Philippe Léotard

Known for ActingBorn 1940-08-28Died 2001-08-25Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

No Time for Justice

The Imprint of Giants

The Conquistadores

The Dawn

Im Kreis der Iris

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

La Tisane de sarments

La Comédie du train des pignes

The Oil War Will Not Happen

La Porteuse de pain

La Cloche tibétaine

To Be Twenty in the Aures

The Day of the Jackal

So Long, Stooge

Exit-exil

Mora

The French Atlantic Affair

Pandora

Shadow of the Castles

Le Grand Ruban (Truck)

Max and the Junkmen

The Day of Reckoning

Ni avec toi, ni sans toi

Hiver 60

Bed and Board

Le Journal

Armchair Cinema

Crime and Punishment

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

Two English Girls

Les Miserables

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Chillers

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Champs-Elysées

The Track

French Connection II

The South

Élisa

Judith Therpauve

La Balance

Rak

Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy

There Were Days... and Moons

The Mouth Agape

Chinese Glory

Nulle part ailleurs

A Week's Vacation