Pierre Clémenti

Born: 1942-09-28

Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor. Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel. In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage. He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999 Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Clémenti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​


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The Leopard

as Francesco Paolo
Released: 1963-03-27

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian...

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Belle de Jour

as Marcel
Released: 1967-05-24

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her...

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The Conformist

as Pasqualino 'Lino' Semirama
Released: 1970-07-01

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination...

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Little Lips

as Paul
Released: 1978-02-08

A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad...

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Hideous Kinky

as Santoni
Released: 1998-11-17

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for...

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The Milky Way

as Angel of Death
Released: 1969-02-28

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their...

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Sweet Movie

as Potemkin Sailor
Released: 1974-06-12

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and...

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Pigsty

as Cannibale
Released: 1969-09-02

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is...

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Quartet

as Theo
Released: 1981-10-25

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a...

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The Diary of an Innocent Boy

as Benjamin
Released: 1968-01-12

Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy...

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Exposed

as Vic
Released: 1983-04-22

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and...

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The Pacifist

as Michele
Released: 1970-12-30

Barbara is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an...

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Hard to Be a God

as King
Released: 1990-01-25

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental...

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The Year of the Cannibals

as Tiresia
Released: 1970-04-25

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls....

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Dog Day

as Snake
Released: 1984-01-10

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his...

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The Inner Scar

as Horseman / Archer
Released: 1972-02-02

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

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Steppenwolf

as Pablo
Released: 1974-12-18

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry...

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Partner

as Giacobbe I and II
Released: 1968-10-25

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.

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Shock Troops

as Militiaman
Released: 1967-04-05

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...

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Necropolis

as Attila
Released: 1970-10-31

A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision...

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Lamiel

as Fedor de Miossens
Released: 1967-08-30

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama....

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Adorable menteuse

as Pierrot (uncredited)
Released: 1962-02-02

Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's...

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Positano

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-30

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created...

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The Designated Victim

as Count Mateo Tiepolo
Released: 1971-04-22

Stefano Argenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo...

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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move

as Il poeta futuristico
Released: 1970-12-20

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì...

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Cutting Heads

as Shepherd
Released: 1970-10-16

In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in...

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New Old

as uncredited
Released: 1979-11-21

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from...

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Clash

as Le jeune homme
Released: 1984-02-08

A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned...

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Edith's Diary

as uncredited
Released: 1983-09-01

When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic...

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Chassé-croisé

as Docteur Moreau
Released: 1982-03-24

Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young...

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The Man Who Laughs

as Orsini's Partisan
Released: 1966-08-20

Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and...

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Crush Proof

as uncredited
Released: 1972-06-04

A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United...

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Nightmare

as Victor
Released: 1980-12-24

A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a...

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Jack of Spades

as Paco
Released: 1960-12-21

After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he...

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Les frangines

as uncredited
Released: 1960-02-10

The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks...

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La deuxième femme

as Self
Released: 2008-11-30

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries,...

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Le Pont du Nord

as Julien
Released: 1982-03-24

Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing...

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The Idols

as Charly le Surineur
Released: 1968-06-14

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A...

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L'Affiche rouge

as Marcel Rayman
Released: 1976-11-10

A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis...

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Brigade Anti Gangs

as Trois-Pommes
Released: 1966-08-18

The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers - Raymond Pellegrin - and the cops who...

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Visa de censure n° X

as uncredited
Released: 1976-07-02

Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also...

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Un film porno

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an...

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Souvenirs souvenirs

as Self
Released: 2008-11-30

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.

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L'amour des femmes

as Philippe
Released: 1982-02-13

Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect,...

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Zoo zéro

as Ivo, le bégue
Released: 1979-05-09

Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is...

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Wheel of Ashes

as Pierre
Released: 1968-08-01

A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust...

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Listen, Let's Make Love

as Lallo
Released: 1968-09-13

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in...

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How Not to Rob a Department Store

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-25

Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.

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The Austrian

as Hébert
Released: 1990-09-19

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering...

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The Irony of Chance

as Antoine Desvrières
Released: 1974-04-30

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The Fall of the House of Usher

as Allan
Released: 1981-04-12

After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick...

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Pop Age

as Self
Released: 1966-01-01

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles,...

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Rapt ou la Separation des races

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-01

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The Song of Roland

as Olivier / Le clerc
Released: 1978-10-04

Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the...

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The Virgin's Bed

as Jesus
Released: 1969-05-14

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has...

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Les Jours et les Nuits

as Self
Released: 2021-11-19

I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec...

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Paris s'en va

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-25

Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He...

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His Day of Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1969-01-01

A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features...

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Attendre le navire

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two...

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The Hips of J.W.

as Paul, Henrique
Released: 1997-10-29

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in...

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Enchanted Isles

as Pierre
Released: 1965-03-15

A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who...

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Pop' game

as Un acteur du cabaret (uncredited)
Released: 1968-02-01

Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming...

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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal

as uncredited
Released: 1986-01-01

300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where...

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La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur

as Gérard Lechômeur
Released: 1982-04-24

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The Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1988-12-01

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an...

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Book of Saints of Eternal Rome

as uncredited
Released: 1968-12-21

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them...

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The Son of Amir Is Dead

as Pierre
Released: 1977-10-13

Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives...

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The Brunette and Me

as Xavier de Royan
Released: 1981-04-29

A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock...

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Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories

as uncredited
Released: 1985-01-02

Directed by Moumen Smihi.

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Autoportrait d’un schizophrène

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-01

A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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Patrik Pacard

as Prinz Ali
First aired: 1984-12-25

Patrik Pacard was the sixth ZDF-Weihnachtsserie, and aired in 1984. The series was broadcast in...

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Deuil en 24 heures

as Moustiers
First aired: 1982-10-09

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