Philippe Léotard
Philippe Léotard ( born Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi August 28, 1940 - died August 25, 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 they formed the théâtre du soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a women 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 in 2001 of respiratory failure in Paris at the age of 60. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Flesh
as NicolaA beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love...
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The Day of the Jackal
as GendarmeAn international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to...
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Bed and Board
as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds...
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Max and the Junkmen
as LosfeldMax is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom...
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French Connection II
as Jacques"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him...
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Elisa
as Gitanes SmokerMarie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent...
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Two English Girls
as DiurkaAt the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann,...
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Les Miserables
as Thénardier 1942In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor...
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So Long, Stooge
as BauerIn Paris XVIIIth district, Lambert works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking,...
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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
as ClovisStanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses...
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The Track
as Paul DanvilleSomewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in...
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The Abyss
as Henri-MaximilienThe Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings,...
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There Were Days... and Moons
as le chanteur abandonnéHow can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie...
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Ville à vendre
as Jean BoulardA man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He...
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La Balance
as Dédé LaffontA Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an...
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The Good and the Bad
as le vendeur de CitroënThe film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish...
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
as Painter / MurdererThe interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired...
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Snack Bar Budapest
as SapoWhile his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by...
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
as MarecJean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs...
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Le Choc
as FélixMartin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are...
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La Pirate
as n° 5Shortly after returning home one evening with her husband, Alma is visited by her one-time...
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A Week's Vacation
as le docteur SabouretLaurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects...
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
as BlaiseWhilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and...
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Paradise for All
as Marc LebelDoctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it...
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Farewell Fred
as FredFred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay...
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Judith Therpauve
as Jean-Pierre MaurierWhen her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled...
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The Mouth Agape
as PhilippeMonique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her...
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The Nonentity
as KaufmannEach evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a...
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Cat and Mouse
as Pierre CheminA jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case...
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Mora
as MoraA reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.
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Kamouraska
as AntoineA writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It...
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If the Sun Never Returns
as ArlettazThe residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama...
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Short Memory
as Frank BarilaIn this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting...
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The Conquistadores
as uncreditedA young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily...
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Black Dju
as Inspecteur PlettschetteThis standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves...
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Your Turn, My Turn
as VincentFamily mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls...
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Venins
as Phil AnzerMarc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he...
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Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
as PierreSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel,...
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The South
as RobertoAfter the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from...
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The Middle of the World
as PaulPaul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local...
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Femmes de personne
as AntoineCécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her...
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Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
as uncreditedThis is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when...
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The Imprint of Giants
as Lucien ChabaudThe life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
as Bernard HauptmannThis somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...
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Solemn Communion
as Jacques GravetIn this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows...
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The Color of the Wind
as PierreLouise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United...
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Wild Animals
as Léandro SantiniBerg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and...
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Ada in the Jungle
as RudiA dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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Le Voleur et la menteuse
as JeffThe thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a...
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Rouge-gorge
as Louis DucasseAfter graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down...
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Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
as HonoréCamille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they...
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The Wonderful Crook
as JulienA manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff....
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No Time for Justice
as AuclairA man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.
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The Little Mermaid
as Georges MaréchalA 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In...
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Chinese Glory
as Michel PerratDuring the Second World War, the son of a Grenoble collaborator went up to his grandmother's...
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State of Grace
as Pierre-JulienShe is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a...
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Pandora
as RaúlIt's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s...
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Shadow of the Castles
as LuigiIn the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
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Death of a Schoolboy
as uncreditedOn June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo. His...
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To Be Twenty in the Aures
as Lieutenant PerrinA group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the...
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The Oil War Will Not Happen
as PadovaniDirected by Souheil Ben-Barka.
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Rak
as LucienDavid learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.
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La comédie du train des pignes
as uncreditedThe problems raised by the project to eliminate a secondary railroad line in Provence.
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Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
as JeffTruck driver Jeff agrees to take the son of his biggest customer along on the road and explain...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The French Atlantic Affair
as BlondinWhen the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer...
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La Cloche tibétaine
as Vladimir PetropavlovskyMiniseries about the Citroen expeditions in 1931/1932 across Asia.
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Chillers
as André ArnaudBased on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the...
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Armchair Cinema
as Jean Cacques BrialyBritish television drama anthology series of single plays.
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