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Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Actor · 1940 – 2001 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.5

    The Day of the Jackal

    1973 · 711 votes

  • Movie5.7

    La carne

    The Flesh

    1991 · 67 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Domicile conjugal

    Bed and Board

    1970 · 317 votes

  • Movie4.8

    La Pirate

    1984 · 30 votes

  • Movie6.8

    French Connection II

    1975 · 489 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Élisa

    1995 · 104 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Max et les ferrailleurs

    Max and the Junkmen

    1971 · 140 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Jane B. par Agnès V.

    Jane B. by Agnès V.

    1988 · 68 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Snack Bar Budapest

    1988 · 45 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Les Fauves

    Wild Animals

    1984 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Ville à vendre

    1992 · 5 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Les Conquistadores

    The Conquistadores

    1976 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.6

    La Gueule ouverte

    The Mouth Agape

    1974 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Une belle fille comme moi

    A Gorgeous Kid Like Me

    1972 · 94 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent

    Two English Girls

    1971 · 169 votes

  • Movie6.4

    La Balance

    1982 · 79 votes

  • Movie6.8

    La Traque

    The Track

    1975 · 49 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Les Misérables

    Les Miserables

    1995 · 87 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Le Choc

    The Shock

    1982 · 37 votes

  • Movie5.4

    L'œuvre au noir

    The Abyss

    1988 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff

    Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

    1977 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Il y a des jours... et des lunes

    There Were Days... and Moons

    1990 · 30 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Le Bon et les Méchants

    The Good and the Bad

    1976 · 37 votes

  • Movie5.2

Series11

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV
  • TV6.1

    Nulle part ailleurs

    1987 · 8 votes

  • TV6.7

    Chillers

    1990 · 6 votes

  • TV7.2
  • TV7.0

    Armchair Cinema

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    La Porteuse de pain

    1973 · 3 votes

  • TV7.8

    La Cloche tibétaine

    1974 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    Le Journal

    1979 · 1 votes