Philippe Léotard
Birthday: 1940-08-28 | Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, FrancePhilippe 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Losfeld
as Raúl
as Gitanes Smoker
as Thénardier 1942
as Jeff
as Nicola
as Phil Anzer
as André Arnaud
as Auclair
as Dr. Levin
as Le chanteur abandonné
as Socrates
as Bernard Hauptmann
as Henri-Maximilien
as Painter / Murderer
as Pierre
as Roberto
as Rudi
as Sapo
as Arlettaz
as Duke
as Gad
as Kaufmann
as Bauer
as Fred
as Louis Ducasse
as Pierre
as Pierre
