Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Smet was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris on 15 June 1943 to a Belgian father, Léon Smet,{{cite book|title=Who's Who in France|year=2008|page=1099}} and a French mother, Huguette Eugénie Pierrette Clerc. Léon Smet, who worked as a nightclub performer, left his wife and son a few months later. Clerc started a modeling career, which left her with little time to care for her son.{{harvsp|Hallyday|1979|pp=7–10}} Hallyday grew up with his aunt, Hélène Mar,{{cite web|url=https://www.mairie9.paris.fr/actualites/hommage-a-johnny-hallyday-l-enfant-du-9e-449|title=Hommage à JOHNNY HALLYDAY : L'ENFANT DU 9e|language=fr|date=7 December 2017|author=Sthers, Amamda|access-date=11 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210015724/https://www.mairie9.paris.fr/actualites/hommage-a-johnny-hallyday-l-enfant-du-9e-449|archive-date=10 December 2017|url-status=dead}} and took his stage name from a cousin-in-law from Oklahoma (Lemoine Ketcham) who performed as Lee Halliday. The latter called Smet "Johnny" and became a father figure, introducing him to American music.

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Influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock n' roll revolution, Hallyday became known for singing rock 'n' roll in French. His debut single, "T'aimer follement" ("Love you madly"), a French adaptation of the controversial 1959 Floyd Robinson hit "Makin' Love" that was also a hit for Dalida the month prior, was released on the Vogue label in March 1960.{{cite book |first=John |last=Tobler |year=1992 |title=NME Rock 'N' Roll Years |edition=1st |publisher=Reed International Books Ltd |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/nmerocknrollyear0000unse/page/80 80] |id=CN 5585 |isbn=0-600-57602-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/nmerocknrollyear0000unse/page/80 }} His debut album, Hello Johnny, was released later that year.{{cite web | url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6309.asp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120081610/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6309.asp|archive-date=20 November 2014 | title=Biography - Johnny Hallyday | publisher=Radio France International | access-date=5 October 2019}} In 1961, his French-language cover of "Let's Twist Again", "Viens Danser Le Twist", sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.{{cite book |first=Joseph |last=Murrells |year=1978 |title=The Book of Golden Discs |edition=2nd |publisher=Barrie and Jenkins Ltd |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/136 136] |isbn=0-214-20512-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/136 }} It topped almost every European chart, although the track did not appear in the UK Singles Chart.{{cite book |first=John |last=Tobler |year=1992 |title=NME Rock 'N' Roll Years |edition=1st |publisher=Reed International Books Ltd |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/nmerocknrollyear0000unse/page/101 101] |id=CN 5585 |isbn=0-600-57602-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/nmerocknrollyear0000unse/page/101 }} He appeared on the American The Ed Sullivan Show with American singing star Connie Francis in a show that was taped at the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris. He staged many appearances in the Paris Olympia under the management of Bruno Coquatrix. For their first concert, The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for Johnny Hallyday in Nancy on 14 October 1966. Film footage from October 1966 exists of Hallyday partying with Hendrix, his manager Chas Chandler and others.{{cite news|url=http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2016/09/08/video-quand-jimi-hendrix-et-johnny-hallyday-tournaient-a-nancy-en-1966|title=VIDEO. Quand Jimi Hendrix et Johnny Hallyday tournaient en Lorraine en 1966|work=Republicain Lorrain|date=8 September 2016|access-date=6 December 2017}} He also socialised with Keith Richards and Bob Dylan.{{cite news|url=http://www.lejdd.fr/culture/musique/quand-jimi-hendrix-faisait-la-premiere-partie-de-johnny-hallyday-3512714|title=Quand Jimi Hendrix Faisait la Première Partie de Johnny Hallyday|newspaper=Le Journal de Dimanche|date=6 December 2017|access-date=6 December 2017|archive-date=6 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306112131/https://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Musique/quand-jimi-hendrix-faisait-la-premiere-partie-de-johnny-hallyday-3512714|url-status=dead}}

