Philippe Léotard

{{Infobox person

| name = Philippe Léotard

| image = Philippe Léotard.jpg

| caption = Philippe Léotard, 1980s

| birth_name = Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi

| birth_date = {{birth_date|1940|08|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Nice, France

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|08|25|1940|08|28|df=y}}

| death_place = 11th arrondissement of Paris, France

| resting_place = Montparnasse Cemetery

| education = Lycée Henri-IV

| relatives = François Léotard (brother)

| spouse = Liliane Caulier (divorce 1972)
Nathalie Baye (1972—1982)

}}

Philippe Léotard (his full name was Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi; 28 August 1940 – 25 August 2001) was a French actor, poet and singer.

Biography

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. Together with students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, they formed the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble, Théâtre 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.{{cite web|first=Noel|last=Megahey|url=http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=70590|publisher=www.thedigitalfix.co.uk|access-date=August 24, 2010|title=La Gueule ouverte (1974)|date=April 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034408/http://homecinema.thedigitalfix.co.uk/content.php?contentid=70590|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}} 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 of respiratory failure in Paris on 25 August 2001, three days before his 61st birthday. He was buried at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

Filmography

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1957

|Paths of Glory

|A Poilu

|Stanley Kubrick

|Uncredited

1970

|Bed and Board

|the drunkard

|François Truffaut

|Uncredited

rowspan=3|1971

|Max et les Ferrailleurs

|Losfeld

|Claude Sautet

Two English Girls

|Diurka

|François Truffaut

Le mot frère et le mot camarade

rowspan=4|1972

|Rak

|Lucien

|Charles Belmont

To Be Twenty in the Aures

|Lt. Perrin

|René Vautier

Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me

|Clovis Bliss

|François Truffaut

Le franc-tireur

|Michel Perrat

|Jean-Max Causse

rowspan=2|1973

|Kamouraska

|Antoine Tassy

|Claude Jutra

The Day of the Jackal

|Gendarme

| Fred Zinnemann

rowspan=3|1974

|Juliette and Juliette

|Le dragueur de Juliette Vidal

|Rémo Forlani

The Mouth Agape

|Philippe

|Maurice Pialat

The Middle of the World

|Paul

|Alain Tanner

rowspan=5|1975

|Pas si méchant que ça

|Julien

|Claude Goretta

The Track

|Paul Danville

|Serge Leroy

French Connection II

|Jacques

|John Frankenheimer

La guerre du pétrole n'aura pas lieu

|Padovani

|Souheil Ben-Barka

Le Chat et la souris

|Pierre Chemin

|Claude Lelouch

rowspan=2|1976

|The Good and the Bad

|Le vendeur de Citroën

|Claude Lelouch

Les conquistadores

|Marco Pauly

rowspan=4|1977

|Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff

|Inspecteur Marec

|Yves Boisset

Solemn Communion

|Jacques Gravet

|René Féret

Shadow of the Castles

|Luigi

|Daniel Duval

La comédie du train des pignes

|François de Chavanes

rowspan=2|1978

|{{Interlanguage link|Va voir maman, papa travaille|fr}}

|Vincent

|François Leterrier

Judith Therpauve

| Jean-Pierre Maurier

|Patrice Chéreau

1979

|La Mémoire courte

|Frank Barila

|Eduardo de Gregorio

rowspan=3|1980

|L'Empreinte des géants

|Lucien Chabaud

|Robert Enrico

A Week's Vacation

|Doctor Sabouret

|Bertrand Tavernier

La Petite Sirène

|Georges Maréchal

|Roger Andrieux

1981

|Les Babas Cool

|Blaise

|François Leterrier

rowspan=4|1982

|Le Choc

|Félix

|Robin Davis

Paradis pour tous

|Marc Lebel

|Alain Jessua

La Balance

|Dede Laffont

|Bob Swaim

Mora

|Mora

|Léon Desclozeaux

rowspan=2|1983

|Winter 1960

|André

|Thierry Michel

So Long, Stooge

|Bauer

|Claude Berri

rowspan=4|1984

|Femmes de personne

|Antoine

|Christopher Frank

{{Interlanguage link|Les Fauves (film)|fr|3=Les Fauves (film)|lt=Les Fauves}}

|Léandro Santini

|Jean-Louis Daniel

The Pirate

|Number 5

|Jacques Doillon

Une rébellion à Romans

|Jean Serve, dit 'Paulmier'

|Philippe Venault

rowspan=4|1985

|Tangos, l'exil de Gardel

|Pierre

|Fernando E. Solanas

Rouge-gorge

|Louis Ducasse

|Pierre Zucca

Farewell Blaireau

|Fred

| Bob Decout

Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

|Pierre

|Fernando E. Solanas

rowspan=5|1986

|Dawn

|Gad

|Miklós Jancsó

Exit-exil

|Duke

|Luc Monheim

{{Interlanguage link|Le Paltoquet|fr}}

|The Honourable Tradesman

| Michel Deville

State of Grace

|Pierre-Julien

|Jacques Rouffio

Ça n'arrive jamais

1987

|Si le soleil ne revenait pas

|Anzerul

| Claude Goretta

rowspan=7|1988

|Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné

|Bernard Hauptmann

|Frank Cassenti

Jane B. par Agnès V.

|Le peintre / Murderer

|Agnès Varda

South

|Roberto

|Fernando Ezequiel Solanas

The Abyss

|Henri-Maximilien

|André Delvaux

Snack Bar Budapest

|Sapo

|Tinto Brass

Ada dans la jungle

|Rudi

|Gérard Zingg

La Couleur du vent

|Pierre

|Pierre Granier-Deferre

rowspan=5|1990

|Le grand ruban (Truck)

|Jeff

|Philippe Roussel

Il y a des jours... et des lunes

|Le chanteur abandonné / The abandoned singer

|Claude Lelouch

Le dénommé (Oublie que tu es un homme)

|Auclair

|Jean-Claude Dague

In the Eye of the Snake

|Phil Anzer - Marc's Father

|Max Reid

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|Dr. Levin

|Peter Patzak

1991

|The Flesh

|Nicola

|Marco Ferreri

1992

|Ville à vendre

|Jean Boulard - un kinésithérapeute

|Jean-Pierre Mocky

1994

|Élisa