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.
73 movies · 11 shows
Black Dju
1997·6.0
Pandora
1996·7.0
Les Miserables
1995·6.7
Élisa
1995·6.4
Le Voleur et la menteuse
1993·4.7
Im Kreis der Iris
1993·8.0
Ville à vendre
1992·5.2
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
1991·7.0
The Flesh
1991·5.7
Venins
1991·4.2
Death of a Schoolboy
1990·4.0
No Time for Justice
1990·10.0
The Day of Reckoning
1990·7.0
There Were Days... and Moons
1990·6.3
Plato's Banquet
1989·4.9
The Color of the Wind
1988·5.8
Ada in the Jungle
1988·4.3
Snack Bar Budapest
1988·4.8
The Abyss
1988·5.4
The South
1988·6.6
Jane B. by Agnès V.
1988·6.8
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988·8.0
If the Sun Never Returns
1987·5.9
State of Grace
1986·4.0
The Dawn
1986·9.5
The Nonentity
1986·6.1
Exit-exil
1986·7.3
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
1985·6.8
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
1985·7.0
Robin
1985·5.1
Farewell Fred
1985·5.0
La Pirate
1984·4.8
Wild Animals
1984·4.6
Femmes de personne
1984·4.3
So Long, Stooge
1983·7.4
Hiver 60
1983·7.0
Mora
1982·7.3
La Balance
1982·6.4
Paradise for All
1982·6.0
The Shock
1982·5.3
Short Memory
1982·5.3
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1981·5.3
The Little Mermaid
1980·5.8
A Week's Vacation
1980·6.2
La Tisane de sarments
1980·8.0
The Imprint of Giants
1980·10.0
Judith Therpauve
1978·6.5
Your Turn, My Turn
1978·4.5
Solemn Communion
1977·4.6
Shadow of the Castles
1977·7.2
La Comédie du train des pignes
1977·8.0
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977·6.9
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
1976·5.2
The Conquistadores
1976·10.0
The Good and the Bad
1976·5.6
Cat and Mouse
1975·5.7
French Connection II
1975·6.8
The Track
1975·6.8
The Wonderful Crook
1975·5.6
The Middle of the World
1974·6.2
The Mouth Agape
1974·6.4
The Oil War Will Not Happen
1974·8.0
Kamouraska
1973·5.9
The Day of the Jackal
1973·7.5
Chinese Glory
1972·6.3
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
1972·6.2
To Be Twenty in the Aures
1972·7.6
Rak
1972·6.5
Two English Girls
1971·6.9
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
1971·6.5
Max and the Junkmen
1971·7.1
Crime and Punishment
1971·7.0
Bed and Board
1970·7.1