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.
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Acting (71 movies)
Bed and Board
1970
French Connection II
1975
The Wonderful Crook
1975
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972
The Good and the Bad
1976
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Two English Girls
1971
Solemn Communion
1977
La Pirate
1984
Paradise for All
1982
If the Sun Never Returns
1987
The Little Mermaid
1980
Chinese Glory
1972
Ada in the Jungle
1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988
The Color of the Wind
1988
Les Miserables
1995
State of Grace
1986
There Were Days... and Moons
1990
A Week's Vacation
1980
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1981
Rak
1972
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977
The Mouth Agape
1974
Ville à vendre
1992
Cat and Mouse
1975
Elisa
1995
La Balance
1982
Le Choc
1982
La comédie du train des pignes
1977
The Middle of the World
1974
La Tisane de sarments
1980
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
1985
Le Voleur et la menteuse
1993
So Long, Stooge
1983
Wild Animals
1984
Your Turn, My Turn
1978
Farewell Fred
1985
Venins
1991
Femmes de personne
1984
Rouge-gorge
1985
The Oil War Will Not Happen
1974
The Conquistadores
1976
Short Memory
1982
The Nonentity
1986
The Track
1975
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
1976
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
1991
Plato's Banquet
1989
The Abyss
1988
Kamouraska
1973
Judith Therpauve
1978
The Flesh
1991
The Imprint of Giants
1980
The South
1988
Max and the Junkmen
1971
Pandora
1996
No Time for Justice
1990
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
1971
Snack Bar Budapest
1988
To Be Twenty in the Aures
1972
Exit-exil
1986
Death of a Schoolboy
1990
The Dawn
1986
Black Dju
1997
Mora
1982
Hiver 60
1983
Shadow of the Castles
1977
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
1985
The Day of Reckoning
1990
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