Acting · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France · Born August 28, 1940
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.
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1997
as Inspecteur Plettschette
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1996
as Raúl
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1995
as Thénardier 1942
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1995
as Gitanes Smoker
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1993
as Jeff
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1993
as Dr. Ionescu
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1992
as Jean Boulard
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1991
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1991
as Nicola
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1991
as Phil Anzer
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1990
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1990
as Auclair
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1990
as Le chanteur abandonné
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as André Arnaud
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1989
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1988
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1988
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1988
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as Marec
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as (uncredited)
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1976
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1975
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1975
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1974
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as Lucien
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1971
as Diurka
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as Honoré
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1971
as Losfeld
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1971
as Razoumikhine
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1970
as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
