Jean-Claude Dauphin
Jean-Claude Dauphin, born Claude Legrand on March 16, 1948 in Boulogne-Billancourt, is a French actor. 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 famous. 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 3.0.
Choice of Arms
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La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
as Le commissaireEric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking...
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LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
as Le ministreLola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the...
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Six-Pack
as FouquierA serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the...
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The Second Wind
as JacquesGu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before...
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Nuit d'ivresse
as Le deuxième flicJacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the...
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Dracula and Son
as Cristéa/ChristianWith angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son...
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Why Not Me?
as AlainFour gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown...
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The School of Flesh
as Louis-GuyFashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire...
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Champagne Charlie
as ErnestThis is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America...
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Charlie Dingo
as JupinCharlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife...
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Spécial police
as uncreditedParis Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies...
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La Mandarine
as AlainParis, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with...
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The Suspects
as SolnesWhen an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In...
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L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps
as GautierIn a routine sex farce, Gautier (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a man determined to figure out how to...
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Brother and Sister
as George ArmantA 50-something lawyer's solitary life is upended when he discovers he has a 15-year-old half sister!
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Yiddish Connection
as ToussaintTwo middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
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Chance and Violence
as Gilbert MorganA sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so...
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Murder In La Rochefoucauld
as Duc Thibaut de l'EssileDuring the annual party in the château of a wealthy French family, a murder is committed. The...
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Le sourire du clown
as VogelA clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he...
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Sarah
as uncreditedAn insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the...
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The Tender Age
as Henri AdolpheTwenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's...
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The Witness
as ThomasCécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the...
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Tender Souls
as Père de Claire et EmilieJacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming...
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The Friends
as NicolasPhilippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no...
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Handsome Face
as uncreditedPierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's...
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What a Flash!
as uncreditedThe producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and...
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Samson le magnifique
as Le GovainAdaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from...
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Une jeunesse
as ViettiAfter the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the...
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Netchaïev est de retour
as Philippe MartelFreshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead...
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Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
as Narrator (French voice)Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle...
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Le Poids d'un secret
as Jean MonceauA teenage girl who is afraid to admit to her parents that she has been raped gets help from a...
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Barry of the Great St. Bernard
as MartinA Wonderful World of Disney TV movie based on the true story of famed Saint Bernard dog, Barry,...
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The Last Bolshevik
as VoiceA documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the...
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Murders in...
as Franck KellerMurders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a...
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Maigret
as Le maire GrandmaisonThe pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried...
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Police Commissioner Moulin
as Bernard DeffouxThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and...
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Télévision (histoires secrètes)
as Narrator (voice)The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known...
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Le Secret des Flamands
as Antonello di TerracinaInspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by...
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Los Desastres de la Guerra
as SavaryThe series narrates the events that occurred in Spain between 1808 and 1814, during the Spanish...
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The Passenger
as Général GarsacMathias Freire, a psychiatrist, and Anaïs Chatelet, a homicide squad captain are connected to...
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Le Temps des as
as Étienne LerouxThe World War I is declared. The french pioneers of aviation are requisitioned, but they try to...
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