At the end of the 1960s, Hallyday made a string of albums with Foreigner's Mick Jones{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=KmSRCUASvV4 |title=Video Interview Foreigner et Johnny Hallyday Taratata 23.12.1994|date=23 December 1994|access-date=6 December 2017}} and Tommy Brown as musical directors, and Big Jim Sullivan, Bobby Graham and Jimmy Page as session musicians. These are Jeune homme, Rivière... Ouvre ton lit (also known as Je suis né dans la rue) and Vie. On Je suis né dans la rue, Hallyday hired both Peter Frampton and the Small Faces and they all play on most of the tracks on the album. Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane of the Small Faces contributed their compositions "Amen (Bang Bang)", "Reclamation (News Report)", and "Regarde pour moi (What You Will)" to the album. "Amen" is a French-language variation on "That Man", a previously-released 1967 Small Faces song played in a heavy rock style. Tensions between the Small Faces during the recording sessions led to Marriott leaving the band and forming Humble Pie with Frampton, and rearranged English language versions of both "Reclamation (News Report)" and "Regarde pour moi (What You Will)" appeared on Humble Pie's debut LP of 1969. Often forgotten is Hallyday's non-LP single and EP track "Que je t'aime" from the same sessions.[Frampton and Small Faces contribution on 1969 album.] Steve Marriott – All Too Beautiful... (Paulo/Hellier) {{ISBN|1-900924-44-7}} p.324 By 1969 alone, his record sales exceeded twelve million units.

One of Hallyday's later concerts, 100% Johnny: Live à la tour Eiffel in 2000, attracted an audience of 500,000 and 9.5 million television viewers (the show was broadcast live on French TV).{{cite web |url=http://www.johnnyweb.fr/ |title=Johnny Hallyday – Site Officiel |publisher=Johnnyweb.fr |access-date=15 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121001335/http://www.johnnyweb.fr/ |archive-date=21 November 2008 |url-status=dead }} In December 2005, Hallyday had his third number-one single on the French SNEP singles chart since its establishment in 1984,"Mon plus beau Noël", French Singles Chart [http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?key=160667&cat=s Lescharts.com] (Retrieved 4 October 2008) "Mon plus beau Noël" (after "Tous ensemble" and "Marie"), dedicated to his adopted daughter Jade.{{cite web|url=https://www.lacoccinelle.net/277084.html|title=Paroles et traduction Johnny Hallyday : Mon Plus Beau Noël – paroles de chanson|website=lacoccinelle.net|access-date=7 December 2017}} Shortly before announcing his retirement from touring in 2007, he released a blues-flavored album, Le Cœur d'un homme. In addition to the lead single "Always", Le Cœur d'un homme features "T'aimer si mal", a duet with blues musician Taj Mahal and "I Am the Blues", an English-language song (uncharacteristically for Hallyday) written by U2's lead singer Bono.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/le-c%C5ur-dun-homme-mw0001615784|title=Le Cœur d'un Homme|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=7 December 2017}} His next album, Ça ne finira jamais, released in 2008,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/%C3a-ne-finira-jamais-mw0001689999|title=Ça Ne Finira Jamais|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=7 December 2017}} another No. 1 on the French album chart, and its lead single, "Ça n'finira jamais", also reached No. 1."Ça n'finira jamais", French Singles Chart [http://www.lescharts.com/showitem.asp?key=520005&cat=s Lescharts.com] (Retrieved 25 November 2008) Hallyday's album Tour 66: Stade de France 2009 was a live set recorded at Stade de France during his farewell tour.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/tour-66-stade-de-france-2009-mw0001794418|title=Tour 66: Stade de France 2009|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=7 December 2017}} In 2011 Hallyday released album Jamais seul, recorded with Matthieu Chedid, and started touring again. In 2012 he gave concerts in different countries, including Russia, and released the album L'Attente. Later Hallyday released two live albums, On Stage and Born Rocker Tour (a recording of his 70th anniversary concerts in Bercy and Theatre de Paris). Albums named Rester Vivant and De L'Amour were released in 2014 and 2015 respectively. In 2015–2016 Hallyday had the Rester Vivant Tour. A concert in Brussels was released as a live album in 2016.

Hallyday was married five times, including twice to the same woman, with the first four marriages ending in divorce. His last marriage was his longest, lasting twenty-one years.

