Philippe Léotard (Actor)

Reviews of Philippe Léotard Movies

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Movies starring Philippe Léotard have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 72%.

Crime and Punishment - released in 1971 - is Philippe Léotard's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Philippe Léotard is La Balance - released in 1982 - with a score of 65% based on 7 reviews.

Actor 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.

Philippe Léotard has acted in films with André Penvern, Jean Michaud, Gérard Depardieu and Gene Hackman.

Philippe Léotard has worked with these film directors: François Truffaut, John Frankenheimer, Fred Zinnemann and Jean Becker.