novel, and often extend his role. Unlike in the original novel, d'Artagnan ends up killing Rochefort in duel in The Four Musketeers (though he turns up alive in The Return in the Musketeers, only to die "again" in a gunpowder explosion intended for (and partially triggered by) the musketeers), and the character suffers the same fate in the 1993 adaptation. In his three appearances as Rochefort, Christopher Lee wore an eyepatch, intended to make the character look more sinister. The eyepatch, while a departure from Rochefort's appearance in Dumas' novel, was deemed striking enough to be retained in several other film adaptations, as Wincott and Mikkelsen retained it in their portrayals, as well as in the cartoon series Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and the anime version. Tim Roth's Febre, the main villain of The Musketeer, also wears an eyepatch (although Rochefort does not).
Dogtanian's Rochefort has a scar on his forehead rather than his cheek. Throughout the series, the title character often calls him "Black Moustache".
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