
Philippe Léotard
Born: 1940-08-28
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Biography
Philippe Léotard ( born Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi August 28, 1940 - died August 25, 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 they formed the théâtre du soleil. He played Philippe, the tormented son of a women 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 in 2001 of respiratory failure in Paris at the age of 60. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

The Flesh

The Day of the Jackal

The Good and the Bad

La Balance

Black Dju

Pandora

Exit-exil

Les Miserables

Le Choc

The Wonderful Crook

Le Voleur et la menteuse

So Long, Stooge

Bed and Board

Snack Bar Budapest

Wild Animals

The South

Short Memory

The Nonentity

Elisa

The Middle of the World

Kamouraska

Cat and Mouse

Shadow of the Castles

Mora

Farewell Fred

The Imprint of Giants

La Pirate

Max and the Junkmen

Judith Therpauve

Hiver 60

Robin

State of Grace

A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

La Tisane de sarments

Venins

Rak

The Dawn

Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy

French Connection II

Plato's Banquet

No Time for Justice

Le Grand Ruban (Truck)

La Comédie du train des pignes

Two English Girls

Your Turn, My Turn

The Conquistadores

The Abyss

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Ada in the Jungle

The Color of the Wind

The Little Mermaid

Femmes de personne

Paradise for All

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

The Mouth Agape

Death of a Schoolboy

A Week's Vacation

The Track

Ni avec toi, ni sans toi

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)

There Were Days... and Moons

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Ville à vendre

Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !

Solemn Communion

The Day of Reckoning

To Be Twenty in the Aures

If the Sun Never Returns

Chinese Glory
