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