Philippe Léotard
Acting
Philippe Léotard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 – 25 August 2001) was a French actor, poet and singer. He was born in Nice, one of seven children - four girls, then three boys, of which he was the oldest - and was the brother of politician François Léotard. His childhood was normal except for an illness (rheumatic fever) which struck him and forced him to spend days in bed during which time he read a great many books. He was particularly fond of the poets - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964. Together with students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, they formed the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble, Théâtre du Soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a woman with terminal illness in the 1974 drama film La Gueule ouverte by the controversial director Maurice Pialat. He won a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1982 movie La Balance. One of his few English-language roles was a cameo in the 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal and he co-starred as "Jacques" in the 1975 John Frankenheimer movie French Connection II which starred Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey, (sequel to The French Connection). Léotard died of respiratory failure in Paris on 25 August 2001, three days before his 61st birthday. He was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
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movieBlack Dju
1997
Inspecteur Plettschette
moviePandora
1996
Raúl
movieLes Miserables
1995
Thénardier 1942
movieÉlisa
1995
Gitanes Smoker
Im Kreis der Iris
1993
Dr. Ionescu
movieVille à vendre
1992
Jean Boulard
movieThe Flesh
1991
Nicola
movieVenins
1991
Phil Anzer
movieDeath of a Schoolboy
1990
Dr. Levin
movieNo Time for Justice
1990
Auclair
movieThe Day of Reckoning
1990
André Arnaud
movieThere Were Days... and Moons
1990
Le chanteur abandonné
tvChillers
1990
André Arnaud
moviePlato's Banquet
1989
Socrates
movieThe Abyss
1988
Henri-Maximilien
movieThe South
1988
Roberto
movieJane B. by Agnès V.
1988
Painter / Murderer
movieLe Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988
Bernard Hauptmann
movieState of Grace
1986
Pierre-Julien
movieThe Nonentity
1986
Kaufmann
movieRobin
1985
Louis Ducasse
movieWild Animals
1984
Léandro Santini
movieFemmes de personne
1984
Antoine
movieHiver 60
1983
André
movieMora
1982
Mora
movieLa Balance
1982
Dédé Laffont
movieParadise for All
1982
Marc Lebel
movieThe Shock
1982
Félix
movieShort Memory
1982
Frank Barila
movieThe Little Mermaid
1980
Georges Maréchal
movieA Week's Vacation
1980
le docteur Sabouret
movieLa Tisane de sarments
1980
Joë Bousquet
movieThe Imprint of Giants
1980
Lucien Chabaud
tvLe Journal
1979
Clébert
movieJudith Therpauve
1978
Jean-Pierre Maurier
movieYour Turn, My Turn
1978
Vincent
movieSolemn Communion
1977
Jacques Gravet
movieThe Good and the Bad
1976
le vendeur de Citroën
movieCat and Mouse
1975
Pierre Chemin
movieThe Track
1975
Paul Danville
tvLa Cloche tibétaine
1974
Vladimir Petropavlovsky
tvArmchair Cinema
1974
Jean Cacques Brialy
movieThe Mouth Agape
1974
Philippe
movieKamouraska
1973
Antoine
movieThe Day of the Jackal
1973
Gendarme
tvLa Porteuse de pain
1973
Jacques Garaud jeune
movieChinese Glory
1972
Michel Perrat
movieTo Be Twenty in the Aures
1972
Lieutenant Perrin
movieRak
1972
Lucien
movieMax and the Junkmen
1971
Losfeld
movieBed and Board
1970
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
Sound1
Tödliche Besessenheit
1994
Original Music Composer