Acting
Philippe Léotard
Philippe Léotard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 – 25 August 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. Together with students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, they formed the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble, Théâtre du Soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a woman 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 of respiratory failure in Paris on 25 August 2001, three days before his 61st birthday. He was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Black Dju
Film · 1997
Pandora
Film · 1996
Les Miserables
Film · 1995
Élisa
Film · 1995
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Film · 1993
Im Kreis der Iris
Film · 1993
Ville à vendre
Film · 1992
Venins
Film · 1991
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Film · 1991
The Flesh
Film · 1991
There Were Days... and Moons
Film · 1990
No Time for Justice
Film · 1990
Death of a Schoolboy
Film · 1990
The Day of Reckoning
Film · 1990
Chillers
Series · 1990
Plato's Banquet
Film · 1989
Ada in the Jungle
Film · 1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Film · 1988
The Color of the Wind
Film · 1988
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Film · 1988
The Abyss
Film · 1988
The South
Film · 1988
Snack Bar Budapest
Film · 1988
If the Sun Never Returns
Film · 1987
Nulle part ailleurs
Series · 1987
Le monde est à vous
Series · 1987
Sacrée soirée
Series · 1987
State of Grace
Film · 1986
The Nonentity
Film · 1986
Exit-exil
Film · 1986
The Dawn
Film · 1986
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Film · 1985
Farewell Fred
Film · 1985
Robin
Film · 1985
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Film · 1985
La Pirate
Film · 1984
Wild Animals
Film · 1984
Femmes de personne
Film · 1984
So Long, Stooge
Film · 1983
Hiver 60
Film · 1983
Paradise for All
Film · 1982
La Balance
Film · 1982
The Shock
Film · 1982
Short Memory
Film · 1982
Mora
Film · 1982
Champs-Elysées
Series · 1982
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Film · 1981
The Little Mermaid
Film · 1980
A Week's Vacation
Film · 1980
La Tisane de sarments
Film · 1980
The Imprint of Giants
Film · 1980
The French Atlantic Affair
Series · 1979
Le Journal
Series · 1979
Your Turn, My Turn
Film · 1978
Judith Therpauve
Film · 1978
Solemn Communion
Film · 1977
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Film · 1977
La Comédie du train des pignes
Film · 1977
Shadow of the Castles
Film · 1977
The Good and the Bad
Film · 1976
The Conquistadores
Film · 1976
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
Film · 1976
French Connection II
Film · 1975
The Wonderful Crook
Film · 1975
Cat and Mouse
Film · 1975
The Track
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
The Mouth Agape
Film · 1974
The Middle of the World
Film · 1974
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Film · 1974
Armchair Cinema
Series · 1974
La Cloche tibétaine
Series · 1974
The Day of the Jackal
Film · 1973
Kamouraska
Film · 1973
La Porteuse de pain
Series · 1973
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
Film · 1972
Chinese Glory
Film · 1972
Rak
Film · 1972
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Film · 1972
Crime and Punishment
Film · 1971
Two English Girls
Film · 1971
Max and the Junkmen
Film · 1971
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Film · 1971
Bed and Board
Film · 1970