Jean-Claude Dauphin

Known for ActingBorn 1948-03-16 (age 78)Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

The Witness

Madame le Juge

Samson le magnifique

Les Héritiers

Yiddish Connection

La Grande Peinture

Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve

Georges Bataille - À perte de vue

Le Poids d'un secret

Le Temps des as

Barry of the Great St. Bernard

Maigret

Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000

The Tender Age

The Last Bolshevik

Le sourire du clown

Chez Maupassant

Murders in...

Charlie Dingo

The Passenger

Au bon beurre

Une jeunesse

Los desastres de la guerra

Police Commissioner Moulin

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Last Exit Before Roissy

Le Secret des Flamands

Handsome Face

LOL (Laughing Out Loud)

Love at First Sight

Choice of Arms

Don't Die Too Hard!

Adresse Inconnue

Murder In La Rochefoucauld

Brother and Sister

The Second Wind

Un mauvais garçon

The Friends

Nuit d'ivresse

Sarah

Why Not Me?

Six-Pack

Dracula and Son

L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps

The School of Flesh

The Saint: The Big Bang

Champagne Charlie