
Philippe Léotard
Born August 28, 1940 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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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Snack Bar Budapest

Élisa

A Gorgeous Kid Like Me

The Abyss

Jane B. by Agnès V.

Wild Animals

There Were Days... and Moons

Les Miserables

Your Turn, My Turn

The Shock

Plato's Banquet

Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff

A Week's Vacation

The Conquistadores

The Good and the Bad

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Hiver 60

No Time for Justice

The Day of Reckoning

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

State of Grace

Venins

Ada in the Jungle

Cat and Mouse

The Middle of the World

Death of a Schoolboy

To Be Twenty in the Aures

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

The Imprint of Giants

Ville à vendre

Ni avec toi, ni sans toi

If the Sun Never Returns

Paradise for All

The Mouth Agape

The South

Shadow of the Castles

Le Voleur et la menteuse

The Color of the Wind

Solemn Communion

La Balance

The Wonderful Crook

Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy

Rak

So Long, Stooge

Le Grand Ruban (Truck)

Kamouraska

The Track

Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

Mora

Judith Therpauve

The Nonentity

Short Memory

La Comédie du train des pignes

The Little Mermaid

Exit-exil

Robin

The Oil War Will Not Happen

Femmes de personne

The Dawn

La Tisane de sarments

Farewell Fred

Chinese Glory

Pandora


















