Jean-Pierre Léaud
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| Jean-Pierre Léaud | |
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| Born | 5 May 1944 (age 65) Paris, France |
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 5 May 1944) is a French actor.
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[edit] Early years
Born in Paris, Léaud made his debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in The 400 Blows.
[edit] Acting career
Léaud starred in four more Truffaut films depicting the life of Doinel, spanning a period of 20 years – after the short-film Antoine et Colette in 1962 - beside actress Claude Jade as his girlfriend, and then wife, Christine. Those films are: Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979). He also collaborated with Truffaut on non-Antoine Doinel films like Two English Girls and La Nuit américaine and became the actor most commonly affiliated with him.
Léaud also acted in films by other influential directors, such as Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Aki Kaurismäki and more recently Olivier Assayas. He appeared with Marlon Brando in the Bertolucci film Last Tango in Paris (although the two never met, since Léaud admired Brando so much that he was afraid to meet him).[citation needed]
[edit] Filmography
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- Testament of Orpheus (French: Le Testament d'Orphée) (1960) (cameo)
- Antoine and Colette (1962)
- Pierrot le fou (1965) (cameo)
- Alphaville (1965) (cameo)
- Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (1966)
- Masculin, féminin (1966)
- Made in USA (1966)
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Week End (1967)
- Le départ (1967)
- Stolen Kisses (1968)
- Le gai savoir (1969)
- Porcile (1969)
- Bed & Board (1970)
- Two English Girls (1971)
- Out 1 (1971)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- The Mother and the Whore (1973)
- La Nuit américaine (1973)
- Love on the Run (1979)
- Détective (1985)
- Treasure Island (1985)
- Les Keufs (1987)
- 36 Fillette (1988)
- I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
- La Vie de Bohème (1992)
- Mon Homme (My Man) (1996)
- Irma Vep (1996)
- Two Short Films by Francois Truffaut (1999)
- Diary of a Seducer (2001)
- The Pornographer (2001)
- What Time Is It There? (2002)
- The Dreamers (2004)
- Face (2009)
