
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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