Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Nacimiento : 1940-08-28, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Muerte : 2001-08-25

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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Léotard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Philippe Léotard
Philippe Léotard

Películas

Black Dju
Inspecteur Plettschette
This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
Pandora
Raúl
It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...
Testigo de excepción
Thénardier 1942
Filme galardonado con el Globo de Oro en EE.UU a la mejor película extranjera que gira en torno a Henri Fortin, un muchacho huérfano que queda a merced de una infame pareja. Versión libre de la inmortal obra de Víctor Hugo "Los Miserables".
Elisa
Gitanes Smoker
A los tres años Marie perdió a Elisa, su madre, que se suicidó, y sus abuelos la acogieron. A ellos nunca les quiso y siempre intentaba escandalizarlos, hasta que hartos de aguantarla la llevaron a un reformatorio. Allí Marie conoció a la alborotadora Solange, y poco después a Ahmed. Los tres forman una familia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tödliche Besessenheit
Music
Im Kreis der Iris
Dr. Ionescu
Le voleur et la menteuse
Jeff
The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament, but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.
Ville à vendre
Jean Boulard
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
La carne
Nicola
Comedia de amor, sexo y antropofagia. Paolo y Fancesca deciden alejarse de la neurosis que domina la vida urbana y se refugian en una pequeña casa cerca de una playa para practicar el sexo sin ningún tipo de límites. Exuberante y posesiva, la mujer utiliza técnicas aprendidas de un gurú del sexo para convertir a su amante (casado y padre de dos hijos) en un esclavo...
Venins
Phil Anzer
Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.
Death of a Schoolboy
On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo. His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe. Who is the assassin? Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brought into the center of world attention. The subject of the film is not the historical background but rather the psychological makeup of PRINCIP at the age of seventeen.
No Time for Justice
Auclair
A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.
Hay días...y lunas
le chanteur abandonné
Trata sobre la influencia de la Luna sobre varios personajes cuyas vidas, al entrecruzarse, originan historias de amor y ruptura, de equívocos, de sonrisas y de llantos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le grand ruban
Jeff
Truck driver Jeff agrees to take the son of his biggest customer along on the road and explain the tricks of the trade to him.
The Color of the Wind
Pierre
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
Ada in the Jungle
Rudi
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
Snack Bar Budapest
Sapo
Avoccato, un abogado de poca monta, lleva a su novia Milena a una clínica abortiva. Para poder pagar, el otro novio de Milena, Sapo, le recomienda unirse a la banda de Molecula, un gangster-proxeneta de 19 años que pretende montar un casino. Para ello, se propone desalojar a los vecinos del lugar aterrorizándolos.
The Abyss
Henri-Maximilien
Siglo XVI. Una vez que el duque de Alba aplastó la rebelión de Flandes contra España, Felipe II (1559-1598) restringió la libertad religiosa, aplicó los decretos del Concilio de Trento y reforzó el poder de la Inquisición en esas tierras. En este contexto, llega a Brujas con documentación falsa el venerable escritor y filósofo Zenón Ligre. Tras fundar una clínica y unas termas, se dispone a trabajar como médico y alquimista para los más pobres. El pensamiento y los métodos de Zenón, que se apartan de la ortodoxia oficial, tienen un gran éxito entre la población flamenca, pero corren el riesgo de ser condenados por la Inquisición. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sur
Roberto
Sur nos habla del reencuentro y de la amistad. Es el triunfo de la vida sobre la muerte, del amor sobre el rencor, de la libertad sobre la opresión, del deseo sobre el temor. Sur nos cuenta una historia de amor. Es el amor de la pareja y es también una historia de amor por un país. Es la historia de un regreso. Sur, es un homenaje a todos los que, como el personaje tartamudo, supieron decir NO. Fueron los que mantuvieron la dignidad. Ellos dijeron no a la injusticia, a la opresión, y a la entrega del país a manos de quienes no lo merecen.
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Le peintre / Murderer
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Bernard Hauptmann
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
If the Sun Never Returns
Arlettaz
The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.
