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Jean-Claude Dauphin

Jean-Claude Dauphin

Actor · b. 1948 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Movies24

  • Movie6.0

    Nuit d'ivresse

    1986 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie6.5

    LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

    2009 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.6

    Le choix des armes

    Choice of Arms

    1981 · 116 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Spécial police

    1985 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.4

    La Tour Montparnasse Infernale

    Don't Die Too Hard!

    2001 · 927 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Dracula père et fils

    Dracula and Son

    1976 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Les Amis

    The Friends

    1971 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.4

    L'École de la chair

    The School of Flesh

    1998 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Le Deuxième Souffle

    The Second Wind

    2007 · 46 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Les Suspects

    The Suspects

    1974 · 19 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Champagne Charlie

    1989 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Le témoin

    The Witness

    1969 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Les Secrets du château

    Murder In La Rochefoucauld

    2019 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Sarah

    1983 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Pourquoi pas moi ?

    Why Not Me?

    1998 · 24 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Un mauvais garçon

    2020 · 10 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Le Tombeau d'Alexandre

    The Last Bolshevik

    1994 · 22 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Dernière sortie avant Roissy

    Last Exit Before Roissy

    1977 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie5.1

    Netchaïev est de retour

    Netchayev is Back

    1991 · 9 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Les Âmes câlines

    Tender Souls

    2001 · 4 votes

  • Movie4.8

    La Mandarine

    1972 · 16 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Le sourire du clown

    1999 · 2 votes

Series18

  • TV5.0

    Ciné regards

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV7.3

    Meurtres à...

    Murders in...

    2013 · 20 votes

  • TV7.9

    Maigret

    1991 · 26 votes

  • TV7.1

    Commissaire Moulin

    Police Commissioner Moulin

    1976 · 8 votes

  • TV7.4

    Chez Maupassant

    2007 · 4 votes

  • TV6.5

    Coup de foudre

    Love at First Sight

    1992 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0

    Le Passager

    The Passenger

    2015 · 10 votes

  • TV4.9

    Claudine

    1978 · 5 votes

  • TV6.2

    Adresse Inconnue

    2008 · 4 votes

  • TV8.5

    Les Héritiers

    1977 · 2 votes

  • TV8.8

    Madame le Juge

    1978 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV4.0

    Reporters

    2007 · 1 votes

  • TV10.0
  • TV7.0

    Le Secret des Flamands

    1974 · 2 votes

  • TV8.0

    Le Temps des as

    1978 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0
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