His first marriage was to the popular French singer Sylvie Vartan; it lasted fifteen years, from 1965 until 1980.{{cite news|title=Mort de Johnny Hallyday : Sylvie Vartan a le cœur "brisé"|url=http://www.parismatch.com/People/Mort-de-Johnny-Hallyday-Sylvie-Vartan-a-le-coeur-brise-1411244|access-date=7 December 2017|work=Paris Match|date=6 December 2017}} Their son, David, was born in 1966. His second marriage to Babeth Étienne was his shortest, lasting 65 days.{{cite news|last1=Royer|first1=Marion|title=Mort de Johnny Hallyday : Babeth, l'épouse oubliée|url=http://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/babeth-lepouse-oubliee_410034|access-date=7 December 2017|work=Gala|date=6 December 2017}} Hallyday had a four-year relationship with French actress Nathalie Baye. Their daughter, Laura, was born in 1983.{{cite news|title=Mort de Johnny Hallyday : son ex Nathalie Baye réagit sur les réseaux sociaux|url=http://www.voici.fr/news-people/actu-people/mort-de-johnny-hallyday-son-ex-nathalie-baye-reagit-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-641838|access-date=7 December 2017|work=Voici|date=6 December 2017}} His third and fourth marriages were to the same woman, Adeline Blondieau, from 1990 to 1992, and from 1994 to 1995.{{cite news|last1=Rousset|first1=Virginie|title=Mort de Johnny Hallyday – Adeline Blondieau, la femme qu'il a épousée deux fois|url=http://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/mort-de-johnny-hallyday-adeline-blondieau-la-femme-quil-a-epousee-deux-fois-un-amour-passionnel_410075|access-date=7 December 2017|work=Gala|date=6 December 2017}} Officiated by Nicolas Sarkozy, his fifth and last marriage was to Læticia Boudou from 1996 until his death. The couple adopted two girls from Vietnam: Jade Odette Désirée (formerly Bùi Thị Ho, born 3 August 2004) in November 2004,{{cite web |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/120/000111784/ |title=Johnny Hallyday |publisher=Nndb.com |access-date=26 March 2012}} and Joy in 2008.

File:Sylvie-Vartan-Johnny-Hallyday-1.jpg|Hallyday with his first wife, Sylvie Vartan, in 1965.

File:Johnny Adeline Cannes.jpg|Hallyday with his third wife, Adeline Blondieau, at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.

File:Johnny Hallyday avp 2014 2.jpg|Hallyday with his fourth and last wife, Læticia Boudou, at the Mamers premiere of Salaud, on t'aime in 2014.

Hallyday, who resided in Los Angeles, owned a chalet in the Swiss town of Gstaad from 2006 to 2015 to avoid the high tax rate imposed by the French government.{{cite news|last1=Louaguef|first1=Sarah|title=Johnny Hallyday vend son chalet pour 9,5 millions d'euros|url=http://www.parismatch.com/People/Musique/Johnny-Hallyday-Son-chalet-de-Gstaad-en-vente-pour-9-5-millions-d-euros-703990|access-date=7 December 2017|work=Paris Match|date=5 February 2015}} Hallyday said that he would have moved his residency back to France if it changed its tax laws.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6190133.stm |title=Entertainment | Hallyday exile row gets political |publisher=BBC News |date=18 December 2006 |access-date=15 July 2014}} In January 2014, Hallyday said that his current residence was in the United States after an investigation by a Swiss journalist showed that Hallyday did not spend enough time in Gstaad to qualify as a resident.{{cite web |title=French rocker prefers California to Gstaad |date=17 January 2014 |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/French_rocker_Johnny_prefers_California_to_Gstaad.html?cid=37756662 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140118020505/http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/French_rocker_Johnny_prefers_California_to_Gstaad.html?cid=37756662 |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 January 2014 |publisher=swissinfo.ch |access-date=17 January 2014 }} One of his favourite leisure activities was riding his Harley-Davidson on long trips through the California desert, staying in small motels along the way.