State of Grace
Pierre-Julien
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
El Paltoquet
Kaufmann
Al anochecer, se reúne en un bar un grupo de personas que tienen una pasión común: el juego, el azar. Un periodista, un médico, un profesor y un comerciante juegan bajo la atenta mirada del dueño del local. Una noche, llega un inspector de policía que les comunica que se ha cometido un asesinato. Él está seguro de que el culpable es uno de los jugadores, pero debe averiguar cuál de ellos.
The Dawn
Gad
In a drama in which even God has a role (Philippe Leotard) as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance fighters with the intent of killing him at dawn. One of the Jews was sentenced to die after being captured by the English, and this death will be in retaliation. The trouble is that a young and ambivalent fighter is left holding the officer captive with orders to shoot him at the pre-arranged time. It is a long night of soul-searching before the Jewish soldier comes up with a solution to his quandary.
El exilio de Gardel: Tangos
Pierre
Unos argentinos, exiliados en París, deciden montar un tango-ballet, dedicado a Carlos Gardel, una legendaria estrella del tango argentino.
Rouge-gorge
Louis Ducasse
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
Farewell Fred
Fred
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
La pirata
n° 5
Alma es una mujer insegura; no se quiere mucho a sí misma y siente que sólo existe a través de la mirada de los otros. Sufre una necesidad imperiosa de que las otras personas la deseen. Necesita desesperadamente ser amada y le da igual que ese amor provenga de un hombre o de una mujer. De esta manera se convierte en víctima consciente de un triángulo amoroso formado por ella, su marido Andrew y Carol, una mujer de la que se enamora locamente.
Wild Animals
Léandro Santini
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
Femmes de personne
Antoine
Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.
So Long, Stooge
Bauer
In Paris XVIIIth district, Lambert works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. One day comes a half-jewish half-arab small-time crook in dire straits, pushing a Moped. Named Bensoussan, he takes refuge at the station pretending he needs a spark plug. The two men become friends.
Hiver 60
André
Mora
Mora
A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.
El membrillo
Dédé Laffont
Nicole, una prostituta parisina, es utilizada por los policías de la Brigada 13ª para llegar a Dede, su novio, el cual les interesa para reemplazar a su antiguo soplón, liquidado por orden del capo de una peligrosa banda a la que la policía quiere detener a toda costa.
Objetivo felicidad
Marc Lebel
El Doctor Valois ha inventado una cura para la depresión. Después de testearla con monos, la prubea con su primer paciente humano, Alain Durieux
El choque
Félix
Después de cumplir su último encargo, el asesino profesional Martin Terrier decide retirarse, pero eso está prohibido en la organización para la que trabaja. Tras liquidar a un asesino enviado para matarle, Terrier decide irse unos días a la granja de pavos que su excéntrica ex mujer ha comprado a modo de inversión. Allí conoce a la bella esposa del hombre que dirige la granja.
The Hippies
Blaise
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
The Little Mermaid
Georges Maréchal
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle's outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson's "Little Mermaid," and she thinks that in Georges she's found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she's nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges' adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?
Una semana de vacaciones
le docteur Sabouret
Laurence es una joven maestra que se toma unos días de vacaciones que le sirven para reflexionar sobre su profesión, sus deseos y sueños.
The Imprint of Giants
Lucien Chabaud
The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.
Short Memory
Frank Barila
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Judith Therpauve
Jean-Pierre Maurier
When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.
Your Turn, My Turn
Vincent
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
Shadow of the Castles
In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
La comédie du train des pignes
The problems raised by the project to eliminate a secondary railroad line in Provence.
Ajuste de cuentas
Marec
Jean-Marie Fayard es un juez que tiene un expediente que implica a un rico industrial en una serie de muertes inexplicables. Un juez joven, apodado "el sheriff" por su integridad y sus métodos poco ortodoxos en el mundo de la investigación judicial a Saint-Etienne en un negocio difícil: un caso de robo gasolinera con asalto, lo que implicaría indirectamente de los de arriba. Fayard está convencido que un antiguo comisario está protegiendo a los principales sospechosos. Cuando se dispone más pruebas con las que acorralar a este antiguo comisario, éste es hallado muerto.
