Philippe Léotard
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
Le monde est à vous
Self
1987
Series
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
1987
Film
The Day of the Jackal
Gendarme
1973
Film
Ville à vendre
Jean Boulard
1992
Series
Chillers
André Arnaud
1990
Film
French Connection II
Jacques
1975
Film
Wild Animals
Léandro Santini
1984
Film
The Flesh
Nicola
1991
Series
The French Atlantic Affair
Blondin
1979
Film
Bed and Board
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
1970
Crime and Punishment
Razoumikhine
1971
Series
La Cloche tibétaine
Vladimir Petropavlovsky
1974
Film
The Conquistadores
1976
Film
La Pirate
n° 5
1984
Film
Élisa
Gitanes Smoker
1995
Film
Snack Bar Budapest
Sapo
1988
Film
The Abyss
Henri-Maximilien
1988
Film
Max and the Junkmen
Losfeld
1971
Film
The Shock
Félix
1982
Film
No Time for Justice
Auclair
1990
Film
Hiver 60
André
1983
Film
Plato's Banquet
Socrates
1989
Series
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garaud jeune
1973
Series
Armchair Cinema
Jean Cacques Brialy
1974
Film
Two English Girls
Diurka
1971
Film
Venins
Phil Anzer
1991
Film
The Mouth Agape
Philippe
1974
Film
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Painter / Murderer
1988
Film
Rak
Lucien
1972
Film
La Balance
Dédé Laffont
1982
Film
The South
Roberto
1988
Film
Les Miserables
Thénardier 1942
1995
Film
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Lieutenant Perrin
1972
Film
Your Turn, My Turn
Vincent
1978
Film
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Clovis
1972
Film
There Were Days... and Moons
Le chanteur abandonné
1990
Film
The Middle of the World
Paul
1974
Film
The Track
Paul Danville
1975
Film
Paradise for All
Marc Lebel
1982
Film
So Long, Stooge
Bauer
1983
Film
The Wonderful Crook
Julien
1975
Film
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Jeff
1991
Film
Cat and Mouse
Pierre Chemin
1975
Film
Femmes de personne
Antoine
1984
Film
A Week's Vacation
le docteur Sabouret
1980
Film
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Pierre
1985
Film
Judith Therpauve
Jean-Pierre Maurier
1978
Film
Mora
Mora
1982
Film
La Comédie du train des pignes
Self
1977
Film
Farewell Fred
Fred
1985
Film
State of Grace
Pierre-Julien
1986
Film
Solemn Communion
Jacques Gravet
1977
Film
Death of a Schoolboy
Dr. Levin
1990
Film
Kamouraska
Antoine
1973
Film
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Marec
1977
Film
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Pierre
1985
Film
The Day of Reckoning
André Arnaud
1990
Film
The Good and the Bad
le vendeur de Citroën
1976
Film
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Honoré
1971
Film
The Imprint of Giants
Lucien Chabaud
1980
Series
Le Journal
Clébert
1979
Film
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Blaise
1981
Im Kreis der Iris
Dr. Ionescu
1993
Film
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
(uncredited)
1976
Film
If the Sun Never Returns
Arlettaz
1987
Film
The Nonentity
Kaufmann
1986
Film
The Little Mermaid
Georges Maréchal
1980
Film
Shadow of the Castles
Luigi
1977
Film
Short Memory
Frank Barila
1982
Film
Robin
Louis Ducasse
1985
Film
The Dawn
Gad
1986
Film
Ada in the Jungle
Rudi
1988
Film
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Jeff
1993
Film
The Color of the Wind
Pierre
1988
Film
Pandora
Raúl
1996
Film
La Tisane de sarments
Joë Bousquet
1980
Film
Black Dju
Inspecteur Plettschette
1997
Film
Chinese Glory
Michel Perrat
1972
Film
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Padovani
1974
Film
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bernard Hauptmann
1988
Film
Exit-exil
Duke
1986