Jean-Claude Dauphin
Born: 1948-03-16 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
2020
- Un mauvais garçon as Yves Fontanelle
2019
- Murder In La Rochefoucauld as Duc Thibaut de l'Essile
2015
- The Passenger as Général Garsac
2013
- Murders in... as Franck Keller
- La Grande Peinture as Le Ministre
2012
- Brother and Sister as George Armant
- Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night as Narrator (French voice)
2011
- Accusé Mendès France as Maître Fonlupt
2009
- LOL (Laughing Out Loud) as Minister
2008
- Adresse Inconnue as Stéphane Weber
2007
- Chez Maupassant as Chenal âgé
- The Second Wind as Jacques
- Reporters as Laurent Dewilder
2001
- Don't Die Too Hard! as The Commissioner
- Tender Souls as Père de Claire et Emilie
2000
- Six-Pack as Fouquier
1999
- Le sourire du clown as Vogel
- Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve as Narrator (voice)
1998
- Why Not Me? as Alain
- The School of Flesh as Louis-Guy
1997
- Georges Bataille - À perte de vue as Narrator (voice)
1996
- Télévision (histoires secrètes) as Narrator (voice)
- Le Poids d'un secret as Jean Monceau
1995
- Samson le magnifique as Le Govain
1994
- The Last Bolshevik as Self (voice)
1992
- Love at First Sight as Jérôme Sénéchal
1991
- Maigret as Le maire Grandmaison
- Netchayev is Back as Philippe Martel
1990
- The Saint: The Big Bang as Blancpain
1989
- Champagne Charlie as Ernest
1988
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being as Swiss editor
1987
- Charlie Dingo as Jupin
1986
- Yiddish Connection as Toussaint
- Nuit d'ivresse as 2nd Policeman
1985
- Spécial police as Durand
- L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps as Gautier
1983
- Une jeunesse as Vietti
- Sarah as Senechal
- Los desastres de la guerra as Savary
1981
- Choice of Arms as Ricky
- Au bon beurre as Léon Lécuyer
- Au bon beurre as Léon Lécuyer
1978
- Claudine as Armand Duplessis
- Le Temps des as as Étienne Leroux
- Madame le Juge as Nicolas, le greffier
1977
- Les Héritiers as Frédérik Maller
- Last Exit Before Roissy as Jean-Yves, le sous-directeur du Prisunic
- Barry of the Great St. Bernard as Martin
1976
- Police Commissioner Moulin as Bernard Deffoux
- Dracula and Son as Cristéa/Christian
1974
- Chance and Violence as Gilbert Morgan
- Le Secret des Flamands as Antonello di Terracina
- The Suspects as Solnes
1972
- La Mandarine as Alain
- Handsome Face as Philippe
- What a Flash!
1971
- Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000 as Pierre Sesterain
- The Friends as Nicolas
1969
- The Witness as Thomas
1968
- The Tender Age as Henri Adolphe