Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard ( born Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi August 28, 1940 - died August 25, 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 they formed the théâtre du soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a women 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 in 2001 of respiratory failure in Paris at the age of 60. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 1940-08-28

Died: 2001-08-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Bed and Board	L'homme Ivre (uncredited)	71
2	1971	Crime and Punishment	Razoumikhine	0
3	1971	Max and the Junkmen	Losfeld	72
4	1971	Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy	Honoré	60
5	1971	Two English Girls	Diurka	70
6	1972	Rak	Lucien	60
7	1972	To Be Twenty in the Aures	Lieutenant Perrin	75
8	1972	A Gorgeous Girl Like Me	Clovis	62
9	1972	Chinese Glory	Michel Perrat	64
10	1973	The Day of the Jackal	Gendarme	75
11	1973	Kamouraska	Antoine	61
12	1974	The Wonderful Crook	Julien	58
13	1974	The Oil War Will Not Happen	Padovani	0
14	1974	The Mouth Agape	Philippe	65
15	1974	The Middle of the World	Paul	62
16	1975	The Track	Paul Danville	70
17	1975	French Connection II	Jacques	68
18	1975	Cat and Mouse	Pierre Chemin	57
19	1976	The Good and the Bad	le vendeur de Citroën	56
20	1976	The Conquistadores		0
21	1976	Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)		50
22	1977	Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff	Marec	69
23	1977	La comédie du train des pignes		0
24	1977	Solemn Communion	Jacques Gravet	45
25	1977	Shadow of the Castles	Luigi	62
26	1978	Your Turn, My Turn	Vincent	43
27	1978	Judith Therpauve	Jean-Pierre Maurier	63
28	1980	The Imprint of Giants	Lucien Chabaud	0
29	1980	La Tisane de sarments	Joë Bousquet	70
30	1980	A Week's Vacation	le docteur Sabouret	60
31	1980	The Little Mermaid	Georges Maréchal	56
32	1981	Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !	Blaise	52
33	1982	Short Memory	Frank Barila	48
34	1982	Le Choc	Félix	52
35	1982	Paradise for All	Marc Lebel	60
36	1982	La Balance	Dédé Laffont	64
37	1982	Mora	Mora	45
38	1983	Hiver 60	André	0
39	1983	So Long, Stooge	Bauer	74
40	1984	Femmes de personne	Antoine	38
41	1984	Wild Animals	Léandro Santini	46
42	1984	La Pirate	n° 5	46
43	1985	Farewell Fred	Fred	25
44	1985	Rouge-gorge	Louis Ducasse	49
45	1985	Ni avec toi, ni sans toi	Pierre	0
46	1985	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	Pierre	67
47	1986	Exit-exil	Duke	70
48	1986	The Nonentity	Kaufmann	61
49	1986	The Dawn	Gad	100
50	1986	State of Grace	Pierre-Julien	30
51	1987	If the Sun Never Returns	Arlettaz	55
52	1988	Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné	Bernard Hauptmann	0
53	1988	Jane B. by Agnès V.	Painter / Murderer	68
54	1988	The South	Roberto	64
55	1988	The Abyss	Henri-Maximilien	54
56	1988	Snack Bar Budapest	Sapo	48
57	1988	Ada in the Jungle	Rudi	20
58	1988	The Color of the Wind	Pierre	54
59	1989	Plato's Banquet	Socrates	52
60	1990	There Were Days... and Moons	Le chanteur abandonné	65
61	1990	The Day of Reckoning	André Arnaud	0
62	1990	No Time for Justice	Auclair	0
63	1990	Death of a Schoolboy		20
64	1991	Venins	Phil Anzer	45
65	1991	The Flesh	Nicola	57
66	1991	Le Grand Ruban (Truck)	Jeff	0
67	1992	Ville à vendre	Jean Boulard	45
68	1993	Le Voleur et la menteuse	Jeff	30
69	1993	Im Kreis der Iris	Dr. Ionescu	0
70	1995	Elisa	Gitanes Smoker	64
71	1995	Les Miserables	Thénardier 1942	67
72	1996	Pandora	Raúl	65
73	1997	Black Dju	Inspecteur Plettschette	20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	La Porteuse de pain	Jacques Garaud jeune	70
2	1974	Armchair Cinema	Jean Cacques Brialy	70
3	1974	La Cloche tibétaine	Vladimir Petropavlovsky	65
4	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
5	1979	The French Atlantic Affair	Blondin	70
6	1979	Le Journal	Clébert	0
7	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
8	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
9	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
10	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
11	1990	Chillers	André Arnaud	62

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