Philippe Léotard
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1940-08-28
Deathday 2001-08-25 (60 years old)
Place of Birth Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Philippe Léotard
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Inspecteur Plettschette
as Raúl
as Thénardier 1942
as Gitanes Smoker
as Jeff
as Dr. Ionescu
as Jean Boulard
as Jeff
as Nicola
as Phil Anzer
as Auclair
as André Arnaud
as le chanteur abandonné
as André Arnaud
as Socrates
as Pierre
as Rudi
as Sapo
as Henri-Maximilien
as Roberto
as Painter / Murderer
as Bernard Hauptmann
as Arlettaz
as Self
as Self
as Pierre-Julien
as Gad
as Kaufmann
as Duke
as Pierre
as Pierre
as Louis Ducasse
as Fred
as n° 5
as Léandro Santini
as Antoine
as Bauer
as André
as Mora
as Dédé Laffont
as Marc Lebel
as Félix
as Frank Barila
as Self
as Georges Maréchal
as le docteur Sabouret
as Lucien Chabaud
as Clébert
as Blondin
as Jean-Pierre Maurier
as Vincent
as Jacques Gravet
as Luigi
as Marec
as le vendeur de Citroën
as Pierre Chemin
as Jacques
as Paul Danville
as Self
as Paul
as Philippe
as Padovani
as Julien
as Vladimir Petropavlovsky
as Jean Cacques Brialy
as Antoine
as Gendarme
as Jacques Garaud jeune
as Michel Perrat
as Clovis
as Lieutenant Perrin
as Lucien
as Diurka
as Honoré
as Losfeld
as Razoumikhine
as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
Sound
as Music