In July 2009, Hallyday was diagnosed with colon cancer,{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/johnny-hallyday-concerts-cancelled |title=Johnny Hallyday tour cancelled because of health problems |work=The Guardian |date=16 December 2009 |access-date=15 July 2014 |last1=Davies |first1=Lizzy }} and underwent surgery. On 26 November 2009,{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6782637/French-rocker-Johnny-Hallyday-in-induced-coma.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6782637/French-rocker-Johnny-Hallyday-in-induced-coma.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=French rocker Johnny Hallyday in induced coma |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=10 December 2009 |access-date=15 July 2014}}{{cbignore}} Hallyday underwent surgery in Paris to repair a herniated disc. He suffered complications and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Doctors announced that they had put Hallyday into a medically induced coma so they could repair lesions that had formed as a result of the surgery, and to relieve his pain. On 17 December 2009, Hallyday and his wife started legal proceedings against Stéphane Delajoux, the doctor who had performed the original surgery.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9360871 |title=Entertainment News, Celebrity and Pop Culture |publisher=ABC News |access-date=15 July 2014}} The conflict was resolved in February 2012 following Delajoux's vindication by medical investigators.{{cite web|url=http://www.connexionfrance.com/Johnny-Hallyday-doctor-Delajoux-operation-agreement-13471-view-article.html|title=Johnny Hallyday comes to agreement with doctor after long-running dispute |work=The Connexion |access-date=15 February 2016}}

Hallyday died of lung cancer at 10:10 pm on 5 December 2017Mairie de Marnes-la-Coquette, 12 décembre 2017, extrait de l'acte de décès de Jean-Philippe Léo SMET. in Marnes-la-Coquette, near Paris, at the age of 74.{{cite web |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/musique/johnny-hallyday-est-mort-a-l-age-de-74-ans-30-11-2017-7424988.php|title= Johnny Hallyday est mort cette nuit à l'âge de 74 ans|author= |date=6 December 2017|website=Le Parisien|access-date=7 December 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Chrisafis|first1=Angelique|last2=Willsher|first2=Kim|title=Johnny Hallyday, the 'French Elvis', dies at 74|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/06/johnny-hallyday-french-rock-star-dies-aged-74-lung-cancer|access-date=7 December 2017|work=The Guardian|date=6 December 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/obituaries/johnny-hallyday-dead-french-elvis.html|title=Johnny Hallyday, the Elvis Presley of France, Is Dead at 74|work=The New York Times|date=6 December 2017|access-date=6 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42247551|title=Johnny Hallyday: French rock star dies at 74|publisher=BBC|date=6 December 2017|access-date=6 December 2017}} French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute, saying he "transcended generations and is etched in the memory of the French people".{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2017/12/06/les-reactions-de-politiques-a-la-mort-de-johnny-hallyday_5225400_3382.html|title=Les réactions de politiques à la mort de Johnny Hallyday|newspaper=Le Monde|date=6 December 2017|access-date=6 December 2017}} On 9 December, his funeral was held in Paris; 900,000 lined the Champs-Élysées as his body was taken to the Madeleine Church. The service was attended by Macron and two of his predecessors.{{cite news|last1=Breeden|first1=Aurelien|title='Merci, Johnny': Hallyday Honored With Rock-Star Funeral (and Motorbikes)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/world/europe/johnny-hallyday-funeral-france.html|access-date=9 December 2017|work=The New York Times|date=9 December 2017}}

He was buried on the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy in the cemetery of Lorient parish church (Église de Lorient) on 11 December 2017.{{cite news|last1=Ascensio|first1=Amandine|title=Saint-Barthélemy se prépare à accueillir Johnny Hallyday pour l'éternité|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2017/12/09/03006-20171209ARTFIG00084-saint-barthelemy-se-prepare-a-accueillir-johnny-hallyday-pour-l-eternite.php|access-date=9 December 2017|work=Le Figaro|date=9 December 2017|language=fr}}

In February 2018, his two oldest children, David and Laura, announced that they were contesting his will, which left his entire estate to his last wife, Læticia, and their two adopted children. The will had been drafted in the US, and French attorneys for David and Laura contended that this violated French law, which specifically prevents children from being disinherited.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43032314|title=Johnny Hallyday's children contest exclusion from his will|access-date=12 February 2018|publisher=BBC|date=12 February 2018}}

File:Johnny hallyday (2003).jpg|Hallyday performing in Villeneuve-d'Ascq in 2003

File:Johnny Hallyday Cannes.jpg|Hallyday at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

File:Johnny Hallyday. 2011.JPG|Hallyday with Audrey Dana and Julien Cottereau in Le Paradis sur terre at the Édouard VII theater in 2011

File:Johnny Hallyday 2012 3.jpg|Hallyday in 2012

File:St Barths Lorient Eglise Cimétière.JPG|The parish cemetery of Lorient, Saint Barthélemy, where Hallyday's grave is located

