Philippe Léotard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 28, 1940
- Died
- August 25, 2001 (aged 60)
- Birthplace
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Black Dju
Movie · as Inspecteur Plettschette
Pandora
Movie · as Raúl
Les Miserables
Movie · as Thénardier 1942
Élisa
Movie · as Gitanes Smoker
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Movie · as Jeff
Im Kreis der Iris
Movie · as Dr. Ionescu
Ville à vendre
Movie · as Jean Boulard
Venins
Movie · as Phil Anzer
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Movie · as Jeff
The Flesh
Movie · as Nicola
There Were Days... and Moons
Movie · as Le chanteur abandonné
No Time for Justice
Movie · as Auclair
Death of a Schoolboy
Movie · as Dr. Levin
The Day of Reckoning
Movie · as André Arnaud
Chillers
TV · as André Arnaud · 1 ep
Plato's Banquet
Movie · as Socrates
Ada in the Jungle
Movie · as Rudi
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Movie · as Bernard Hauptmann
The Color of the Wind
Movie · as Pierre
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Movie · as Painter / Murderer
The Abyss
Movie · as Henri-Maximilien
The South
Movie · as Roberto
Snack Bar Budapest
Movie · as Sapo
If the Sun Never Returns
Movie · as Arlettaz
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Le monde est à vous
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
State of Grace
Movie · as Pierre-Julien
The Nonentity
Movie · as Kaufmann
Exit-exil
Movie · as Duke
The Dawn
Movie · as Gad
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Movie · as Pierre
Farewell Fred
Movie · as Fred
Robin
Movie · as Louis Ducasse
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Movie · as Pierre
La Pirate
Movie · as n° 5
Wild Animals
Movie · as Léandro Santini
Femmes de personne
Movie · as Antoine
So Long, Stooge
Movie · as Bauer
Hiver 60
Movie · as André
Paradise for All
Movie · as Marc Lebel
La Balance
Movie · as Dédé Laffont
The Shock
Movie · as Félix
Short Memory
Movie · as Frank Barila
Mora
Movie · as Mora
Champs-Elysées
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Movie · as Blaise
The Little Mermaid
Movie · as Georges Maréchal
A Week's Vacation
Movie · as le docteur Sabouret
La Tisane de sarments
Movie · as Joë Bousquet
The Imprint of Giants
Movie · as Lucien Chabaud
The French Atlantic Affair
TV · as Blondin · 3 eps
Le Journal
TV · as Clébert · 6 eps
Your Turn, My Turn
Movie · as Vincent
Judith Therpauve
Movie · as Jean-Pierre Maurier
Solemn Communion
Movie · as Jacques Gravet
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Movie · as Marec
La Comédie du train des pignes
Movie · as Self
Shadow of the Castles
Movie · as Luigi
The Good and the Bad
Movie · as le vendeur de Citroën
The Conquistadores
Movie
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Movie · as (uncredited)
French Connection II
Movie · as Jacques
The Wonderful Crook
Movie · as Julien
Cat and Mouse
Movie · as Pierre Chemin
The Track
Movie · as Paul Danville
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Mouth Agape
Movie · as Philippe
The Middle of the World
Movie · as Paul
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Movie · as Padovani
Armchair Cinema
TV · as Jean Cacques Brialy · 1 ep
La Cloche tibétaine
TV · as Vladimir Petropavlovsky · 7 eps
The Day of the Jackal
Movie · as Gendarme
Kamouraska
Movie · as Antoine
La Porteuse de pain
TV · as Jacques Garaud jeune · 13 eps
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
Movie · as Clovis
Chinese Glory
Movie · as Michel Perrat
Rak
Movie · as Lucien
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Movie · as Lieutenant Perrin
Crime and Punishment
Movie · as Razoumikhine
Two English Girls
Movie · as Diurka
Max and the Junkmen
Movie · as Losfeld
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Movie · as Honoré
Bed and Board
Movie · as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)