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Denis Lavant
Acting
Biography
Denis Lavant (born June 17, 1961) is a French film actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax. Lavant has played the lead role in all but one of Carax's films. Lavant is also known for his starring roles in Claire Denis' Beau Travail and Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely, which features Carax in a supporting role.
BODY OF WORK
Denis Lavant's Filmography
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Erratics
as Lucien Le Saint

Inquisitions
as L'inquisiteur

In All My Journeys I Am Returning

The End
as (voice)

Redoubt
as Karl-Göran Persson

In the Land of Arto
as Rob
No Poster
L’OSSERVATORE DELL’EST

The Stranger
as Salamano

Sibyl
as (Archive footage)

Hyacinthe
as Reda

Bacon-Freud, face à face
as Voix-off

Demons to Diamonds
as The prisoner

Hotel Fantasma

In the Name of Blood
as Jacques

Walter Benjamin, el aura del camino
as Self

Fracas

Two Night Owls in Paris
as Le bouquiniste

It's Not Me
as Monsieur Merde

The Boy Who Owns the World
as Kasimir

Petit Papa Noël va mourir aujourd'hui

Thunder Voice
as Prophet

Body of Crime

Hood Witch
as Jules

Poisson rouge
as Père de Guillaume

Miserable Miracle
as Narrator (French)

The Green Eyes

L'Impossible Monsieur Simon
as Self

Human Flowers of Flesh
as Galoup

All Effort of Men
as Narrator (voice)

Aymeline
as Franco Fontane

X14

Tell Me Iggy
as Self

Le discours
as Le politicien

South Sentinel
as Commandant de Royer

Tralala
as Climby

The Nipple Whisperer
as Maurice Sanders

Night of the Kings
as Silence

Silver Skates
as Fourier

Gagarine
as Gérard

The Blue Star
as Le Narrateur
No Poster
The Escapade
as Jacques

Figurant

Who the Fuck Are You
as Psychiatrist

Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
as Monsieur Loyal

Girls with Balls
as Barman

The Mountain
as Jack

Silent Streams

The Bra
as Kamal

The Emperor of Paris
as Maillard

Scaramouche Scaramouche
as Scaramouche

One Nation, One King
as Marat
No Poster
Fan Club
as Damien

Cornelius, the Howling Miller
as Doctor de Chomo

3 Days in Quiberon
as Fisherman Poet

The Night Eats the World
as Alfred

My Intelligent Comedy
as Allen

Gray House
as Self

Kazarken: As We Dig
as Chiron, le centaure

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Boris Without Beatrice
as L'Inconnu
No Poster
History's Future
as Lottery Ticket Seller

21 Nights with Pattie
as André

Eva Doesn't Sleep
as Koenig

Me and Kaminski
as Karl-Ludwig

Graziella
as Antoine

Austerlitz
as Jacques Austerlitz

Dark Forests
as Voice

Pitchipoï
as Pierre Schulmann

Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
as Self (uncredited)

Le mystère des jonquilles
as Sam

The Iron Ivan
as Eugene de Paris

Journey to the West
as Dragon

Mr. X
as Self
No Poster
Ogaden
No Poster
Jiminy
as Otto Hoffmann

Je sens plus la vitesse

Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
as The Theologist

Biette
as Self

Les Grandes Marées
as Marc

En ningún lugar, Don Luis Buñuel
as Self

Marussia
as Clochard

Tired of Being Handsome

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
as Marcel Dassault

DRIVE IN Holy Motors
as Self

Morning Star
as Elliot

Holy Motors
as Mr. Oscar / Banker / Beggar / Father / Accordionist / Killer

Eye of the Astronomer
as Jean Kepler

Hop-o'-My-Thumb
as The ogre

My Little Princess
as Ernst

Hitler in Hollywood
as Denis Lavant

Atlantika

Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
as Bezon

The Temptation of St. Tony
as Count Korzybski

Hymn to Merde
as Merde
No Poster
The Lonely
No Poster
Les Williams

Les Cowboys n'ont pas peur de mourir
as (voice)

Tokyo!
as Merde' (segment "Merde")

Captain Ahab
as Capitaine Achab

Mister Lonely
as Charlie Chaplin

Happy New Year London
as Gerrard Ames

Wild Camp
as Blaise

Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
as Self

Language Does Not Lie
as Narrator (voice)

A Very Long Engagement
as Six-Soux

Luminal
as Ryu

Correspondances: Dostoïevski
as reader

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) : un humaniste abstrait
as Self - Narrator (voice)

La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
as (voice)

Married/Unmarried
as Love

Şoför
as The Driver

La Squale
as Le joker

Deep in the Woods
as Stephane

Beau Travail
as Galoup

Tuvalu
as Anton

Melody for a Hustler
as L'auto-stoppeur

Le monde à l'envers
as Yann Kerebel

Don Juan
as Pierrot

Wild Animals
as Emil

Visiblement je vous aime
as Denis

The Chess Game
as Max
No Poster
De force avec d'autres
as Denis

The Lovers on the Bridge
as Alex

Mona and I
as Pierre

Once Around the Park
as Berville

Mauvais Sang
as Alex

Going and Coming Back
as Simon Lerner's patient

Boy Meets Girl
as Alex

Long Live Life
as Caviar delivery man

After Midnight
as (voice)

The Wounded Man
as Wanderer

Entre Nous
as Un militaire

Les Misérables
as Montparnasse
No Poster
L'Ombre sur la plage

Paris Ficelle
as Joe
No Poster
The Rope

Waster
as Waster
No Poster
Fol
No Poster
7 jours 4000 ans
as (Voix)
No Poster
Dante's Divine Comedy
as Narrator / Virgil / Dante
No Poster
Que demande le peuple
No Poster
Makunaíma XXI
No Poster
La nuit du vivant, voyage au cœur de la pourriture
as Narrateur