From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Movie | Black Dju | Inspecteur Plettschette | 1997-11-28 |
Movie | Pandora | Raúl | 1996-02-02 |
Movie | Elisa | Gitanes Smoker | 1995-02-01 |
Movie | Les Miserables | Thénardier 1942 | 1995-03-22 |
Movie | Le Voleur et la menteuse | Jeff | 1993-01-01 |
Movie | Ville à vendre | Jean Boulard | 1992-02-26 |
Movie | Venins | Phil Anzer | 1991-05-01 |
Movie | The Flesh | Nicola | 1991-05-09 |
Movie | Le Grand Ruban (Truck) | Jeff | 1991-12-19 |
Movie | No Time for Justice | Auclair | 1990-05-30 |
Movie | There Were Days... and Moons | le chanteur abandonné | 1990-04-11 |
Movie | Death of a Schoolboy | 1990-09-01 | |
Movie | Plato's Banquet | Socrates | 1989-07-27 |
Movie | Jane B. for Agnès V. | Painter / Murderer | 1988-03-02 |
Movie | The South | Roberto | 1988-03-05 |
Movie | Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné | Bernard Hauptmann | 1988-02-26 |
Movie | The Abyss | Henri-Maximilien | 1988-05-13 |
Movie | The Color of the Wind | Pierre | 1988-11-02 |
Movie | Snack Bar Budapest | Sapo | 1988-09-22 |
Movie | If the Sun Never Returns | Arlettaz | 1987-09-02 |
Movie | Exit-exil | Duke | 1986-04-02 |
Movie | State of Grace | Pierre-Julien | 1986-12-24 |
Movie | The Nonentity | Kaufmann | 1986-08-13 |
Movie | Farewell Fred | Fred | 1985-01-30 |
Movie | Rouge-gorge | Louis Ducasse | 1985-02-06 |
Movie | Tangos, the Exile of Gardel | Pierre | 1985-11-06 |
Movie | Wild Animals | Léandro Santini | 1984-04-18 |
Movie | Femmes de personne | Antoine | 1984-03-14 |
Movie | La Pirate | n° 5 | 1984-05-23 |
Movie | Tchao Pantin | Bauer | 1983-12-20 |
Movie | Le Choc | Félix | 1982-04-28 |
Movie | Short Memory | Frank Barila | 1982-03-03 |
Movie | La Balance | Dédé Laffont | 1982-11-10 |
Movie | Mora | Mora | 1982-12-29 |
Movie | Paradise for All | Marc Lebel | 1982-08-25 |
Movie | Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe ! | Blaise | 1981-12-16 |
Movie | The Imprint of Giants | Lucien Chabaud | 1980-03-05 |
Movie | A Week's Vacation | le docteur Sabouret | 1980-06-02 |
Movie | The Little Mermaid | Georges Maréchal | 1980-08-20 |
Series | The French Atlantic Affair | Blondin | 1979-11-15 |
Movie | Your Turn, My Turn | Vincent | 1978-03-15 |
Movie | Judith Therpauve | Jean-Pierre Maurier | 1978-10-06 |
Movie | Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff | Marec | 1977-01-12 |
Movie | Solemn Communion | Jacques Gravet | 1977-04-27 |
Movie | The Good and the Bad | le vendeur de Citroën | 1976-01-19 |
Movie | Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) | 1976-05-12 | |
Movie | French Connection II | Jacques | 1975-05-18 |
Movie | The Track | Paul Danville | 1975-05-14 |
Movie | Cat and Mouse | Pierre Chemin | 1975-09-03 |
Movie | The Mouth Agape | Philippe | 1974-05-08 |
Movie | The Wonderful Crook | Julien | 1974-01-01 |
Movie | The Middle of the World | Paul | 1974-09-11 |
Series | La Cloche tibétaine | Vladimir Petropavlovsky | 1974-12-17 |
Movie | The Day of the Jackal | Gendarme | 1973-05-16 |
Movie | Kamouraska | Antoine | 1973-07-18 |
Movie | Rak | Lucien | 1972-04-07 |
Movie | To Be Twenty in the Aures | Lieutenant Perrin | 1972-05-12 |
Movie | Chinese Glory | Michel Perrat | 1972-11-26 |
Movie | A Gorgeous Girl Like Me | Clovis | 1972-09-13 |
Movie | Crime and Punishment | Razoumikhine | 1971-01-20 |
Movie | Max and the Junkmen | Losfeld | 1971-02-17 |
Movie | Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy | Honoré | 1971-04-20 |
Movie | Two English Girls | Diurka | 1971-11-18 |
Movie | Bed and Board | L'homme Ivre (uncredited) | 1970-09-09 |