Hippolyte Girardot
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Murders in...
Demeziere
2013
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
The Hitchhiker
Paul
1983
Series
Patrick Melrose
Jacques D'Alantour
2018
Series
Capitaine Marleau
Pierre Claudel
2015
Film
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Chou-fleur
2021
Series
Occupied
French EU Commissioner
2015
Series
Irma Vep
Robert Danjou
2022
Series
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond
2016
Series
Marseille
Le docteur Osmond (uncredited)
2016
Series
Grand Hôtel
Paul Andrieux
2020
Series
Munch
Mathieu
2016
Film
Paris Je T'aime
Le père (Place des Victoires)
2006
Series
No Second Chance
Tessier
2015
Film
Manon of the Spring
Bernard Olivier, teacher
1986
Series
Bardot
Louis Bardot
2023
Film
Descent Into Hell
Philippe Devignat
1986
Series
Off Prime
2007
Film
Le Bon Plaisir
Pierre
1984
Film
A Christmas Tale
Claude Dédalus
2008
Series
Dolmen
Pierre-Marie de Kersaint
2005
Film
The Girl King
Ambassador Pierre Hector Chanut
2015
Film
The Dinner Guest
Pontignac
2007
Series
Voltaire in Love
Duc de Sully
2021
Series
Inside
Raphaël Santi
2019
Film
Haute Cuisine
David Azoulay
2012
Film
Modigliani
Maurice Utrillo
2004
Film
First Name: Carmen
Fred
1983
Film
Fort Saganne
Courette
1984
Film
Bird People
Vengers
2014
Series
Paris etc.
Bruno
2017
Film
Laghat - Un sogno impossibile
2025
Film
Lady Chatterley
Clifford
2006
Film
Capital
Raphaël Sieg
2012
Film
House of 9
Francis
2005
Film
Ismael's Ghosts
Zwy
2017
Film
The Moustache
Bruno
2005
Series
The Charterhouse of Parma
Conte Mosca
2012
Film
Inspector Blunder
Friend of Michel Clément (uncredited)
1980
Film
Made in Paris
Antoine Carré
2006
Film
Le Viol
Président cour d’assises
2017
Les voeux
Rallye 82
Badinter
François Mitterand
2026
Film
An Open Heart
Marc
2012
Film
Elisa
Director
2025
Series
Thanksgiving
L'homme de Mobun
2019
Film
Kings & Queen
Maître Marc Mamanne
2004
Le Joueur
Film
Incontrôlable
Roger
2006
Film
Babyphone
Le Maire
2023
Film
Two Pianos
Max
2025
Film
The Target
Stan
1997
Series
Chère Marianne
Legarrec
1999
Film
Mama Weed
Philippe
2020
Film
The Patriots
Daniel
1994
Film
Quiet Chaos
Jean Claude
2008
Film
Park Benches
Executive # 1
2009
Film
La face
Serge Vauban
2016
Lies
Jean-Louis Richepois
2010
Series
Lanester
Professeur Vincent Gerhardt
2014
Film
Love After Love
Tom
1992
Film
The Astronaut
Monsieur Dominique, Jim's superior at Arianespace
2023
2018 Der Ölcrash
Paul
2005
Film
The Conquest
Claude Guéant
2011
Film
Jésus
Judas
1999
Film
French Lovers
1985
Film
Flight of the Red Balloon
Marc
2007
Film
Life of Riley
Colin
2014
Film
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Dulac
2012
Film
The Perfume of Yvonne
Victor Chmara
1994
Film
Toxic Affair
Georges
1993
Film
Out of Life
Patrick Perrault
1991
Film
Le Voyage en pyjama
Vladimir Desrosiers
2024
Film
Nos amis les flics
Fatouche
2004
Film
L'Amour nu
Hervé
1981
Film
Spy(ies)
Simon
2009
Film
The Girl in the Air
Philippe
1992
Film
La Chartreuse de Parme
Count Mosca
2012
Film
1914 the Glorious Summer
Pierre Mercadier
1996
Film
Crime Is Our Business
le docteur François Lagarde
2008
Film
Where I've Never Lived
Benoît
2017
Film
Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Le Commissaire
2014
Film
Paradise Calling
Mark
1988
Film
It Will Happen Tonight
2026
Film
L'Oiseau rare
Marc
2001
Film
Resolution 819
Lherbier
2008
Film
An Irrepressible Woman
Léon Blum
2020
Film
Kidon
Monsieur Garnier
2013
Film
L'Amour ou presque
Luc
1985
Film
La femme de Jean
Rémi
1974
Film
Sleeping Sickness
Gaspard Signac
2011
Film
Just a Couple of Days
Laurent
2024
Film
That's Fine
Paul
2021
Film
The Rashevski Tango
Antoine
2003
Film
Barjo
Barjo
1992
Film
L'amant magnifique
Vincent
1986
Sud-est
Film
The Edge
Sam
2011
Film
Virus au paradis
Le ministre de la Santé
2003
Film
Top Floor Left Wing
François Etcheveria
2010
Film
L'Affaire Ben Barka
Georges Figon, voyou au cœur du complot, ami du réalisateur Georges Franju
2008
Film
One Day You'll Understand
Victor
2008
Film
To Life
Henri
2014
Film
Jump Tomorrow
Gérard
2001
Film
Love Without Pity
Hippo
1989
Film
L'Aurore boréale
Le père
2013
Film
Follow My Gaze
Le reporter en Afrique
1986
Film
When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Dr. Edouard Valmont
1994
Film
Hands in the Air
Rodolphe
2010
Film
Off and Running
L'homme à la chemise blanche
2008
Film
Un an
Félix
2006
Film
Un moment d'inattention
Laurent
1986
Film
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Willian De Lille
2003
Parallel Parking
Hervé
2007
Film
Drôle de genre
Camille Bazin
2003
Film
Des gens qui passent
Grabely
2013
Film
Le Destin de Juliette
Pierre
1983
Film
La rupture
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
2013
Film
Trois Couples en quête d'orages
Jean-Xavier
2005
I Got a Woman
L'acteur
1997
Film
Si j'étais elle
Alex
2004
Film
The Black Book
(voice)
2020
Film
On the Sly
Yves, le patron du club
2018
Film
Où avais-je la tête ?
Paul-Vincent
2008
Film
My Place in the Sun
François
2007
Film
Premonition
Marc Bénesteau
2006
Film
Gustave Courbet: The Origins of His World
(voice)
2007
Film
Yuki & Nina
Frédéric
2009
Film
Les Héritiers
Vaillant
2021
Film
The Prominents
Leon Blum
Film
Adèle et Kamel
Antoine
2005
Film
Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
Callaghan
2006
Film
Long Live the Republic
Henri
1997
Comme les doigts de la main
The narrator
1985
Film
The Robin Hoods of the Poor
le commandant Viennot
2011
Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
Robinson
1982