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Philippe Léotard
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 sev…
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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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1997
Black Dju
Movie Inspecteur Plettschette
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1996
Pandora
Movie Raúl
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1995
Les Miserables
Movie Thénardier 1942
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1995
Élisa
Movie Gitanes Smoker
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1994
Tödliche Besessenheit
Movie Original Music Composer
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1993
Le Voleur et la menteuse
Movie Jeff
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1993
Im Kreis der Iris
Movie Dr. Ionescu
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1992
Ville à vendre
Movie Jean Boulard
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1991
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Movie Jeff
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1991
The Flesh
Movie Nicola
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1991
Venins
Movie Phil Anzer
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1990
Death of a Schoolboy
Movie Dr. Levin
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1990
No Time for Justice
Movie Auclair
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1990
The Day of Reckoning
Movie André Arnaud
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1990
There Were Days... and Moons
Movie Le chanteur abandonné
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1990
Chillers
TV show André Arnaud
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1989
Plato's Banquet
Movie Socrates
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1988
The Color of the Wind
Movie Pierre
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1988
Ada in the Jungle
Movie Rudi
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1988
Snack Bar Budapest
Movie Sapo
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1988
The Abyss
Movie Henri-Maximilien
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1988
The South
Movie Roberto
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1988
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Movie Painter / Murderer
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1988
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Movie Bernard Hauptmann
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1987
Le monde est à vous
TV show Self
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1987
Sacrée soirée
TV show Self
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1987
If the Sun Never Returns
Movie Arlettaz
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1987
Nulle part ailleurs
TV show Self
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1986
State of Grace
Movie Pierre-Julien
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1986
The Dawn
Movie Gad
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1986
The Nonentity
Movie Kaufmann
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1986
Exit-exil
Movie Duke
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1985
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Movie Pierre
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1985
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
Movie Pierre
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1985
Robin
Movie Louis Ducasse
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1985
Farewell Fred
Movie Fred
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1984
La Pirate
Movie n° 5
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1984
Wild Animals
Movie Léandro Santini
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1984
Femmes de personne
Movie Antoine
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1983
So Long, Stooge
Movie Bauer
