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Jean-Louis Trintignant
Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dr…
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Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (December 11, 1930 – June 17, 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Louis Trintignant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Igor and After
Movie
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2026
One Hero, The People
Movie Excerpt from the film Z (archive footage)
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2025
From Rock Star to Killer
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
The Most Precious of Cargoes
Movie Narrateur (voice)
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2022
Romy, A Free Woman
Movie Self - Julien Maroyeur (archive footage)
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2022
Shoot to Live
Movie Self
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2022
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Mystérieux et insaisissable
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2021
Trintignant by Trintignant
Movie Self
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2021
Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
Movie Self
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2021
Morceaux de Cannes
Movie
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2021
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Best Years of a Life
Movie Jean-Louis Duroc
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2019
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Movie Self - Actor (archive footage)
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2018
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Movie Self
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2018
Making of Happy End
Movie Self
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2017
Happy End
Movie Georges Laurent
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2017
Filming Silenzio
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2014
Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Movie Self
- 2013
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2013
Making of Amour
Movie Self
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2013
Michael H. – Profession: Director
Movie Self
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2013
Michel
Movie Narrator
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2012
Close Up
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
Amour
Movie Georges
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2012
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
Movie Self
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2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie (archive footage)
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2012
Square
TV show Self
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2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
TV show
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2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Movie Self
- 2010
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2010
Le Miracle du silence
Movie Self
- 2009
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2009
Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"
Movie Self
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2005
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Movie Self
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2003
Janis and John
Movie Monsieur Cannon
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2002
Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve
Movie Narator
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1999
Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Movie Narration (Voice)
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1998
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Movie Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
