Philippe Léotard

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Aug 28, 1940 (84 years old)
Death date
Aug 25, 2001

Philippe Léotard

Known For

Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
1h 30m
Movie 1991

Le Grand Ruban (Truck)

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.

Venins
1h 31m
Movie 1991

Venins

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
1h 33m
Movie 1990

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
1h 45m
Movie 1990

No Time for Justice

A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.

The Day of Reckoning
0h 53m
Movie 1990

The Day of Reckoning

A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.

There Were Days... and Moons
1h 57m
Movie 1990

There Were Days... and Moons

How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.

The Color of the Wind
1h 21m
Movie 1988

The Color of the Wind

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
1h 30m
Movie 1988

Ada in the Jungle

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Snack Bar Budapest
1h 38m
Movie 1988

Snack Bar Budapest

While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss.

The Abyss
1h 50m
Movie 1988

The Abyss

The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.

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

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