Philippe Léotard
Acting
Born: August 28, 1940 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Died: August 25, 2001 (aged 60)
Highest Rated
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.
Photos (2)
Movies (70)
French Connection II
Jacques
The Day of the Jackal
Gendarme
The Flesh
Nicola
Bed and Board
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
The Shock
Félix
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Marec
Max and the Junkmen
Losfeld
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Painter / Murderer
Les Miserables
Thénardier 1942
Wild Animals
Léandro Santini
Élisa
Gitanes Smoker
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Pierre
La Pirate
n° 5
Two English Girls
Diurka
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
Clovis
The Abyss
Henri-Maximilien
Cat and Mouse
Pierre Chemin
Snack Bar Budapest
Sapo
The Middle of the World
Paul
No Time for Justice
Auclair
The Conquistadores
1976
The Day of Reckoning
André Arnaud
The Color of the Wind
Pierre
La Balance
Dédé Laffont
If the Sun Never Returns
Arlettaz
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Lieutenant Perrin
There Were Days... and Moons
Le chanteur abandonné
The Good and the Bad
le vendeur de Citroën
Venins
Phil Anzer
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Honoré
The Mouth Agape
Philippe
Plato's Banquet
Socrates
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Blaise
Your Turn, My Turn
Vincent
Femmes de personne
Antoine
The Wonderful Crook
Julien
Paradise for All
Marc Lebel
State of Grace
Pierre-Julien
Pandora
Raúl
Rak
Lucien
A Week's Vacation
le docteur Sabouret
Ada in the Jungle
Rudi
Hiver 60
André
Short Memory
Frank Barila
Death of a Schoolboy
Dr. Levin
Solemn Communion
Jacques Gravet
The Nonentity
Kaufmann
Ville à vendre
Jean Boulard
Robin
Louis Ducasse
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Pierre
So Long, Stooge
Bauer
The Imprint of Giants
Lucien Chabaud
The Track
Paul Danville
The South
Roberto
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Jeff
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
(uncredited)
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bernard Hauptmann
Judith Therpauve
Jean-Pierre Maurier
Black Dju
Inspecteur Plettschette
The Dawn
Gad
Mora
Mora
Shadow of the Castles
Luigi
Exit-exil
Duke
Kamouraska
Antoine
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Jeff
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Padovani
Chinese Glory
Michel Perrat
The Little Mermaid
Georges Maréchal
Farewell Fred
Fred
La Tisane de sarments
Joë Bousquet
TV Shows (6)
Chillers
André Arnaud · 1 eps
The French Atlantic Affair
Blondin · 3 eps
Armchair Cinema
Jean Cacques Brialy · 1 eps
La Cloche tibétaine
Vladimir Petropavlovsky · 7 eps
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garaud jeune · 13 eps
Le Journal
Clébert · 6 eps
