Hippolyte Girardot
Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. A loner, Hippolyte Girardot set out to be an illustrator. He dreamt of working as production designer on the film set and tempted his chance at the entrance exam to the Arts Déco. While there, he was offered the project of a series of shorts working with a group of adolescents from the suburbs in a workshop setting. Even if he made his first appearance on the silver screen as the son of actor Claude Rich in "John's Wife" by Yannick Bellon, who was a friend of his mother's, he still had no intention of becoming an actor and continued to take on the various jobs proposed. Hippolyte Girardot developed a taste for acting while filming "The Destiny of Juliette" (1983) by Aline Issermann, and again with the same director for "L'Amant magnifique". He got his first nods from the profession when he was nominated for Most Promising Young Actor in 1985 for "Le Bon Plaisir", continuing his career with Godard ("First Name: Carmen") and other A film projects, notably in "Fort Saganne" and "Jean de Florette II" in which he plays a school teacher in love with Emmanuelle Beart. His film acclaim arrived in 1990 with "A World Without Pity", a disenchanted observation of society by Eric Rochant; his character Hippo resonated with an entire generation: ironically aimless yet charming. The following year, Girardot landed the lead role playing a photographer taken hostage in Lebanon in "Out of Life" by Maroun Bagdadi. He incarnated the mysterious seducer ("After Love", "The Scent of Yvonne"), but more often found himself performing in comedies: completely crazy in "Barjo" and unemployed in "Long Live the Republic" (1997) by close collaborator, Eric Rochant. After working for the television for a few years, his return to film was acclaimed in "Rashevski's Tango" in 2003. Joining the Desplechin film universe, Hippolyte Girardot gave notable performances as a business man in "Playing 'In the Company of Men'", a crooked lawyer involved in drugs in "Kings and Queen" (2004) and Anne Consigny's husband in "A Christmas Tale". Other renowned directors with whom he has collaborated include Pascal Bonitzer and Pascale Ferran ("Lady Chatterley"), and in 2006, he juggled a formidable acting career, appearing in no less than six films. After his role as a shaddy doctor in "Crime Is Our Business", his roles began to become more and more original: the alter ego of Jerome Clement in "Later" by Amos Gitai and Nanni Moretti's partner in "Quiet Chaos". He had a spell at co-directing with Nobuhiro Suwa for the film "Yuki & Nina", a touchy look at childhood that was presented at the Directors' Fortnight in 2009. Continuing to accept roles in films with a political message, he will appear in "Les Mains en l'air", which denounces Italian fascism in the year 2067, and take the lead in the dark comedy "Dernier étage gauche gauche" in which he plays a bailiff taken hostage in a housing projects building, both films to be released in 2010.
Babyphone
(Le Maire)
Paris Je T'aime
(Le père (Place des Victoires))
Lady Chatterley
(Clifford)
Fort Saganne
(Courette)
Manon of the Spring
(Bernard Olivier, teacher)
The Astronaut
(Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace)
Quiet Chaos
(Jean Claude)
One Day You'll Understand
(Victor)
Premonition
(Marc Bénesteau)
A Christmas Tale
(Claude Dédalus)
Flight of the Red Balloon
(Marc)
Jump Tomorrow
(Gérard)
Modigliani
(Maurice Utrillo)
Spy(ies)
(Simon)
The Dinner Guest
(Pontignac)
Love Without Pity
(Hippo)
The Rashevski Tango
(Antoine)
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
(Dr. Edouard Valmont)
Resolution 819
(Lherbier)
Kings & Queen
(Maître Marc Mamanne)
Park Benches
(Executive # 1)
L'amant magnifique
(Vincent)
The Perfume of Yvonne
(Victor Chmara)
Made in Paris
(Antoine Carré)
La femme de Jean
(Rémi)
The Moustache
(Bruno)
The Conquest
(Claude Guéant)
Out of Life
(Patrick Perrault)
My Place in the Sun
(François)
House of 9
(Francis)
Yuki & Nina
(Frédéric)
Sleeping Sickness
(Gaspard Signac)
Descent Into Hell
(Philippe Devignat)
Hands in the Air
(Rodolphe)
Barjo
(Barjo)
Où avais-je la tête ?