File:Tombe Johnny.jpg|Tombe au cimetière de l'église de Lorient de Saint-Barthélemy

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Hallyday was once called "the French Elvis".{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/05/08/french-legend-johnny-hallyday-performs-berklee-performance-center/E5MkJipEG2P3PyJxDVjq2H/story.html |title=Johnny Hallyday is more than just a French Elvis |author=Christopher Muther |date=8 May 2014 |work=Boston Globe |access-date=27 November 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304299304577347813152763098 |title="French Elvis" Plays America |author=Marc Myers |access-date=26 January 2017 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=19 April 2012}} The Daily Beast described Hallyday as "a hip swiveling, leather-clad Gallic answer to Elvis Presley who shook up his home country's music scene with American-style rock-n-roll and bad-boy antics."{{cite web | url = https://www.thedailybeast.com/johnny-hallyday-we-hardly-knew-you | title = Johnny Hallyday, We Hardly Knew You! | date = 6 December 2017 | access-date = 12 December 2017 | website = The Daily Beast | author = Erin Zaleski }} He remained largely unknown outside the francophone world and was sometimes described as "the biggest rock star you've never heard of" in English-speaking countries.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-fin-for-the-original-french-pop-idol-1684593.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/le-fin-for-the-original-french-pop-idol-1684593.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Le fin for the original French pop idol |work=The Independent |date=14 May 2009 |access-date=17 October 2009 |location=London}}{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1507887/Go-go-Johnny-go-but-to-Belgium.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1507887/Go-go-Johnny-go-but-to-Belgium.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Go, go Johnny go – but to Belgium? |first1=Kim |last1=Willsher |first2=Justin |last2=Stares |date=15 January 2006 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 May 2012}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9763659/End_of_the_road_for_Frances_Elvis/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110133747/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9763659/End_of_the_road_for_Frances_Elvis/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 November 2013 |title=End of the road for France's Elvis |first=Henry |last=Samuel |date=11 May 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=3 May 2012}} He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1997{{Cite journal |journal=JORF |volume=1997 |issue=1 |title=ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR Décret du 31 décembre 1996 portant promotion et |date=1 January 1997 |page=29 |id=PREX9612816D |url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=PREX9612816D |access-date=5 April 2009}} and Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) in 2001.{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.dhnet.be/medias/divers/johnny-hallyday-officier-de-l-ordre-de-la-couronne-51b7d81ce4b0de6db991608b "Johnny Hallyday, officier de l'ordre de la Couronne!"]. La Dernière Heure. 2 June 2001. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

Jimmy Buffett paid tribute to Johnny with his song "Johnny's Rhum" on his 2023 album Equal Strain On All Parts.

{{Main|Johnny Hallyday discography}}

• Hello Johnny (1960)
• Nous les gars, nous les filles (1961)
• Tête à tête avec Johnny Hallyday (1961)
• Viens danser le twist (1961)
• Salut les copains (1961)
• Retiens la nuit (1962)
• Madison Twist (1962)
• L'Idole des jeunes (1963)
• Les Bras en croix (1963)
• Da dou ron ron (1963)
• Les guitares jouent (1964)
• Johnny, reviens ! Les Rocks les plus terribles (1964)
• Le Pénitencier (1964)
• Hallelujah (1965)
• Johnny chante Hallyday (1965)
• La Génération perdue (1966)
• Johnny 67 (1967)
• Jeune Homme (1968)
• Rêve et Amour (1968)
• Rivière… ouvre ton lit (1969)
• Vie (1970)
• Flagrant Délit (1971)
• Country, Folk, Rock (1972)
• Insolitudes (1973)
• Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime (1974)
• Rock 'n' Slow (1974)
• Rock à Memphis (1975)
• La Terre promise (1975)
• Derrière l'amour (1976)
• Hamlet (1976)
• C'est la vie (1977)
• Solitudes à deux (1978)
• Hollywood (1979)
• À partir de maintenant (1980)
• En pièces détachées (1981)
• Pas facile (1981)
• Quelque part un aigle (1982)
• La Peur (1982)
• Entre violence et violon (1983)
• Nashville 84 (1984)
• En V.O. (1984)
• Drôle de métier (1984)
• Spécial Enfants du rock (1984)
• Rock'n'Roll Attitude (1985)
• Gang (1986)
• Cadillac (1989)
• Ça ne change pas un homme (1991)
• Lorada (1995)
• Destination Vegas (1996)
• Ce que je sais (1998)
• Sang pour sang (1999)
• À la vie, à la mort ! (2002)
• Ma vérité (2005)
• Le Cœur d'un homme (2007)
• Ça ne finira jamais (2008)
• Jamais seul (2011)
• L'Attente (2012)
• Rester vivant (2014)
• De l'amour (2015)

