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
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)
2020
- Les secrets de François Truffaut as Self
2019
- André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer as Self - Actor (archive footage)
- C'è tempo as Self
- I shot Antoine Doinel as Self
- Introducing My Father, François Truffaut as Self (Archive Footage)
2018
- Alien Crystal Palace as Horus
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight as Jean
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
- The Chalk Circle Man as Le Nermord
- Face as Antoine / King Herode
- On the Trail of the New Wave as Self (archive footage)
- Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water as Self / Antoine / King Herode
2005
- I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed as Georges Franju
2004
- A Wonderful Spell as Fernand
- Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ as Self (uncredited)
- Léaud de Hurle-dents as Self
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
- The Birth of Love as Marcus
- François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits as Self (archive footage)
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
- The Ministries of Art as Self
- Front woman as Marc
- Bunker Palace Hotel as Solal
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
- Treasure Island as Midas
- Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company as Gaspard Bazin
- With All Hands as Marcel
1985
- Vivement Truffaut as Self / Doinel (archive footage)
- Detective as Inspector Neveu
- Just a Movie as Péter - a rendezõ
- L'Herbe rouge as Lazuli
1984
- La cassure as Police Commissioner Rauffast
- Rebelote as Rémi Chauveau
- Paris Seen By... 20 Years After as René (segment 3)
- Série noire as Gaspard Bazin
1982
- Véra
- Mersonne ne m'aime as Daniel Flipo-Risq
- Pour Bonnie as Charles Blaine
1981
- Le petit Pommier as Le vendeur de La Belle Aubaine
- Help Me Dream as Mario
- Parano as Ignazio
1979
- Love on the Run as Antoine Doinel
1976
- Lola's Lolos as Bernard Dubois
- Hugs and Other Things as Tom
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- De quoi s'agit-il? ... (Director)
1973
- The Mother and the Whore as Alexandre
- Day for Night as Alphonse
- Out 1: Spectre as Colin
- L'Éducation sentimentale as Frédéric Moreau
1972
- Last Tango in Paris as Tom
1971
- Two English Girls as Claude Roc
- The Lion Has Seven Heads as Preacher
- Out 1 as Colin
- A Girl Is a Gun as Billy le Kid
1970
- The Wild Child ... (Thanks)
- The Heirs as Danton
- Bed and Board as Antoine Doinel
1969
- Pigsty as Julian Klotz
- Paul as Paul
- Le Gai Savoir as Émile Rousseau (uncredited)
- Bad Company as Daniel (archive footage)
1968
- Stolen Kisses as Antoine Doinel
- Concentration
- Dialogue 20-40-60 as Adamík (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
- Françoise et Udo... as Self
1967
- La Chinoise as Guillaume
- The Departure as Marc
- The Oldest Profession as The Bellhop (segment "Anticipation") (uncredited)
- Made in U.S.A as Donald Siegel
- Weekend as Saint-Just / Le Jeune Minet du 16ème (uncredited)
- Anticipation, or Love in the Year 2000 as The Bellboy
1966
- Masculin Féminin as Paul
- Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes as Daniel
1965
- Love at Sea as The Boy at the Exit of the Cinema
- Alphaville as Breakfast Waiter (uncredited)
- Pierrot le Fou as Young Man in Cinema (uncredited)
- Filmmakers of Our Time: François Truffaut or the Critical Spirit as Self
1964
- The Married Woman ... (Assistant Director)
- Mata Hari, Agent H21 as Absalon
- The Soft Skin ... (Assistant Director Trainee)
- 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, the schoolboy
- 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