Jean-Pierre Léaud
Born: 1944-05-28 in Paris, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also worked with Aki Kaurismäki, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jacques Rivette, and Tsai Ming-liang. He is a significant figure of the French New Wave, having appeared in eight films by Jean-Luc Godard and seven by François Truffaut.
Filmography
2026
- Léaud et les Bas as Self (Footage)
2024
- Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2023
- Godard Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Quando a Coisa Vira Outra as Self (archive footage)
2021
2020
- Les secrets de François Truffaut as Self
2019
- André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- C'è tempo as Self
- Introducing My Father, François Truffaut as Self (Archive Footage)
- I shot Antoine Doinel as Self
2018
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight as Jean
- Alien Crystal Palace as Horus
2017
- M as Le père de Lila
2016
- The Death of Louis XIV as Louis XIV
2014
- François Truffaut l'insoumis as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Camille Rewinds as Monsieur Dupont - l'horloger
2011
- Le Havre as The Whistleblower
2010
- Sodankylä Forever as Self
2009
- Visage as Antoine / King Herode
- On the Trail of the New Wave as Self (archive footage)
- The Chalk Circle Man as Le Nermord
- Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water as Self / Antoine / King Herode
2005
- I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed as Georges Franju
2004
- Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ as Self (uncredited)
- Léaud de Hurle-dents as Self
- A Wonderful Spell as Fernand
2003
- The Dreamers as Jean-Pierre Léaud
2002
- The War in Paris as Haut Placé
- In the Darkness of Time as (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
- The Pornographer as Jacques Laurent
- What Time Is It There? as Man at Cemetery
- 1968 - Without Losing Tenderness as Self
- Léaud l'unique
2000
- A Matter of Taste as Investigating judge
- The Marcorelle Affair as François Marcorelle
1999
- Innocent as Le poète
1998
- Elizabeth as (uncredited)
1997
- Just for Laughs as Nicolas Gardinier
- Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath as Self
1996
- Irma Vep as René Vidal
- My Man as Client
- Diary of a Seducer as Hugo
1995
- One Hundred and One Nights as The Second Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
1994
- Nobody Loves Me as Lucien
1993
- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self (archive footage)
- The Birth of Love as Marcus
1992
- La Vie de Bohème as Blancheron
1991
- Paris Awakens as Clément
- C'est la vie
1990
- I Hired a Contract Killer as Henri
- Out 1 as Colin
1989
- Bunker Palace Hotel as Solal
- Paperback Woman as Marc
- The Ministries of Art as Self
1988
- 36 Fillette as Boris Golovine
- Jane B. by Agnès V. as The Angry Lover
- The Color of the Wind as Decourt
1987
- Lady Cops as Commissaire Bouvreuil
- Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel as Georg Ossegg
- Boran - Zeit zum Zielen
1986
- Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company as Gaspard Bazin
- Treasure Island as Midas
- With All Hands as Marcel
1985
- Detective as Inspector Neveu
- Vivement Truffaut as Self / Doinel (archive footage)
- L'Herbe rouge as Lazuli
- Just a Movie as Péter - a rendezõ
1984
- Série noire as Gaspard Bazin
- Paris Seen By... 20 Years After as René (segment 3)
- La cassure as Police Commissioner Rauffast
- Rebelote as Rémi Chauveau
1982
- Mersonne ne m'aime as Daniel Flipo-Risq
- Véra
- Pour Bonnie as Charles Blaine
1981
- Help Me Dream as Mario
- Le petit Pommier as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
- Parano as Ignazio
1979
- Love on the Run as Antoine Doinel
1976
- Hugs and Other Things as Tom
- Lola's Lolos as Bernard Dubois
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- De quoi s'agit-il? ... (Director)
1973
- Day for Night as Alphonse
- The Mother and the Whore as Alexandre
- L'Éducation sentimentale as Frédéric Moreau
- Out 1: Spectre as Colin
1972
- Last Tango in Paris as Tom
1971
- Out 1 as Colin
- Two English Girls as Claude Roc
- The Lion Has Seven Heads as Preacher
- A Girl Is a Gun as Billy le Kid
1970
- Bed and Board as Antoine Doinel
- The Wild Child ... (Thanks)
- The Heirs as Danton
1969
- Pigsty as Julian Klotz
- Bad Company as Daniel (archive footage)
- Paul as Paul
- Joy of Learning as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
1968
- Stolen Kisses as Antoine Doinel
- Dialogue 20-40-60 as Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
- The Twenty-Year-Olds as Adamik
- Françoise et Udo... as Self
- Concentration
1967
- La Chinoise as Guillaume
- Weekend as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
- Made in U.S.A as Donald Siegel
- The Departure as Marc
- The Oldest Profession as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
- Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000 as The Bellboy
1966
- Masculin Féminin as Paul
- Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes as Daniel
1965
- Pierrot le Fou as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
- Alphaville as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
- Love at Sea as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
- Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit as Self
1964
- The Soft Skin ... (Assistant Director Trainee)
- The Married Woman ... (Assistant Director)
- Mata Hari, Agent H21 as Absalon
- Nadja in Paris as Self
1962
- Love at Twenty as Antoine Doinel (segment "Antoine et Colette")
- Antoine and Colette as Antoine Doinel
1960
- Testament of Orpheus as Dargelos, l'écolier
- Boulevard as Georges Castagnier, dit "Jojo"
1959
- The 400 Blows as Antoine Doinel
1958
- King on Horseback as Pierrot
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
1954
- Reflets de Cannes as Self