• Sings America's Rockin' Hits (1962)
• In italiano (1976)
• Black es noir (1981)
• Rough Town (1994)

• Mon pays c'est l'amour (2018)

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• Les Diaboliques (1955) as a student (uncredited)
• Les parisiennes (1962) as Jean Allard (segment "Sophie"){{cite web|title=Johnny Hallyday|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1600453|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809150543/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1600453|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 August 2016|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=7 December 2017}}
• Secret File 1413 (1962) as Himself
• D'où viens-tu Johnny? (1963) as Johnny (but not Hallyday)
• Cherchez l'idole (1964) as Himself
• Les poneyttes (1968) as Himself
• À tout casser (1968) as Frankie
• Le spécialiste (1969) as Hud Dixon / Brad
• Stumbling Point (1970) as Vlad the Romanian
• Malpertuis (1971) as the sailor who kisses Bets (uncredited)
• L'aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972) as Himself
• L'Animal (1977) as Himself{{Citation|title=Animal (1977) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075683/fullcredits|access-date=2020-06-10}}
• Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent (1981)
• The Case of the Missing Bottle (1983) as Mr. Waitor{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}
• Détective (1984, directed by Jean-Luc Godard) as Jim Fox Warner{{Cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|date=1985-08-23|title=Screen: 'Detective,' by Jean-Luc Godard|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/23/movies/screen-detective-by-jean-luc-godard.html|access-date=2020-06-10|issn=0362-4331}}
• Conseil de famille (1986, directed by Costa-Gavras) as Louis the dad
• Terminus (1986) as Stump
• The Iron Triangle (1989) as Jacques{{Cite web|date=2000-01-01|title=The Iron Triangle|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/iron-triangle-review/|access-date=2020-06-10|website=Empire|language=en}}
• La gamine (1992) as Frank Matrix
• Paparazzi (1998) as Himself (uncredited)
• Why Not Me? (1998) as José
• Love Me (2000) as Lennox
• Mischka (2002) as Himself
• L'homme du train (2002) as Milan
• Crime Spree (2003) as Marcel Burot{{Citation|title=Crime Spree|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310924/|access-date=2020-06-10}}
• Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004) as the one-eyed hermit{{Citation|title=Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337103/|access-date=2020-06-10}}
• Quartier V.I.P. (2005) as Alex
• Jean-Philippe (2006) as Jean-Philippe
• Starko! (2008) as Himself
• The Pink Panther 2 (2009) as Laurence Millikin
• Vengeance (2009) as Francis Costello
• Salaud, on t'aime (2014) as Jacques Kaminsky{{Cite web|title=We Love You, You Bastard (Salaud, on t'aime): Film Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/we-love-you-you-bastard-693057|access-date=2020-06-10|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=2 April 2014 |language=en}}
• Rock'n Roll (2017) as Johnny Hallyday{{Cite web|title='Rock'n Roll': Film Review|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/rockn-roll-review-976668|access-date=2020-06-10|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=16 February 2017 |language=en}}
• Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction (2017) as Johnny (final film role){{Citation|last=AlloCine|title=Casting de Chacun sa vie|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-248351/casting/|access-date=2020-06-10}}

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• {{cite book |last1=Hallyday |first1=Johnny |title=Johnny raconte Hallyday |date=1979 |publisher=Filipacchi |edition=1st |location=Paris |isbn=2-86391-006-X}}
• {{cite book|last1=Hallyday|first1=Johnny|last2=Sthers|first2=Amanda|title=Dans mes yeux : Johnny Hallyday se raconte à Amanda Sthers|date=2014|publisher=Pocket|location=Paris|isbn=9782266236225|oclc=887560125}}

• List of best-selling music artists

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20141120081610/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6309.asp Biography of Johnny Hallyday], from Radio France Internationale

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