Philippe Léotard
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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
Champs-Elysées
1982
Sacrée soirée
1987
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Le monde est à vous
1987
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Chillers
1990
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
The Flesh
1991
French Connection II
1975
Armchair Cinema
1974
La Porteuse de pain
1973
Bed and Board
1970
Snack Bar Budapest
1988
Les Miserables
1995
The Shock
1982
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977
Max and the Junkmen
1971
La Pirate
1984
A Week's Vacation
1980
La Cloche tibétaine
1974
Two English Girls
1971
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1981
The Track
1975
The Abyss
1988
La Balance
1982
The Mouth Agape
1974
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972
The South
1988
Judith Therpauve
1978
Mora
1982
Le Journal
1979
Élisa
1995
There Were Days... and Moons
1990
So Long, Stooge
1983
Paradise for All
1982
Kamouraska
1973
Cat and Mouse
1975
The Conquistadores
1976
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
1985
The Good and the Bad
1976
Exit-exil
1986
Femmes de personne
1984
The Nonentity
1986
The Little Mermaid
1980
Venins
1991
Ville à vendre
1992
To Be Twenty in the Aures
1972
Hiver 60
1983
The Middle of the World
1974
Solemn Communion
1977
The Color of the Wind
1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988
State of Grace
1986
Robin
1985
Ada in the Jungle
1988
If the Sun Never Returns
1987
The Imprint of Giants
1980
Rak
1972
Wild Animals
1984
Crime and Punishment
1971
No Time for Justice
1990
Death of a Schoolboy
1990
The Dawn
1986
Black Dju
1997
Pandora
1996
Your Turn, My Turn
1978
The Wonderful Crook
1975
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
1985
Chinese Glory
1972
Farewell Fred
1985
Plato's Banquet
1989
Short Memory
1982
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
1971
The Oil War Will Not Happen
1974
Le Voleur et la menteuse
1993
La Tisane de sarments
1980
Shadow of the Castles
1977
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
1976
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
1991
The Day of Reckoning
1990
Im Kreis der Iris
1993
La Comédie du train des pignes
1977