Philippe Léotard
Acting
Born 1940-08-28
Died 2001-08-25
Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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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.
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Acting
59 credits
Sacrée soirée
Champs-Elysées
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Le monde est à vous
Nulle part ailleurs
Ville à vendre
The Day of the Jackal
Chillers
French Connection II
The French Atlantic Affair
Wild Animals
Bed and Board
The Flesh
Élisa
La Pirate
Max and the Junkmen
Snack Bar Budapest
La Cloche tibétaine
The Mouth Agape
Two English Girls
Armchair Cinema
Les Miserables
Crime and Punishment
No Time for Justice
The Abyss
Jane B. by Agnès V.
La Porteuse de pain
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
The Shock
So Long, Stooge
Venins
Hiver 60
La Balance
Your Turn, My Turn
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
The Track
There Were Days... and Moons
Rak
Plato's Banquet
To Be Twenty in the Aures
The South
The Middle of the World
Death of a Schoolboy
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Femmes de personne
Cat and Mouse
Paradise for All
Judith Therpauve
Le Journal
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Solemn Communion
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
The Wonderful Crook
A Week's Vacation
State of Grace
If the Sun Never Returns
Robin
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