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Philippe LĂ©otard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul AndrĂ© LĂ©otard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 â 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 LĂ©otard. 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, LautrĂ©amont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964. Together with students of the L'Ăcole Internationale de ThĂ©Ăątre Jacques Lecoq, they formâŠ
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Philippe LĂ©otard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul AndrĂ© LĂ©otard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 â 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 LĂ©otard. 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, LautrĂ©amont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964. Together with students of the L'Ăcole Internationale de ThĂ©Ăątre Jacques Lecoq, they formed the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble, ThĂ©Ăątre 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 CĂ©sar 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). LĂ©otard 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 LĂ©otard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Philippe LĂ©otard's Filmography
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Black Dju
as Inspecteur Plettschette
Pandora
as RaĂșl
Les Miserables
as Thénardier 1942
Ălisa
as Gitanes Smoker
No Poster
Im Kreis der Iris
as Dr. Ionescu
Le Voleur et la menteuse
as Jeff
Ville Ă vendre
as Jean Boulard
Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
as Jeff
The Flesh
as Nicola
Venins
as Phil Anzer
Death of a Schoolboy
as Dr. Levin
No Time for Justice
as Auclair
The Day of Reckoning
as André Arnaud
There Were Days... and Moons
as Le chanteur abandonné
Plato's Banquet
as Socrates
The Color of the Wind
as Pierre
Ada in the Jungle
as Rudi
Snack Bar Budapest
as Sapo
The Abyss
as Henri-Maximilien
The South
as Roberto
Jane B. by AgnĂšs V.
as Painter / Murderer
Le Testament d'un poÚte juif assassiné
as Bernard Hauptmann
If the Sun Never Returns
as Arlettaz
State of Grace
as Pierre-Julien
The Dawn
as Gad
The Nonentity
as Kaufmann
Exit-exil
as Duke
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
as Pierre
Ni avec toi, ni sans toi
as Pierre
Robin
as Louis Ducasse
Farewell Fred
as Fred
La Pirate
as n° 5
Wild Animals
as LĂ©andro Santini
Femmes de personne
as Antoine
So Long, Stooge
as Bauer
Hiver 60
as André
Mora
as Mora
La Balance
as Dédé Laffont
Paradise for All
as Marc Lebel
The Shock
as FĂ©lix
Short Memory
as Frank Barila
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
as Blaise
The Little Mermaid
as Georges Maréchal
A Week's Vacation
as le docteur Sabouret
La Tisane de sarments
as Joë Bousquet
The Imprint of Giants
as Lucien Chabaud
Judith Therpauve
as Jean-Pierre Maurier
Your Turn, My Turn
as Vincent
Solemn Communion
as Jacques Gravet
Shadow of the Castles
as Luigi
La Comédie du train des pignes
as Self
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
as Marec
Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)
as (uncredited)
The Conquistadores
The Good and the Bad
as le vendeur de Citroën
Cat and Mouse
as Pierre Chemin
French Connection II
as Jacques
The Track
as Paul Danville
The Wonderful Crook
as Julien
The Middle of the World
as Paul
The Mouth Agape
as Philippe
The Oil War Will Not Happen
as Padovani
Kamouraska
as Antoine
The Day of the Jackal
as Gendarme
Chinese Glory
as Michel Perrat
A Gorgeous Kid Like Me
as Clovis
To Be Twenty in the Aures
as Lieutenant Perrin
Rak
as Lucien
Two English Girls
as Diurka
Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
as Honoré
Max and the Junkmen
as Losfeld
No Poster
Crime and Punishment
as Razoumikhine
Bed and Board
as L'homme Ivre (uncredited)