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
The Good and the Bad
le vendeur de Citroën
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
El gato, el ratón, el amor y el miedo
Pierre Chemin
El Señor Richard, un rico industrial, es brutalmente asesinado en su apartamento de París. Una investigación se inicia para averiguar los detalles del suceso y desentrañar dicho misterio. El inspector Lechat, famoso por sus métodos, nada tradicionales, se hace responsable del caso y, nada más entrar, pone en tela de juicio hasta los hechos más seguros, como la coartada de la señora Richard, que aparentemente es invulnerable. Otros sospechosos se unen a su lista, tales como la maestra de la víctima y un agente de seguros.
French Connection II
Jacques
Popeye Doyle, un rudo policía de Nueva York, llega a Marsella con la intención de capturar a Charnier, un peligroso y escurridizo traficante de heroína que opera desde Francia. Tiene el deber de colaborar con la policía local, pero su carácter impetuoso lo empuja a actuar por su cuenta.
The Track
Paul Danville
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
The Middle of the World
Paul
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
La boca abierta
Philippe
Este drama se centra en una mujer en la última etapa de una enfermedad terminal y en las repercusiones de su enfermedad en sus familiares más cercanos.
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Padovani
Directed by Souheil Ben-Barka.
The Wonderful Crook
Julien
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
Kamouraska
Antoine
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Chacal
Gendarme
La OAS, un grupo ultra francés, contrata a un asesino profesional, cuya verdadera identidad nadie sabe, conocido como Chacal para que acabe con la vida del general De Gaulle, Presidente de la República Francesa. La policía francesa descubre el plan e inicia una operación contrarreloj para localizar y detener al asesino.
Chinese Glory
Michel Perrat
Una chica tan decente como yo
Clovis
Stanislas Prévine, un joven profesor de sociología, prepara una tesis sobre la criminalidad femenina. Una de las mujeres elegidas para su estudio es Camille Bliss, acusada, entre otras cosas, del asesinato de Arthur, un técnico en desratización. El profesor, armado con su grabadora y sus personales teorías que aún no ha podido confirmar, acude a la prisión. Se entrevista con la muchacha y la somete a un largo interrogatorio, en el que sale a relucir su pintoresco pasado. Conforme avanzan las conversaciones, Stanislas está cada vez más convencido de la inocencia de Camille y llega a la conclusión de que Arthur se suicidó.
To Be Twenty in the Aures
Lieutenant Perrin
This French war film barely made it past the censors as it is not entirely complimentary about how the French handled themselves in the Algerian War. Four commandos are disciplined for failure to follow orders by being assigned to an especially dangerous and disagreeable mission. Their job is to capture enemy Algerian soldiers.
Las dos inglesas y el amor
Diurka
En el París de 1900, Claude Roc, un joven francés de clase media, entabla amistad con Anne Brown, una joven inglesa. Ella lo invita a ir a su casa de Gales, donde vive con su hermana Muriel. Una vez allí, aunque Claude se siente atraído por Anne, ella procura desviar su atención hacia Muriel. Cuando Claude y Muriel se dan cuenta de que están enamorados, entonces la madre de ella insiste en que, para estar seguros de sus sentimientos, deben someterse a una separación de un año.
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Honoré
Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.
Max y los chatarreros
Losfeld
Amargado por la falta de eficacia de la justicia y por la proliferación de la delincuencia profesional, el juez Max (Michel Piccoli) abandona su carrera y se hace detective privado. En una ocasión, para detener a una peligrosa banda, decide infiltrarse en ella. Así es como conoce a Lily (Rommy Schneider), una prostituta que es la novia del jefe. Pronto surgirá entre ellos una irresistible atracción.
Crime and Punishment
Razoumikhine
Domicilio conyugal
L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
Antoine y Christine son una pareja de recién casados. Mientras él se gana la vida vendiendo flores secas por las calles de París, su mujer imparte clases de violín. Pasa el tiempo y tienen un bebé, pero Antoine, que sigue siendo un hombre emocionalmente inestable e inmaduro, tiene una aventura extramatrimonial.