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.
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Known for
Chillers
André Arnaud
La Porteuse de pain
Jacques Garaud jeune
La Cloche tibétaine
Vladimir Petropavlovsky
The Flesh
Nicola
The Day of the Jackal
Gendarme
French Connection II
Jacques
Snack Bar Budapest
Sapo
The French Atlantic Affair
Blondin
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Clovis
Bed and Board
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
Two English Girls
Diurka
So Long, Stooge
Bauer
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Painter / Murderer
Les Miserables
Thénardier 1942
La Balance
Dédé Laffont
Elisa
Gitanes Smoker
Le Journal
Clébert
Armchair Cinema
Jean Cacques Brialy
Paradise for All
Marc Lebel
Max and the Junkmen
Losfeld
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Marec
The Track
Paul Danville
La Pirate
n° 5
Le Choc
Félix
The Mouth Agape
Philippe
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Blaise
There Were Days... and Moons
Le chanteur abandonné
The Good and the Bad
le vendeur de Citroën
Death of a Schoolboy
The Abyss
Henri-Maximilien
Kamouraska
Antoine
Solemn Communion
Jacques Gravet
The Day of Reckoning
André Arnaud
Cat and Mouse
Pierre Chemin
Hiver 60
André
Wild Animals
Léandro Santini
Farewell Fred
Fred
Femmes de personne
Antoine
The Little Mermaid
Georges Maréchal
Your Turn, My Turn
Vincent
Venins
Phil Anzer
Short Memory
Frank Barila
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
The Middle of the World
Paul
The Nonentity
Kaufmann
Mora
Mora
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bernard Hauptmann
Pandora
Raúl
The South
Roberto
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Lieutenant Perrin
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Jeff
A Week's Vacation
le docteur Sabouret
Crime and Punishment
Razoumikhine
Judith Therpauve
Jean-Pierre Maurier
The Color of the Wind
Pierre
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Pierre
The Conquistadores
Exit-exil
Duke
If the Sun Never Returns
Arlettaz
Rouge-gorge
Louis Ducasse
Chinese Glory
Michel Perrat
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Pierre
Shadow of the Castles
Luigi
Black Dju
Inspecteur Plettschette
No Time for Justice
Auclair
The Wonderful Crook
Julien
Plato's Banquet
Socrates
The Dawn
Gad
Im Kreis der Iris
Dr. Ionescu
Ada in the Jungle
Rudi
State of Grace
Pierre-Julien
Champs-Elysées
Self
Ville à vendre
Jean Boulard
Sacrée soirée
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Rak
Lucien
The Imprint of Giants
Lucien Chabaud
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Jeff
La comédie du train des pignes
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Honoré
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Padovani
La Tisane de sarments
Joë Bousquet
Le monde est à vous
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Self