(Paul-Vincent)
Crime Is Our Business
(le docteur François Lagarde)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
(Dulac)
Le Bon Plaisir
(Pierre)
Capital
(Raphaël Sieg)
1914 the Glorious Summer
(Pierre Mercadier)
Follow My Gaze
(Le reporter en Afrique)
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
(Willian De Lille)
Virus au paradis
(Le ministre de la Santé)
An Open Heart
(Marc)
The Edge
(Sam)
Top Floor Left Wing
(François Etcheveria)
Haute Cuisine
(David Azoulay)
Trois couples en quête d'orages
(Jean-Xavier)
Toxic Affair
(Georges)
The Girl in the Air
(Philippe)
Love After Love
(Tom)
Drôle de genre
(Camille Bazin)
Life of Riley
(Colin)
Kidon
(Monsieur Garnier)
Off and Running
(L'homme à la chemise blanche)
Paradise Calling
(Mark)
La rupture
(Valéry Giscard d'Estaing)
Jésus
(Judas)
To Life
(Henri)
Si j'étais elle
(Alex)
Bird People
(Vengers)
La Chartreuse de Parme
(Count Mosca)
Le Voyage en pyjama
(Vladimir Desrosiers)
The Girl King
(Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut)
Just a Couple of Days
(Laurent)
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
(Callaghan)
First Name: Carmen
(Fred)
L'Amour ou presque
(Luc)
Le Destin de Juliette
(Pierre)
Des gens qui passent
(Grabely)
The Target
(Stan)
Adèle et Kamel
(Antoine)
La face
(Serge Vauban)
2018 Der Ölcrash
(Paul)
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
(le commandant Viennot)
Ismael's Ghosts
(Zwy)
Long Live the Republic
(Henri)
L'Aurore boréale
(Le père)
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
(Le Commissaire)
L'Oiseau rare
(Marc)
Le Viol
(Président cour d’assises)
On the Sly
(Yves, le patron du club)
Where I've Never Lived
(Benoît)
The Patriots
(Daniel)
Parallel Parking
(Hervé)
L'Amour nu
(Hervé)
French Lovers
Mama Weed
(Philippe)
Comme les doigts de la main
(The narrator)
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
(Robinson)
An Irrepressible Woman
(Léon Blum)
Incontrôlable
(Roger)
Nos amis les flics
(Fatouche)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
(Chou-fleur)
Inspector Blunder
(Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited))
L'Affaire Ben Barka
(Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju)
Un an
(Félix)
The Black Book
((voice))
That's Fine
(Paul)
Un moment d'inattention
(Laurent)
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
((voice))
Les Héritiers
(Vaillant)
Two Pianos
(Max)
The Prominents
(Leon Blum)
I Got a Woman
(L'acteur)
It Will Happen Tonight
Elisa
(Director)
Lies
(Jean-Louis Richepois)
Le Joueur
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
Badinter
Voltaire in Love
(Duc de Sully)
The Hitchhiker
(Paul)
Patrick Melrose
(Jacques D'Alantour)
Dolmen
(Pierre-Marie de Kersaint)
Murders in...
(Demeziere)
No Second Chance
(Tessier)
Irma Vep
(Robert Danjou)
Lanester
(Professeur Vincent Gerhardt)
Occupied
(French EU Commissioner)
Paris etc.
(Bruno)
Munch
(Mathieu)
Thanksgiving
(L'homme de Mobun)
Inside
(Raphaël Santi)
Sud-est
Bardot
(Louis Bardot)
Capitaine Marleau
(Pierre Claudel)
Chère Marianne
(Legarrec)
Champs-Elysées
(Self)
Marseille
(Le docteur Osmond)
Marseille
(Le docteur Osmond (uncredited))
Grand Hôtel
(Paul Andrieux)
Off Prime
Rallye 82
The Charterhouse of Parma
(Conte Mosca)