Philippe Léotard

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.

Known For

Sacrée soirée

Champs-Elysées

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Le monde est à vous

Nulle part ailleurs

The Flesh

The Day of the Jackal

Chillers

All Movies (73)

• Black Dju1997 · as Inspecteur Plettschette
• Pandora1996 · as Raúl
• Les Miserables1995 · as Thénardier 1942
• Élisa1995 · as Gitanes Smoker
• Le Voleur et la menteuse1993 · as Jeff
• Im Kreis der Iris1993 · as Dr. Ionescu
• Ville à vendre1992 · as Jean Boulard
• Le Grand Ruban (Truck)1991 · as Jeff
• The Flesh1991 · as Nicola
• Venins1991 · as Phil Anzer
• Death of a Schoolboy1990 · as Dr. Levin
• No Time for Justice1990 · as Auclair
• The Day of Reckoning1990 · as André Arnaud
• There Were Days... and Moons1990 · as Le chanteur abandonné
• Plato's Banquet1989 · as Socrates
• The Color of the Wind1988 · as Pierre
• Ada in the Jungle1988 · as Rudi
• Snack Bar Budapest1988 · as Sapo
• The Abyss1988 · as Henri-Maximilien
• The South1988 · as Roberto
• Jane B. by Agnès V.1988 · as Painter / Murderer
• Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné1988 · as Bernard Hauptmann
• If the Sun Never Returns1987 · as Arlettaz
• State of Grace1986 · as Pierre-Julien
• The Dawn1986 · as Gad
• The Nonentity1986 · as Kaufmann
• Exit-exil1986 · as Duke
• Tangos, the Exile of Gardel1985 · as Pierre
• Ni avec toi, ni sans toi1985 · as Pierre
• Robin1985 · as Louis Ducasse
• Farewell Fred1985 · as Fred
• La Pirate1984 · as n° 5
• Wild Animals1984 · as Léandro Santini
• Femmes de personne1984 · as Antoine
• So Long, Stooge1983 · as Bauer
• Hiver 601983 · as André
• Mora1982 · as Mora
• La Balance1982 · as Dédé Laffont
• Paradise for All1982 · as Marc Lebel
• The Shock1982 · as Félix
• Short Memory1982 · as Frank Barila
• Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !1981 · as Blaise
• The Little Mermaid1980 · as Georges Maréchal
• A Week's Vacation1980 · as le docteur Sabouret
• La Tisane de sarments1980 · as Joë Bousquet
• The Imprint of Giants1980 · as Lucien Chabaud
• Judith Therpauve1978 · as Jean-Pierre Maurier
• Your Turn, My Turn1978 · as Vincent
• Solemn Communion1977 · as Jacques Gravet
• Shadow of the Castles1977 · as Luigi
• La Comédie du train des pignes1977 · as Self
• Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff1977 · as Marec
• Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)1976 · as (uncredited)
• The Conquistadores1976
• The Good and the Bad1976 · as le vendeur de Citroën
• Cat and Mouse1975 · as Pierre Chemin
• French Connection II1975 · as Jacques
• The Track1975 · as Paul Danville
• The Wonderful Crook1975 · as Julien
• The Middle of the World1974 · as Paul
• The Mouth Agape1974 · as Philippe
• The Oil War Will Not Happen1974 · as Padovani
• Kamouraska1973 · as Antoine
• The Day of the Jackal1973 · as Gendarme
• Chinese Glory1972 · as Michel Perrat
• A Gorgeous Girl Like Me1972 · as Clovis
• To Be Twenty in the Aures1972 · as Lieutenant Perrin
• Rak1972 · as Lucien
• Two English Girls1971 · as Diurka
• Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy1971 · as Honoré
• Max and the Junkmen1971 · as Losfeld
• Crime and Punishment1971 · as Razoumikhine
• Bed and Board1970 · as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)

All TV Shows (11)

• Chillers1990 · as André Arnaud
• Le monde est à vous1987 · as Self
• Sacrée soirée1987 · as Self
• Nulle part ailleurs1987 · as Self
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Le Journal1979 · as Clébert
• The French Atlantic Affair1979 · as Blondin
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• La Cloche tibétaine1974 · as Vladimir Petropavlovsky
• Armchair Cinema1974 · as Jean Cacques Brialy
• La Porteuse de pain1973 · as Jacques Garaud jeune