He played a leading role in the TV-movie Les Sagards by Dominique Ladoge who confides: "I wrote Les Sagards for him and we spent weeks in the Forez mountains to draw the character of Abel Vagney, touch by touch. In my filmography, there was a before and after Jean-Roger. I have never found such an investment nor such a requirement".
Subsequently, Jean-Roger Milo retired from cinema to live in the mountains. Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine tried to get him back on the screens in 2014 by giving him the main role in the film Near Death Experience but their contacts were unsuccessful.